The holiday season can be especially difficult when you’re grieving the loss of a loved one. This blog offers gentle, compassionate guidance on how to navigate the holidays while honoring your feelings and your loved one’s memory. Learn ways to manage grief, find moments of joy, and move forward at your own pace.

Feeling overwhelmed, overloaded, or completely tapped out is more common than you might think, but it doesn’t have to be your norm. This blog explores how your nervous system reacts in moments of stress using the Polyvagal Ladder framework. Learn to recognize signs of dorsal vagal shutdown, sympathetic fight-or-flight activation, and how to gently guide yourself back to a state of calm and connection (ventral vagal). With practical tools and relatable examples, this post provides simple strategies to help you move through stress and create more moments of balance and self-compassion in your daily life.

Brain what? Brainspotting therapy is an innovative therapy to help you process the barriers that have held you back your whole life.

I know, I know, you don’t need another person telling you what to do to help you on a day like today. But is it possible that those who are offering suggestions might actually be in the right direction? Not as a cureall but to support us in feeling just a little more like ourselves today? Small steps today might not seem like they help with the big goal, but the thing we know about our minds and bodies is that these small steps actually help us making the movement towards the big goal.

Brainspotting is a therapy tool that helps you gain access to the deeper parts of your brain. Supports you in helping your brain keep the past in the past.

Therapy has new depths when we start to include the body. It can support the changes that you have been hoping to see all this time.

Authenticity is a big buzz right now, so many resources to be your "authentic self." But if you don't know where you lost it - how can you find it?

Understanding what causes some of your anxiety and building awareness are key steps in getting to a state of calm.

Take time to learn more about perfectionism, where it comes from, and how it shows up. There is a short segment at the end of this video discussing how Brainspotting can support you in working through and out of your perfectionism.

“Trust yourself” is a common phrase people use – telling you to follow your intuition or gut. Listen to yourself about what you should do next or where you should go. Trusting ourselves isn’t so easy when we haven’t been taught that we are trustworthy.

Patrice Flanagan-Morris reviews what Brainspotting can do for your clients and what the training structure looks like for a weekend.

“Where you look affects how you feel” is the motto of the Brainspotting community. It is all about the understanding that we orient where we look towards pleasure and pain. Our eyes are connected to the survival system within our brains, it’s essential for our safety.

Since enhancing my Brainspotting abilities and engaging in my own work, my practice has changed. I now see myself as a guide, someone to walk with you through the pain to find your healing and connect to yourself.

Brainspotting is a body-based therapy that helps resolve past experiences so that they no longer inhibit you. Brainspotting resolves old stories in the lower parts of our brains that make us reactive or block us from taking care of ourselves we can engage in our lives to create more self-fulfillment and awareness.