Every now and then, a comment comes through my YouTube channel that creates an array of emotions within me, and reminds me why: a) my work is super important b) your work is super important My work is being the educator and messenger that I am. Your work [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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