Intimacy & Trauma. An open letter to Bill Maher
Let me state off the bat that I generally enjoy Bill Maher and agree with many, though not all, of his viewpoints, and I don’t mean [...]
Let me state off the bat that I generally enjoy Bill Maher and agree with many, though not all, of his viewpoints, and I don’t mean [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]