Your Body Keeps the Anniversary Even When Your Mind Has Moved On
What 9/11, Hebb's Law, and a bench at the memorial taught me about how trauma wires in and how we rewire it
I watched it happen on television.
Over and over. I think most of us did. We were in sh...
The Shadow Side of "Both/And"
(Why holding two things at once can become a way to avoid feeling either one fully).
"Both/and" is one of my favorite concepts in healing work.
The idea that two things can be true simultaneou...
The Nervous System Paradox Nobody Talks About
(Why feeling MORE dysregulated might mean your healing is actually working.)
I just had a hard week.
I was with family I love deeply, navigating some unexpected health concerns, stress in the hou...
The Question I Ask Before I Try to Fix Anything
This past Thursday one of my kids came into the kitchen with that face. Jaw tight. Eyes already filling. Before a single word came out, I could feel my own body wanting to jump in and ask what happene...
What My Pinky Toe Taught Me About Rewiring Your Nervous System
I've been stretching my pinky toe.
It's been a little too friendly with its neighbor for as long as I can remember, just leaning in, curling slightly, making itself at home. It's always just been that...
Why Your Emotions Keep Coming Back (And Why That's Actually Good News)
What a client taught me in 2015 that changed everything about how I do this work
A client said something to me in 2015 that I didn't have a good answer for.
"We rolled on that emotion before and ...
There's Nothing New Here
Before I recorded my first podcast episode earlier this month, the self-doubt showed up.
Loudly.
Who do you think you are? You're no expert. What if you freeze? What if you say the wrong thing?
I t...
My Body Knew What My Head Did Not
I want to tell you about the night I played with imaginary machine guns on a Zoom call — and how two days later, a pain that had been bothering me for months was gone.
I was in an evening group Zo...
Who Do You Think You Are?
I was a guest on a podcast last night. My first time ever being interviewed like that.
I've wanted to do this for a long time. And I was nervous.
Not nervous like butterflies. Nervous like old voice...
Visible and Invisible at the Same Time
Sophomore year, I watched Shauna Harmon run student body assemblies like she owned the room. Confident. Visible. Like she knew something I didn't.
So when I got elected Student Body Program Chairman ...
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Author
Jill Walton
Life Coach · Nervous System Specialist · Integrative Change Work Practitioner · Emotion, Body & Belief Code Certified
I've helped people shift the patterns that talk therapy alone couldn't touch. The work happens in the body — and that's exactly where I work.
