Are You a Victim or a Victor? By: Megan Winkler
I stood at the top of the staircase, looking down at her. She sat on the couch in the room below, outrage in her eyes. “It’s like you don’t need me anymore!” She was pale with anger. I didn’t have…
Pump Up Your Vagal Tone: 3 Simple Practices by Shanti Medina
The vagus nerve is an important part of the parasympathetic nervous system, also knows as the “rest-and-digest” system. The word vagus means “wanderer,” because it branches out and wanders all over the body connecting to the brain, the intestines and…
Resurrection in the Readyverse
Excerpt from Neurosculpting: A Whole-Brain Approach to Heal Trauma, Rewrite Limiting Beliefs, and Find Wholeness. My body was tired, depleted. I had trouble sleeping enough, or sleeping too much. I saw the world through darkly circled and sunken eyes. And…
What You See is a Complete Illusion…Always!
Those of us with sight like to rely on what we see as a valid and accurate depiction of the world around us. Maybe you've heard yourself say things like, "I saw it with my own two eyes!" when you've…
Stepping Bravely into Wholeness – Excerpt from “Neurosculpting”
Are you living fully? Do you end each day with a full exhale knowing that you created each moment with intention, vibrance, and your best self? If your answer is "no", then you are quite normal. And if you're tired…
What exactly is Neuroplasticity? – Excerpt from the book “Neurosculpting”
With all the latest science buzzing around the idea of neuroplasticity, what exactly does it mean to your life? Neuroplasticity is the idea that although we once thought the brain was fixed in its anatomical function and structure, it’s actually…
Beauty is in the Brain of the Beholder
We used to think beauty was in the eye of the beholder. We attribute so much of our sighted world to the complex workings of the eyes.They eyes are a most remarkable part of the brain. Yes, the eyes are…
Seeing ourselves in each other…it’s more important than you think!
Have you ever heard yourself say "do you know what I mean?" during a casual conversation? This is such a common place expression that many of us use it in our regular speech patterns without putting much thought to it. The…
Oxytocin – The Dark Side of the Love Molecule
With the recent popularity of neuroscience for public consumption the neurotransmitter Oxytocin has gained the nick-name "The Love Molecule". Who wouldn't want more love, right? This neurotransmitter is know to be the bonding chemical released during sex, a mother and…
I resent your tone of voice!
Although there can be too much generalization out there about being either right-brained or emotional beings, or left-brained logical beings, one thing seems clear to neuroscience: we default to prosody, or tone of voice, over the semantic meaning of words…
