Two Arrows (Part 2 ): What could be different if you knew your nervous system response always wants to keep you safe? It was years after my freeze experience (Two Arrows Part 1 post) with the students that I stumbled into answers around this, when I became an accidental long distance sea swimmer. Ok, a […]
Two Arrows (Part 1): What it is about your nervous system that can stop you showing up as you want to? This is a question I heard the very wise Stephen Terell pose, at one of his training events in Belfast last summer (back in the days of mass gatherings and before we knew what […]
The grandmothers and the ferns Over the last couple of months I have learnt a lot about my nervous system in a time of crises. Like many people I have spoken to, when this pandemic first hit, I found myself in a flurry of activity; what can I learn? how can I help? how can […]
Bringing us back to more of who we are At the heart of my shamanic training is the notion that I am only the ‘tour guide’. I like this notion, who am I to know what is needed? Who am I to know what wants to come into the light of a session? So the […]
A Conversation with terror I have brain scans every 16 weeks to monitor ‘unusual cells in my brain’. In March I had a scan (I have results and all is well thank god ). On my way to hospital to get my scan I got a real sense of terror (my nervous system had decided […]
Welcome, welcome, welcome I have been sitting with the question: what are most useful things to remind you (and me) of as we all face our challenges? I keep getting the image of the waves we explored together. There is the bottom of the wave – how can we keep orientating back towards what resources […]
