Honour your anxiety with safety. Honour your exhaustion with rest. Honour your fear with an open heart space. For these are human experiences, and to try and ignore or suppress them is futile. But to honour them soothes them. Honouring these difficult experiences is where I’m at. Often, I haven’t had the words to write […]
Anxiety feels like?
Anxiety = Survival Mode. Survival mode is the neurologic component, anxiety is the physiological experience. And anxiety can express itself in so DARN many ways! Both internally and/or externally! Because externally we may not present with anxiety at all, but our internal state? The exhaustion, the headache, the heart rate – that may just paint […]
Music, Melody and Long Term Memory
You would not believe the *trillions* of tiny ways that music supports us to learn, function, regulate, recall, integrate. The way our brain responds to music is OFF THE CHARTS!!! But this little trick? Learning information by learning it to a melody is one of the best educational hacks in the book. Melody and […]