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I just got back from being on holidays. I want to tell you briefly about my holiday because it does have to do with brain retraining after all. Imagine getting together with 15 others who have also be...

When we experience traumatic experiences our nervous systems make a big deal about them for years after even though the danger is long past. Here is an example of my own life.

In my time of being chron...

I’ve been thinking lately about stillness and just being. We are living in a world of instant gratification. A world where everything is much faster than it was 100 years ago. The amount of stimuli ar...

Traumatization happens to our nervous systems when it is given too much stimuli, too fast or too much for too long. It couldn’t keep up with processing or feeling resourced enough to work through the ...

Your brain will constantly rewire itself to suit the information that you feed into it. If you constantly complain, gossip, find excuses, it will make it much easier to find things to be upset about, ...

Hey! This is me, the face behind NSR. It's time for an introduction.

I share my story in more detail in the first module of my course, so I'll be brief here.

✨️I recovered from chronic illness after...

Our nervous system has states. States of survival. These states are part of the polyvagal ladder. At the very top of the ladder is Ventral vagal/friendly (the place of healing/homeostasis). Going down...

Our protector brain procrastinates as a way to protect us. It feels safer to stay stuck then take the leap. Even though we can feel so miserable in illness and dysregulation, it can feel too unfamilia...

YOU CAN ONLY COMPLETELY HEAL ONCE YOU STOP FOCUSING ON BEING SICK.

Read that again. 

-Desperately trying diet restriction after diet restriction.
-Practitioner after practitioner.
-Protocol after prot...