Danny Nuttall BWRT Practitioner

03/09/2025

It’s as close to a magic bullet as psychotherapy can get

03/09/2025

Actually, your brain makes up scary scenarios for a very logical reason - it’s all part of its effort to keep you alive. When we were ‘wild’ humans, this was very useful - it helped us avoid being eaten by apex predators or speared by rival groups of humans by making us cautious and harder to kill - real life and death stuff.

These days most of us in the Western world are fortunate enough not to be in mortal danger all the time. Unfortunately no one told your nervous system. Or mine. Or anyone’s really.

So, these days, when your mind is scanning for danger it finds itself besieged by modern horrors - instead of occasionally coming across lions and tigers and bears (oh my!) the threats you encounter are inherently less threatening: passive aggressive texts from your mum, a poor performance review from your boss, or a hissy fit from your teen.

BUT you still react to these like they’re real danger from way back when, and there it is - not only are you now full of cortisol and adrenaline but your mind is now full-time anticipating similar situations.

Your mind creates these scenarios, ostensibly, to help you AVOID injury and/or death - but your nervous system doesn’t know that a conflict at work or in a coffee shop is unlikely to lead to your grisly death. So your body reacts to imagined cautionary scenarios as if they’re actually happening.

Modern life is teeming with stressful crap - your mind clocks it as ‘danger’ and your body follows your mind. You get locked into a spiral of ‘anticipate danger-react.
So how to stop it ?

BWRT® (BrainWorking Recursive Therapy) is a fast, neuroscience-based approach to therapy that helps clients re-route automatic, negative brain responses to create lasting changes for issues like anxiety, phobias, and addictions, or whatever scenario your brain has told you is dangerous. Often without needing to explore distressing past events for long. It uses active imagination to alter unhelpful brain patterns by working in the half-second gap between a stimulus and conscious awareness, replacing those negative responses with desired reactions.

22/08/2025

After spending 178 days aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Ron Garan had a powerful realization: we’re living a lie.

From orbit, he witnessed Earth like few ever have—flashes of lightning like paparazzi bulbs, glowing curtains of auroras, and most hauntingly, the thinness of our atmosphere.

That fragile layer, he says, is the only thing standing between us and the void of space. And yet, we treat the planet like a disposable asset of the global economy.

Garan believes it’s time for a radical shift in thinking. Instead of putting economy first, he argues we need to reverse the order:
planet → society → economy.

If humanity is to survive and thrive, the message is clear:
We’re all crewmates on this “spaceship Earth”—and it’s time we start acting like it. 🌍✨

14/08/2025

12/08/2025

This concept is not meant to be used to dismiss people's arguments or judge people, but to help us understand where we can get stuck in our thinking. When I teach Embodied Sensemaking to people, the goal is to first help build interoceptive awareness so people have more clarity on what they are feeling inside their body. Tension, emotion, naming an emotion, stress activation etc. Once this is in place, learning how to apply some self regulation or settling of the activation is important as this is what gives us the capacity to continue to converse about an issue without being driven by stress or without succuming to the discomfort to a point where we shut off new ideas.

Through embodied sensemaking, cognitive dissonance has the opportunity to not exist. But as you can see, it takes some inner work for us to not succum to our bias' and discomfort. It is not "human nature" to be stuck in bias and protecting our beliefs. One would only take that belief if they do not realize how to work with their stress physiology and mind.

12/08/2025

Princeton researchers found human brains emit ultra-low-frequency electromagnetic waves that form a coherent global “neural network.” These signals can influence other brains up to 10,000 km away, suggesting human consciousness may be subtly interconnected across vast distances.

12/08/2025

Many of us will experience some kind of trauma during our lifetime. Sometimes, we escape with no long-term effects. But for millions of people, those experiences linger, causing symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, and negative thoughts that interfere with everyday life. Joelle Rabow Maletis detail...

12/08/2025

I’m level 2 BWRT trained. Also trained in Brainspotting. EMDR. CBT. And REBT
Oh! And Hypnotherapy and Hypno analysis

06/08/2025

Sharon comes camping.

04/08/2025

Your emotions don’t just stay in your head—they ripple through your body in powerful, measurable ways.

In fact, just 60 seconds of intense anger can suppress your immune system for several hours. That’s right: one outburst can leave you more susceptible to illness.

When you're angry, your body instantly shifts into high alert. Stress hormones like cortisol surge, heart rate spikes, and inflammatory signals flood your system. These responses may help in emergencies—but over time, they can seriously harm your health.

Chronic anger and unmanaged stress have been linked to a higher risk of heart disease, digestive issues, anxiety, and even certain cancers. According to a 2014 research published in Frontiers in Immunology, our emotional states and immune function are deeply connected. What affects your mind truly affects your body.

The upside? Simple habits like deep breathing, mindfulness, and exercise don’t just feel good—they actively support immune resilience. Taking care of your emotional health isn’t just self-care—it’s body care.

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REFERENCE 📄
Samuel Brod et al, "‘As above, so below’ examining the interplay between emotion and the immune system", Immunology (2014)