HOW TO GET “UNSTUCK”

Are you feeling stuck? Do you feel like you’re reacting to the same thing the same way? How do you go about changing your life and your interaction with the world.Well, let’s chat about Predictive Processing. Predictive processing is a theory that our brain takes in information and then predicts the

HOW TO HEAL YOUR EMOTIONAL TRAUMA

Most of our life we spend in highly stressful environments. We’re in what’s called “Fight or Flight” where our nervous system is protecting us. We can put ourself in this from outward stress or inner stress.When we have emotional trauma stored in our bodies, we see threats that correlate to past exp

VULNERABILITY

Let’s talk about Vulnerability.I recently listened to a podcast with Doctor Gabor Maté who does a lot of work with trauma and addiction.He’s one of my favorite authors and people to listen to. He recently spoke about Vulnerability and how he defines it as…“Our capacity to be wounded.”Nobody wants to

O.H.I.O

I want to share a little trick that I’ve started to implement into my life.It’s the acronym O.H.I.O and it stands for Only Handle It Once.It’s really a beautiful thing because I’m a worrier, and I know we all worry.If you have something that comes into your life and you have the capacity to deal wit

PLATO’S VIEW

One of my favorite books is Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.To get inside of this Stoic’s mind is so incredible with how far advanced he was so long ago with Mindfulness,how he looked at the world,how he treated people,and how beautiful his thoughts and heart was.One of the things that he talks a lot

MINDFUL GAP

Let’s talk about something I like to call the Mindful Gap.The Mindful Gap is the space between an event occurring and your reaction.As we go throughout our day, we’re interacting constantly. Events are happening and oftentimes our reaction is based on habitual reaction or a trauma reaction.When we a

REPERCEIVING

Let’s talk about Reperceiving.I just read this amazing scientific paper and I’ll tag them in the in the notes.What we want to do when we’re becoming more mindful is move from the concept of subject to object or subjective to objective.So instead of things being about us and a narcissistic tendency,

LISTENING

Let’s talk about listening.I think if we were all honest with ourselves, we would say that listening is difficult on many occasions.Have you been in a conversation where you’re trying to finish the person’s sentence or you’re somewhere else and not fully present?Buddha said a beautiful thing:“Listen