Tag: Mind Body Psychotherapy
Stop Trying to “Hack” Your Nervous System (It’s Not a Machine)
The Nervous System Regulation Myth If you scroll through TikTok or Instagram lately, you’ve probably seen the “mind-body coaches.” They tell you that your anxiety ...
The Secret Architecture of Your Mind: 12 Nuggets for Understanding Why You Feel Stuck or Detached
Have you ever felt like you are living life on “automatic pilot,” or that you’re viewing the world as if you are separate from it, ...
Stress-Overload Depression: Why You Feel Stuck and How to Break Free
Feeling crushed by life’s demands and like joy is slipping away? You might be grappling with stress-overload depression, where your body’s energy budget gets thrown ...
Finding Meaning in a Successful Life: From Accomplished to Fulfilled
Have you ever looked at your life—full of achievements, accolades, and everything you’ve worked so hard for—and still felt like something was missing? You’re not ...
Tissue Cell “Memory,” Trauma, and Why “The Body Keeps the Score” Isn’t Proven
Why Tissue Cell “Memory” Doesn’t Prove “The Body Keeps the Score” As somatic psychotherapists, Polyvagal-informed coaches, Somatic Experiencing (SE) practitioners, bioenergetic therapists, and trauma-informed mental ...
Heard This Lie About Bioenergetics?
Scary?! There’s a big lie floating around out there in social-media therapyland: namely, that bioenergetic therapy is “scary.” I’m here to set the record straight. ...
No, Your Body Doesn’t Keep the Score
It’s not just semantics—and it bears repeating. Your body doesn’t keep the score — and the uncomfortable sensations in your body are not all “trauma.” ...
Why Polyvagal Theory Doesn’t Stand Up to the Science
The pseudoscientific framework therapists love to believe Ah yes, polyvagal theory: The pseudoscientific framework that therapists just love to believe explains their methods of “trauma-informed ...
Everything Your Therapist Says About the Nervous System is DEAD WRONG
Let’s ditch the myths in favor of some hard science. The other morning, I was scrolling on social media when I ran across a post ...
Psychedelics for Mental Health: The Top 3 Things to Consider
What to Think About When You’re Thinking About Psychedelics #1 – The psychedelics most commonly used for mental health First, you have the so-called classical ...
