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Client Support & Mind-Body Wellness
Empowering tools, reflections, and practices for midlife healing, nervous system regulation, and holistic wellness. Explore client-centered insights on burnout, menopause, stress, trauma, and reconnecting with your body and nature.


Understanding the Polyvagal Theory: Breaking Down the Basics
Understanding and applying the principles of the Polyvagal Theory can empower you to navigate life's challenges with greater ease
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Apr 162 min read
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What can I expect in an EMDR Therapy Session?
EMDR therapy is a treatment approach based in the neurobiological understanding health and healing. It is an integrative, mind-body...
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Apr 164 min read
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Unpacking Unhelpful Thinking Styles: A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -Informed Overview
Rooted in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), these styles are essentially mental habits—ways our minds try to make sense of the world, especially under stress. But left unchecked, they can cloud our perspective, increase anxiety, and limit our ability to respond with clarity and compassion.
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Apr 163 min read
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Understanding the EMDR Therapy Journey to Healing
The EMDR Therapy Journey
EMDR therapy consists of eight phases, each integral to the healing process. Safety is the cornerstone of this journey, ensuring clients feel secure as they explore their experiences.
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Apr 162 min read
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Top 10 Tips for Sleep and Wellbeing
A woman in her middle years, wearing a green shirt, gets ready for a peaceful sleep by putting on a green sleep mask that matches her...
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Apr 162 min read
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Exploring the Healing Power of Nature Mandalas: A Journey of Understanding Abundance through Apples
Nature Mandala inspired through Morning Altars tm practice About this Morning Altar â„¢ Mandala Each altar that finds its way through my...
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Oct 28, 20245 min read
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Unlocking the Power of the Vagus Nerve: A Holistic Approach to Fall Equinox Balance and Restoration
This blog explores a holistic approach of honoring the upcoming Autumn Equinox and working with healing the nervous system .
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Sep 11, 20246 min read
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"The Different Types of Grief: Understanding the Complexities of Loss"
Understanding Grief Grief is about love. Mourning is about our unexpressed love and the ongoing expressions of the love. It becomes it's...
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May 10, 20247 min read
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Exploring the Healing Power of Nature in Therapy: Benefits and Strategies
Morning Altars Therapuetic Nature Based Art Feeling part of something much larger than the self is music to our ears. This transformation...
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Feb 22, 20247 min read
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Discover the Power of Morning Altars: An Embodiment Practice
We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. This is multifaceted issue. We are experiencing so many losses of our daily routines, our rituals which create disconnection within ourselves. These are in addition to our losses in human to human connection. From a polyvagal lens, this has real impacts on our physical and emotional health.
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Nov 20, 20233 min read
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What is Trauma-Informed Yoga?
Trauma-Informed (TI) Yoga, invites choice, connection and context. These are the 3 principles of creating nervous system safety. This provides a way of restoring the relationship of the body and mind. In TI Yoga, there is emphasis on being curious in the awareness of the sensations of our body in the present moment with invitational language.
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May 11, 20234 min read
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The Power of Polyvagal Theory and Vagus Nerve in Somatic and EMDR Therapy
Safety is not the absence of danger, it is the presence of connection. Dr. Gabor Mate Self-Regulation is an ongoing daily practice Some...
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Apr 18, 20234 min read
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How can EMDR Therapy help individuals with OCD?
As there is may often a relationship of Trauma and OCD, EMDR can be utilized as a possible treatment option in a two-prong approach with OCD and Trauma. In my practice I offer ICBT for treatment of the OCD and then additionally work within the eight phases of EMDR working with a neurobiological approach in treatment of the trauma factors that may underlay or co-incide within the nervous system. Typically EMDR helps resolve traumatic material, can aid in desensitizing vulner
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Apr 5, 20234 min read
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