Awakening the Felt Sense Part III ~ Awakening Breath

Awakening the breath is one of the key steps  to building the capacity of our nervous system so we can access more joy and more resilience. If you haven’t already seen Part I & II of this series, Awakening the Felt Sense, please start here.  If you are someone who has a hard time being …

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Awakening the Felt Sense, Part II ~ Awakening Skin

Last week on Bodywise Wednesday, I introduced the concept of Awakening the felt sense in the body. If you haven’t read Awakening the Felt Sense Part I , I recommend reading that first by clicking here. Awakening the felt sense is one of the primary keys to Somatic Awakening/Healing because in order to process any held …

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Awakening the Felt Sense Part I ~ Become Your Own Healer

After over 18 years of study and practice, I’ve come to believe that if we want to really get to the roots of healing and experience the freedom, joy and potential that is our birthright, we need to work on the level of the nervous system. In the Somatic therapies we often talk about neuroplasticity, or rewiring …

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Adrenal Health and Healing Trauma

Is this you? You’re a perfectionist, to a fault. When someone needs help, you rarely say no. You regularly feel tired or even exhausted but still have difficulty winding down &/or sleeping. You’ve lived through intense challenge and survived, but you don’t feel the same connection with life and your body that you did before, …

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NAVIGATING FEAR and Healing the Nervous System

Today’s episode of Bodywise Wednesday is Part 3 of our 4 Part “Navigating the Darker Emotions Series” and today our topic is ~  NAVIGATING FEAR and healing the nervous system. (Scroll down if you want to dive right into the video!) In this episode, I’m interviewing Irene Lyon, MSC. Irene is a nervous system specialist …

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4 Steps to Healing the Roots of Depression

In last weeks Sacred Saturday post I wrote about strategies & tools to address SADS or seasonal depression in this article – Beating the Winter Blues.  Having these tools is totally useful, and I shared them because I use them myself and with my clients as needed. And yet, while “nutraceuticals” & lifestyle practices can …

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Beating the Winter Blues

Depression. In the US, antidepressant usage has climbed 65% in the past 15 years according to the National Centre for Health Statistics, and in Canada our antidepressant use is higher still. In fact, Antidepressants usage in Canada is amongst the highest in the world, surpassed only by Iceland and Australia, and in the UK the …

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A Life or Death Choice?

What if you knew that there was a way to know EXACTLY which choice was in your highest good in any given moment – without a doubt? What if there was a tool you could use – like a GPS – for everything from what to eat for breakfast to whether to take that job …

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Self-Sabotage & the 3 Healing Archetypes

Everybody wants to be happy. I truly believe that. How many people do you know walking around who are actually saying, “I wish I could experience more suffering.” Okay – perhaps there is a few which is a whole different topic, and perhaps it would be more correct to say that everybody wants homeostasis ~ …

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