Mental Health & Neuroplasticity

Includes ADHD, OCD, anxiety, depression, mindfulness, brain-NS connection, etc.

The Force of Resistance & How to Use It to Your Advantage

2024-04-20T17:45:27-07:00Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity|

This article is an update of a blog post originally published in December 2015. * * * Feeling stuck?  Like you’re hitting a brick wall?  Pulled back into the same self-defeating patterns again and again by some kind of magnetic force?  You might be experiencing resistance. Two things [...]

Healing Sexual Trauma – A Somatic & Nervous System Approach

2024-04-20T18:04:15-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

A few years ago, I released an important special topic lecture that I’m re-sharing today—Healing Sexual Trauma (A Somatic & Nervous System Approach).  Because this topic is so broad (ranging from sexual abuse to surgical trauma involving the sex organs) and complex, this lecture landed for many.  After [...]

Why survival-based eating might be keeping you dysregulated, up at night, and irritable.

2024-04-20T18:28:10-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Practitioners & Professionals|

I’ve got a very special treat for you today—an expert guest interview with Jessica Ash. She’s a Functional Nutritionist and self-proclaimed “hormone nerd” who’s here to teach you how to use food to become FULLY NOURISHED.  I found her on Instagram less than a year ago, while working [...]

Disgust: The gateway emotion for healing toxic shame

2024-04-20T18:46:32-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity|

If you suffer from chronic illness or symptoms of the physical or mental variety, addictions, relationship troubles, negative thoughts or low self-worth… …it is very likely that you experienced TOXIC SHAME growing up.  Whether it was dosed out by parents, caregivers, siblings, teachers, or society in general, you [...]

How to come out of a chronic freeze response after repeated stress & trauma

2024-04-21T16:23:42-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

This is one of the BIGGEST questions I get. How does a person come out of a chronic shutdown and functional freeze stress physiology after they've been shutdown and not able to feel or process past emotions, memories and sensations effectively, or for many, not at all. This [...]