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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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The heaviness of efficiency
I was recently learning the Sifsei Chaim on zrizus. He described something over 40 years ago that neuroscience and psychology are only just beginning to understand. Because mankind is constructed from the…
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The freedom paradox of the self-employed woman
So many of us became self-employed so we could have ownership over our time. Ownership over our life. The ability to create our own schedule. And on the one hand — how…
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I’ve burned out before. More than once.
I’ve been self-employed since 2012. Fourteen and a half years. I didn’t always have a daily practice. For a long time, I didn’t. And I paid for it — I came to…
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365 – Driving with Your Foot on the Gas and Brakes: Why You’re Stuck in Functional Freeze
We’re pulling back the curtain on how subconscious patterns like fawning, people-pleasing, and body judgment are actually desperate attempts to find safety when our inner world feels unsafe. By shifting out of…
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Why abundance affirmations aren’t working
Here’s what happens in the body when we’re stuck in our work and shame is present. The nervous system detects something below the level of our conscious awareness. Before you’ve thought a…
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Why “I’m okay” doesn’t work
When overwhelm shows up, it is not just a passing thought that you can easily change. It’s your nervous system shifting into fight-or-flight mode. Your physiology actually changes, going into the activated,…
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Do you have a daily self-attunement practice?
Many of the women I work with are stuck in functional freeze. They’re showing up and delivering. From the outside, everything looks fine. But underneath, the nervous system is oscillating between fight/flight…
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Getting out of our heads
The best way I know to heal emotional wounds is to get out of our heads. When we stay up there, we’re looking at our lives from the outside in. We’re judging…
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