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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What to do in case of Emergency
I recently had someone ask me if I could walk them through a real-life scenario and explain, step by step, what to do when past trauma gets triggered and the [...]
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 [...]
This Is When It’s Ok To Annihilate Somebody…
I’ve completely destroyed my abusers a few times. Stabbed, pummeled and stomped them into the ground. Blew them up in fiery explosions. I've stood in victorious glee over their corpses, even [...]
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of The Trauma Vortex
There are some films that, no matter how many times I’ve seen them, I still seem to desire watching again once in a while, and I still really enjoy them. [...]
On Addiction (and Star Wars)
Two nights ago I went and saw Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens with my wife and son and, let me tell you, that was a big deal! Or actually, [...]