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Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and
BrainSpotting Consultant with a passion for helping clinicians and clients explore safety and the pathway to trauma release :) Let's be curious!

03/20/2026

Exciting news! 🤩

Are you curious about somatic work and/or how to integrate it into your BrainSpotting practice?

I have finally solidified dates for my Approved BSP Consultation group focused on integrating more somatic experiencing skills into your sessions.

This will be very clinician focused, allowing you to staff cases as we explore various somatic exploration tools, staying in the tail of the comet of course! 🌿

Along the way, you might discover how to identify ways in which the body communicates and how to utilize somatic sensations to pendulate and titrate activation and you might 'accidentally' learn ways to navigate your own coutertransference 😉

You can find more info and a link to sign up here: https://mindfitcounseling.com/training-and-workshops

Starts May 22 @ 12pm EST

02/24/2026

When we experience a fight or flight response, our adrenaline surges through our limbs and joints. We require the energy of the endocrine system to mobilize into a protective response to danger.
In some cases, we are unable to complete that fight or flight response... (a thwarted self protective response!)

When this happens, where does that energy go? The not so simple answer is - Trauma energy is LITERALLY trapped in our joints - with no place to go. Overtime it may ache, swell or burn or cause excess problems.

However, when we process through aspects of our trauma in session, we may notice shifting and moving of sensations in the body.

Afterward, we may stretch and move our body and mobilize our joints/limbs - because it helps with integration. Integration is the process by which separate systems or peices of information within our body combine to create meaning and unify the whole.

So when we (the practitioners) encourage movement in and out of session - whether it be yoga, dance, tai chi ect. - we are encouraging exploration of sensation, boundaries within the body (which can translate outside of the body) and intuitive processes that can lead to integration.

We are encouraging you to mobilize your joints and limbs and free them from activation that may have been stagnant.

Other tactics that might be explored are resistance and slowing down to find emotional release.

I hope this brings light to why movement is so important to our mental health. These are just a few reasons why we provide opportunities for trauma sensitive movement at our practice! MindFit Counseling and Wellness Center LLC 🌿

02/20/2026

Teaching is so rewarding.

It was never my calling to be a traditional primary school age teacher. I tried, I subbed. I took my Praxis.

But the universe had other plans for me.

As a child I remember playing school with friends or alone…or in my 20’s with my first child. 💕

That aha moment 🌟 The moment you see it all integrate for them. Integration.

The confidence. The connection. The implementation into real world application.

And yet, it’s not about me. It’s their desire to learn. Their desire to grow. Latching on to a theory or framework that resonates with their inner being.
Being CURIOUS.

Feeding curiosity. How do we keep curiosity alive?

How do we develop into our own curious, creative, playful piece of the human experience? And use that to help others heal.

That is the real question, and ultimate teaching experience.

02/08/2026

Fight, Flight or Freeze?

“In this respect, human beings are inescapably bound to our animal heritage. Animals, however, do not have a highly evolved neocortex to interfere with the natural return to normal functioning through some form of discharge.”

Trauma occurs in human beings as a direct result of an inability to complete a self protective response or cycle.

I have had a lot of clients over the years tell me that talk therapy has not helped them.
It’s probably because simple cognitive behavioral approaches to therapy cannot help you override the years of memory your body holds, the years of protective responses that have been developed and the primitive instincts that exist.

Our bodies are designed to adapt. Sometimes in the adaptation process, it becomes frozen or stuck and begins “looping”, and thus negative habits are developed.
Obsessive thoughts are had. Compulsions terrorize us.

There is nothing wrong with you, in fact, your body is doing exactly what it is designed to do -to find regulation. Your body is designed to adapt and protect itself. It has spent days months years, trying to complete the self protective response that has not come to fruition!

For this reason, leaning into a somatic or body-based approach to releasing trauma is imperative.

When we are able to be curious and explore the body, and listen to what it is communicating to us, we are able to identify incomplete cycles and patterns.

As Peter Levine would say, “When the neocortex is finally able to override the instinctual response- that would indicate the completion of the cycle.”

Book recommendations:
The Body Keeps the Score
Waking the Tiger

01/26/2026

Peter Levine says in the book "Waking the Tiger" that curiosity is the ANTI-DOTE to fear. The ANTI-DOTE!

Curiosity allows the nervous system to move out of rigid, fear-based survival responses (fight, flight, freeze) and into a state of exploration and healing.

But what is the barrier to curiosity?

In the book "Intuition: Knowing Beyond Logic", Osho describes the intellect as a "bridge" between the instict of the body and intuition of the soul, but one where most people get stuck.

Intellect becomes not only a barrier to curiosity, but even further, a barrier to intuition.

Intellect deals only with the known and unknown, but intuition comes from the "unknowable".

Because intuition is irrational and cannot be explained, the intellect rejects it as nonsense or tries to reduce it to a logical, known and therefore, inferrior concept! (This is the battle I fight when working with veterans and service members 😆💕)

When we become curious, we give our intuition a "bridge" or pathway to connect. We open the door for creative processes, which leads to resource.

Society encourages the intellect, teaching us to rely heavily on rational thought, which in turn causes us to ignore our deeper, quieter intuition. This over-reliance makes people "uptight" and repreassed, afraid to trust a "gut feeling" that isn't backed by facts.

The intellect is often connected to the Ego. It wants to take credit for knowing, while intuition is a "gift" from existence. The intellect overrides intuition by trying to own the knowledge, rather than just experiencing it (being curious).

Osho's Solution-
To preven the intellect from overriding intuition, Osho advocates for:

Dropping the Mind: "To know means to drop the mind... to be silent, utterly silent, so you can hear the still, small voice within. (The power of therapeutic silence!!)

Move to the Heart: Shifting from "thinking to feeling" and eventually to "knowing".

Using Intellect as a Tool, Not Master: The intellect should be a servant to intuition, not it's master.

01/23/2026

Here's a place where I can explore all my curiosities, discoveries and hyperfixations that make my professional experience enjoyable and an ever evolving part of my creative brain and intuitive body :)

Address

1031 Kendall Court
Westfield, IN
46074

Telephone

+13177021600

Website

https://mindfitcounseling.com/faqs

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