nervous system health

A real-life example of an organic trauma release

2024-04-21T04:27:47-07:00Nervous System Health, Nervous System Resiliency, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Scroll down for the YouTube video (and we do recommend reading the mini-article here for context). If you’re reading this, you’re probably curious to know what releasing trauma from the body actually looks like. (Or, for those who have been learning with me for a while, deactivating stored [...]

The undeniable link between early childhood stress and chronic illness

2024-04-21T15:02:34-07:00Nervous System Health, Nervous System Resiliency, Pain & Chronic Illness|

Scroll down for the YouTube video (and we do recommend reading the mini-article here for context). I recently listened to a brilliant interview of Anthony Kiedis, lead vocalist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He said something that inspired me to write this week’s email:  “The most powerful [...]

The connections between jaw tension, teeth grinding and stored survival stress

2024-04-21T15:12:10-07:00Pain & Chronic Illness, Trauma & Survival Physiology|

Today I have some NEW learning for you on a topic that keeps coming up—teeth grinding and pain in the jaw and upper neck.  For some folks, this can be traced back to old dental trauma. For others, it’s a buildup of stress from the daily grind (pun [...]

How toxic shame creates the fallout we call depression

2024-04-29T15:15:50-07:00Nervous System Health, Parenting & Child Development|

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 [...]