Topics covered include working with inner critic voices, self compassion, creating sensory based intentions based on your deepest longing, not using sensations as an indicator of recovery and how to transcend that, identifying stuck patterns, and tuning into inner guidance to find next steps.

Inner Barriers intro, coming off meds, addressing overwhelm, giving ourselves permission to be human and make mistakes, stepping into growth, meditation recommendations, addressing plateaus and lack of progress, dips after experiencing positive emotions, nervous system support

Exercise highlighting thoughts & emotion effect on physiology, fundamentals, cultivating curious observer, keeping calm during challenges, addressing setbacks, working with early life dysregulation & attachment, retraining through loss, developing emotional bandwidth and flexibility in experience emotional states.

Discussing the aim of our retraining practice, the cultivation of inner states that are conducive to creating the conditions for healing. How to negate impacts of external stressors that are increasing symptoms, healing the gut, the layers to limbic system rewiring, fluctuation in symptoms & returning symptoms, retraining on medicine allergies, getting out of a cell danger response, navigating the complexity of retraining on chronic conditions, tweaking past memories, addressing resistance to retraining.

This Q&A addresses post holiday season challenges, defines somatics and their role in brain retraining, the role of spirituality or connecting to something greater than ourselves, setting healthy boundaries, prioritizing our needs, how we respond to challenges, the self-compassion break and the role of self compassion in recovery, not taking on other people's reactions, releasing over-responsibility for others, how to navigate when family members need support beyond our capacities.

In this Q&A we discuss navigating the holiday season and other people's opinions, building our capacity to focus, addressing brain fog, the Art of Living breath work program, navigating setbacks with digestion & working with foods, the basics of polyvagal theory, how to support an adult child with CFS who isn't interested in brain retraining.

This Q&A goes into working with automatic negative thoughts from a CBT (Cognitive behaviour therapy) perspective. We discuss he importance movement and of cultivating flexibility on 4 levels : physical, mental, emotional, & nervous system, along with ideas on how to do that. A detailed description of working with foods, changing patterns of association, and incrementally training within our training zone is given.

This Q&A covers a wide range of topics including resistance, fatigue upon waking, dorsal vagal shutdown, exploring the idea that "the magic that we're looking for is in the work that we are avoiding", setting ourself up for good sleep, working with scents, working with beliefs, connecting to our qualities & characteristics that will help us through the tough times, ebbs and flows to recovery, riding the wave on difficult days, and the value of breath work & meditation.

This Q&A covers topics such as working with core beliefs, post covid challenges, using expressive writing for emotions, things to consider regarding hair loss, regulation during the work day and moving back into life after recovery in a sustainable way, releasing chronic tension, vagus nerve interventions, the heart math quick coherence technique, working with delayed reactions to food and histamine reactions, and how our mind affects our physiology.

This Q&A covers a huge range of topics including working with anxiety, SKY Breath meditation (now Art of Living Part 1 program), boosting your immune system, navigating grief & loss, navigating CFS, coming off meds, cultivating the curious observer, working with the freeze response, autoimmune reactions, importance of understanding the premise behind brain retraining, changing patterns of association, using mental rehearsal, working with sensory sensitivity, tip for when sensations are ongoing, how to create elevated emotions when we don't have access to them, benefits of smiling.

This Q&A covers a wide range of topics: The importance of taking action and doing the practical application of brain retraining, the reintroduction of foods including being mindful of internal conversations, incremental training, changing out patterns of association through repetition, dealing with setbacks. Training with going to the dentist, using expressive writing for releasing thoughts & beliefs, going the distance with our retraining, connecting to your motivation & big why, working with parts, memories & future visualizations, tools that are short and sweet to train in the moment when we are busy, prioritizing what's on our to-do list, discerning genuine emotions versus limbic loops and working with them, rewiring strong continual sensations, & coming off benzos.

Alternate nostril breathing followed by a short guided meditation and brief information on the Art of Living Foundation.

This video takes you through an alternate nostril breathing exercise. Alternate nostril breathing is great for balancing the nervous system and creating mental clarity! It connects the two hemispheres of our brain and activate the "rest and digest" parasympathetic nervous system. It also has a therapeutic effect on respiratory function.

Ujjayi is helpful for calming the nervous system and great to do right before going to sleep to help you fall asleep more easily and get a deeper rest.

This video takes you through three rounds of Bhastrika. Bhastrika energizes and revitalizes us. Great for low energy, or when we are needing a boost.

Instructions on how to do Bhastrika. It has energizing benefits.

Instructions on how to do alternate nostril breathing. Great for balancing the nervous system and for creating brain clarity. It connects the two hemispheres of our brain and activate the "rest and digest" parasympathetic nervous system. It also has a therapeutic effect on respiratory function.

Instructions on how to do Ujjayi breath along with its benefits, as evidenced in the research.