This article is about an experience I had in Spring 2021 after a simple knee surgery. It explains how a current event, in this case a simple surgical procedure, can help heal old events. For me, it helped heal the trauma from a whole bunch of earlier [...]
Hello there, Last month the focus of my special topic lecture was all on the somatic and nervous system approach to healing sexual trauma. In case you missed it, I wanted to showcase this lecture today. While the scope of this subject is broad and complex, [...]
What do you think: Can the all too often vilified emotion we know as anger be medicine? In my personal and professional experience, it is one hundred percent medicine when we know what anger’s purpose actually is, what our biological capacity for it is, and then how to [...]
I LOVED recording this latest vlog for you, because it tied in many different topics (plus I got to read a passage from one of my favourite books!). Today I dive into topics like the importance of expressing physical pain at the visceral and primal animal levels. I [...]
The Cambridge online dictionary defines the stiff upper lip as follows: Someone who has a stiff upper lip does not show their feelings when they are upset. For example: He was taught to keep a stiff upper lip, whatever happens. In this week’s vlog I talk about emotional [...]
I’ll be the first to admit that this concept of ‘emotions being neutral by design’ took me the first half of my career (20+ years) to land on. But the more I sink into and see this concept in action, the more it makes perfect sense. In the [...]
I know, I know... Horror and disgust; not the lightest topics to learn about, but I’ve been feeling a pull to make a video on this for quite some time so here we are. I believe themes like these are important because they are part of humanity and [...]
Yes, I know. The topic of this week’s vlog is intense but let’s face it, these are intense times. The universe has given me a permission slip to talk about the children and why it is utterly important to protect them and treat them with respect, kindness, and [...]
Many years ago, one of my colleagues said this to me (and I’m paraphrasing): “It seems my biggest job is to help people get comfortable with anger.” I nodded fully because I couldn't agree more. Getting comfortable with anger is top of the list for me. Here’s a [...]
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 [...]
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