So many of you have dealt with hair loss on this winding path of recovery.

Whether triggered by a low-carb diet or highly restrictive eating, a stressful lifestyle, a stressful exercise regimen, or even an acutely stressful experience in the far past, hair loss can be frustrating and stress-ind...

Constantly worrying about money, not having enough money, how you'll find a way to make money, what it might mean if you DON'T make enough money? What will happen if...?

What if I have to work a job I hate just to survive?

YOU DID NOT COME HERE JUST TO WORK AND DIE.

Money scarcity and the ove...

It's one thing to listen to the body and honor its need to rest, ESPECIALLY when it's coming from a place of honesty and self-respect.

It's an entirely different scenario to avoid doing certain things out of fear that your body can't handle it.
We (innocently) get caught in the spirals of "what...

We can fall into what are called "limbic loops" in which we are literally stuck in a loop of threat as we imagine worst-case scenarios playing out.

It can be TERRIFYING to do even basic things when our brain is fearing all of the negative things that might happen to us playing out as if they a...

This is a big one, as trauma literally rewires us and shifts us towards hyper-vigilance, panic, impaired immune function, and increased stress reactivity.

Part of healing from complex trauma requires that we widen our window of tolerance: slowly, gently, and taking breaks to integrate often.

Le...

Many of you have mentioned the frustration of gaining weight in order to heal.

While it is often necessary to gain weight to reach a point of metabolic health and vitality, I want to honor that feeling out of place in your own body can feel triggering and HIGHLY uncomfortable.

If you are dea...

In our attempts to "heal," we often get trapped in the loop of researching next steps, new treatment protocols, diets, supplements, devices, wondering what the next thing will be that might finally heal us.

This way of being can be stressful in and of itself, as we feel like we need to push hard...

Stress & overwhelm: two feelings we never feel as humans, right?

If you're like most of us, these feelings tend to come in tandem and can spiral into other states of panic, despair, doubt, exhaustion: it's as if they strengthen one another while depleting us in the process.

Yet, we can learn an...

Part of learning to stop worrying about what other people think of us is to learn what it feels like to trust ourselves, to like ourselves, and to maybe even smile at what other people might be thinking and still follow what our own hearts are asking for.

Easy, right?

Like many things in life...

If you find yourself being triggered by loud noises, it can take some time to release the learned fear response.

Just like any conditioned response, we can slowly re-condition ourselves and then gently choose a new way of responding. This happens with desensitizing the fear response (especially ...

Social anxiety can sometimes come up more intensely around the holidays.

Perhaps you're in the middle of working on your health and the idea of traveling feels completely overwhelming.

Maybe you feel held back from being able to go to certain gatherings, due to very real or even imagined reas...

When tending to a body that continually reveals and asks for something new, it can become overwhelming and exhausting!

It can feel like nothing is working.
It can feel like you don't know who to trust.
The next steps can feel murky, unclear, and confusing.
It might feel defeating when what ...

I know how bizarre it can feel to be in a body that constantly seems to be expressing symptoms, a body that always feels like it's fighting something or reacting to something benign.

I know firsthand how you might feel trapped in your body when it seems to be flaring up constantly despite your b...

You know that feeling when certain clothes seem to bring up all of the sensations, feelings, and stories that feel almost unbearable?

This sequence is to help acknowledge that this reaction is "normal" AND that we have a choice in the way we choose to clothe our physical bodies.

So curious how ...

One of the simplest things we can do to feel the way we WANT to feel might not actually be tapping...it could be as simple as breathing with some intention.

We forget to breathe deeply, especially when we are stressed.

Given the pace at which life moves, most of us have shifted to shallow, ch...