She started to shudder from the inside. The air went still as we sat there. Something big was shifting. She shuddered some more. Tiny, involuntary tremors rising from somewhere deep. And as we sat together in that stillness, I realised something wasn’t shifting. Something was emerging.

Good question, right? It’s a question that surfaced for me recently through a series of real-life conversations that landed not just in my mind but in my body.

Almost all self-improvement, self-regulation, self-development courses are actually the puppet masters of systemic shame. (Especially for those socialised as women.)

We cannot dismantle the patriarchy until we dismantle how it lives within our body and nervous system. Our nervous systems were born into environments that teach us directly and indirectly, to control, suppress, and mistrust our bodies.

If I were to deepen into my work and become more aligned over the coming months, this is what I would do. Spoiler alert: I am about to do this. And further spoiler alert: I am fully prepared for this to mean less people want to engage with my work, although I know it holds the key to so much healing. A decade of trauma work and what I discovered key to so much healing). Over the past ten years, my work has centred around trauma and post-traumatic growth. Mostly with individ

The root of shame is in the body. We may catch it sometimes when we notice it rearing it's head in the conscious realms.

I get asked why shame is so hard to heal from very often. And there are a lot of different answers to this question but here is one of the biggest reasons why.

I often get asked: What is the difference between shame and trauma? Here is how I respond.

Can AI really replace somatic therapy? AI can write, chat, and even sound smart. But can it feel your body? Artificial intelligence has been making its way into mental health spaces from chatbot “therapists” to automated coaching systems. But research is beginning to show what many of us already know deep down: when it comes to real healing, AI misses the mark. In fact, some studies suggest that AI therapy can actually increase  stress and emotional disconnection because what

Overwhelm is the enemy. For some, the emotional body is a place of intense overwhelm. Feeling feelings isn’t about forcing exposure. It’s about creating space for it to emerge safely.