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...
What a Man Falling on Ice Taught Me About Letting People Care
We were in our twenties, my boyfriend and I, up at Snowbird for the night with friends. We'd slipped away for some time alone and walked out to his car. He opened my door, I got in, and he gently clos...
Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of It
For years, when something difficult came up — a relationship problem, a decision I couldn't make, something I couldn't stop feeling bad about — my default was to think about it. Hard. Repeatedly. I'd ...
The Skill Most People Were Never Taught: How to Feel
Most of us were never actually taught how to feel emotions.
We were taught how to behave.
We were taught how to think.
But the middle layer — the emotional layer — was often left out.
So when unco...
If something here landed — there's more. Weekly stories on nervous system patterns and coming home to yourself.
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.
