Most months* I do a live special topic lecture covering a topic that I know from professional and personal experience is essential education for optimal nervous system health, healing trauma, and all things neuroplasticity. Today I want to highlight what I covered back in September - it had [...]
Today’s video (under ten minutes!) will remind you, or maybe teach you for the first time, why working with the body is important when healing stored up stress and trauma. When I say ‘body’ I mean more than muscles and movement. While those are indeed important, as mentioned [...]
About a year ago this week, my special topic lecture of the month was all on the origins of self-sabotage. It was a massive hit, with comments like these: Because of this topic's popularity, and how this insidious behaviour can paralyze us from moving [...]
Today, I’m sharing the last special topic lecture in June, that was focused on what it means to be trauma-informed. This topic might not be what you think, and it was eye opening even for me, to condense my thoughts around this topic and present it in one [...]
Hiya! I get questions about skin picking and other OCD-like behaviours a lot! Many of my students report that they experience this, and that they stop this mild form of self-harm as they begin to release trapped trauma, become more somatically aware, and regulated in their nervous systems. [...]
I’m going to bet there’s at least a handful of folks here who have avoided starting the practical journey of healing their nervous system because sometime in the past they were told to let bygones be bygones, or that their suffering was not severe enough and that “other” [...]
Today’s video falls into the category of most frequently asked questions. It revolves around a question that goes something like this: “Irene, does **insert your mind-body practice of choice** help with healing trauma and nervous system regulation?” Gosh, folks, I wish it were easy enough to just say [...]
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 Cambridge online dictionary defines the stiff upper lip as follows: Someone who has a stiff upper lip does not show their feelings when they are upset. For example: He was taught to keep a stiff upper lip, whatever happens. In this week’s vlog I talk about emotional [...]
It goes without saying that stress impacts pretty much most humans to a certain degree. And it most definitely impacts those living in more westernized and industrialized places and spaces. If we aren’t careful, these stresses can accumulate and create what some call ‘toxicity’ with our body-mind interfaces, [...]
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