Category / Nervous System Regulation

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…

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,…

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…

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…

There are times when we feel ourselves diminishing. Shrinking. Going quiet in ways we can’t quite explain or stop. We — and as women in particular — are compared to the moon.…

​ I’ve noticed that women who struggle with body image and intimacy are often the same women who are constantly tracking moods, smoothing things over, and trying to do everything right. They’re…

Many of us oscillate between two extremes. We disappear — shrink, over-give, make ourselves smaller so others can be more comfortable. Or we assert — defend, push, fill the room so completely…

​ A few weeks ago, I asked you where you feel most disconnected and stuck in your day-to-day life. Your responses were incredibly honest, and there was one intersection that many of…