I’m thrilled to share this new interview with my good friend and colleague, Chris Dierkes. I first interviewed Chris back in 2017, and we spoke about what meditation is, its origins, the different kinds that exist, as well as the all too common negative side-effects that many mind-body [...]
When someone feels anxious and upset and they are not able to self-soothe without external means (like spending time with friends, or taking a bath, or a drug, or a cup of tea, etc...), it can mean they do not have enough nervous system health on board to [...]
Hands down, one of the toughest things to grok when one starts their healing journey, à la nervous system level, is that it takes time. We can’t rush this work. Doing so can be disastrous. (I have some personal stories around this, but I’ll leave that for another [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Last week I shared a video that poses the question: “Do you feel like fleeing ..when practicing mindfulness?” THIS WEEK, we get into the polar opposite of this which is: “What if I feel nothing, am bored, and just want to look at my phone” (when I practice [...]
. 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 [...]
. I'm not sure if I ever told you this story, so I wanted to make sure I did this week. (It involves me being in TOTAL disagreement with someone!) You'll also get a fun little peek into what goes down in my home late at night on rainy days! [...]
I ended Part 1: Refining the Somatic Practices: The Story of Jenny and Susan, with this question: "How can we evolve our somatic practices to meet the changing needs of people, not to mention the diversity of people coming to us, especially in a class format?" First of all, [...]
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