Articles

This space is a growing collection of articles written to help you understand the deeper patterns behind development, regulation, and healing. Whether you're a parent, practitioner, or simply curious, these writings offer a lens into why I work the way I do—and why so many common therapeutic goals, like eye contact or lip closure, are not ends in themselves, but reflections of something deeper.

Each piece invites you to look beneath behavior, beneath structure, and into the nervous system’s unfolding story. My hope is that these articles not only inform, but affirm your instincts to slow down, to listen, and to honor the whole body in the process of integration.

When the Layers Start to Unravel: The Fatigue, the Rebuilding, and the Truth About Healing

I took this photo after sitting on a rock mid-hike, when the bracing finally let go and the real fatigue had set in. Not because I was...

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Jul 205 min read

It Isn’t About the Pose—It’s About Permission (and Support)

What Restorative Yoga Can Teach Us About Healing from the Inside Out I used to think I was doing restorative yoga wrong. I couldn’t cue...

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Jul 203 min read

It Was Never Just the Cherry Eye

Part I of the Zen Series She still has the cherry eye. The floor is still a mess. The cabinets are still stained pink from my...

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Jul 24 min read

Healing the Father Line

A Father’s Day Reflection on Boys, Emotions, and the Return to Relationship Strength isn't in shutting down. It's in staying connected...

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May 283 min read

Why Regulation Must Come First

Before skills, before progress, before goals—there must be safety. So many of the families I support are doing everything right—and still...

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May 253 min read

Core Withdrawal and Tongue-Tie: A Deeper Look into the Nervous System’s Protective Patterns

This piece explores the relationship between tethered oral tissues, early protective patterns, and what happens when the body learns to...

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May 254 min read

Core Withdrawal: When the Nervous System Pulls In Instead of Reaching Out

Originally adapted for Guiding Bright Minds, this article explores how nervous system protection can look like resistance, shutdown, or...

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May 253 min read

When the Body Braces From the Inside: Rethinking Low Muscle Tone

What if low tone isn't what we think it is? What if low muscle tone isn’t a fixed trait—but the body’s way of saying, “I don’t feel safe...

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May 235 min read

More Than a Modality: What I Am (And What I’m Not)

When titles fail but the work is real. There was a time I wanted to call myself a bodyworker. And another time I wished I could just say...

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May 234 min read

Beyond the Release: Why Airway Freedom Demands More Than Tongue Mobility

There’s a common misconception in airway-focused care: that a tongue-tie release alone will restore function. But again and again, I see...

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May 234 min read

Beyond the Frenulum: Why Tongue Tie Is Not the Whole Story

The story doesn't start in the tongue. It lives in the whole body--unfolding in places we almost forgot to look. We’re told tongue tie...

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May 238 min read

Why I No Longer Work in Early Intervention—and What I Choose Instead

I didn’t leave early intervention because the work was too hard. I left because the system wouldn’t allow me to do it with integrity....

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May 228 min read

What’s My Job Description? I Hang Out With Unicorns

The children I work with are like this--wild, sensitive, untamed by the world. You can't rush a unicorn. You can only earn its trust....

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May 213 min read

Why We Say Yes in Freeze or Fawn--and What Happens When the Fog Lifts

Sometimes we grow not because it was the right environment--but because we outgrew what once held us. Sometimes we say yes to...

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May 213 min read

Why Talking Isn’t the Same as Healing

Embodiment begins in the feet. Long before we find words, we root into the world through touch, ground, and sensation. The red holds the...

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May 204 min read

Why My Work Is a Pattern Interrupt

Pattern interrupts don't have to shout. Sometimes they shimmer. A flash of beauty, a different rhythm---enough to make the nervous...

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May 182 min read

It's Not Empath vs. Narcissist—It's the Nervous System, Trying to Survive

When survival speaks, it often sounds like noise. Two nervous systems, looping, squawking, not hearing--just echoing what they've...

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May 184 min read

When the Whole Family Is Dysregulated: Nervous System Collapse, Ancestral Patterns, and the Disappearance of Connection

Most people don’t realize that a family’s nervous system functions like a shared current—one body reacting to another, adapting, bracing,...

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May 182 min read

The Collapse No One Talks About: When Trying to Be a Good Parent Breaks You

When the system keeps telling you to do more, try harder, and regulate better—but your body is collapsing underneath it all. This piece...

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May 183 min read

If You Feel Stuck, This Is What It Feels Like (And It’s Not Just You)

This piece speaks to adults who are quietly stuck in survival—exhausted, shut down, looping through shame—and don’t know why nothing is...

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May 182 min read