If you have a higher vagal tone, you have fast, strong, calming signals. Your parasympathetic system can reduce stress quickly and return your body to equilibrium, which means less time spent in a dysregulated state and more time feeling like yourself.

A practical guide to understand your window of tolerace and easy somatic practices that actually expand your capacity to heal.

Nobody prepares you for the fact that healing your nervous system can feel worse before it feels better — or that safety itself can feel threatening when you have a trauma history.

Struggling with toxic shame after complex trauma? Learn how shame impacts the nervous system and how to begin healing from a trauma-informed perspective.

There is a vital space between what happens when we are triggered and what we do next. In any given scenario that is activating, a pause, determines whether we respond or react.