The Autonomic Homeostasis Activation Podcast - Neuroscience • Emotional Resilience • Trauma Recovery

Send us Fan Mail Community is a word that's tossed around lightly these days. But how do we create our own sense of community in a world that feels less and less safe? The epidemic of loneliness continues even though we are more connected than ever. There is a real ache in people's hearts for a sense of belonging to a genuine community. But how do people approach community when the risk...

Send us Fan Mail There can be a lot of stress associated with change. Generally, it involves the loss of something, someone, or a situation from the past that is no longer present. As a result of it, we are moved towards new realities and led towards the possibilities of what might be. The way in which we respond to change in a healthy way is crucial because either we are able to take advantage of...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season Two of The Autonomic Healing Podcast!  As Ruth & Tom introduce the upcoming season's overarching journey, they'll be taking us on a deep dive into rational intimacy, which is the focus of the new season. A huge aspect of our lives is how we relate to ourselves and to each other as a whole. It can either be a stressful experience or a life-affirming...

Send us Fan Mail As we close out Season One of the Autonomic Healing Podcast, we look at Hope's importance in our lives. Listen as Ruth & Tom talk about the role of Hope in our lives. Hope is the antidote to negative anticipation. It resembles light coming in the darkness and new life being around the corner.  As we enter 2023, we wish you all a hopeful New Year!  See you in January for S...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas from the Autonomic Healing Podcast!  In this special Christmas episode, Ruth & Tom read excerpts from Margery Williams British Children’s novel ‘The Velveteen Rabbit - How Toys Become Real.’  First published in 1922, this beautiful story depicts themes humans can easily relate to - the desire and journey we all embark on to become real versions of ourselves and...

Send us Fan Mail The great discovery of every human is to find out who we are. Finding out about our identity is fundamental to our being. Listen as Ruth and Tom explore how Autonomic Healing and the activation of homeostasis in Spiritual Formation brings Identity formation—allowing us to thrive instead of just surviving. Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagr...

Send us Fan Mail In Greek, the root word from which we get 'faith' is the noun Pistis. The word 'faith' can be a loaded word carrying all sorts of connotations for people - good and bad (depending on the person's experience) but at the heart of faith is the invitation to take healthy risks into the unknown so that we get to adventure into the expanse of purpose and desire....

Send us Fan Mail Ruth and Tom continue to talk about Autonomic Healing and Spiritual formation. In this episode, Ruth unpacks her AHA spiritual formation session, sharing how God spoke to her very visually, which has dramatically impacted her life. Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Webs...

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorkings Website Email Tom thomasjpals@innerworkings.org Email Ruth ruth@bridgeandrhino.com Support us We appreciate you!

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorkings Website Email Tom thomasjpals@innerworkings.org Email Ruth ruth@bridgeandrhino.com Support us We appreciate you!

Send us Fan Mail Tom and Ruth continue to unpack Autonomic Healing Problem Solving, where the brain informs the mind what is actually rational. Tom shares the patterns of seemingly rational perceptions that people have and how AHA PS empowers them to move into their actual rational alternatives.  Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Ap...

Send us Fan Mail Many people have phobia's - fear of snakes, fear of small spaces, fear of dentists! In fact there are more than 400 phobia's that people experience. In this episode Tom and Ruth share their latest adventure of climbing one of Colorado's 14,000 ft mountains - Grey's Peak. Listen as Ruth shares how this was an achievement in more ways than one, as her Acrophobia...

Send us Fan Mail Stress and trauma's lingering effect settles itself in our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the situations we face daily. We all have (what Tom calls) seemingly rational perceptions - they seem perfectly rational to us, but often they are a product of how stress and trauma have formed us. In this episode, Ruth and Tom introduce the work of AHA Problem Solving - where the...

Send us Fan Mail Join us as we explore the impact of trauma: Tom shares how trauma affects our physical health, relationships, and perceptions.  Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorkings Website Email Tom thomasjpals@innerworkings.org Email Ruth ruth@bridgeandrhino.c...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ruth and Tom begin to unpack the complex trauma topic. Trauma is something we've now started to talk about a lot more as a society, but understanding what it is, its effect, and its impact on a human being, and more importantly, how we can heal from trauma is a much-desired conversation.  Listen as Tom shares how Autonomic Healing Activation has revolutionize...

Send us Fan Mail Chris is a therapist in Colorado and has been treating offenders for the last 18 years. Listen to the story of how he and Tom met and how he became Tom's first AHA-certified practitioner. Chris now offers AHA therapy each week as part of his private practice and makes incredible headway with his clients.  Check out Chris at www.cruxcounseling.com. Support the show Thanks for...

Send us Fan Mail In this last episode on rational intimacy, Ruth and Tom explore how loving ourselves is essential to loving our neighbor.  Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorkings Website Email Tom thomasjpals@innerworkings.org Email Ruth ruth@bridgeandrhino.com Su...

Send us Fan Mail How can two words have such a different impact? Do we react, or do we respond to the circumstances we're facing? One is part of the predictable pattern we see in the tsunami of stress, and the other gives way to living in rational intimacy. Listen to part three of our mini-series on rational intimacy. We look at how the choice to respond instead of reacting makes an incredibl...

Send us Fan Mail Part two of our rational intimacy mini-series looks even more deeply at this healthy alternative to the tsunami of stress. Tom explains the importance of understanding what's beneficial and detrimental and how that informs our decisions as we relate to ourselves and others in this healthy paradigm.  Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagra...

Send us Fan Mail Our intimate relationships that are so life-giving can become the casualty as we experience the destructive escalating patterns of the Tsunami of Stress. How we relate with ourselves and others often becomes compromised as we encounter stress, trauma, and those triggering events that make 'then' feel like 'now.'  In this episode, Ruth and Tom introduce the mini...

Send us Fan Mail Josh is a mental health counselor in Broomfield, Colorado. Listen as he shares his personal experiences with Autonomic Healing and why he wants to offer AHA as a practitioner to the clients he serves. Outside of counseling, Josh runs his own mental health based podcast, Kare With Korac, where he gets the chance to interview professionals in the field, talk about mental health conc...

Send us Fan Mail Mental Health Counselor Brittney Blanchard joins the conversation. She shares her healing journey with AHA. And now, as someone who is training to offer AHA, how she sees the beneficial impact on her clients.  Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Autonomic Healing Website & InnerWorking...

Send us Fan Mail How we heal from trauma can be puzzling. Listen as Tom shares his journey of discovering Autonomic Healing, how over 30 years he's pieced together his essential findings to bring a therapy that enables somatic, cognitive, and spiritual healing. Support the show Thanks for listening! You can follow us on Facebook Instagram Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Check out the Auto...

Send us Fan Mail Contrary to Aristotle's view that we have five human senses, today's scientific community agrees that we have 21 human senses. Listen as Tom explains the sense of interoception, how it's the sense that rules them all, and how it plays a big part in bringing healing to mind, body, and spirit through Autonomic Healing Activation. Support the show Thanks for listening!...

Send us Fan Mail Listen in as Tom explains what Autonomic Healing Activation is, what a therapy session looks like, and how we thrive when the brain activates homeostasis. In this groundbreaking episode, Tom shares his discovery of AHA - a way to activate homeostasis (or healing) in the body, mind, and spirit, and how it's beneficially impacted the many hundreds of people he's worked alo...