Burnout Somatic Therapy
“We did not evolve to self-regulate. We evolved to co-regulate” This is a quote from Stephen Porges, the father of Polyvagal theory. This quote encompasses thousands of years of intelligence, and one of the reasons why, after years of independence,
I used to think burnout looked like total collapse. You know, the dramatic kind. Crying in the office bathroom, needing months off, maybe even ending up in the hospital. That was burnout, I told myself. And since I was still
Do you know that WOW! effect you get when you haven’t seen someone for a while and that person has changed their level of fitness, or dressing style, or when you see your niece or nephew after a year and
Have you ever asked yourself why is it that we cannot simply talk or think our way out of strong stress and old emotions? This is why. By the time you realize that you are being triggered or that you’re
We like to get accolades, and we love to receive encouragement, and that is all good. But if everything you do in order to rise above the effects of your burnout is tied to some type of social reward
Delaying your good may be a deceiving way to hurt yourself… I don’t have time to…..fill in the blank I’ll do (something you really want to do or something you know is good for you) …but it has to
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carrol I know, I know…it has been almost a month! I feel so bad, but I have a good explanation. It wasn’t anything to
I recently hosted a wonderful livestream with a colleague on the topic of “ The art of simple living,” and the response was fantastic. We can all agree that we live in fast and quite complicated times, but we need
“Stop the glorification of busy” ~Unknown I get it. You are busy, I’m busy, and we are all busy, but to what cost? and how much of it is self-created. I’m not saying this to negate that these are fast
“Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is no perfect love. But Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist.” –A Course in Miracles What’s love got to do