The most common complaint among humans in the twentieth century is anxiety: chronic worrying, anxiety attacks, feeling anxious for no reason.
Many of us don’t realize that anxiety isn’t always caused by fear, sometimes its caused by finding ourselves alone and unsupported, especially as children, which can lead to chronic anxiety as adults.
The resources below will help you learn about what causes anxiety, and how to calm our nervous systems to provide relief.
Climate anxiety is not primarily a disease. Instead it is an understandable reaction to the magnitude of the environmental problems that surround us. What is climate anxiety?Climate anxiety is a sub-set of eco-anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease...
Working with shame is often really about disgust, and how we learn as little ones to turn toward the self with disgust which evolves into shame for the self. Understanding emotional circuitry helps us bring compassionate understanding to ourselves, and learning to...
My mission is to support self-warmth, joy and compassion by sharing the science of how our brains can change, I want to share a practice with you. Have you got 6 minutes? Find a spot to sit or lay down, and give yourself the gift of warm breath and sweet,...
What the heck is ventral vagal, and what does it have to do with fight, flight and freeze? When we are in ventral vagal, we have a sense that we are safe and we matter. In this video I describe the mysterious beauty that happens in our bodies when we are in social engagement (the nervous system state of ‘ventral vagal’). Enjoy!