I want to share something with you that often gets confused or misunderstood: The link between Depression and Shame. A few weeks back I was responding to a question in my Facebook community, Healthy Nervous System Revolution, and it had to do with the connections between shame and depression, and [...]
I've been seeing a trend... whenever I post anything around children being mistreated or adult chronic illness that sets in due to this mistreatment, people perk up and share those posts. Posts like: Anger as Medicine: How to Cure Self-Sabotaging Behaviours An Epidemic of Chronic Illness: How [...]
In this Q&A style video, I answer a VERY important question about uncomfortable signs and symptoms that pop up when we enter into a deep healing process with our nervous system. Some might call this a *healing crisis* - but for me, it is simply Healing. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I mention [...]
Anger. What is it? Pure and simple anger is an emotion. It’s an essential, high-energy emotion that’s been getting a bad rap for way too long. When I speak and teach around this topic, the first thought people have is: “Well, we can’t go around being savages and slay [...]
“People diagnosed with cancer or autoimmune disease, with chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia, or with potentially debilitating neurological conditions, are often enjoined to relax, to think positively, to lower their stress levels. All that is good advice, but impossible to carry out if one of the major sources is [...]
What if I told you that resistance was a good sign? A sign that your life energy was starting to burst through? (And, if you could just learn the skill set to work with it - and know that all would be ok - would you keep reading?) You [...]
(I wrote this in the Fall of 2015 shortly after the attacks in Paris, France. But this of course applies to all acts of violence and hate.) In light of all worldly events that occur out of humans ‘doing’, I wanted to write this to bring forth [...]
Triumph is one of those emotional qualities that I wish more people could feel. We get access to this emotion when we can free up old, toxic emotions that no longer serve us, namely anger and sadness (but not necessarily in that order). What I've come to realize (both [...]
There has only been one time that I have ever purchased something other than a beverage or pastry while sitting in a Starbucks. It was late winter of 2011 and I was hanging out in a Starbucks (in Bellevue, Washington of all places!) and on an impulse, I [...]
. I was just listening to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those non-canucks… ), and heard an RCMP officer saying that it’s not ‘natural’ for a human being to kill. This is so, so, NOT accurate. Let me explain. Example: 1) If a mother was to witness her [...]
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