From 2019 to 2021, I co-hosted The Awakening Educator alongside Dr. Megan Sweet @Megan Sweet . The show was a space for real, deep conversations about what it takes to educate young people in today's world — covering everything from trauma-informed practice and equity to school reform, social-emotional learning, mindfulness, and the voices of practitioners, parents, and students doing the work on the ground. In each episode we strived to bring in educators, leaders, and changemakers who were rethinking what schools could be and what kids actually need. The show is still available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart, and wherever you listen. I am posting my to 10 (5 links so far revisiting to choose) Interviewing Dr. Bruce Perry may have been the highlight for me. @Megan Sweet what was your favorite episode? And if you listened to the podcast do you have a a favorite?

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It’s been a minute. And honestly, that’s been intentional. I said I’d stop forcing a daily rhythm and instead write when something moves me—and today, something did. I posted yesterday what my mentor and coach, Wendy Haines, said that really got me reflecting. “Folks change only when there is a compelling enough reason to change.” Sit with that for a moment. Because it’s not saying people can’t change. It’s not saying they don’t want to. It’s saying something deeper: the knowing isn’t enough. It never has been. We live in a world that floods us with information—podcasts on nervous system health, books on trauma, Instagram posts about regulation. And most of us know what we should be doing. We know we should sleep more, move our bodies, have the hard conversation, put the phone down, step outside. We know. But knowing doesn’t move the body. A compelling reason does. Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, this is one of our foundational principles: practice before insight. Not because insight doesn’t matter—but because the nervous system doesn’t change through understanding. It changes through experience. Through felt, embodied, repeated moments that teach the body something new is possible. And here’s the piece that Wendy’s words illuminate: the body won’t move toward that new experience unless something—deep in the system—registers the reason as compelling. Not logically compelling. Somatically compelling. The kind of compelling that you feel in your chest, your gut, your bones. A compelling reason isn’t an argument you win with yourself. It’s a felt truth the body can no longer override. It’s when the cost of staying becomes heavier than the cost of moving. Sometimes that reason arrives as a crisis—a diagnosis, a loss, a relationship ending. But it doesn’t have to. Sometimes the compelling reason is quieter: a child’s face that reminds you what you’re modeling. A moment of stillness where you finally hear what your body has been whispering. A community that makes the next step feel possible instead of terrifying.

So today's sound track is a little different. My sister's band Drama Dolls recorded the remake of Your Not The Boss of Me now for the new Malcolm in The Middle show. released a few weeks ago. Loved this show. It was funny and Lind of sweet. This was a great opportunity for a group of middle ages rock women,

Today in our Somatic Mentor call our mentor said "Folks change only when their is a compelling enough reason to change" This is really resinating for me and thinking about how to both allow that to emerge in me and the clients that I am coaching and the student and intern therapists that I am training. People come to us because they want to change or they want things to be different how can we create the conditions and find what is compelling enough for them to do the hard work of transformation? Would love to hear your thoughts in the chat.