Brain-Body Resilience

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about catastrophizing or catastrophic thinking which is a thought process where we jump to the worst case scenario, usually with very little information to inform the conclusion we jump to. This is one of the most common cognitive distortions and yet  people are left thinking they are the only ones that do it and feel like there is something wrong because of a...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode was inspired by hearing someone say "I can't just relax on command" when learning a mindfulness practice. Yeah, of course not, and that's not what mindfulness is. In this episode you'll hear what mindfulness is, or my interpretation of it anyway, and some of the things that make it difficult.  You'll also learn my go to mindfulnes...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is all about cultivating joy, not just by accident or waiting to try and find it somewhere like it's hiding from you, but creating it for yourself daily. We have stress daily so we need to create joy daily to help balance and buffer. Joy doesn't have to come in giant waves, sometimes it's just a drop and that still counts. Get in there and give...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was inspired by a question from a listener, you know who you are and thank you very much for your question! We get into it here, everything from the language we use when talking to and about ourselves to how to get past the resistance of starting something new. Inside you'll find my top 6 things to help get past self-consciousness and where the roots of self-cons...

Send us Fan Mail Your brain and nervous system love a good routine and count on it for stability … so, you know, you have to actually participate in the routine, but remember,  it needs to be flexible enough to allow for life.  … because the ultimate goal of a routine is to make life a little easier, decrease stress and leave more time and energy for enjoying the other pieces of living.  When we a...

Send us Fan Mail My mission here is to change the way we understand and approach mental health.  I truly believe that understanding how we work, that there is a biological reason for the way we fee, allows us to better participate in our state of being and lead to a more fulfilling and joy filled life.  When we are overwhelmed with stress and stuck in a cycle of anxiety and coping we simply can&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Today we’re talking about the important role your emotions play in your health. We used to think that genes were responsible for mental health “issues” but we see now that is not the case.  We are not simply biological beings, we are not just made of flesh, we are not just biochemical, or psychological either. We are humans who are made of our flesh, our experiences, our environme...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I get into the seasons of life.  Along with the calendar seasons, I also want to talk about the other “seasons” we have.  These life seasons don’t follow the same time periods and overall predictability each year, but they are marked by the energy, capacity, responsibility, and resources you have in that particular time… along with the intention you have set for yo...

Send us Fan Mail Today I wanted to talk about how the messages we receive about how we're never enough, never safe enough, never thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, successful enough, popular enough, rich enough. Never having enough, never certain enough, never secure enough, never loved enough, don’t have enough, I’m not enough…. can't help but lead us into survival mode. It'...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about learned helplessness, that feeling of powerlessness you get when you feel like you're being forced into a situation you might not want... and the power you have to choose to practice your autonomy.  In between the feeling of powerlessness and the realization of choice there might be anger and resentment covering up the root feeling of vulnerabil...

Send us Fan Mail listen here, you get to decide what is a big deal to you, no one else gets to do that for you... and becoming more of who you want to be, expressing yourself in a way that allows you to stand a little bolder in the world is a big deal.  It all starts with the small steps and so many times we can’t get to the big things without the small steps that build us up to get there.  It’s a...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're exploring the discomfort we feel in social situations and how we linger a little too long with the discomfort of an awkward encounter after the fact. Social acceptance is important to us on a biological level, even for those of us who like to spend time alone and maybe don't love being around people all that much. From an evolutionary perspective we were more...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is about the power of language to shape our perspective on the world around us and how we choose to navigate within that. Language shapes our ideas of ourselves and how the world works. Each language with it's own cultural context and nuance creates a cognitive structure and representation of reality according to that language. Language can be expansive o...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is all about suicide awareness as we enter September, which is National Suicide Awareness Month here in the States and World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10th, 2022. This topic is one that we like to brush under the rug ... because it's painful, because it's uncomfortable, and because we do that with most mental health subjects. I'm here...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode we're finding links between pieces of our lives that we may not think about often as being linked together. There are a lot of connections to be made between how we take care of our home and the space we live in, and our body... that we live in. Like deep cleaning in the cracks and corners that go unnoticed for months, the nervous system can also use some...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and good day to you my friend, today’s going to be a shortie, I’ve got a quick story and a quick reminder for you.  We all need to give ourselves the reminders and pep talks, but there is some complexity, like with most things human there… Celebrating your wins is really hard if you can’t even acknowledge them.. when we’re so focused on the next thing or comparing to someone...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about joy. How to recognize it, how to allow it, and  how to choose it. We know joy is the best buffer to distress and today we're getting into how it helps us build community and expansion within ourselves. Get in there and give it a listen for more.  Resources: Learn more about James-Olivia @inquisitive_human You can find more about Brain-Body Resil...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode we're talking about the language that is used in the wellness space to shift the blame for failing systems to you. I recently listened to a book called : Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and it had interesting things to say about the language we use around wellness and fitness. This, along with the fact that we continue to ignore mental health and cont...

Send us Fan Mail Today I want to offer a few tangible tools that are a bit more specific. We talk a lot about suing the breath and the basics of movement, nutrition, time in nature, paying attention to your needs, and today I want to give you something to add on to these foundational basics. These are not magic hacks or shortcuts... because the basics, doing the small steps for the long run is alw...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about building self-trust as a tool to manage fear, anxiety, and overwhelm.     I’ll say it a thousand times, action is the key to minimizing anxiety and overwhelm… you can’t talk yourself out of something that didn’t start in your head, it’s a sensation in your body, a mobilization of the stress response and then your frontal brain tries to make sense of the f...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a reminder, I want everyone to know that you’re not alone, you’re not the only one with the worries and intrusive thoughts. You’re not the only one burnt out from stress and anxiety, the goal isn’t to get rid of these natural responses, it’s to have a better relationship with them, to navigate our physiology, to be intentional about our participation in lif...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking a bout shifting from fear, not trying to burry or ignore it, but to add more of what we do want. I look around the world I am navigating and see an abundance of anger and lack of compassion and I want to explore that a little here. Fear changes how we view the world, it can literally change our brain and make it harder for us to access compassion and empat...

Send us Fan Mail This is episode number 90! I'm excited to dive into today's topic as it affects me personally and I know it affects a lot of other folks out there as well. Today's episode is dedicated to learning more and shining a light on PTSD. June was PTSD awareness month and I just learned that so let's grow our awareness here today. You may be surprised about some of the...

Send us Fan Mail Today's Episode highlights the rise and fall of people's rights, specifically we're talking about the progress made in the mid 90's to recognize that violence against women and children is in fact a crime and does in fact affect everything that person will face going forward. There is tremendous uncertainty, fear, rage, and lack of control in this moment as the...

Send us Fan Mail When we think about stress we often blame ourselves and our lack of ability to handle it as well as we used to or as well as we *should* or as we perceive someone else, and often disregard the factors that have us stressed, overwhelmed, in the first place. There are both external and internal factors to your stress. Which one can you manage and guide? The internal... but what you&...