October is Menopause Awareness Month—a time to shine light on a transition that affects millions, yet remains shrouded in silence and misconception. While many conversations center on the "natural" menopause journey, there's a population whose experience often goes unrecognized: those who enter menopause through surgery, medical treatment, or unexpectedly early.

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If you’ve ever asked, “Why can’t I handle stress like I used to?” or “Why do I feel foggy, off-balance, or like someone else entirely?”—you’re not alone. And you’re not broken.

By Julie Cardoza, LMFT, RYT, EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Do you remember the View-Master? Hello 80's! The View-Master of Memory: Finding...

You've completed your consultation hours and have your EMDR Basic Trained status, now what? You have the basic understanding of EMDR , the process and phases but is the investment in ongoing consultation of any benefit to you?

EMDR therapy is a treatment approach based in the neurobiological understanding health and healing. It is an integrative, mind-body...

The EMDR Therapy Journey EMDR therapy consists of eight phases, each integral to the healing process. Safety is the cornerstone of this journey, ensuring clients feel secure as they explore their experiences.

Morning Altars Therapuetic Nature Based Art Feeling part of something much larger than the self is music to our ears. This transformation...

We are experiencing an epidemic of loneliness. This is multifaceted issue. We are experiencing so many losses of our daily routines, our rituals which create disconnection within ourselves. These are in addition to our losses in human to human connection. From a polyvagal lens, this has real impacts on our physical and emotional health.

Trauma-Informed (TI) Yoga, invites choice, connection and context. These are the 3 principles of creating nervous system safety. This provides a way of restoring the relationship of the body and mind. In TI Yoga, there is emphasis on being curious in the awareness of the sensations of our body in the present moment with invitational language.

Safety is not the absence of danger, it is the presence of connection. Dr. Gabor Mate Self-Regulation is an ongoing daily practice Some...

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

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,