Send us a text This episode has been inspired by the recent tragedies that add to the seemingly constant loss and tragedy we have somehow normalized. I usually don’t talk about all the bad shit, there’s plenty of it, and it’s not because I want to pretend it doesn’t exist or ignore it and just be positive vibes only or any shit like that… My focus is generally on how we can navigate our own experience with our mind and body and how to understand these things better… but we do not live as islands...
Jan 30, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Send us a text Today we're talking about willingness past the initial definition of choosing to accept and feel the experience you're having. Getting clear on what we are willing to do for what we want, what we are willing to accept and what we are unwilling to participate in we can start taking action and stop shaming ourselves. Get clear on what we are and are not willing to do/be/feel and then we can make a plan. I give you 20 questions to start flushing out what you are and are not willing t...
Jan 23, 2023•17 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Send us a text In this episode we talk about the old saying "an unexamined life is not worth living" This isn't a philosophical discussion, we're talking about how taking the space to press pause and examine your days so you can proceed forward with intention in the direction that you do want will bring much clarity and opportunity to revise, redirect, and reduce the stress from not being in alignment with your values, goals and intentions. I offer some questions to help you really consider how ...
Jan 16, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Send us a text Today's episode falls just after Christmas day and I want to talk about how the holidays can be really stressful, even after the fact. There are expectations that this be the "most wonderful time of year" and that's a lot of pressure for a time of year that is already dark and grey in some of the northern hemisphere. Where three is a lot of pressure to be happy and get all the gifts and fulfill traditions and see family and deal with relationships that can be ignored the rest of t...
Dec 26, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Send us a text Today's episode we're talking about some of the less popular senses. There's a big myth that we have 5 or maybe a sixth sense but we have many more senses that help us shape our understanding of the world around us and shape our experience in the world. So, we're talking about three of our senses that help us to understand our internal and external environments and what's going on in our bodies, with our bodies and around our bodies. This communication is incredibly important to m...
Dec 19, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Send us a text In this episode we're talking all about how we can identify the signs and symptoms of nervous system dysregulation. Often times the signs are staring us right in the face and that's just the problem, they're so common that we think it's normal. I go over some of the most common signs that you can start to notice and pay some attention when you spot them. Remember, awareness always comes before intervention. We can't manage or control something we're not first aware of so knowing h...
Dec 12, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Send us a text This episode is all about catastrophizing or catastrophic thinking which is a thought process where we jump to the worst case scenario, usually with very little information to inform the conclusion we jump to. This is one of the most common cognitive distortions and yet people are left thinking they are the only ones that do it and feel like there is something wrong because of a lack of education and understanding about the mind and brain and how they work. The brain has an automa...
Dec 05, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Send us a text Today's episode was inspired by hearing someone say "I can't just relax on command" when learning a mindfulness practice. Yeah, of course not, and that's not what mindfulness is. In this episode you'll hear what mindfulness is, or my interpretation of it anyway, and some of the things that make it difficult. You'll also learn my go to mindfulness practice to begin noticing what messages your body and brain are sending so you can notice, press pause, and learn to respond in a way t...
Nov 28, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Send us a text Today's episode is all about cultivating joy, not just by accident or waiting to try and find it somewhere like it's hiding from you, but creating it for yourself daily. We have stress daily so we need to create joy daily to help balance and buffer. Joy doesn't have to come in giant waves, sometimes it's just a drop and that still counts. Get in there and give it a listen for how to add more joy to your day and help balance out your stress hormones. Resources: Manage Your Stress M...
Nov 21, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Send us a text This episode was inspired by a question from a listener, you know who you are and thank you very much for your question! We get into it here, everything from the language we use when talking to and about ourselves to how to get past the resistance of starting something new. Inside you'll find my top 6 things to help get past self-consciousness and where the roots of self-consciousness come from. As always we're looking at how to work with body and brain and take action to stress a...
Nov 14, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Send us a text Your brain and nervous system love a good routine and count on it for stability … so, you know, you have to actually participate in the routine, but remember, it needs to be flexible enough to allow for life. … because the ultimate goal of a routine is to make life a little easier, decrease stress and leave more time and energy for enjoying the other pieces of living. When we actually do participate in our routines to care for ourselves we are assisting our body in working the mag...
Nov 07, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Send us a text My mission here is to change the way we understand and approach mental health. I truly believe that understanding how we work, that there is a biological reason for the way we fee, allows us to better participate in our state of being and lead to a more fulfilling and joy filled life. When we are overwhelmed with stress and stuck in a cycle of anxiety and coping we simply can't get there. So, we learn to manage stress and anxiety so we can choose how we want to respond instead of ...
Oct 31, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 107
Send us a text Today we’re talking about the important role your emotions play in your health. We used to think that genes were responsible for mental health “issues” but we see now that is not the case. We are not simply biological beings, we are not just made of flesh, we are not just biochemical, or psychological either. We are humans who are made of our flesh, our experiences, our environment both inside and outside of us. We are made of the culture and society we are part of… we are made to...
Oct 24, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Send us a text In this episode I get into the seasons of life. Along with the calendar seasons, I also want to talk about the other “seasons” we have. These life seasons don’t follow the same time periods and overall predictability each year, but they are marked by the energy, capacity, responsibility, and resources you have in that particular time… along with the intention you have set for yourself and your resources, both internal and external. There are very real limitations on your energy an...
Oct 17, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Send us a text Today I wanted to talk about how the messages we receive about how we're never enough, never safe enough, never thin enough, pretty enough, smart enough, successful enough, popular enough, rich enough. Never having enough, never certain enough, never secure enough, never loved enough, don’t have enough, I’m not enough…. can't help but lead us into survival mode. It's no wonder the rates of stress related illnesses continue to rise. We hear a lot about scarcity mindset these days, ...
Oct 10, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Send us a text Today we're talking about learned helplessness, that feeling of powerlessness you get when you feel like you're being forced into a situation you might not want... and the power you have to choose to practice your autonomy. In between the feeling of powerlessness and the realization of choice there might be anger and resentment covering up the root feeling of vulnerability, insecurity, fear, hurt, grief... etc. Sometimes those secondary defense emotions are more easily accessible ...
Oct 03, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Send us a text listen here, you get to decide what is a big deal to you, no one else gets to do that for you... and becoming more of who you want to be, expressing yourself in a way that allows you to stand a little bolder in the world is a big deal. It all starts with the small steps and so many times we can’t get to the big things without the small steps that build us up to get there. It’s about those brief moments … seemingly insignificant and if we’re not paying attention we'll miss it. Thes...
Sep 26, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Send us a text Today we're exploring the discomfort we feel in social situations and how we linger a little too long with the discomfort of an awkward encounter after the fact. Social acceptance is important to us on a biological level, even for those of us who like to spend time alone and maybe don't love being around people all that much. From an evolutionary perspective we were more likely to survive in a group rather than alone and that survival coding still exists within us. But what about ...
Sep 19, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Send us a text Today's episode is about the power of language to shape our perspective on the world around us and how we choose to navigate within that. Language shapes our ideas of ourselves and how the world works. Each language with it's own cultural context and nuance creates a cognitive structure and representation of reality according to that language. Language can be expansive or restrictive, the words we choose matter. Words are assigned a meaning and then we shape around those meanings....
Sep 12, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Send us a text Today's episode is all about suicide awareness as we enter September, which is National Suicide Awareness Month here in the States and World Suicide Prevention Day is September 10th, 2022. This topic is one that we like to brush under the rug ... because it's painful, because it's uncomfortable, and because we do that with most mental health subjects. I'm here to talk about it because it's necessary, because millions of people are affected by suicide daily. It's uncomfortable and ...
Sep 05, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Send us a text Today's episode we're finding links between pieces of our lives that we may not think about often as being linked together. There are a lot of connections to be made between how we take care of our home and the space we live in, and our body... that we live in. Like deep cleaning in the cracks and corners that go unnoticed for months, the nervous system can also use some special attention in the way of a hygiene routine. When we push off the "small things" until "later" and later ...
Aug 29, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Send us a text Hello and good day to you my friend, today’s going to be a shortie, I’ve got a quick story and a quick reminder for you. We all need to give ourselves the reminders and pep talks, but there is some complexity, like with most things human there… Celebrating your wins is really hard if you can’t even acknowledge them.. when we’re so focused on the next thing or comparing to someone else… even when that someone is us from a different time. While we need to be our own best supporter, ...
Aug 22, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Send us a text Today we're talking about joy. How to recognize it, how to allow it, and how to choose it. We know joy is the best buffer to distress and today we're getting into how it helps us build community and expansion within ourselves. Get in there and give it a listen for more. Resources: Learn more about James-Olivia @inquisitive_human You can find more about Brain-Body Resilience and JPB: On the BBR Website On Instagram On Facebook Support the show Resources : Manage Your Stress Mentors...
Aug 15, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Send us a text Today's episode we're talking about the language that is used in the wellness space to shift the blame for failing systems to you. I recently listened to a book called : Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism and it had interesting things to say about the language we use around wellness and fitness. This, along with the fact that we continue to ignore mental health and continue to pretend that it is different from overall health has created a shortage of access to mental health help ...
Aug 08, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Send us a text Today I want to offer a few tangible tools that are a bit more specific. We talk a lot about suing the breath and the basics of movement, nutrition, time in nature, paying attention to your needs, and today I want to give you something to add on to these foundational basics. These are not magic hacks or shortcuts... because the basics, doing the small steps for the long run is always going to win. So, today I offer 5 more specific tools to use when you feel like focusing on the br...
Aug 01, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Send us a text This episode is all about building self-trust as a tool to manage fear, anxiety, and overwhelm. I’ll say it a thousand times, action is the key to minimizing anxiety and overwhelm… you can’t talk yourself out of something that didn’t start in your head, it’s a sensation in your body, a mobilization of the stress response and then your frontal brain tries to make sense of the feelings and starts telling whatever story it can. Self-trust is a really hard thing to achieve when we are...
Jul 25, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Send us a text Today's episode is a reminder, I want everyone to know that you’re not alone, you’re not the only one with the worries and intrusive thoughts. You’re not the only one burnt out from stress and anxiety, the goal isn’t to get rid of these natural responses, it’s to have a better relationship with them, to navigate our physiology, to be intentional about our participation in life and how we choose to navigate in our days giving ourselves space to be, to create joy for no reason, to r...
Jul 18, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Send us a text Today we're talking a bout shifting from fear, not trying to burry or ignore it, but to add more of what we do want. I look around the world I am navigating and see an abundance of anger and lack of compassion and I want to explore that a little here. Fear changes how we view the world, it can literally change our brain and make it harder for us to access compassion and empathy along with other higher level cognitive skills like rational judgement and decision making. I think that...
Jul 11, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Send us a text This is episode number 90! I'm excited to dive into today's topic as it affects me personally and I know it affects a lot of other folks out there as well. Today's episode is dedicated to learning more and shining a light on PTSD. June was PTSD awareness month and I just learned that so let's grow our awareness here today. You may be surprised about some of the ways that PTSD can show up and that it's not reserved for veterans of war or survivors of severe abuse. You may not be su...
Jul 04, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Send us a text Today's Episode highlights the rise and fall of people's rights, specifically we're talking about the progress made in the mid 90's to recognize that violence against women and children is in fact a crime and does in fact affect everything that person will face going forward. There is tremendous uncertainty, fear, rage, and lack of control in this moment as the decision was made to pull back 50 years of protection for bodily autonomy and privacy. How do we handle all of this chaos...
Jun 27, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 89
