Category / Nervous System Regulation

We’ve been exploring being truly heard and hearing others. But understanding it in your head is different from feeling it in your body. So this week I recorded a practice that helps…

There’s a famous story from October 7th about a woman named Rachel from Ofakim. A terrorist came into her house and she asked him if he was hungry. She sat him down…

I was reading a book about personality types and communication styles. It explained how Earth types – people who are highly sensitive – need to be spoken to very carefully. With validation,…

You know that rule we all learned as kids? If your clothes catch fire: stop, drop, and roll. Hopefully none of us have ever had to use it. But it’s drilled into…

We had so many nights like this early in our marriage. I’d talk. And talk. And talk. For hours. My husband would say “yes, yes, I hear you” and nod and show…

We’ve been exploring being vulnerable in marriage (and in life in general). But understanding it in your head is different from feeling it in your body. So this week I recorded a…

Here’s something I tell my clients: If there’s no emergency or threat to life, go take care of yourself. Make sure there are no knives accessible to little kids and nobody’s hurting…

The world is, by far and large, emotionally illiterate. Most women can’t recognize their own feelings. Can’t identify what they need. So when someone tells you “just express your needs to your…

We may have this fairytale image of what it will look like when our husbands take care of our needs. It’ll be perfect. It’ll look exactly how we want it to look.…

As women, especially perfectionistic women, we have a hard time embracing doing something we think we’re going to fail at. We either do things we’re really good at, or we avoid all…