healing trauma

Is Your Nervous System Stuck in Survival Mode? The 5 Basics You Need to Start Healing

2025-03-17T11:42:05-07:00Healing Trauma, Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle|

Any writers here? Math nerds? Foodies who cook from scratch?  What’s one thing that all these have in common?  No matter how masterful you might be, at one point you were a newbie and started with the basics.  As most of us know, when we begin to write [...]

Defying all medical odds via nervous system healing (Darla’s story)

2024-08-19T11:17:54-07:00Healing Trauma, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Nervous System Health, Nervous System Resiliency, Pain & Chronic Illness, SmartBody SmartMind|

Today, we’ve got another classic, long-form interview to share with you…  Darla is a longstanding member of SmartBody SmartMind™ – she first went through this 12-week program in 2017 and has done it every round since, learning new things each time.  While her healing is ongoing, her story [...]

Marathon Q&A with Irene Lyon

2024-06-16T00:43:40-07:00Healing Trauma, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Pain & Chronic Illness, Special Topic Lectures & Q&As, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Today, I’ve got a Marathon Q&A for you. But it’s more than just another Q&A amongst the many (so many!) that I’ve done over the years. I’m sharing this particular Q&A at this particular time for a specific reason (more on that below)...  First, a couple quick notes [...]

How a lack of natural play connects to trauma & nervous system healing

2024-06-05T07:45:03-07:00Healing Trauma, Movement. Awareness., Nervous System Health, Parenting & Child Development|

One of the strongest memories I have in recent years is connected to natural play: I remember being in an open movement space at a retreat centre, moving around on the floor and ‘playing’ with my body, its movements: twisting, flexing, extending, crawling, crouching...  I would always [...]

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When you try to heal your trauma before building nervous system capacity

2024-05-30T21:49:48-07:00Healing Trauma, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Pain & Chronic Illness, Special Topic Lectures & Q&As, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

What is the trouble with trying to heal your trauma before building nervous system capacity?  Billy Bob tells it like it is: And I’ll add:  I am certain that if I had only had access to what I teach others now... That my long-ass [...]

Two absolute truths when choosing a nervous system teacher or online program

2024-05-23T13:35:16-07:00Healing Trauma, Nervous System Health, Practitioners & Professionals|

Two absolute truths when it comes to choosing your nervous system teacher, plus some key differentiating factors that I believe set my 12-week nervous system rewire curriculum, aka: SmartBody SmartMind (SBSM)™ apart from other online nervous system courses: Absolute truth #1: Who is the teacher? One thing that is [...]

Joe Dispenza: A Case Study. Why some healing methods work for some, and not others.

2024-05-18T17:57:41-07:00Healing Trauma, Mental Health & Neuroplasticity, Nervous System Health, Practitioners & Professionals, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Recently, a member of my online community asked: "Hey Irene. Why do methods like what Joe Dispenza shares work for some but not for others?" GREAT question! Today’s video (originally a livestream) is my answer, with a little help from the late Edgar Cayce. While I’ve never met [...]