Send us a text When we think about stress we often blame ourselves and our lack of ability to handle it as well as we used to or as well as we *should* or as we perceive someone else, and often disregard the factors that have us stressed, overwhelmed, in the first place. There are both external and internal factors to your stress. Which one can you manage and guide? The internal... but what you'll see is when you learn to pause and choose how you want to navigate the internal stress, what you pa...
Jun 20, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Send us a text Today we're talking about more love, more of you, and less stress. When we fraction ourselves off and deny parts of ourselves this leads to stress on our system. when we are not allowing all of ourselves to exist that is a threat to who we are. The solution as I see it is allowing more of yourself to exist, more of what lights you up, more love, more of your light and your passions, the world needs you. We can not give what we do not have, that includes love, compassion, gratitude...
Jun 13, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Send us a text This episode we're talking about creating routines morning or otherwise that serve you. There is no roadmap to this life and what serves someone else can only serve as a guide for you to create your own routine. There is no paint by numbers or formula to success, happiness, fulfillment or any of the other things we look to create our best life with. Our routines must serve us, and to do so we have to be intentional about creating them and aware of what they are. Your brain is alwa...
Jun 06, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Send us a text This episode revisits my definition of resilience - To return to an original state As humans our original state of balance in your nervous system, which gives you the capacity for curiosity, joy, pleasure, empathy, compassion, trust in yourself and others. What it is not: a way to keep going in the same manner and pretending that shit is not burning down around you. It is not a hack to be more productive It is not for promoting any kind of ideas that you need to just pick yourself...
May 30, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Send us a text This episode is inspired by a couple of you out there who listen and work with me. I was called out on my shit for not taking my own advice. In this episode you'll hear that: Number one: no one has it all figured out, and if someone tries to tell you they do... run the other way! We're all just out here trying to figure it out, even when we know the things to help us navigate, and help others, we're still just trying to figure out each day. Number two: the thing I will continue to...
May 23, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Send us a text This week's episode was inspired by a couple of shit days I've had recently, I was sitting in my pity pool and having a whole time resisting what was actually happening because it's not what I wanted right then... I know I'm not alone here. When we let Inconvenience in our days derail us we can absolutely get back on track, and I don't mean any track that we *should be on, but the track that we're building for how we actually want to be feeling and navigating through the days. Acc...
May 16, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Send us a text Today we're talking about everyone's favorite topic: procrastination and how it causes you stress and anxiety and overwhelm. No, I'm not here to give you the best productivity hacks to conquer your procrastination... I'm here to share the reasons you procrastinate in the first place. There's nothing wrong with you, procrastination isn't a motivation or organizational problem to be solved, it's a tool you use to cope with the feelings you don't know how to address... so we need to ...
May 09, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Send us a text Immediately after recording last weeks episode I had more thoughts on the death of the diagnosis. I still stand firm that my opinion aligns with a growing base of psychologists and researchers who see the diagnosis as an antiquated tools that isn’t as useful as we once believed it to be and it may even be detrimental in the way that it continues to stigmatize and further perpetuate the idea that some people have mental disorder or illness and others are “normal” I will say this ag...
May 02, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Send us a text Today we're talking about an article I read about diagnosis and the diagnostic criteria, right away I'll remind you I am not a clinician and this is not medical advice. But I do have opinions about our healthcare system or rather the lack of. I've got a lot of questions about diagnosis and in general the things we identify with and hold so tightly to. How are these things serving you? Have you considered that before? You are not your diagnosis, your trauma, or your past... unless ...
Apr 25, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Send us a text This episode we're getting into expectations of failure coupled with the stories we tell ourselves and the intentions we show up with. These things help us shape life and how we experience everything in it. What are the reasons you have for doing what you do? is it punishment or celebration? Have you ever asked a baby how they were productive today? These questions and more ... get in there and give it a listen! You can find more about Brain-Body Resilience and JPB: On the BBR Web...
Apr 18, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Send us a text Today we're talking about the difference between showing up for your responsibilities at work, home, school, etc... and showing up for yourself. A big part of adulting is learning to care for yourself, to learn the things we weren't taught in school or home growing up. In the end you are YOUR responsibility. That means learning to grow, heal, regulate, rest, and do all of the other things that require your energy and attention to live this life. Out of all of the things that need ...
Apr 11, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Send us a text Today's episode we're gong to expand on an idea of connecting to the parts of ourselves that we avoid. Generally, connection to things that don't feel good... well, it doesn't feel good so we avoid it or put something in it's place. In the case of shame we've got judgement, the amount of judgement you hold is equal to the shame you hold within. If the answer is exploring and getting curious about our shame and judgement we have to get close to it, we have to recognize that it exis...
Apr 04, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Send us a text Today we're talking about leaving space for the unknown, for change, for possibility outside of what you think you know, who you think you are. If we can't allow for change we will never know anything outside of exactly what is right now... Remember, everything is made up at some point and trying to fit into someone else's idea of life is really stressful. This episode is a little like grandma's soup... there's a bit of everything in there. Give it a listen for more. You can find ...
Mar 28, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Send us a text Today's episode we're talking about creating new habits and doing too much too fast. So often we get excited about making changes when we're inspired to do so and we want to dive in head first and go all in. Go big or go home... etc. The thing here is that if we're stepping too far outside of what our current experience and patterns are we're going to face resistance from our brain and nervous system. The brain's number one job is survival and what is familiar and predictable seem...
Mar 21, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Send us a text This episode was inspired by a conversation that highlighted some points I would like to share here with you. Today we're getting into movement and exercise and how what metrics we measure how worth it movement was. Is it worth it if you feel better? Is it worth it if it's super intense, go big, go hard, all or nothing? This will depend on the day, who you are, how you're feeling, what your goals are. There are so many reasons for movement and exercise. There are different tools f...
Mar 14, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Send us a text In this episode we're talking about movement, it's the most basic form of self-expression and how we navigate the world, our bodies are meant to move and yet we do so little of it. Movement is how we express ourselves, how we find courage, how we complete the stress cycle, how we bond with others and yet the majority of adults around the world but especially here in the states move as little as possible. Your body is the greatest tool you have to navigate the world both inside of ...
Mar 07, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Send us a text Today we're talking about the work it takes to build your best life, but first we have to talk about the work it takes to get out of survival mode because we can't live our best lives in survival mode. Many of us are walking around in a constant state of threat, ready to boil over and melt down at any moment because we're carrying the weight of the whole world around. Part of doing the work is the practice of focusing our attention and energy on what is needed now, what is within ...
Feb 28, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Send us a text What's the point in all the self-help and personal development things? What are we really trying to do? Are we trying to fix what we see to be wrong so we can be right? That's a real question for you to ponder, but until then maybe we explore setting a foundation with healing and getting curious about who we are to begin with and what we want. What do we want in life? To feel better? Life gets better when we feel better, when we treat ourselves with kindness and compassion we crea...
Feb 21, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Send us a text Hello and good day! This episode I want to talk over what nervous system hygiene is and why it's so important. I reference it on the regular and we've never really taken a deep dive into what all of that means. The best place to start is with the reminder that you can not live your best life in survival mode. Next, you have the ability to interact with your nervous system and flip the switch. We can use nervous system hygiene to practice balancing between our sympathetic (fight, f...
Feb 14, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Send us a text This episode is about taking action. Anxiety is the underestimation of your ability to face any given challenge, and the overestimation of that challenge. Taking the smallest step toward the thing that is overwhelming you or the thing you've created a story of fear around will alleviate a piece of that fear. When we take action we are proving to ourselves, to our brain and nervous system, that we can affect the experience we have. The more action we take, the more trust we build i...
Feb 07, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Send us a text Today we're talking about the fear of making a mistake. The thing is, if you're alive and you're a human you're making mistakes. We can't go through this life and learn anything new without making some mistakes. These are our opportunities to learn what we do want, how to navigate, how to adapt. If we don't let ourselves make mistakes we can't learn, we don't have the experience to learn from and your brain needs that reference point to know something is safe, that you won't die. ...
Jan 31, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Send us a text Today we're talking about resistance to what is again, but this time we're looking at some examples of "new normal", the moments that change us forever, and the things we just don't want to accept. So much of our stress comes from resisting what has already happened. Sometimes these things are just annoying and not life altering. Let's look at where we are holding on to what used to be and not allowing ourselves to live here in what actually exists, in the present moment where we ...
Jan 24, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Send us a text Today's episode was inspired by an experience I had last week at my job where I found myself spending my energy and attention on someone else's worry. We've all done this and know what it's like to revisit our conversations and think "I should have said..." or "next time I'm going to say..." The thing with this is that we're not allowing the past, this thing that's already happened, to just be in the past. So, then we can't move on with our lives either! We're carrying around this...
Jan 17, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Send us a text Today's episode we're talking about wellness as an action rather than a state of being. It's easy to look at someone else and think, they're just fit or they're naturally calm, or whatever it is that we see that looks easy to them.... but that thing most likely took a lot of time and intentional effort. When we use self-care or pay attention to our body and mind only when there is a problem, like most of us do, we are showing up a little too late and trying to use self-care as a c...
Jan 10, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Send us a text Today's episode is the first one of the new year and I wanted to talk about creating space. There are so many messages around this time of year about new starts, new you, new diet, new workout, new habits etc... If we don't know where we're at and how we got here we don't have a starting point to work from, so I offer the idea of creating space, giving yourself that pause to assess, reflect, and set intention for the coming day, week, month, and year. Our power lies in the pause, ...
Jan 03, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Send us a text This is the last episode of this year and we're looking at time and how we set our goals. As we approach the end of this year I am reminded of Einstein's view on time... that it's relative and depends totally on your perception. This means that what we can accomplish and how we react to the time we have is totally up to us! This is fantastic news because it means we get to choose to take action, how we take that action and when! So, do you need a new you for this new year? Nope, n...
Dec 27, 2021•15 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Send us a text Today's episode is inspired by some current events in my life. So many times we create stress by resisting what is, what has already happened that we don't like. We create ideas about the way something should be and have expectations based in this idea, then when we don’t experience the outcome that we had planned we resist and spend our energy fighting against this thing that already happened…. So we’re fighting the past. Whether we are feeling a way that we don’t want to feel, o...
Dec 20, 2021•13 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Send us a text Today we're talking about the ability to change your mind and be flexible in this life that is full of constant change. The ability to change your mind and integrate new information to form different perspectives and opinions allows us to release the rigid standards and expectations that keep us overwhelmed and stressed out. Since our stress response is a biologically adaptive tool to help us learn and grow and change our mind with new experience and information, you'd think it mi...
Dec 13, 2021•14 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Send us a text This my friends is part 11 of this 10 part mini series because 10 just wasn’t enough to cover everything we needed to just to touch on the fundamentals of the work I do with BBR. If you’ve missed any of those they’re full of fun science about how you work and how to navigate using the tools you have in you… we’re moving on today to look a the habits we create, how that affects everything from our daily patterns to our brain and stress response. Our habits create us, it’s not the t...
Dec 06, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Send us a text Today's Episode is part 10 in this mini series that was supposed to be 10 parts... but we're not done yet... so here we go. Today we're talking about mindset, I've touched a bit on this in earlier parts of this mini series but it is important enough to give a full episode to so here we go. I used to think the people who talked about mindset just didn't understand that some of us have real problems. Now I know that our mindset is the foundation for everything we experience in life....
Nov 29, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 59
