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Menopause, Meaning & Rewiring the Nervous System for Joy
Your brain is literally rewiring itself during menopause transition. It's adaptive reorganization that can support a more integrated, embodied way of being.
The brain that learned to survive can also learn to thrive. Joy isn't frivolous—it's neurologically essential. This is where sovereignty becomes possible: the embodied kind.
Discover the Four Pillars of Nervous System Joy and practical tools for rewiring toward authenticity, agency, and embodied well-being.
jcardozalmft
Sep 28 min read
Unmasking Midlife Why the FDA Hearings Signals a New Era in Menopause and Women’s Health
“ There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”— Maya Angelou One of the menopause I rarely get political, but...
jcardozalmft
Jul 215 min read
The Life Mandala as Nervous System Medicine: A Polyvagal Approach to Midlife Integration
By Julie Cardoza, LMFT, RYT, EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Do you remember the View-Master? Hello 80's! The View-Master of Memory: Finding...
jcardozalmft
Jul 810 min read
What can I expect in an EMDR Therapy Session?
EMDR therapy is a treatment approach based in the neurobiological understanding health and healing. It is an integrative, mind-body...
jcardozalmft
Apr 164 min read
Exploring the Healing Power of Nature Mandalas: A Journey of Understanding Abundance through Apples
Nature Mandala inspired through Morning Altars tm practice About this Morning Altar ™ Mandala Each altar that finds its way through my...
jcardozalmft
Oct 28, 20245 min read
How can EMDR Therapy help individuals with OCD?
As there is may often a relationship of Trauma and OCD, EMDR can be utilized as a possible treatment option in a two-prong approach with OCD and Trauma. In my practice I offer ICBT for treatment of the OCD and then additionally work within the eight phases of EMDR working with a neurobiological approach in treatment of the trauma factors that may underlay or co-incide within the nervous system. Typically EMDR helps resolve traumatic material, can aid in desensitizing vulner
jcardozalmft
Apr 5, 20234 min read
Integrating Polyvagal Theory into EMDR and Yoga: A Holistic Approach to Healing Trauma
Our autonomic nervous system is our body's system of protection and connection. It is constantly surveilling our inner, outer and relational environments looking for cues of danger and cues of safety. This surveillance action is called neuroception. Neuroception is our perception without awareness. It is the neural platform of our biological experience. Through neuroception, we stay alive. However, without an understanding or practice of working with our neuroceptive cues,
jcardozalmft
Feb 4, 20233 min read
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