Hi there, I’ve been wanting to make this vlog for a while, so I’m excited to share it! The topic is all about functional freeze, what this means, how it gets embedded into us (often from a very young age), plus some important steps for breaking out of [...]
There are many roads that can help us go from being stuck to in flow, and one of them is a principle and practice called pendulation. This term was popularized by the founder of Somatic Experiencing, Peter Levine, to describe a way of being with an intense experience [...]
A few weeks ago someone asked how it is possible to only work with the nervous system and my jaw dropped because you’d think I would have answered this already via an article or vlog. Chances are, I have. But probably just in indirect ways when I talk [...]
Today’s video and the two that preceded it were inspired by comments and questions from my students who have been participating in my online drop-in classes. What I hope you understand after this week’s video is there is no such thing as a strange sensation, a weird feeling, [...]
Here we are with another month-in-review!! I have a new video that I just had to record because it was a question that was top of mind (and it’s part of a 3-part series that will slide us into 2020). This, along with four videos to recap from [...]
I’m in Europe! Stockholm, to be exact, and getting all rested up and on European time so I can teach my first overseas Up & Down workshop with my teaching partner and dear friend, Elia Mrak. I’ll be posting clips from the workshop and the Swedish sights as my team and [...]
I got a geeky science vlog for you today: the polyvagal theory, explained. I’ve wanted to write about this for a while. I’ve even debated turning this into a long form article, but to be blunt, the information is pretty cut and dry, granted you get the basics [...]
In this blog I’m sharing a vlog that covers one of the fundamentals for healing unresolved trauma and restoring regulation and better self-awareness back to the human system: Orienting The capacity to orient to one’s environment in two different modes - exploratory and defensive - as well as [...]
We’re wired for play from the day we’re born. As children, it’s how we learn to navigate the world, negotiate our surroundings, get to know ours and others’ bodies and understand our limits. Play therapy works for kids, but it also works for big people too...we just [...]
. Do you remember this little piece from the film The Matrix? “You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe, whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the [...]
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