Psychopathy is often defined by a lack of empathy, a drive for control, and the use of fear to maintain power at all costs. To the psychopathic individual, people are experienced not as full human beings, not as sacred or sentient, but as two-dimensional figures: either useful or a threat. These dynamics don’t just appear […]

There is a gift we can give ourselves as we begin to understand how the nervous system is always working to protect us. And that’s working with our ‘survival physiology.’ While learning to move through our “states” takes skill and practice – over time it can build confidence and reduces anxiety about moving towards discomfort […]

When life feels chaotic or uncertain, my wise mentor gave me the gift of simple stories that offer a way back to the truth. Frogs in a ditch A group of frogs were travelling through the forest when two of them fell into a deep ditch. The others peered down and declared they were as […]