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Three Feeling Tones and Why They Matter
Feeling tones refer to the affective quality or tone associated with an experience. Affective qualities are the energies in your body. Noticing how this energy presents in your body and curiously observing it without trying to control it, is an underpinning of...
Three Feeling Tones and Why They Matter
Feeling tones refer to the affective quality or tone associated with an experience. Affective qualities are the energies in your body. Noticing how this energy presents in your body and curiously observing it without trying to control it, is an underpinning of...
Three Feeling Tones and Why They Matter
Feeling tones refer to the affective quality or tone associated with an experience. Affective qualities are the energies in your body. Noticing how this energy presents in your body and curiously observing it without trying to control it, is an underpinning of...
What it Feels Like to be Unsafe
We all feel unsafe at times in our lives, because frankly, the world can dish out some rough situations. From natural disasters to dangerous people, we can see a lack of safety wherever we look. As children, we needed others to keep us safe and when we didn’t get...
What it Feels Like to Be Safe
Experiencing calm, sleeping well, and having a basic sense that all is well, is not unobtainable. These are things we feel when have a state of safety. However, in a world of physical and psychological dangers, sometimes these experiences feel outside of our grasp....
Is Your Vagus Nerve Blocking You from Spiritual Connection?
Your human soul longs to connect with Spirit To connect to Spirit—whether God, Allah, Higher Power, Source, or the Universe—your nervous system must be aligned with safety and not firing in protective mode. The reality of being human is that while we've been taught...
Be a Curious Observer in Your Own Healing
Wake up the curious observer in you by being a participant in your physical and emotional healing. When you are curious, you take judgment out of any process. This keeps you from attaching to outcomes and allows you some psychological space to see things differently....
3 Steps for Responding to Unsafe Situations So You Stay Connected
Sometimes, what feels overwhelming and complicated can be broken down into bite-sized pieces that will fill you with new energy and vitality. When you are unsafe it becomes difficult to stay grounded and present, to think of creative solutions for whatever is...
Why Feeling Safe Matters
You deserve to feel safe. That is your basic human right. Feeling safe matters, because it allows you a greater joy in any of your life pursuits. Though this world has so many components of lack of safety, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted (and unsafe) in...
The Problem with Thinking
Thinking is a habit. You might not even realize it, but most of your thoughts are just recycled stories from your past. What was once a real event in your life has turned into a well-worn narrative, replaying over and over to satisfy some need you might not even be...
Creating a Safe, Sacred Space
A place to feel connected with your authentic soul-self. There are many ways to help yourself feel safe and secure, and few are as primary as creating an environment that you can return to time and again. A space that nurtures you is like a longtime trusted friend. In...
Connection Feels Good: How to Create More
Humans are wired to connect. Therapists call this innate drive "co-regulation." When you're with someone who makes you feel safe, your body responds with a cascade of calming effects. The vagus nerve signals your central nervous system that you're in a safe space,...