Kimberly Sogge PhD CPsych

01/18/2026

https://www.apa.org/science/about/publications/executive-summary.pdf

01/18/2026

The real purpose of human existence: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1K6rzcpTg5/?mibextid=wwXIfr

12/24/2025

Wishing you a peaceful, joyful December and much abundance and wellbeing in 2026!

With deep gratitude for you and the healing work you do in the world,

Dr Kimberly Sogge C.Psych
& the team
at Ottawa River Integrative Mental Health

https://ottawariverintegrative.com

Ottawa River Integrative Mental Health helps you move beyond stress and survival. Rediscover clarity, resilience, & connection with expert therapy.

12/09/2025

BIG LOVE and gratitude to all health care workers and to the team at Champlain Palliative Care for the opportunity to speak about Parts At the Bedside

We are facilitators, conversation starters and connectors of people, information and ideas.Champlain Hospice Palliative Care Program. www.champlainpalliativ...

12/05/2025

“Trauma often shows up in the body before you can put words to it. When something is too intense to process in the moment, the brain struggles to integrate it, and the body absorbs what the mind couldn’t hold.

Understanding can organize the story, but it may not release what got stuck in your physiology.

Insight brings clarity, but it doesn’t automatically undo the tension, fear, or activation your system learned to carry.

This is why healing isn’t just about knowing. It’s also about helping the body let go of what it’s been holding.

Through somatic awareness, memory processing, and other integrative practices, your system learns how to complete what it couldn’t complete at the time.

Release isn’t dramatic. It’s often slow, gentle, and felt in small shifts that tell the body the danger has passed.

So if understanding hasn’t freed you, nothing is wrong with you. Your system is asking for a kind of support that reaches both the mind and the body.

When the story makes sense and the body can finally release what it carried, healing becomes possible in a different way.”

It makes sense if you have spent years trying to understand what happened to you. When something overwhelms you, the mind believes that clarity will bring relief.

You replay moments. You look for patterns. You try to understand the story so you can finally feel free.

But here is a part of healing most people never hear: Even when you finally get the explanation you always wanted, peace doesn’t always arrive.

Someone can apologize. They can give you their reasons. They can tell you everything you wish you knew then. And you can still feel unsettled afterward.

That’s not because you are unforgiving. It’s because your system is still holding the impact.

Trauma often shows up in the body before you can put words to it. When something is too intense to process in the moment, the brain struggles to integrate it, and the body absorbs what the mind couldn’t hold.

Understanding can organize the story, but it may not release what got stuck in your physiology.

Insight brings clarity, but it doesn’t automatically undo the tension, fear, or activation your system learned to carry.

This is why healing isn’t just about knowing. It’s also about helping the body let go of what it’s been holding.

Through somatic awareness, memory processing, and other integrative practices, your system learns how to complete what it couldn’t complete at the time.

Release isn’t dramatic. It’s often slow, gentle, and felt in small shifts that tell the body the danger has passed.

So if understanding hasn’t freed you, nothing is wrong with you. Your system is asking for a kind of support that reaches both the mind and the body.

When the story makes sense and the body can finally release what it carried, healing becomes possible in a different way.

12/03/2025

So what many do not realize is that peak experiences do not belong to the person place or time when those qualities are experienced but they are doorways into your true nature.

This is why I encourage all on the journey of realizing their true nature to pay attention to pleasure, aliveness and moments of liberation. These moments help us drop into a state researchers call “hypofrontality” or a quality of mind that hints at something we are beyond who we think we are.

Conditions cause us to form perceptions of who we are, or perceptions and beliefs about what the conditions around us have to be to contact the qualities of mind associated with flow. As we let go of these perceptions of ourselves and the world then the vast qualities of our true nature are uncovered and a state many identify as happiness can emerge.

To be clear, this is not the happiness that is exclusively associated with a fleeting mood or positive hedonic experience; this is a happiness where one shifts one’s identity from limited concepts and conditions to realization of one’s true nature.

In essence, we become happiness and from that place embrace all conditions of our human experience, allowing them to teach us and connect us more deeply to the world. This kind of happiness does not skip past the hard stuff, but instead embraces pain and fear and allows them to transform.

11/29/2025

Human neuroscience research is increasingly showing how deeply our brains respond to natural environments. A new study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology finds that human brain waves—particularly those in the alpha and theta frequency bands—begin to synchronize with the rhythms of forest environments during moments of calm. This alpha-theta synchronization is associated with relaxation, mental clarity, and reduced stress. The findings suggest that simply being present in a forest may naturally guide the brain into a more restorative state. According to the study, this neural alignment highlights how powerfully nature supports emotional and cognitive well-being.


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11/29/2025

Good On You Ontario OnRoute stops!

11/29/2025