To Be Witnessed: The Quiet Revolution of Presence and Co-Regulation
There are moments in life - trauma-laced or joy-soaked - when something inside us knows instinctively: I need to be seen. Not fixed. Not advised. Not redirected. Just seen.
To be witnessed is not a decorative act. It is founda
...[The Quiet Process of Becoming]
We live in an age of acceleration, faster detoxes, faster breakthroughs, faster healing.
But the nervous system hasn’t caught up.
Integration has become unfashionable because it asks for patience, space, and repetition, three things modern culture treats as ineffic...
[On Ballet, Biomechanics, and the Art of Unwinding]
Elena K., a former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, once said that none of her thousand students ever needed surgery. Her rule was simple:
“You’re not allowed to hold tension that doesn’t belong to the movement.”
It turns out she was describi...
[A short story about scale, hunger, and the strange mathematics of being alive]
Somewhere along a desolate Arctic shoreline, a 300-kilogram polar bear stands over the cavernous ribcage of a 40-ton sperm whale, a carcass so monumental it feels like a geological event rather than a meal. The bear loo...
Traditional medical systems, including Indian (Ayurveda), Chinese, Tibetan, and Thai, draw a clear distinction between the left and right sides of the body. Even certain Buddhist monastic rules historically instructed practitioners to sleep on their left side.
While this may seem unusual in a moder...
The body is not made of separate parts, no matter how many textbooks try to divide it. It is one continuous conversation. One river system. One woven landscape of structure, fluid, memory, and sensation.
Nowhere is this more beautifully seen than in the relationship between the fascia and the lymph...
In therapeutic contexts, touch is often described in terms of application: pressure, placement, technique, and intention. Yet this framing quietly misses the most essential function of touch, not as an act of doing, but as an act of listening.
Just as words in a therapy session are not something to...
A Reason, A Season, A Lifetime and the University of Life
There’s a quiet syllabus nobody hands you at birth - no official orientation to the complex, unpredictable coursework of human connection. And yet, here we are, enrolled from day one in the grandest institution there is: The University of Li...
There is a particular kind of grace that comes with neutrality. It’s not apathy. It’s not passivity. It’s not some washed-out beige of opinion. Neutrality is electric. It’s awake. It listens with its whole body. And in the realm of trauma recovery - especially in modalities like Somatic Experiencing...
Liking yourself — truly, wildly, radically —
is one of the most rebellious acts of our time.
Because this world?
It banks on your
not-enough-ness.
Not thin enough.
Not calm enough.
Not successful, sexy,
rich, tidy, spiritual,
or busy enough.
You’re sold the lie that if you just buy the th...
Have you ever considered that your body holds a profound intelligence—one that, when given permission, can unravel pain, tension, and even deep-seated emotional wounds? Welcome to Sensation Through Vibration, an exploration of how the body's innate tremor mechanism can transform our relationship wit...
We chose MyLife from many that were interested in bringing TRE® into their organisation; Jeremy and I were passionate about increasing youth awareness and believed this to be a valuable tool to add to the University of MyLife, an organisation intent on rehabilitating the young, the homeless, the los...