The brain fog isn't a concentration problem — it's a nervous system problem. Here's the difference.
Halfway through a sentence and you've already lost the thread. You sit down to work and the mind slides. An hour passes and you're not sure…
Halfway through a sentence and you've already lost the thread. You sit down to work and the mind slides. An hour passes and you're not sure…
Something that becomes clear in practice over time is the distinction between what I would call personal trauma and what I work with as…
People come to ancestral trauma work at very different points in their lives.
Before he walked onto the stage, he had already been there a thousand times.
You have spent years trying to think your way out of a feeling that was never stored in your thoughts in the first place.
There is a particular quality of flatness that sits inside the chest like ballast. Not sadness exactly — more like a heaviness that arrived…
A complete practitioner's guide to ancestral trauma — what it is, how it lives in the body, the science behind it, and how to heal it. By Dr Mark Demaine, PhD.
Emotions are energy states meant to move, not accumulate. Body-based practices restore emotional alignment and greater wellbeing.
What spiritual energy healing is, who it helps, and the somatic practices — Reiki, chakra work, clearing — that restore regulation and ease.
Somatic approaches to inherited trauma are body-based therapeutic practices that address the physiological residue of intergenerational trauma — held tension, nervous system dysregulation, and chronic activation — at the level where it is actually stored: in the body's tissues, not the thinking mind. Bessel van der Kolk's
When unusual experiences become overwhelming, what helps most isn't meaning. It's grounding.
Knowing your patterns intellectually doesn't change how you react under stress, because your reactions live somewhere your thinking brain can't reach.