The ReProgram

We're gonna keep learning about this Nervous System, and today we're doing it with the gentle, wise and loving somatic practitioner Elena Dominguez. You'll just love her. In this conversation we discuss the role of play in our nervous system and what we can learn from the dog park, how to reparent the body, how to reprogram the nervous system with compassion and patience, how to parent...

Ruthie Lindsey is an author, speaker, and healer who is on a mission to help us access the truest, most liberated version of ourselves by becoming endeared to our lives, bodies, & souls ✨ Ruthie has answered the call to healing in a way that isn't common in our culture, which is so deeply nourishing, healing and a beautiful thing to witness. She has been a guiding light for me for years o...

New brains for everyone! Paloma and Danny, The Founders of In the Cortex, are here to teach us how we can go back in time and give our brain the experiences it needs to repair and reorder, no matter our chronological age. Brain reorganization is a non-invasive method of completing lower brain development by re-creating the movements that we might have missed as babies. I am really excited about th...

On Wednesdays, we talk about Codependency. And we're doing it with Erika Wright, a codependency and spiritual counselor who — with blunt straightforwardness, loving kindness, and a strong Boston accent — helps people get out of their own way and have a better life. Codependency is confusing, nebulous, and everywhere (including inside our bodies). We can't talk and learn about it enough as...

STOP EVERYTHING, EVERYONE...Jennifer Kolari IS ON THE POD TODAYYYY! The brilliant and generous Canadian therapist, author, speaker and brain/heart behind the Connected Parenting Model is here to teach us about how our brains and bodies work, and to give us so many actionable steps to take to uplevel our ability to dose our children with the protective neurochemicals that bring out the best feeling...

We have another Neurologist on the pod today to help us understand what is happening beneath our skin. Let's geek out on the science of healing and living! Laura Cardwell is a Neurologist, mother, trainer and speaker who expertly explains many topics for us including the body as the subconscious mind and why change needs to happen there, healing the mind-body connection, the role of energy and...

*Or, alternate title: "How to Consciously Parent the Toddler that is our Body." Yes, I know. Allow us to explain: Seasononed psychotherapist turned Intuitive, Embodiment, and Relationship Coach Meaghan O'Malley is on the pod today to further de-mystify somatics, embodiment and how to be in relationship with our bodies as the ultimate vehicle for healing. In this episode we talk about...

Brilliant, articulate fellow therapist Sarah Ann Saeger is here to help us learn to navigate what it means to be the first generation breaking free from the unhealthy and unhelpful ways we were parented, while also parenting and reparenting. This rich episode touches on the impact of childhood trauma on our parenting, understanding the inner child, attachment styles and healing our own attachment...

James' wisdom is both ancient and forward-thinking. He reconnects us to the teachings of the past while helping us see the agency we have in our day-to-day lives to create the future we want to see. In this discussion, we cover how to harness our intuition and how creativity is essentially bringing into being something we haven't seen yet. The parallels to our parenting abound--how can we...

We can dream right? Actually, we can parent in a way around screens and tech in a way that builds connections, awareness, and self-regulation in our kiddos around tech and Ash Brandin is here to help us learn how to do it.  Ash Brandin has been a teacher for the past 13 years and has blended their love and knowledge of children and tech on their instagram account @thegameeducator, where they provi...

Child Neurologist Dr. Jorina Elbers is here to teach us how we can move ourselves into heart consciousness for our optimal nervous system health and impact in our parenting and lives. This work hits to the core of our Reprogramming, I could not be more aligned with her message and research. Dr. Elbers brings us the latest research from the HeartMath Institute, an organization that has been scienti...

The incomparable Mary Van Geffen is here to help us parent our Spicy Ones, or know if we secretly are one too! Mary deeply understands the science of attachment and parenting, and provides such a soothing dose of wisdom, honesty, self-awareness and humor that can make you feel a little braver in whatever you're navigating in your body and in your relationships. We talk about how our spiciest c...

What if there was an evidence-based way to discipline and parent our children that builds their brains, their capacity for problem-solving, strengthens our attachment relationship and also reduced our mental load?? Y'ALL. Not even kidding, this exists, and Dr. Tamara Soles is here to tell us all about it. I heard her on a podcast in 2018 and it literally changed my life-- I started implementin...

Today on the podcast we are going deep into aggression and how to support our children when their behavior manifests as such. Tosha deeply understands the neuroscience of safety, and how we can provide the felt experience first in our bodies and then in our relationship with our child. This episode provides insights, empathy and many ideas that you can start to implement today for your sweet child...

If you are into two women in black turtlenecks talking about the healing power of dance, embodiment and spirituality, then you are going to love this episode with Asheville Icon, Misa Terral. The more I learn about trauma and the nervous system, the more I value somatic expression--and there is no method quite like music plus dance plus community. Misa is at the helm of Soulpower Dance, where she...

Dutch Psychologist Barlas Gunay of the powerful and insightful Instagram account @acceptandact is here to go deep into all the things we Cyclebreakers need to know to heal, reclaim our power, and find peace and ease in our lives. We talk about anger and why women struggle the most with this (and it's consequences), we talk about nervous system self-regulation, we talk about inner child work, s...

Fellow therapist, coach and Instagram co-worker Shenikka Moore-Clarke is here today to explain many healing concepts that we all need to know about now, such as attachment, projection, somatics, cyclebreaking while parenting and The Safe and Sound Protocol, a nervous system healing tool that seems like it comes straight out of Star Trek. This is an informative conversation between two clinicians a...

OK y'all, I know I am the Queen of Hyperbole, but are you ready to be forever changed?? This episode with journalist and author Rose Hackman will make you pissed, empowered, and will lift the veil (once again, because that's what we do now!) on what Emotional Labor is, how you're (probably) doing most of it, and how the people in your lives (cough cough, men) are absolutely able to do...

This POWERFUL episode with researcher, author and teacher Sarah Peyton had me taking notes and crying, because she explains what hurts us and what can heal us in the most validating scientific and soothing way possible. Unlike anyone else I have yet to meet, Sarah has gone deep into the research of our brains and how not only our early attachment wounds and non-verbal messages have impacted us, bu...

Wise and gentle Lelia Schott is here to honor our children and nurture us into neuro emotional awareness and healing for general life sustainability and parenting impact.  As she states, “connection is a child’s deepest need and a parent’s highest influence.”  AHHH. You know I love her.  Lelia deeply understands the neuroscience behind our humanness, and like me, prioritizes everyone’s experience...

Grounded Queen Chelsea Buncher is on the pod today to talk about her deep reverence for nature/the body and it's innate healing abilities as an acupuncturist, single mama, and woman in a body over 40. Chelsea talks so beautifully about the epiphanies that she had in her life that led to her philosophical stance on being a healer, and how she empowers her children to trust and attune to their b...

Today on the pod we have the one and only Attachment Nerd Eli Harwood to tell us about attachment in her soothing co-regulating voice. She is a master clinician who has gained a following of over 500K because of the way she so clearly and empathically explains the science of attachment that applies to, all of us. So if you've heard about attachment but aren't quite sure what it is exactly...

Are y’all ready to be LadyGrooved? You may have your clothes on still, but I know you will be changed after this conversation.  This episode with Alli Monday of Ladygroove Photography might be my favorite yet. This incredible woman has gone into the depths of her trauma, walked the Dark Night of the Soul, and emerged with deeply embodied joy, safety, love and a completely unique way of empowering...

On this pod this week we have the wise and worldly Rachel Zitin to talk to us about one of my favorite topics, EMBODIMENT. Rachel is an American yoga instructor, tour guide, and retreat creatrix who has been living in Rome, Italy the past 14 years--giving her a masterclass in human history and the cultural forces that impact our relationships with our bodies. We talked about how she creates retrea...

The founder of  @botanicalbonesco  Rachel Meyer is here to talk about her journey back home to herself in the context of building a viral brand that brought success but also  #lessons . Rachel is talking about something we don't see enough in the online Instagram Universe-- the emotional cost of hustle culture, how it shows up even when we are the boss, and how it's all rooted in programmi...