Nervous system education, polyvagal theory, ACE study
Today’s video (under ten minutes!) will remind you, or maybe teach you for the first time, why working with the body is important when healing stored up stress and trauma. When I say ‘body’ I mean more than muscles and movement. While those are indeed important, as mentioned [...]
One of the trickier parts about being a somatic practitioner whose focus is on the nervous system is that there is no SET path. For comparison, if one wants to become a medical doctor, the path is set: get good grades in high school, do a couple of [...]
Today, I’m sharing the last special topic lecture in June, that was focused on what it means to be trauma-informed. This topic might not be what you think, and it was eye opening even for me, to condense my thoughts around this topic and present it in one [...]
Did you catch my May special topic lecture? The topic was Nervous System Starter Steps. It was filled with a lot of classic nervous system basics, answers to commonly asked questions, plus some complex stuff too. Because I know some of you might be brand new to my [...]
When we start to understand the inner workings of our neurobiology alongside everyday events and memories from the past (either ones that were good, or not so good), so much starts to make sense. Speaking from experience, it is no coincidence I had daily tummy aches and wanted [...]
When I was in university, one of my fourth year profs came up to me after a presentation I gave, and said: “You know, you really have a knack for this!” I, never having had anyone give me any praise for doing well in an academic environment, assumed [...]
Did you know each month I do a special topic lecture on my YouTube channel? I want to make sure you caught LAST month’s lecture on How trauma is REALLY released. It was a popular one and a favourite for many, dubbed by a few to be one [...]
In this week’s video, I share a short clip from one of my special topic lectures on the polyvagal theory that took place earlier this year (this is the full lecture). This short segment speaks to how we navigate stress and traumatic experiences based on something called a [...]
In this week’s vlog, I take you on a bit of a journey through some of my own personal discoveries around old traumas surfacing, body tension, and also severe physical pain. Long story short, I did a lot of intense and shock-producing sports in my childhood, teens, twenties, [...]
A common thing that happens when we begin excavating old traumas at the somatic level is a sense of overwhelm. From my experience this can be due to a few things, and while this week’s vlog doesn’t cover each and every aspect of why someone might feel overwhelmed [...]
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