Category: General

  • 10 Things to Remember When a Practitioner is Triggering

    10 Things to Remember When a Practitioner is Triggering

    The next wave of whistleblowing is going to be piercing for people in my field, and it is the number of people who have experienced triggering practitioners. I know so many people in my own recovery circles who had their trauma re-magnified by their therapists. I know so many women who will not go to

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  • Not Unhappy: Positive vs. Negative (& Why It Doesn’t Not Matter)

    Not Unhappy: Positive vs. Negative (& Why It Doesn’t Not Matter)

    I have a client. We’ll call him Bob. Bob got an early high blood pressure diagnosis (we’re talking mid-20’s), and wanted to exhaust his options in lifestyle changes before trying medication. In six months, Bob lost thirty pounds, dropped to metrically perfect blood pressure, gave up energy drinks, diet soda, and nicotine, greatly reduced his

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  • Not All Regulation is Healthy

    Not All Regulation is Healthy

    September is Suicide Prevention Month, so we are not going to gloss over the darker side of self regulation. Intuitive healing is based on the body’s ability to heal itself by itself, including self regulation. Because of this fundamental faith in the body’s healing capacity, in general around here we refer to self regulation as

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  • Want to Heal? Prioritize These 4 Things

    Want to Heal? Prioritize These 4 Things

    So you want to be healthy. You want to return to, or finally reach, a state of vitality, of energy, of bliss, of peace in your life and your body, free of stress, trauma, fatigue, and general suck. I have yet to meet a human being who is not searching for or selling a life

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  • What’s Your Function: 8 Nervous System Regulation Terms to Know

    What’s Your Function: 8 Nervous System Regulation Terms to Know

    Back to school season is upon us, with sharpened pencils, fresh notebooks, and textbook fees you could take a mortgage out on. School can be a major dysregulation trigger for many of us – raise your hand if you’ve had a gone-to-school-with-no-pants nightmare, or randomly felt a clench in your stomach because you didn’t study

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  • What You Need to Do Right Now for Nervous System Regulation

    What You Need to Do Right Now for Nervous System Regulation

    I get this question a lot. Everyone wants to know what is the one thing they need to do that will reverse their chronic illness, untangle their symptoms, make their fatigue go away. You want to know, I want to know. We have a deep and human desire to fix, to free ourselves from the

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