Writing & Ideas

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Articles on nervous system science, trauma-informed clinical practice, regulated leadership, and the cultural change our professional systems urgently need.

Gloss vs. Depth: How to Tell the Difference in the Healing Space

There’s something I’ve been noticing lately, and maybe you have too. It’s the rise of healing that looks good but doesn’t necessarily feel good. It’s shiny. Branded. Empowering on the

Limerence, Trauma & the Longing to Be Chosen: A Clinician’s Guide to the Ache Beneath Obsession

As trauma-informed clinicians, we hear this kind of language often, especially from clients with complex trauma histories. What looks like infatuation, or even addiction, is often something deeper: limerence. A

The Power of Words…I was handed a humiliating experience I will never forget.

About ten years ago, before I delivered my first TEDx talk, I decided to take a speaker training course with a world-renowned speaker. At the time, I was a rookie,

Beyond Regulation: Why the Nervous System Isn’t the Whole Story

There’s no question that nervous system intelligence is having its moment, and thank goodness. For too long, we’ve tried to address emotional pain, leadership struggles, burnout, and breakdowns without understanding

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Nobody Is Broken — Just Buried Beneath the Labels

Why even trauma-informed spaces must evolve beyond pathologising language Intro “What if the problem isn’t that you’re broken, but that you’ve been buried under diagnoses, descriptions, and labels that never

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Trauma Isn’t What Happened To Us — It’s What Happens Inside Of Us

Reclaiming the truth about trauma so we can finally begin to heal A quiet revolution is happening, and it starts with how we define trauma. For far too long, trauma