Every day your brain performs billions of calculations without asking for recognition. It remembers... protects... learns... adapts... and continually works to keep you alive. Yet most of us only notice our brain when something goes wrong. After nearly fifty years as a holistic health practitioner, I found myself asking a different question. What would happen if, instead of constantly trying to change the brain... we first learned to appreciate it? Have you ever thanked your

This meditation was inspired by a beautiful exercise by Eric Hansen and has gradually evolved through my own healing work and the development of The Healing Brain Journey. As you breathe... simply notice your heartbeat. Perhaps place a hand gently over your heart if that feels comfortable. Notice that every heartbeat is part of an ongoing conversation... between your heart... your brain... and every cell of your body. Take a slow, gentle breath... Now allow yourself to retur

One day I was hiking with my dogs along a forest trail in southern Kentucky. The ground was still muddy in places from last night’s rain. Suddenly I saw a cloud of yellow butterflies. I stepped closer as I felt something from them, something that seem not to be right. They were not flying the way I usually see butterflies flatter around in the air. There was a tension there, some sort of agitation. They had spiraled themselves into a dense, narrow cone. In that way they wer