PinnedMember-onlyA Defense of The Fawn ResponseWhat the Somatic and Trauma Fields are Missing In the somatic, trauma and nervous system regulation field, practitioners are taught that fight, flight and freeze are the three fundamental, hardwired human stress responses. Fight and flight are sympathetic and movement-oriented, self-protective motor programs designed to do things and get us…Mental Health13 min readMental Health13 min read
Feb 24, 2022Member-onlyThe One Day Challenge: A Liberating Practice for People-Pleasers and FawnersAs a Somatic Practitioner, I work with adults to resolve chronic stress, cultivate mindfulness, and empower an inner sense of agency. Agency is important because many of the people who come for support deeply struggle with self-assertion and boundaries. This is the spectrum of people-pleasers, codependents, and chronic fawn responders…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Feb 21, 2022Member-onlyThe Next Most Wholesome Thing: Tuning In to The Only Thing You Need to KnowMy friend and I were on a hike, and I was processing how uncomfortable it was to feel so unclear about which choice to make regarding a big life decision. There were a couple options under consideration, but all I experienced when I thought about them was confusion. …Mental Health4 min readMental Health4 min read
Dec 15, 2020Member-onlyThe Crispness of My Secular LifeHow Dropping Beliefs Has Connected Me More For many years, I was obsessed with spirituality. And for many years, I was a devoted Buddhist in a Mahayana tradition (on my way to ordination in a ministerial program). This path, and the truly wonderful teachers I was fortunate enough to practice…Life Lessons5 min readLife Lessons5 min read
Aug 19, 2020Member-onlyFor the Tired and Wired of 2020Support in Switching Gears — This is an empowerment note for those stuck in low-to-medium chronic distress. A nervous system-based boop in a new direction… for the fridge-riding, doom-scrolling, cannabis-smoking, drinking a bit extra-ing, tv-binging, over-exercising, drama-seeking, workaholic, stressing lot of us. In the OI model, we think of the nervous system as adversely impacted…Somatics9 min readSomatics9 min read
Apr 3, 2020Member-onlyWaves of Freeze During COVID-19What is the freeze response, and how might we relate to it and ourselves during the highly stressful experience of global pandemic Just a note: “Somatic” means “of the body”, and in this case refers broadly to study, practice and guidance towards embodiment, trauma resolution, nervous system resiliency, and trauma-safe…Somatic Experiencing11 min readSomatic Experiencing11 min read
