Childhood trauma is the pervasive reason for most emotional dysregulation in adulthood. Conditioning is a series of systems, situations, modeling, and norms that composed your sense of self as you grew from an infant to a tween (and beyond, but these early years lay the powerful neurobiological foundation for belief and identity).
Ask Me Anything with Dr. Rachel QUESTION: Hey Dr. Rachel,How can I better discern when I act out of fear vs a place of holding boundaries? ANSWER:Acting out of fear and having boundaries are both strategies for protection. The difference is one is habitual and impulsive and the other is intentional and conscious. Holding your boundaries may feel scary to… Read More
Ask Me Anything Series Question from course student: Hey Dr. Rachel,How can I align with my most authentic self? Answer: Developing Authentic Congruence is a practice we go through extensively in PTBP. It always starts with being conscious. Usually when we’re out of alignment with our authentic self, we are behaving in ways that, if we’re honest, don’t feel like… Read More
I like giving homework to my clients in session. Not to add onto their already-full to-do list, but to give them permission to focus on practice. I love it when they see how 5 minutes a day is all it takes to feel freedom. Assigning it as homework helps them to feel accountable to do the work it takes to… Read More
The Racial Revolution in 2020 has been wrought with a heavy, righteous, and long-overdue mixed bag of responsibility. BIPOC are rightfully tired of fighting for justice only to fall on the deaf ears of white supremacist policies. Racist ideologies are so insidiously interwoven into our society that it takes relentless exposure to the murder of black men* at the hands… Read More
The subconscious mind stores vast echoes of experience, memories, emotions, learning, and beliefs. This is important because until we learn how to create shifts and change the body and mind’s subconscious, we will be stuck in perpetual patterns of functioning that may not be in our highest good (think: hamster on wheel). These patterns affect us everywhere. This is why… Read More