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I was the best person to give myself business advice
Men, in general, have a very consistent stream of energy. They’re able to go and get things done and accomplished. Women have ups and downs in our energy levels, over the course…
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Why dysregulation makes it hard to feel anything
When we’re in dysregulated states, accessing the felt sense becomes very difficult. When we’re in shutdown, we tend not to feel much. Everything’s kind of numb and blank and absent. And even…
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368 – The Invisible Drain: Why the Masculine Business Blueprint is Quietly Burning You Out
Running your own business was supposed to feel like freedom. So why does it sometimes feel like the loneliest, most triggering relationship in your life? In this episode, I pull back the…
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You can’t bench press 500 pounds on your first day
There’s a tool in Focusing called the Experiencing Scale. It was developed as a way to measure where a client is in the focusing process; based on how deep they’re at, you…
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It’s my birthday! AMA business related.
Shabbos was my Hebrew birthday. Happy birthday to me! To celebrate with you, I invite you to send me your #1 question — the one that sits at the intersection of your…
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The 2% bridge between talk therapy and somatic work
I was recently having a conversation with someone, and she shared something that mirrored my own experience. She told me she’d spent years doing talk methods. She’d also spent years trying somatic…
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367 – The Missing Piece: Helping Clients Access Their Bodies When They Can’t
Many practitioners are taught that the key to therapeutic change is helping clients drop into their bodies to access a “felt sense.” But what do you do when a client simply can’t…
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Bridging the divide
As practitioners, we often force a divide. We either work through a narrative cognitively to reframe it, or we drop the story entirely to only feel the somatic sensation. But in both…
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The 30-Second Shift
Deep somatic work doesn’t have to take a full session. It doesn’t even have to take long. What we are looking for, for experiential work to be effective, are those few moments…
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366 – Beyond the Protocol: The 30-Second Shift CBT and Somatic Work Are Missing
We’ve all been there: guiding a client through a protocol only to feel like we’re still not getting anywhere, or maybe finding ourselves stuck in our own patterns despite “doing all the…
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