4 tools to help you calm your body and mind when feeling anxious, stressed or down. Click here to learn how to implement these tools.

We all have anxious thoughts from time to time, it’s a normal part of the human experience. Anxious thoughts can spin into a full day of worry that feels out of our control. Here’s how quick coherence can help!

Attunement revolves around your ability to connect and sense what is happening within your client. Attunement in the general public can be knowing what your partner needs before they ask, sensing that a friend is down even if they put a smile on.

“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.

If you find yourself struggling with constantly caring for others over yourself, you need to examine the part of you that is wounded, the part that feels like your connection to others can only be maintained through our ability to people-please and caretake.

Making a change in our lives is not as simple as mainstream media would like to make us believe. We can know we need to stop people-pleasing or start setting boundaries. We can know that we should feel good enough about ourselves but still have the voice in the back of our heads that says we aren’t.

We need to learn to move from a place of motivation from criticism to motivation from self-compassion. People use self-criticism as a “motivator.” If we are our own worst critic then we will push ourselves farther. Unfortunately, that’s not the truth and in reality, actually holds us back.

This year looks a lot different from 2020 new year's. Patrice reflects on how this year's reflection looks different and working on embracing time & patience into 2021.

We often treat rest and relaxation as a reward. Something to be earned after burning the candle at both ends. In Western culture, this is seen as laziness. We have created a whole narrative to go with relaxation because we don’t understand its function.

Positive Affirmations are common right now. Many people preach affirmations and swear by their effectiveness to support overall self-esteem. However, more times than not when I sit across from a client they tell me a secret: “I try those affirmations, but they don’t seem to make a difference.”

Learn about different types of journaling, what the purpose is and how to incorporate journaling into your life!

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

Are you nervous about the upcoming winter months and your mental wellness? Here are 8 tips to support you in creating more hope this winter.

Mindfulness is not simply meditating every day, it is a practice of intentional awareness of each moment throughout our day. Practicing mindfulness practices daily, bringing simple awareness and intention to our thoughts and actions, we create a greater understanding of ourselves, what sets us off, and brings us joy.

“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.

As you move into your learning zone and gain trust that you will know where the line of unnecessary risk is, your comfort and learning zones grow. In turn, you can push yourself a little farther, find and take more opportunities you didn’t know existed, and create more space to find and be who you are.

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.

Our sympathetic nervous system (SNS) helps us engage in fight or flight so that we can protect ourselves from danger. The brain is not able to discern perceived vs real threat, it simply sees a threat as a threat.

To be a part of conversations, race, racism and our society, and to have opinions, we have to be open to new information and continue to challenge ourselves to gather information to be educated on institutional racism and its impacts on our community.

When we know our values and align with them in our day-to-day activities, as well as the more challenging moments and decisions in life, we can live more confidently, happily, and strongly.