Cultivating internal safety in today’s world
The other day a client asked me how to cultivate a sense of safety in this world that seems increasingly unsafe. While ultimately this depends on the kind of [...]
How To Come Out Of Freeze & Into Flow
In order to talk about how to come out of freeze, we need to first understand what it is, and why it comes on in the first place.Freeze is one [...]
How to keep up your healing in the workplace, and the world!
The practice of somatic, nervous system based trauma healing is just that… a practice! Education is crucial, and there are many helpful techniques and tools we can use, and it’s [...]
The Quiet Victories
When it comes to the world of somatic and nervous-system based trauma healing, some of the biggest changes can happen very quietly. This may seem strange because we definitely associate [...]
Turn on the news from channel Earth
When I was a kid we were constantly bombarded with fear of nuclear war. We would likely all die. Then it was the hole in the ozone latter and acid [...]
Free Will and Consciousness. An Open Letter To Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is a professor of Biology at Stanford University and a neuroendocrinologist who has dived deep into the origins of human behaviour and has had tremendous influence on how [...]
Planes, Babes, & Incubators: Exploring Coupling Dynamics
I learned about Coupling Dynamics in my Somatic Experiencing training - the modality developed by Peter Levine - and I'm pretty sure he coined the term. It is one of [...]
Trauma 101: The Basics You Need To Know In Today’s World
Most people think that a trauma is an event. You get abused as a kid, or violated as an adult. Someone is in a violent car accident. A soldier sees [...]
Sometimes We Have To Break Up With Our Family
If you ask someone why family is important to them you will often get an answer that conveys no actual information. “Because family comes first” “Because you only have one [...]