I’m currently in a practicum working in a recovery setting. And I’ll be honest. I expected to learn about addiction. I didn’t expect to learn this much about the nervous system. What surprised me most is how quickly the body takes over. Not in a dramatic way. In small, everyday moments. People know what they “should” do. They’ve heard the strategies. They can explain it clearly. And still, in the moment, their system reacts first. It made something very clear to me: This isn’

The Part We Don’t Talk About We talk a lot about mental health, burnout, and anxiety. But we don’t talk enough about the body. And the science is clear. When we disconnect from it, something shows up later.Stress that lingers.Anxiety that won’t settle.Burnout.Kids who struggle to focus or regulate. What the research shows Movement-based frameworks have been pointing to this for decades: LBMA (Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis) Movement reflects patterns of expression and de

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By week three of the school year, the cracks start to show. The carpool is chaos, kids are sick, deadlines keep shifting, and one more unexpected “practice added to the schedule” feels like it could tip you over the edge. That frazzled state isn’t a weakness. It’s your nervous system doing its job: signaling overload. Frazzle as Feedback Think of it like a dashboard light in your car. When the “low fuel” light comes on, you don’t curse the car- you take it as information. You

September has a funny way of feeling like January—new notebooks, new planners, new routines — and along with them, new stress. Whether you’re a student, a parent, or just someone who feels the ripple of “back-to-school energy,” your nervous system knows change is happening. And change? It’s exciting, but it’s also exhausting. Why the Fog Hits Early During transitions, your prefrontal cortex  (decision-making) gets overloaded.Schedules, deadlines, new patterns. That’s why you

Twelve weeks is a long time. Taking progress pictures and weighing yourself is a big deal. At least, it always was for me. As a young dancer, I lived under the constant pressure of appearance-based expectations. Those pressures led to self-harming behaviors that took years of deep work to unlearn. I hesitated when this challenge required progress photos—because for so long, my worth felt tied to what my body looked  like. And then it hit me: that’s exactly why I need to do th