We are given a sense that we make sense (or not) by our mothering people in a key phase of attachment bonding that occurs between 0 and 4 months old. We can use self-resonance to re-pattern attachment disruptions that may have occurred, and build a healthy secure...
Emotional Reactivity isn’t a Disorder, it’s Insecure Attachment.
Understanding Rage and Honoring Boundaries in Healing Trauma
In our culture, rage is considered mostly unacceptable, especially by women. But rage is one of our eight circuits of emotion and motivation. In this podcast interview, we discuss how rage helps us understand when our boundaries have been violated. Why is rage so...
Truth Not Trauma: Understanding Relational Trauma and the Brain
Once we understand how trauma impacts our mammalian circuitry (Jaak Panksepp's 8 circuits of emotion and motivation), we begin to see that so many things we've given ourselves a hard time for, are not static truths about us, but instead are simply the result of...
Reassurance Doesn’t Heal Trauma, but Resonance Does (Part 1 of a Podcast Series)
This interview is the first of a three-part series with Guy MacPherson of the Trauma Therapist Podcast. (Listen to part 2 here, part 3 here). The body is such a crucial point to use as a focal point when we're healing from trauma. Our bodies tell us what memory is a...
How marijuana impacts the brain and helps us with reactivity
When I was 12 years old, I tried smoking marijuana for the first time. It was sunset in the winter in interior Alaska, where the colors of the sun going down are dusty pink and orange. I stood for a moment in front of a birch trunk, seeing the gold and white and...
How to Heal Trauma: Time-Traveling with Resonance
Bringing resonance and accompaniment back to our wounded selves is the key to healing brains that have been fragmented by traumatic experience. This is called many names, for example: CRM Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)® I call it the Time Traveling with Resonance...
Guided meditation: Transform your brain with self-warmth
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,...