Small Steps. Big Shifts.

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...

(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...

(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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Two years ago I ended a seven-year friendship. It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made, not because I didn't have support (I had a lot of it), but because this friendship had genuinely give...

Ever feel stuck and can’t figure out how to get moving again?

Have you ever tried to get in a better mood, and it didn’t work?

Do you have multiple thoughts swimming around in your head doing battle...