Brain-Body Resilience

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about more love, more of you, and less stress. When we fraction ourselves off and deny parts of ourselves this leads to stress on our system. when we are not allowing all of ourselves to exist that is a threat to who we are. The solution as I see it is allowing more of yourself to exist, more of what lights you up, more love, more of your light and your pa...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we're talking about creating routines morning or otherwise that serve you. There is no roadmap to this life and what serves someone else can only serve as a guide for you to create your own routine. There is no paint by numbers or formula to success, happiness, fulfillment or any of the other things we look to create our  best life with. Our routines must serve u...

Send us Fan Mail This episode revisits my definition of resilience - To return to an original state  As humans our original state of balance in your nervous system, which gives you the capacity for curiosity, joy, pleasure, empathy, compassion, trust in yourself and others. What it is not: a way to keep going in the same manner and pretending that shit is not burning down around you.  It is not a...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is inspired by a couple of you out there who listen and work with me. I was called out on my shit for not taking my own advice. In this episode you'll hear that: Number one: no one has it all figured out, and if someone tries to tell you they do... run the other way! We're all just out here trying to figure it out, even when we know the things to help us nav...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode was inspired by a couple of shit days I've had recently, I was sitting in my pity pool and having a whole time resisting what was actually happening because it's not what I wanted right then... I know I'm not alone here.    When we let Inconvenience in our days derail us we can absolutely get back on track, and I don't mean any track th...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about everyone's favorite topic: procrastination and how it causes you stress and anxiety and overwhelm. No, I'm not here to give you the best productivity hacks to conquer your procrastination... I'm here to share the reasons you procrastinate in the first place. There's nothing wrong with you, procrastination isn't a motivation o...

Send us Fan Mail Immediately after recording last weeks episode I had more thoughts on the death of the diagnosis.  I still stand firm that my opinion aligns with a growing base of psychologists and researchers who see the diagnosis as an antiquated tools that isn’t as useful as we once believed it to be and it may even be detrimental in the way that it continues to stigmatize and further perpetua...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about an article I read about diagnosis and the diagnostic criteria, right away I'll remind you I am not a clinician and this is not medical advice. But I do have opinions about our healthcare system or rather the lack of. I've got a lot of questions about diagnosis and in general the things we identify with and hold so tightly to. How are these...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we're getting into expectations of failure coupled with the stories we tell ourselves and the intentions we show up with. These things help us shape life and how we experience everything in it. What are the reasons you have for doing what you do? is it punishment or celebration? Have you ever asked a baby how they were productive today? These questions and more ....

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about the difference between showing up for your responsibilities at work, home, school, etc... and showing up for yourself. A big part of adulting is learning to care for yourself, to learn the things we weren't taught in school or home growing up. In the end you are YOUR responsibility. That means learning to grow, heal, regulate, rest, and do all o...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode we're gong to expand on an idea of connecting to the parts of ourselves that we avoid. Generally, connection to things that don't feel good... well, it doesn't feel good so we avoid it or put something in it's place. In the case of shame we've got judgement, the amount of judgement you hold is equal to the shame you hold within. If the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about leaving space for the unknown, for change, for possibility outside of what you think you know, who you think you are. If we can't allow for change we will never know anything outside of exactly what is right now... Remember, everything is made up at some point and trying to fit into someone else's idea of life is really stressful. This epis...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode we're talking about creating new habits and doing too much too fast. So often we get excited about making changes when we're inspired to do so and we want to dive in head first and go all in. Go big or go home... etc. The thing here is that if we're stepping too far outside of what our current experience and patterns are we're going to face...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was inspired by a conversation that highlighted some points I would like to share here with you. Today we're getting into movement and exercise and how what metrics we measure how worth it movement was. Is it worth it if you feel better? Is it worth it if it's super intense, go big, go hard, all or nothing? This will depend on the day, who you are, how you&a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're talking about movement, it's the most basic form of self-expression and how we navigate the world, our bodies are meant to move and yet we do so little of it. Movement is how we express ourselves, how we find courage, how we complete the stress cycle, how we bond with others and yet the majority of adults around the world but especially here in the...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about the work it takes to build your best life, but first we have to talk about the work it takes to get out of survival mode because we can't live our best lives in survival mode. Many of us are walking around in a constant state of threat, ready to boil over and melt down at any moment because we're carrying the weight of the whole world aroun...

Send us Fan Mail What's the point in all the self-help and personal development things? What are we really trying to do? Are we trying to fix what we see to be wrong so we can be right? That's a real question for you to ponder, but until then maybe we explore setting a foundation with healing and getting curious about who we are to begin with and what we want. What do we want in life? To...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and good day! This episode I want to talk over what nervous system hygiene is and why it's so important. I reference it on the regular and we've never really taken a deep dive into what all of that means. The best place to start is with the reminder that you can not live your  best life in survival mode.   Next, you have the ability to interact with your nervous sy...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about taking action. Anxiety is the underestimation of your ability to face any given challenge, and the overestimation of that challenge. Taking the smallest step toward the thing that is overwhelming you or the thing you've created a story of fear around will alleviate a piece of that fear. When we take action we are proving to ourselves, to our brain and ne...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about the fear of making a mistake. The thing is, if you're alive and you're a human you're making mistakes. We can't go through this life and learn anything new without making some mistakes. These are our opportunities to learn what we do want, how to navigate, how to adapt. If we don't let ourselves make mistakes we can't le...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about resistance to what is again, but this time we're looking at some examples of "new normal", the moments that change us forever, and the things we just don't want to accept. So much of our stress comes from resisting what has already happened. Sometimes these things are just annoying and not life altering. Let's look at where w...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode was inspired by an experience I had last week at my job where I found myself spending my energy and attention on someone else's worry. We've all done this and know what it's like to revisit our conversations and think "I should have said..." or "next time I'm going to say..." The thing with this is that we're not al...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode we're talking about wellness as an action rather than a state of being. It's easy to look at someone else and think, they're just fit or they're naturally calm, or whatever it is that we see that looks easy to them.... but that thing most likely took a lot of time and intentional effort.  When we use self-care or pay attention to our body a...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is the first one of the new year and I wanted to talk about creating space. There are so many messages around this time of year about new starts, new you, new diet, new workout, new habits etc... If we don't know where we're at and how we got here we don't have a starting point to work from, so I offer the idea of creating space, giving yourself...

Send us Fan Mail This is the last episode of this year and we're looking at time and how we set our goals. As we approach the end of this year I am reminded of Einstein's view on time... that it's relative and depends totally on your perception.  This means that what we can accomplish and how we react to the time we have is totally up to us! This is fantastic news because it means w...