Intuitive Health & Healing Blog

Addictive behaviors are the body's attempts to self-regulate in response to (often trauma-induced) autonomic dysregulation. Instead of viewing these behaviors as diseases, they are survival strategies that can be transformed through embodied awareness, nervous system regulation and self-compassion practices .

Identify Nervous System states and learn practices that will help shift you from dis-regulated and stressed to calm, curious and connected.

Learn to resource the Nervous System with Bilateral Stimulation and Vagal Toning Techniques. Beyond noticing the breath and the physiology, there are a number of simple practices that we can engage when we are activated that will invite the parasympathetic (rest & digest) aspect of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) to come online and rebalance from a sympathetic state (flight, fight, freeze, appease or fawn). Taking just a few minutes to resource the ANS can make a profound