This post is a primarily an excerpt from my recently published, book, The Breath of Life: An Introduction to Craniosacral Biodynamics. May it support your sense of well-being and presence in your life and the world! In the 1990’s, neuroscientist, Stephen Porges discovered there is more to the autonomic scene than sympathetic and parasympathetic stress […]

In previous posts we have explored how early trauma may arise in both clients and practitioners during session work. The purpose in enhancing awareness of this phenomenon is to support us in healing rather than being imprisoned by our history. How we deal with reactions based on our history can make the difference between reinforcing […]

Have you ever been with a client and felt like you didn’t know what to do but you really needed to do something? It may have even felt urgent, like you needed to do that something immediately! You may not have had a logical idea about what to do or even why you felt this […]

In Part 1 of this post, we looked at how our trauma may echo throughout our lives, affecting how we meet stressful or threatening conditions arising later in life. A common effect of unresolved trauma is to harden ourselves against feeling pain again. This can lessen our compassion for suffering others, perpetuating a cycle of […]

It is over three weeks since the news of the mass shooting at a Florida high school shocked the world once again. I still feel the reverberations within me. My clients, students and supervisees often resonate with these feelings. Sadness at the immensity of life lost. Anger at the perpetuation of gun laws but even […]