Insights & Tools for Healing

Your nervous system is designed to move through waves — activation and deactivation, expansion and contraction. But when stress builds up, or when we’ve been taught to ignore what we feel, we can lose our rhythm.

Nervous System 101 is a guide to getting to know the incredible inner system that helps you stay safe, connect with others, and navigate life’s stressors. It’s a science that helps us better understand how we are wired so that we can better serve ourselves and help us heal.

In experiential therapies we seek approaches that don’t just treat symptoms, but actually speak to the heart of our experience—especially when that experience involves trauma. For me, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) has been one of those approaches. It helped me make sense of the reactions and behaviors I once didn’t understand, and provided tools that supported deep, meaningful healing.

Experiential therapy is a powerful approach that goes beyond talking about problems and instead helps you experience what’s happening inside — in your thoughts, emotions, sensations, and beliefs — in real time.

In the world of experiential modalities, one concept continues to emerge as both foundational and transformative: memory reconsolidation...

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It’s easy to feel like the mind and body are working against each other. That restless feeling when thoughts are swirling

The experience of dissociation anxiety is deeply disorienting—like floating just outside of yourself, disconnected from life.

Dissociation can be difficult to describe—and even harder to experience. It’s that sense of being disconnected, as if you’re watching life

Recovering from PTSD can be disorienting and exhausting. If you’ve felt stuck or frustrated with the pace of your healing, you’re not alone.

Guilt has a way of settling into the body, whispering in quiet moments, weighing on the heart, or knotting the stomach.

Guilt is one of those emotions that doesn’t just sit in the back of your mind—it lingers, it weighs, and it settles deep into your body.

Trauma can feel like a shadow, lingering long after the event has passed. It affects how we see ourselves and the world

Shame has a special place in my heart. Strange thing to say, I know. But I spent two years training at the Center for Healing Shame—studying it, sitting with it, even learning to befriend it. I’ve come to see how shame touches nearly every area of life, especially our relationships—with ourselves, with others, and with the world.

Working on self-esteem isn’t about becoming someone else—it’s about slowly, gently reclaiming your relationship with yourself. So many of us grew up absorbing quiet messages that we weren’t good enough, lovable enough, smart enough, worthy enough.

I believe we go from healing to healing in this life—or at least, we can. At any given moment, we have the opportunity to open ourselves to the process of studying our inner world, learning, growing, and finding new layers of healing. But it is a choice, and not everyone chooses it.

Divorce is an area of my work that holds a special place in my heart—because it’s part of my own story.

Sleep isn’t just something we do—it’s something our whole system has to feel safe enough  to allow. And when that sense of safety isn’t...

When I work with clients navigating depression, I let them know from the start: we’re going to take our time. We’re going to try different tools, follow their pace, and allow their system to show us what feels helpful.

Somatic exercises offer a unique invitation to listen deeply to our bodies and attune ourselves to the subtle narratives they weave....