Brain-Body Resilience

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends! Today's episode is all about why seeking out small bursts of stress to help ourselves adapt to different stressors is useful in facing the real life stressors that show up challenging us and making us uncomfortable. Practice in all things is how we get better... the same applies to stress. The more you practice the response you want to have under stress you are...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about investing in yourself. That means your time, your energy, and your money. This can be incredibly uncomfortable when we've made a habit of ignoring and neglecting ourselves.  This came up for me and I started to think about how we make the shift to investing in ourselves, our wellbeing, into creating the person we want to be and living a life we...

Send us Fan Mail Let's talk a little bit about training in the off season, or practicing for the big day. If you've ever played sports, competed or performed in anything you know that there is a period where you're practicing over and over again for the big day so you know you'll be ready when you need to be. The thing is, when we're talking about managing stress and build...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is inspired by  some recent conversations and a grumpy morning. Deciding how you want your day to go from the moment you wake up will help you steer in that direction. If you're leaving everything up in the air and waiting to see what happens you're probably not going to get what you want. Because of the whole survival thing your brain is constantly...

Send us Fan Mail Hello! This episode was inspired by my recent experience not feeling well and questioning myself about my need to rest. The majority of us have a hard time letting ourselves just be still and present without DOING something without feeling bad about it. We have learned to tie our value to our productivity so if we're not producing we're not as valuable or deserving... ri...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm talking about the importance of community. We all need a sense of community support and belonging to contribute to our overall mental and personal health. Communities come in various sizes and are made up of any number of shared experiences, beliefs, practices, actions, or a given location. As we go through life our community memberships will change. Some communitie...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is inspired by my journey to accept and own my story up until now. We've all got a story to tell from a life full of ups and downs and all of the experiences that have shaped us over the chapters and seasons that have delivered us to this point. I've been a little embarrassed about parts of my story, mainly that I don't remember pieces and I&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is about Mother's Day. I'm recording on Mother's Day here in the U.S. This is a complicated day for many of us. There are so many reasons we can and do have complicated feelings about this holiday. I share my thoughts on this day and my appreciation for all the beautiful women I've had the fortune to receive a little mothering from. To all...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I share my recent lessons learned about consistent small steps adding up and being more beneficial than trying to do a thing in one giant leap. Thankful for the reminder. I share a beautiful idea I learned from the fantastic Wini Linguvic about approaching new habit building as an experiment to mitigate the pressure and judgement that can arise when we're tryi...

Send us Fan Mail Hello! Today we're talking about this saying I've seen floating around "Create a life you don't want to escape from" I heard someone call bullshit on this and it made me think a little bit more about what this means to me. This is absolutely my goal, to create a life that I enjoy living. That doesn't mean I'm going to love it all the time or not...

Send us Fan Mail Thoughts for this episode came to me over a pile of chocolate crumbs, the end result of this was a delicious dessert and this episode. Today we're talking about how often we live on purpose. How often we plan our day and take action to prioritize the things that are important. If we're just throw it all out there and see what happens it is likely not going to be what we...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're talking about the fact that just because you have a surplus of energy you don't need to spend it, just because you have extra time doesn't mean you need to fill it. It is not only ok, but sometimes crucial that we build a buffer, like an energy savings account. If we're always running ourselves down to empty we aren't leaving room for...

Send us Fan Mail Hello there! Today we're talking about how little things add up big time. When we're looking to make changes we'll actually have to make some changes to the way we're thinking and living. I know, it's a wild idea when we're told all the time that there are magic pills and overnight successes and such. I'm here to tell you that doesn't exist....

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends! Today's episode is inspired by my earlier Instagram post which I linked below. I've been thinking about showing up and starting over and beginning again and what that takes. It takes courage and a reason strong enough to keep you going along with the belief that what you do can make a difference.  You're probably not going to have one big aha moment w...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode was inspired by a friend who reminded me of the big picture of my work when they said "I don't have to keep living like this" with the realization that there is a choice we can all make to learn new tools and ways of being in this world and interacting with it and with ourselves. This was something I learned and my big aha moment. It is my missi...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're doing a little reflection on my mindset over the years and how my adventures hiking this past weekend prompted some awareness around the idea of challenging myself. You may have heard me talking about how beneficial it is to challenge yourself to help build resilience and achieve the goals you might have set out to accomplish. I am a big fan of challenging one&apo...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I tell you all about how the word should has no place or use and then use the word over and over and over.  My lesson in this, context matters! What are expectations?! Why do they often lead to frustration? How can we minimize the frustration and make expectations work for us? The formula expectation - observation = frustration tells us that AWARENESS is key! Unles...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about that super weird saying and the intention behind it to deter curiosity as a practice in life.  I am here to poo poo all over that idea and tell you to get as curious as you possibly can about everything especially in regards to yourself. Get curious about your thoughts, behaviors, feelings, beliefs and how you choose to live your life. Use curiosity...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm thinking about my brother as I record this. I can't help but think about and wonder what it was that made him feel like he couldn't ask for help. I feel strongly that several contributors include shame and negative mental health stigmas, toxic masculinity, and our perverted culture around emotion. We both learned early that you have to be tough to survive...

Send us Fan Mail Today (the day I'm recording) is Valentine's Day! There are movies, and songs, and poems, and a whole industry around this day. I'm going to tell you up front I don't LOVE Valentine's Day. I'm no love hater, I love love. Love is what makes the world go 'round. For real. Love is the most powerful tool you have. My beef with Valentine's Day is...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a reflection on my birthday, expectations, time and my evolving relationship with these things. I reflect on how my relationship with myself is changing as time moves forward. I explore my relationship with time and my expectations there.  I've come to the understanding that I don't have time to waste on unnecessary stress and worry. There is no t...

Send us Fan Mail Hello friends! Today's episode we are talking about challenges. How to give yourself challenges so that when life brings them your way you have more practice, strength, and resilience built up to face whatever life throws at you. From cold showers to ultra marathons to sitting still in silence with yourself. It's up to you to find the thing that challenges you the way yo...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about the idea that many of us have at one point or another that we are fundamentally broken or damaged by the experiences we've had in life and trauma we've survived. I'm here to tell you that you're not alone and your reactions and responses aren't very different from many other people. Human beings have patterns around how our p...

Send us Fan Mail This episode we explore more of my love for the brain-body connection with a little bit of history on world views regarding the interaction between body and brain. I also give you some really cool tid-bits about brain maps and phantom limb pain. I also get into more of my journey to heal my own relationship between my brain and body and the relationship I have with my body today....

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is a bit of a vulnerable trip down memory lane. It starts with a reaction I had to a request my husband made for some alone time, which none of us have had in the last 10 months with on and off lock downs and business shut downs. I take a step back to realize that my reaction isn't to his request but to my memories of being without a safe place to be in o...