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 [...]
From time to time, maybe once or twice a year, I have someone tell me that I need to put trigger warnings on my educational content. Well, you will never see me do this, and this week’s video explains why I have a strong boundary around this. Here’s [...]
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 [...]
If you’re new here (welcome!) I wanted you to know that I do monthly special topic lectures via my social media channels, with topics discussed late last year being ‘anger as medicine,’ ‘healing adrenal fatigue,’ and ‘healthy vs toxic shame.’ The final lecture of 2020 was a hit, [...]
Last year, around this time, I released a vlog that described how learning a second language as an adult is analogous to learning how to create nervous system regulation (for the first time) as an adult. I write “for the first time” in brackets, because for some here, [...]
I thought this might be a perfect time to share what was without a doubt the most popular (liked, commented, shared) social media post of 2020. It’s got to do with the subject line you see here: the origin story of procrastination, self-sabotage, and fleeing from health; and because this concept hit [...]
Here’s a different one for you today. It became a trend the past two years for our SmartBody SmartMind students in my 12-week online program to not only share about their nervous system health successes, but also how much better their house plants were doing! This is not [...]
I want to dig into a topic I deal with a lot in the realm of healing trauma, nervous system health, and all things neuroplasticity: a Highly Sensitive Person. The term Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) is a common one these days, and it’s someone who is hyper-attuned to [...]
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