Functional with FND

10/07/2026

One moment counts.

10/07/2026

Therapeutic Tuesday

Share your favorite self care OR therapeutic activities below 👇🏼 let's brain 🧠 storm together?

10/06/2026

Come and witness some insight on calm energy placement. Sara is an amazing teacher, creator, and supporter.

10/06/2026

Support Sunday: FND Art Therapy with Sarah🗓 Sunday, Oct 11, 2026
⏰ 1–2 PM MDTJoin us for a gentle intro to art therapy — a space to ground, create, and connect.
Whether you’re newly diagnosed or simply curious, this hour offers calm creativity and community support.Come as you are — cozy blankets, quiet energy, messy paint hands — all welcome. 💛
https://discord.gg/gWUjjrUR6c

09/29/2026

Functional with FND × Unmasked Art Therapy
We’re joining forces to explore what happens when 🫂 awareness meets therapeutic rehabilitation — blending lived experience, creativity, and nervous‑system healing.

As someone who lives with FND and works as a practitioner, I know firsthand how powerful it can be to combine art therapy, somatic work, and sensory grounding tools. These approaches helped me go from paralysis to walking with support within months — not years — and they continue to shape my recovery and coaching practice.

This collaboration is about expanding the healing toolkit 🧰 — not searching for one magic fix. Together, we’re building bridges between neuroscience, creative expression, and community support.

Starting next week, Unmasked Art Therapy will be sharing free resources — and I’ll be adding complementary tools from Functional with FND, including sensory grounding and journaling practices designed to help people reconnect with their bodies and emotions.

✨ Follow both pages to join us on this journey of Rest, Reset & Rewire — where healing becomes creative, connected, and possible.

Functional with FND × Unmasked Art Therapy are teaming up to explore what can happen when FND 🫂 meets therapeutic rehabilitation.

I’m not only a patient but also as a practitioner — I live with myself.

I went from paralysis to walking with help within months, not years. My symptoms have significantly decreased in severity, and creative expression, somatic work, rehabilitation, nervous-system support and other tools have become important parts of my own journey.

This isn’t about one magic solution.

It’s about building a bigger healing toolkit. 🧰

Our Rest, Reset & Rewire Protocol brings together lived experience, therapeutic arts, somatic approaches, , accommodations, nutrition, brain games and community .

And this is just the beginning…

🎨 Starting next week, I will be dropping a 🆓 free resource every week — simple creative tools for those moments when words aren't enough. Follow us both for more.

09/26/2026

🧡 Utah FND Luncheon — Follow‑Up & GratitudeToday’s meetup was such a gift. We shared a cozy breakfast together — Kodiak protein pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, fresh orange slices, watermelon, orange juice, hot chocolate with marshmallows, and plenty of water to keep us going.A huge thank‑you to Dakota Crosby for cooking and making the morning feel extra special.We caught up, laughed, navigated a few glitches, and welcomed new faces into our circle. Every time we gather, I’m reminded how deeply important these moments are for our FND community — a place where we can participate, learn, grow, celebrate our wins, and hold each other through the lows.Connection matters. Community matters. And today was another beautiful reminder of that. 🧡

09/25/2026

09/25/2026

🌿 ReAttach Presentation Update! 🌿
🎥 Conference Presentation Preparation
I prepared a 40‑minute pre‑recorded presentation with a live 10‑minute Q&A to accommodate Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) symptoms — including a migraine and lightheadedness.
🔊 A slight buzzing noise in the recording turned out to be my cooling fan under the computer (FND life keeping things interesting 😅).
🎬 The presentation took an entire day across five takes due to emerging tics and symptom flares during filming — but I got it done! 💪✨

👩‍⚕️ Introduction & Research Work
Dr. Paula Bartholomeus introduced me, highlighting:
📘 My completed coach online training
📝 My published paper
🤝 My coaching work with individuals with FND

I also shared updates on working with approximately 15 clients using ReAttach techniques and the “Forgive and Forget Hood” concept.

💖 A clinical success story included a client with both essential tremors and FND tremors who learned to separate and calm the tremors — restoring daily motor functions like drinking and eating. Huge win! 🙌

🧠 Presentation Content on FND
FND is a disruption of brain function, not structure — meaning symptoms are real and measurable even without visible structural damage on standard imaging.

🧩 The presentation explained the brain as a prediction machine that, in FND, overweighs internal predictions and underweighs corrective sensory feedback.

⚖️ Chronic dysregulation increases allostatic load, showing why co‑regulation is essential — we don’t heal through isolated nervous system survival; we heal through connection. 🤝💛

🌈 Therapeutic Tools & Techniques
🧘‍♀️ The “Forgive and Forget Hood” is used as a metaphorical tool to reduce sensory and emotional overload.

The technique guides clients to:
➡️ Bring distressing emotions forward
💭 Acknowledge them
✨ Pair them with positive thoughts and tapping
🔙 Then mentally move them back to clear emotional fixation

🤗 Co‑regulation provides essential guided support for highly sensitive FND clients to process social or emotional triggers without escalating symptoms.

09/21/2026

OH My Gosh. This coming Friday, we are doing this!

🌍 Join Me at the Global ReAttach × Neurolog Summit 2026!
🗓 September 25, 2026
🕓 My Session: 16:20 BST | 11:20 EST | 09:20 MST
💻 Attend Online: reattachxneurologsummit26.com

✨ I’ll be sharing insights on Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) within the Regulate pathway — exploring how co‑regulation and nervous system awareness can empower recovery and connection.

Let’s come together to learn, grow, and inspire change in the global FND community. 💙🌿

09/21/2026

🎓 Guest Educator Session
🌟 Functional with FND Presents:

Jason Kreuzman, OTR/L
Founder of Rewire OT

🗓 Sunday, September 27th
🕐 1 PM MST / 2 PM CST
💬 Topic: Personalized Strategies for Everyday Life

Join us for an inspiring discussion on adapting daily routines, pacing, and confidence‑building with FND. Jason’s compassionate, practical approach helps individuals find strength through understanding and function through connection.

✨ “Where Understanding Meets Strength”
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