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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Can Plant Medicines and Psychedelics Heal Trauma?
Ayahuasca and other psychedelics and plant medicines have been very helpful for some people as part of their healing process, AND - they are not going to heal anything on [...]
There Is No “Exercise” That Heals Trauma
“Without changing the somatic system - the underlying neurochemical platform - any change in behaviour is simply overriding through force of will." - Kathy Kain, creator of Somatic Practice This [...]
A Message From Body: The Paradox Of Differentiation Within Oneness
Body here. I love you all, and, I'm a little grumpy. I am grumpy because I am the least recognized part of what is considered Divine and I often get [...]
The Powerful Roots Of Porn Addiction (and what you can do about it)
This is a really tough one. I’ll start by saying right out that when it comes to this subject I can speak not only from my lens as a somatic [...]
The Complexities of the ‘Privileged’ Paradigm
From my understanding, the term 'white male privilege' originally referred to a set of societal values and laws that, according to those who use the term, enable white men to [...]
If You Had A Shitty Christmas…
Written on Christmas Day, 2016. This is for all of us who have ever sat through Christmas with our family feeling sick inside. For those who forced down forkfuls of [...]
Upside-Down Chakras?
A little thing that came to me the other day. Yes, I know they are upside down, that's part of the point! I think that the spiritual, energy-working, new age, [...]