Mery Di Milia: Surgery Coaching and Somatic Bodywork

23/01/2024

https://youtu.be/bBH27x9o6JQ?si=VvyUHFZpRN6nlNKb

Human connection heals 🥰

The human experience is based on our need for connection and belonging. While we know the importance of this from a therapeutic perspective, how can we bring...

20/01/2024

Take care of yourself 🙌🏼

03/09/2022

Touch heals (also) through pleasure 💆🏻‍♀️

Studying mice, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a neural circuit and a neuropeptide -; a chemical messenger that carries signals between nerve cells -; that transmit the sensation known as pleasant touch from the skin to the brain.

19/11/2020

Rest assured, when the pandemic recedes, your creative and cognitive powers will still be there, ready and waiting to be unleashed. Until then, we must be patient and allow our active minds some rest ✨

Our brains are adapting to acute stress, writes developmental neuropsychologist Molly Colvin. Time warps so that the present moment is elongated. Complex thinking skills, like decision-making or planning, go offline.

04/10/2020

Skin-to-skin contact between a parent and newborn reduces how strongly a baby's brain responds to pain.

09/07/2020

What happened to you? 🙌🏼

In this animated video, meet “Dr. Cruz,” who shares what she has learned about caring for patients with exposure to trauma, including abuse, neglect, and vio...

12/05/2020

Touching 🧡

Scars are not just skin deep – emotional and psychological histories lie beneath the healed wounds

01/05/2019

Healing hugs

24/03/2019

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change ​the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience ​and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.” ​

Bessel van der Kolk

17/03/2019

Listen 🤫