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A scent can bring grief back before words even arrive.Recently, I caught the scent of my dog Amada on one of her blanket...
05/17/2026

A scent can bring grief back before words even arrive.

Recently, I caught the scent of my dog Amada on one of her blankets. My body responded immediately. The grief was there in seconds.

It reminded me again how deeply the nervous system stores emotional memory.

In grief work, these moments matter. The body remembers the connection.

In this episode, I sat with Jodi Cohen to talk about olfactory pathways, emotional memory, and why scent can have such a powerful effect on the nervous system.

Comment Scent and I’ll send you the full podcast episode. 💜

It’s not random that you’re craving more right now.Your body is trying to do something.Gluten breaks down into gliadorph...
05/16/2026

It’s not random that you’re craving more right now.

Your body is trying to do something.

Gluten breaks down into gliadorphin.
It interacts with the same receptors that reduce pain.

So when the body is under more load, it may reach for that pathway.
Especially in perimenopause and menopause.

The craving is a signal.

Comment 173 to get the link to the episode. 💜

05/15/2026

I am finding moments of good in the middle of a really hard season. My first trip without Amada has been tough, but today's book gathering at the Colectivo was a beautiful highlight.

Navigating grief reminds us just how much weight our body holds when we are hurting.

I would love to have you join me on Wednesday for a free Live Masterclass “What Your Body Has Been Carrying.”

Type healing in the comments and I'll send you the link. 💜

05/14/2026

I wrote a song about grief before I knew I needed it.

It is called Safe to Grieve. My dog Amada passed recently, and now I am living every word.

Amada held a big place in my life and my heart.

The song is about grieving at a pace the body can hold. So I am letting the mending begin gently. At a pace I can hold.

Grief is something we can make safe enough to feel.💜

05/13/2026

Maybe you have everything you said you wanted.

People love you. People depend on you.
People call you the strong one.

And somewhere inside, something feels empty. In a way none of it touches.

This makes sense when you understand the biology.

The love and the praise are meeting a version of you.
The version that learned how to stay safe.
The version that became who everyone needed.

Your body knows the difference between that version and you.
It has been keeping the record this whole time.

Dr. Gabor Maté and I recorded a conversation about this exact pattern.

About what it costs to keep showing up as that version. And what becomes possible when the real you starts to be seen.

The full conversation is in the Biology of Trauma® masterclass series.

Comment Masterclass for the link. 💜

05/12/2026

Here’s what’s helping me move through the steps of the body’s trauma response as Day 3 - the hardest day so far- hits me at a visceral level

Grief is no joke. Tend to your heart. Tend to your biology.

It is with great sadness that I share the news that Amada has passed away. She passed peacefully at home Saturday aftern...
05/11/2026

It is with great sadness that I share the news that Amada has passed away.

She passed peacefully at home Saturday afternoon. I got to be with her and hold her and make sure she felt loved all the way to the end.

I know many here were blessed to have experienced her presence, curiosity and love for life and humans. And she freely shared her love with you if you met her!

It was so fast. She was so young (8). I thought I had many more years doing life with her.

I would find myself saying “I hadn’t wanted a dog but now, I can’t imagine my life without her.”

And that’s exactly what I find myself needing to do now.

My own grief has been so deep but felt ready enough to share with you.

Thank you for loving her and now sending her off with love.

Gabor Maté – one of the first voices shares what the body has been carrying. The patterns. The early signals. The quiet...
05/09/2026

Gabor Maté – one of the first voices shares what the body has been carrying. The patterns. The early signals. The quiet logic underneath what looks like dysfunction.

If you are ready to learn more about stress, trauma and the body and physical health issues – this is for you.

It’s free - just two days

Comment Masterclass for the registration link.💜

05/08/2026

The body can hold so much for so long, but it will show us signs. The question is, do you know how to read the signs and what they mean?

You've done the therapy. You've read the books. You've tried the protocols.
You've done the breathwork. You've changed the diet. You've worked on your mindset.

Some of it helped. Some of it didn't.

I know this terrain. I lived it before I understood it.

In my early 30s I could not get out of bed. Years of helping others.
Foster parenting, adoptive mothering, surgical residency.

My body collapsed under stress I had never named.

Medical training did not touch it. Graduate degrees did not touch it.
Some things stay stored in the body until they get processed. The body holds stress and survival energy that never released. Stress management cannot reach that layer.
This is the conversation a new free masterclass series is opening.

What Your Body Has Been Carrying.

Dr. Gabor Maté, Author of The Myth of Normal and When the Body Says No

Dr. Dick Schwartz, Developer of Internal Family Systems therapy

Me teaching on the freeze response and the relationship of chronic health issues with things like attachment and the freeze response

Free to register. Comment Masterclass for the registration link.💜

05/07/2026

Before we knew the world, we knew a body.

Long before language, before air, before names. We were inside another nervous system. Her environment was our environment. Her stress, our stress. Her capacity, our calibration.

Kelly McDaniel calls our mother's body our first home. The phrase lands somewhere specific when you read it.

This is part of why connection can feel so layered as adults. The first environment we knew was a body. Our nervous system was being calibrated by another body all along.

Special Bonus Episode of the Biology of Trauma® Podcast is out now.

Comment Mother Hunger for the link of the episode.💜

There's a moment I want to tell you about.A reader walked up at our last gathering. She was holding the book against her...
05/06/2026

There's a moment I want to tell you about.

A reader walked up at our last gathering. She was holding the book against her chest.
Then she started crying before saying a single word.

That's what these gatherings feel like.

A room of bodies finally finding a place to land. Together.

If you've been reading the book quietly, this is your invitation.

I am hosting a series of small, intimate book gatherings around the country. Real stories. Real questions. Real time together around The Biology of Trauma.

The closest one is this Saturday in Irvine, California. There are spots open if you can make it.

More dates are coming, including Milwaukee in May and Calgary in June.

For the full schedule, comment BOOK EVENT and I will send the link.

Some conversations only happen in rooms where everyone already gets it.

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