Healing the Soul Psychotherapy

06/15/2023

Some emotions feel like they could overwhelm us, like lonliness, worry/fear, hurt, and anger. When we can sit with it, feel it in our bodies, meet it and hold how big it is with love, compassion and understanding for why it is there, we begin to create the capacity and space to hold it without being overwhelmed by it.

"To study emptiness means to accept without resisting, to not push away from the emptiness that's within us and try to fill up our sense of longing and deficiency. It's to sit and say, 'Let me feel that emptiness and not try to fill it right away.' When we stop running and feel that, then something new comes alive in us." – Jack Kornfield 📿🫶🥥

09/03/2019

How trauma-informed interpersonal neurobiology changed my life by reconceptualizing what “mental health” is

08/30/2019

The vagus nerve is the most important nerve you probably didn’t know you had, watch this video to know more about the Vagus Nerve and its links to the brain,...

08/21/2019

Trauma Informed Parent offers parents and caregivers sound information and resources on the effect trauma and adverse life experiences can have on their children's health and well being.

08/15/2019

Downregulation of the sympathetic nervous system is a biological response to stress states that calms us. Like a muscle, it can be developed and strengthened.

08/14/2019

Most human problems are rooted in dysregulation of the nervous system. Self-regulation, a goal of somatic therapy, keeps the fight/flight response in balance.

08/09/2019

Childhood trauma is surprisingly common and understandably painful, but healing is possible.

08/09/2019

Excellent Diagram!

Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute (SETI)

08/03/2019

Wednesday Wisdom:

08/02/2019

As part of discovering their very important place in the world, our children and teens will often behave in ways that are, let’s say, wildly short of ‘adorable’. They will explore, experiment, push to find the limits, and exercise their independence. As parents, this can be triumphant and wond...