A long while back I had a chat with one of my Somatic Experiencing mentors, Steve Hoskinson, around the importance of mind-body practices being refined (you can check that out here) and this week’s new video is a long overdue follow-up to that conversation. I’m going to keep [...]
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 [...]
. You know that saying, ‘slow and steady wins the race’? How about ‘less is more’? Or this one, ‘quality over quantity’? These phrases are top of mind right now as I share a new vlog that digs into a question posed to me the other day in our [...]
This latest vlog is part of an informal series where I've been digging into why some people heal and others don't. Here’s the thing, which I’ve heard on more than a handful of occasions: Peter Levine, the founder of Somatic Experiencing, names this reality -- that if one stays in [...]
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 remember learning about the deep roots of what causes chronic fatigue in my early years studying Somatic Experiencing. I talk about this in other videos, namely this one. When I learned about what is called, ‘The New Traumatology,’ which is the study of trauma and how it [...]
What gives a mother superhuman strength to lift a car off her child? It’s fear. Fear, as I explain in greater detail in this article, is a biological and survival necessity. The cascade of neurochemical reactions lets us know, at lightning speed, that something is not right. [...]
When you have old, stuck junk and toxic waste sitting in your cells, left over from not-so-fun events from your past, your energy, YOUR LIFE FORCE ENERGY, is put in a holding tank. This can leave you sick, unmotivated, full of resistance, anxious, depressed, unfulfilled, lacking [...]
I just got back from a few days soaking and chilling at one of my most favourite spots in the world: Breitenbush Hot Springs resort (think cute cabins without plumbing, lots of walking trails and lots of hot water and steam... ahh, the steam...). The hot springs are [...]
. I have two stories here for you. I filmed the video below on a little pilgrimage I went on a while ago. But before I tell you about that, I want to tell you about what happened to me back in the Summer of 2008. It was a [...]
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