self-care

New Symptoms Popping Up During Your Healing Journey? Watch This.

2024-04-26T19:26:09-07:00May 19th, 2017|7. Special Topic Lectures & Q&As, Nervous System Health|

In this Q&A style video, I answer a VERY important question about uncomfortable signs and symptoms that pop up when we enter into a deep healing process with our nervous system. Some might call this a *healing crisis* - but for me, it is simply Healing. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I mention [...]

The Importance of Ebb and Flow For Avoiding All Things Burnout.

2024-04-26T20:56:29-07:00March 22nd, 2015|2. Healthy Nervous System Lifestyle|

When was the last time you slept all day on a Sunday and really, like REALLY, rested? And, by the way, not because you were sick in bed with a flu or cold! Back in February, I did exactly this and it wasn't because I was sick. I was [...]

The prevention bus is more than just one thing. November is National Prevention Month (according to Kris Carr at least!)

2019-04-30T13:06:28-07:00November 1st, 2011|I'm Smitten-With..., Nervous System Resiliency, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

I want to tell you about Kris Carr. I had the pleasure of shaking Kris' hand last week while in NYC. She glows. Luminous would be the adjective I'd use. She is the poster child for self-care and prevention. She even named November "National Prevention Month". Here's what she wrote [...]

“The Descending Line” and its importance for reducing our stress levels and improving our well-being (and the importance of spontaneous breath and restoring order to our internal milieu)

2024-04-26T22:37:12-07:00September 27th, 2011|1. Trauma & Survival Physiology, Movement. Awareness., Nervous System Resiliency, Unabriged Musings: Anecdotes from personal life|

"Habitual repression of emotion leaves a person in a situation of chronic stress, and chronic stress creates an unnatural biochemical milieu in the body, [ ], Disease , in other words, is not a simple result of some external attack but develops in a vulnerable host [...]