In sessions with students and clients, I talk a lot about regulation. But regulation without capacity building becomes dependency. If a client can only feel safe with you…they're still building resilience—they borrow our regulation, but we need to be careful about whether we’ve built proximity-based regulation. How are you helping clients regulate? What is a specific tool you teach? How do you assist clients in expanding their nervous system’s capacity to hold activation without dependence, collapse or avoidance?

I do a daily dose in Hope Reimagined Rooted community and I thought this dose iwill serve this community of therapists. @Alistair Hawkes I think the podcast may speak to you, given your caretaking of family. I've been sitting with something that stopped me in my tracks this week. I was listening to Prentis Hemphill's The Becoming podcast — and they were exploring the profound, often overlooked power of care. Not just giving it. Receiving it. And I had to pause. Because so many of us in healing, helping, and holding work have become fluent in one direction of care — outward — and quietly starved in the other. So today's question is simple. And it isn't. Who cares for you? Who do you care for? And what does that web of care ask of you — and give back to you? Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, relationship is not soft support work — it is a biological resource. Your nervous system literally regulates through the presence of others. Care is not a luxury. It is architecture. But here's what often gets missed: Co-regulation requires both directions to work. When care only flows outward, the nervous system eventually stops registering safety. We become the regulated presence for everyone else — and quietly lose our own ground. 💚 Take a breath. Feel your feet. And ask yourself honestly: - Who can I call when I'm not okay? - Who holds space for me to be uncertain, tired, or undone? - When someone offers me care, can I actually receive it — or does it make me uncomfortable? - How does being cared for serve not just me, but everyone I show up for? Drop in below. 👇 Who's in your care web? And where might there be a gap? This is a living question — not a performance. There are no right answers here. Just honest ones. Rooted in Science. Guided by Nature. Embodied in Practice. 🌱

How I keep myself going. I am currently juggling a lot. I am caregiving a parent (for the past year, with the help of my 3 siblings). I am paring down my private practice but keeping it going. Referrals, billing, client services. I am building an online and in-person coaching business and I have my first 1:1 coaching client...high ticket, intensive training. I am so psyched! The work I've done to make this pivot over the past three years is starting to take shape. My new client starts tomorrow. We'll see how their transformation comes around in about 5 weeks. I am building two online Skool communities...this one and one called The Spiral Reset Lab where all the materials from my teacher and mentor, Dr. Liana Mattulich are housed. When I am pushed or pulled by life, and I am every day as we all are, I swear...every time I need a somatic practice my body intuition says "hey. hello. go. go outside. go move your body." And I am getting so much better at listening, moment-to-moment. When I'm sitting with a client and I feel the pull I do my best to regulate that pull to stay with them in the session, breathing, moment to moment awareness, staying present with what is. How do you ... moment-to-moment?

My brother posted this on Facebook and I found it so moving I wanted to share here “it’s never been the written word that’s brought me to believe. Quite the contrary. Rather, it’s the incomprehensible forces of the universe, quantum physics, and not least of all, the mysteries of music. No logic satisfies its definition. Tension and release can’t explain how it brings things out and up in us. It speaks and connects in ways that we all feel, but don’t truly understand. It is divine, if anything ever was.” It is why I do the daily soundtrack and why I do the Rooted Spotlight. We need to be looking for the magic, it is the way forward for us all!

Thank you @Alistair Hawkes for the discussion yesterday and more to come. And thank you for allowing me to share! In just a little over 3 weeks I’m hosting the Rooting Resilience Retreat https://hopereimagined.org/events in the redwoods of Northern California — and I would truly love to gather with fellow clinicians. This retreat is designed specifically with educators and mental health professionals in mind. CEUs are available for licensed clinicians (California and eligible nationwide) — so you can nourish your nervous system and meet professional requirements at the same time. More than a training, this is a respite.A space to step out of the daily demands of clinical work and into: -Experiential Neuro-Somatic Integration practices -Time in nature for regulation and restoration -Community with other therapists who understand the work -Practical tools you can bring back to your clients We’ll ground in theory, explore embodied practice, and create space for reflection and renewal. In a time when our systems — and our nervous systems — are under strain, tending to ourselves is not indulgent, it’s essential. If you’re interested, I’m happy to share details, the agenda, CEU information, or answer any questions. Would love to root into resilience together. 🌿