I’m stoked to share a shiny new interview chat with one of my Somatic Experiencing colleagues, Dr. Aimie Apigian. Dr. Aimie entered into the world of developmental trauma and all things nervous system health when she adopted a little human while in medical school (crazy, I know!). In [...]
Today, I have a video which is from a Special Topic Lecture I did back in November of 2020, themed: Shame. The Healthy Kind. The Toxic Kind. This year I'll be sharing more of these short sound (video) bytes from my many long-form lectures I've done over the [...]
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 [...]
Ok folks, Repeat after me: anxiety is survival stress. It is those fight, flight responses burrowing up and out to say hello. It can also be old freeze energy (that shutdown response) loosening its grip on the body’s physiology, which in turn means the system will feel and [...]
I wanted to share a snippet that is embedded within a Q&A I did earlier this year titled, Five Common Healing Trauma Myths. Breathwork, shaking, meditation and more! The video clip that I have for you here, happened closer to the end of the Q&A, and it speaks [...]
[The 1st image of me to the left is the subtle facial expressions of distaste; the image to the right is disgust which is the gateway emotion to healing toxic shame.] A lot of people want to know how we process and heal shame. This is a MASSIVE topic [...]
All too often I hear folks say to my colleagues and me, “but I had such a good childhood” ?! ;) This is the conundrum/question they pose when they find out that the probable cause for their (mysterious) ailments; their anxiety, stress, seemingly random panic attacks, challenges [...]
I want you to meet Kathy Kain. Some of you may know her as my mentor (and colleague) who has deeply influenced my work. Many of you have experienced her work via my online program SmartBody SmartMind™. But even if you haven’t heard of her, if you stick around and [...]
I believe unconditional empathy is essential right now, and if we can understand what that means at a deep biological level, and then learn to practice it, we get not only good points with the universe, but we build compassion for ALL (human) creatures. Great, small, obtuse, ignorant, abused [...]
I’m passionate about stellar learning environments. I’ve written about the importance of creating safe spaces in mind-body classes at length and these concepts are not just theoretical - they’re based on real life experience teaching group classes since 1996! My recent workshop obsession is called Up [...]
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