Category: Inspire
The Hidden Link Among Mental Health, Physical Pain, Your Nervous System, and Financial Well-Being
Mental health is one of the most important yet most misunderstood aspects of women’s wellness. We often talk about anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, and de [...]
Listening Beyond Language in Adolescent Mental Health
Adolescence is a period of rapid growth, identity formation, and nervous-system development. For neurodivergent teens - especially those with ADHD, au [...]
Oh! My Silently Aching Heart
I had a terrible winter of 2026. I refer to it as my health crisis.
I didn’t feel like myself, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. My energy was e [...]
From Survival Mode to Self-Trust: Breaking Trauma Patterns to Change Your Life
The word trauma conjures discomfort in most of us and for good reason. People associate the trauma with a specific event, an indelible mark in the tim [...]
Need Help Relaxing? Try Massage Therapy
The body can produce an unhealthy buildup of hormones when we’re stuck in traffic or meeting a work deadline. And that stress can look like more than [...]
Stress Management: A Practice of Returning to Self
Stress is not simply an emotion, a demanding schedule, or a failure to cope. It is a whole-person physiologic response involving the brain, autonomic [...]
When Stress Isn’t Really Yours: Understanding Ancestral and Inherited Emotional Patterns
Many people come to me carrying a stress or anxiety that doesn’t quite match their life. They’ve done the work of therapy, journaling, meditation, hea [...]
The Season of Less
What the trees know, and we seem to forget, is that there is a time to let go.
Every autumn, the natural world begins a quiet retreat. The days gro [...]
What if Your Anxiety Isn’t the Enemy?
Most of us spend a great deal of our lives fighting ourselves.
We battle anxiety, suppress fear, criticize ourselves for our mistakes, and try to p [...]
Beyond The Test Results: Listening to the Nervous System
For many of us, stress has become so normal that we don’t even recognize it anymore. We wake up thinking about what needs to be done. We move through [...]
Safe Enough to Be Honest: Why Mental Health Requires More Than Inclusion
Recently, I went to a new spa for a pedicure. I was placed in a small room with a single service provider. Thankfully, there was no door, but the setu [...]
Anxiety? 3 Easy Ways to Turn the Tables
What do you do when your anxiety gets out of control? Many of us spiral, some of us shut down, others may even get sick. One common response we all ha [...]
For Change to Happen, Psychological Safety Matters
Resistance to change can stem from many sources, but a common reason is a lack of psychological safety. What is that? Psychological safety is the feel [...]
Safe Enough to Grow
What helps a person feel safe enough to grow? I’ve been asking that question for more than thirty years. I didn’t know it at first.
As a birth doul [...]
Every Ceremony I Design Starts with One Question
I was sitting across from a couple a few weeks ago, notebook open, ready to start drafting their ceremony. Before I wrote a single word, I asked the q [...]
A Different Way to Understand Nervous System Regulation
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When the Body Finally Speaks
She walked into my office the way so many high‑achieving women do - polished, composed, and holding decades of emotional weight in a body that could n [...]
When Movement Becomes Medicine
We have been taught to move our bodies for all the wrong reasons: to shrink ourselves, to punish ourselves, to “earn” our food. To chase a number on a [...]
The Healing Power of Retreats
When I reflect on the most nourishing experiences I have had over the last decade or so, I realize that most have occurred while I was leading retreat [...]
Belonging Is Medicine: Why We Keep Repeating Relationship Patterns
What if the greatest source of stress in your life isn’t your workload, finances, or schedule, but a relationship pattern your nervous system learned [...]
Check in with Your Energy Instead of Your Mind
If you feel like you’re drowning in your life, can’t get ahead, or even get a grip, it might be more than a mindset obstacle you’re facing. Quite ofte [...]
Elevate Your Wellness Mindset: How to Embrace Self-Care and Thrive
Day after day, juggling endless to-dos tends to blur together as you desperately count down to the next weekend or vacation. But when you’re always wa [...]
Energy Healing and the Evolution of the Art and Science of Nursing
Within the evolving landscape of contemporary healthcare, nursing science continues to move beyond the reductionistic biomedical model toward a more i [...]
Reconnecting Medicine to the Human Spirit
As a nurse practitioner who has spent decades practicing medicine, I have come to believe that healing is far more than prescribing medications or tre [...]