Do you ever notice when you open up an email that your shoulders start to creep up to your ears? Or maybe your phone starts ringing and your jaw immediately tenses? These are habitual bracing patterns that have been brought on through either trauma or stress. They are...
Do you feel like your nervous system is in overdrive? Is your body full of muscular tension? I want to show you a simple, body based therapy to help you turn down your autonomic nervous system and release trauma while relieving stress. You know how some animals shake...
Practicing gratitude can be difficult in our busy, day-to-day lives. Inspiring gratitude is usually saved for holidays (happy thanksgiving!), but if you ask me, that’s not enough! You are amazing. Life is amazing. And we should be practicing gratitude every...
You have so much love to give, and you give it in so many ways!!! Perhaps by cleaning up after your family, cooking for them, holding them, or making an extra stop on the way to work and picking up a coffee for your friend because you know it’s her favorite. You are...
Dr. Azita Nahia defines trauma as “a highly stressful event or experience that disrupts your world and the way you have come to make meaning of it, leaving you feeling helpless, immobilized, disconnected, and stuck.” Stuck is the word that sticks with...
How often do you feel sick to your stomach? For me, it can be pretty often…which is no fun. So many things can cause nausea! Anxiety, excitement, anger, intense pain, morning sickness, motion sickness, food poisoning, the list could go on and on! With...