Childhood Trauma & Its Effect On Our Adult Lives

Brain and body work can help to release these traumas from our tissues. Working out our past traumas and setting free our tissues can help us to get rid of stresses and pains that have plagued us. Imagine realizing that you’ve been carrying a backpack full of heavy useless rocks around your whole life. Then imagine being able to drop each rock from your pack and continue forward. In time your shoulders and spine hurt less, your step feels lighter and your mind will be more at ease. All of us carry around things not meant for us. Read More

Thinking Happy Thoughts and Stuck Tissue

The chemicals, hormones, emotions, and feelings that we experience from traumatic experiences (both physical and psychological) can lock up or be locked up within muscles and tissues. Focusing your mind on a time that brought you joy or happy moments helps you to infuse happy chemicals into your bloodstream and reset these tissues. Read More

Tackling Fears: Advice for reducing the fear in your life

Any time we are able to identify and dissect what exactly is making us fearful or anxious, we are then better able to face it. Many times the fears and anxieties dissolve away as we reassure our brains and bodies that we are okay and that what we are worried about is not a threat to us. Read More

Two Steps Backwards? Life Is About Non-linear Progress

Good, healthy progress in a person’s life is rarely linear. There are ups and downs and spirals. There are moments of backward motion. The true measure of progress is what direction we are pointed in and how far we have come. Read More

Julie’s Winter Season Survival Guide for Happy Brains

When you are able to prepare your own home, body, and mind for the wintery months, you are more likely to have a joyful and restful season. Pull together your own winter season survival kit and you will see the difference it makes! Read More

Prebiotics And A Healthy Gut

Having a diverse biome in your gut helps fend off sickness or invasion of bad bacteria. Maintaining a healthy biome means incorporating prebiotic foods into your diet. Read More

The Gut-Brain Axis & You

It turns out that a healthy gut microbiome helps us to relax and feel happier. The more diverse and balanced our “gut ecosystem” the less likely we will experience depression, OCD, and anxiety. Read More

A Posture Massage Christmas Carol

Many of you are quite familiar with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. No matter your faith or denomination the story holds a lot of great lessons and metaphors on self awareness, healing, and growing into a better person. Put your bah humbugs aside and join me as I imagine the classic Christmas Carol characters through the lens of body and brain work! Read More

Importance of Sleep

Sleep may seem like a very passive activity in our lives, however it may be the most important for a happy, non-depressed, and energetic life. Read More

Reuniting With Your Body

Reconnecting and establishing a healthy relationship between our brains and bodies can work miracles in our lives. Letting go of our pasts and moving healthily forward in our present can make for a future full of healthy possibilities. Read More