The summer of 2013 and my experience at the Boston Marathon bombing opened the door to an insatiable quest in learning and understanding the connection between the mind and body. Specifically how the experiences we have navigated reveal themselves through our physical being. What began as a desperate desire to “feel better” and “get my…
You probably already know that I love Harry Potter and the wisdom that it provides through the conversations had on screen. Dumbledore, in his infinite wisdom, provides many nuggets. One of my favorites is this: “Words are our most inexhaustible form of magic, capable of both inflicting pain and remedying it.” There are a couple…
My son Jacob was a high school football player and got hit really hard during a game, so hard that the team doctor immediately diagnosed a concussion. We both knew that as a senior, his season was likely done if he followed standard medical protocols, and this was his last year of high school. He…
When I started taking classes, researching and diving into this work, I spent a lot of time really navigating through my old stuff, the past experiences, trauma and hurt. It was difficult, sometimes painful. Those closest to me would ask why I kept going. Why do you keep taking these classes? Why do you keep…
We’ve all been there. The hamster wheel. It turns endlessly, going nowhere, and taking us nowhere with it. Here’s the good news: there’s a way off. When you find yourself on the hamster wheel of circumstances or you come to the realization that you are in a cycle, an experience that isn’t working, there’s a…
During the year following the Boston bombing, I became ill, very ill, with symptoms that for a long time made no sense, either to the doctors and specialists I sought out, or to me. By 2015, I was overcome by severe insomnia, debilitating muscle spasms and struggled with the every day to do’s of family…