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From Crippling Brain Fog to Getting her Teacher’s Degree | Bernadet’s Triumph Over Trauma

2025-11-13T09:28:34-08:00Early and Developmental Trauma, Healing Trauma, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, SmartBody SmartMind|

Does hope feel out of reach? Bernadet’s story is for you… There’s some deep meaning in this blog that I’m very proud of, so I encourage you to take some time to read my two short stories, watch the new video interview, and be sure to check out [...]

A Male Perspective on Healing Trauma (with the men of SBSM)

2025-09-04T03:31:05-07:00Healing Trauma, Nervous System Health, SmartBody SmartMind|

The number of men entering this world of nervous system education and healing is growing. I know this because, as the years progress, I have seen more and more guys attending our training and Q&A calls each time that SmartBody SmartMind (aka: SBSM)* runs live.  Over and over, [...]

Mindset Work is Not Enough: The Peripheral Nervous System & Healing Trauma

2025-07-29T01:07:07-07:00peripheral nervous system, Polyvagal Theory, SmartBody SmartMind|

Time and time again, our students tell us that it wasn’t until they started my online curriculums that they FINALLY felt a difference at the core of their nervous system physiology.  Why is this?  Many had been dedicated to mind-body awareness via foundational traditions like Buddhism and mindfulness [...]

Healing Fibromyalgia After 29 Years of Chronic Pain. Jean’s SBSM Success Story

2025-07-29T00:56:12-07:00Pain & Chronic Illness, SmartBody SmartMind|

Over my years of teaching and practice, one thing has become crystal clear: We humans are rarely taught that our body and its sensations, emotions, past traumas, and pains can be… medicinal. Yes, you read that right, medicinal! What I have also seen is that those who start to [...]

“The only thing that not only worked but changed my life” Hosannah’s SBSM Success

2025-07-18T07:01:54-07:00Early and Developmental Trauma, Healing Trauma, SmartBody SmartMind|

If you do one thing this week, please watch these two videos (just under 7 minutes in total).  They are both self-filmed updates from SmartBody SmartMind™ student, Hosannah.  Her first video made me cry. This latest one made me smile so big.  The reason I recommend watching them [...]

Beyond Diagnosis: Autoimmune Disease, Autism & the Crisis of Connection

2025-07-18T01:57:37-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Nervous System Health, Pain & Chronic Illness, SmartBody SmartMind|

Every now and then, a conversation hits your core.  My interview with regenerative farmer Kate Kavanaugh, back in 2023, was one of those.  Why was I talking with a regenerative farmer and what does this have to do with healing trauma?  Based on her lived experience, everything!   Today, [...]

Service to others via nervous system healing (Bernadet’s story)

2024-08-27T15:29:40-07:00Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Parenting & Child Development, SmartBody SmartMind|

Meet Bernadet. Today’s share is all about her story, but it’s also about much more than that…  It’s about how her own healing, via the nervous system education and practices that we teach in SBSM, has rippled out into the lives of the children she now works with [...]

The time I invested $2K (I didn’t technically have) in myself… and it paid off!

2024-09-04T17:31:28-07:00SmartBody SmartMind, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

The first time I ever bought an online program was in 2011. I was on an unsecured connection at a Starbucks in Bellevue, Washington. I still remember punching in my credit card number, wondering if I should be doing that (was it safe?).  The online program I bought was [...]