This is the second time in recent weeks that blog ideas have popped in during my walks. I get so lit up and can't wait until I get home to start writing. When I shared with a colleague about it later, I felt a warmth rising in my heart, an energy from my core expanding out into the world —joining and being with life, not hiding. I could also feel a little constriction in my throat, a trace of freeze around expressing myself. I let my heart lead. The Moment I Realized My I

You might wish for intimate connections, self-love, inner strength and goodness that life offers… yet it can feel foreign. The roots can reach all the way back to the womb or early infancy—before conscious memory—yet still held deeply in the body’s viscera, felt instinctively, and leaving a lasting impact. What I’m sharing is through the lens of my trainings and my experiences with clients—it doesn’t mean everyone is impacted in the same way. What's hopeful is that much repa

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi There’s a deep and constant human impulse to change ourselves to be loved. To a child, love and acceptance are as important as food. So we abandon parts of ourselves to stay connected to our caregivers. Dr. Laurence Heller—founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) for healing attachment, relational, and developmental trauma—expla

Some live with a constant undercurrent of anxiety, numbness, or disconnection from their bodies. Although they may appear to function well, life stressors can intensify these undercurrents, causing significant suffering. Often linked to attachment and developmental trauma, or shock traumas like physical or sexual abuse, an overlooked yet profound influence may stem from pre- and perinatal experiences—our time in the womb and first year of life. Much of what I’m sharing here

Deep survival impulses may play a key role. When I learned about Global High Intensity Activation (GHIA) from Somatic Experiencing (SE)...

Anger is a part of life. We all experience it, but we may only see it as destructive or hurtful. Allowing ourselves to feel authentic...

I didn’t know I was not in my body–dissociated, disconnected from myself, living in my head and in spiritual realms or that early traumas...