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How to Feel Your Feelings and Improve Emotional Processing with Mindfulness
Learn how to feel your feelings and improve emotional processing through mindfulness.


How to Permit Yourself to Feel Your Feelings
Learn how to give yourself permission and reduce the intensity of your negative emotions.


Emotional Normalization and How it Helps in Trauma Recovery
Learn about emotional normalization and trauma recovery. Discover top-down self-regulation techniques and the power of normalizing yourself.


What Validation Is and How it Helps in Trauma Recovery
Validation is the first cognitive self-regulation opener. Doing this aligns your thoughts with your state.


Anger and Polyvagal Theory: How you are stuck in a fight state
Learn how people can get stuck in defensive states, specifically the fight state of the Polyvagal Theory.


5 Practical Tips for Managing Anxiety in Your Daily Life
Learn practical tips for managing anxiety in your daily life with these 5 effective strategies. Discover ways to reduce stress, calm your...


The Difference Between Coping and Anchoring for Trauma Recovery
Discover the difference between being grounded in your safety state versus just reducing your defensive state and how to recognize actual...


Unstuck: Understanding Trauma & the Autonomic Nervous System
What does it mean to be "unstuck"? And what is the relevance to understanding trauma and the autonomic nervous system? I'll cover what it...


I was desperate & agreed to spend $9k...
Desperation can bring us to scary places. My own desperation got me to somewhere scary I wanted to share with you. Maybe you can relate...


3 signs it's time to stop Trauma Work
If you are getting sucked into dysregulation and immobility and unable to tolerate it, then I recommend...
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