Insights & Tools for Healing

Trauma isn’t just something that happened. It’s what happened inside you as a result. And often, it’s what keeps happening when your body and nervous system don’t feel safe — even long after the event is over.

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...

Becoming Her Podcast with Jeanetta Bodie Rupture, Repair, and Parts Work: A Conversation with Jen - Episode 17 I was so grateful to be a...

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

Dissociation can feel like slipping away from yourself — losing track of time, feeling disconnected from your body, or watching life happen