Serene Wave Spinal Flow

12/23/2025

December 2025 Newsletter 🎀

December 2025 - Issue 2

12/23/2025

Clients, followers, supporters. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and for allowing me to witness your incredible nervous system changes in 2025!
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12/21/2025

I do mention light diet to my clients - should they be interested in learning. It's free and it's profound.

This new study is awesome and very well worth the attention!! 🙏😍
Grateful to call myself a 'circadian rhythm follower'. 🕦 👁👁 🌞⛅
Getting rid of the 😎 was one of the best things I ever did.

"Exposure to incrementally brighter night light predicted higher risk of all-cause mortality, and exposure to incrementally brighter day light predicted lower risk of all-cause mortality"

Shared from RA Optics Newsletter.
Full Research Article in Comments

12/20/2025

A great stressor on the human nervous system isn’t danger alone — it’s uncertainty.

Neuroscientist Dr. Robert Sapolsky explains that the nervous system is not just responding to stressors — it is constantly trying to determine when the stress will end. When a stressor is predictable or time-limited, the body can mobilize and then recover. When it is uncertain, ambiguous, or uncontrollable, stress physiology stays activated.

Sapolsky shows that this kind of uncertainty keeps stress hormones elevated, increases inflammation, and diverts energy away from healing and repair. Biologically, the nervous system stays on guard because it cannot safely stand down.

Neuroscientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett deepens this understanding by explaining that the brain is fundamentally a prediction organ. The brain continuously uses past experiences to predict what the body will need next in order to maintain balance. When predictions are accurate, the system runs efficiently. When predictions fail — when life feels chaotic or unresolved — the brain expends more energy trying to manage uncertainty.

In simple terms: uncertainty is metabolically expensive.

When the brain cannot predict what’s coming, the nervous system compensates with vigilance. This often shows up as:
• chronic tension or bracing
• emotional reactivity or numbness
• fatigue and burnout
• digestive or sleep disruption
• a persistent sense of “waiting” or unease

German New Medicine (GNM) approaches this from yet another angle — one that also centers on unexpectedness and unresolved conflict. In GNM, biological adaptations are understood to be triggered by sudden, unanticipated experiences that overwhelm the nervous system’s capacity to respond. When an experience cannot be processed, integrated, or resolved, the body remains in a prolonged adaptive state.

Across all three perspectives — Sapolsky, Barrett, and GNM — a shared theme emerges:
The nervous system suffers most when it cannot make sense of experience.

When there is no clear beginning, middle, or end…
When the body doesn’t know what to expect next…
When resolution feels out of reach…

The system stays guarded.

This is not weakness.
It is biology doing its best to protect.

This is where nervous system regulation becomes essential.

🌊Spinal Flow supports the nervous system by helping reduce stored tension and long-held stress patterns that interfere with internal communication and coherence. Through gentle, specific contacts along the spine, the system is given an opportunity to reorganize — not by forcing change, but by restoring clarity from within.

As regulation improves, the nervous system begins to experience something it has been missing:
internal predictability.

Clients often describe:
• mental clarity where there was once fog
• emotions feeling integrated rather than overwhelming
• a deeper sense of safety in their own body
• less bracing, guarding, and anticipation of threat

From a biological perspective, this makes sense.
When the body becomes more coherent, the brain can predict more accurately.
When prediction improves, stress decreases.
When stress decreases, energy becomes available for healing and repair.

Healing doesn’t begin when uncertainty disappears from life.
It begins when the nervous system no longer has to stay on constant alert.

When the body finds coherence, the brain finds relief.
From that place, regulation — and healing — become possible again.

12/19/2025

Dr. Robert Sapolsky on Human Behavior - a truth becomes clear:
Human health and behavior are not moral failures or mindset issues — they are biological responses to whether the nervous system’s core needs are being met.

At any moment, the nervous system is organizing the body around a few fundamental priorities.

Here’s how those needs show up biologically — and how Spinal Flow supports them.

1. Energy & Metabolic Stability
The brain’s first concern is energy availability.
Stable blood sugar, efficient metabolism, and adequate cellular energy are required for everything from thinking clearly to healing tissue.

When the nervous system is under chronic stress, energy is constantly diverted toward survival, leaving little available for repair, digestion, or immune function.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
By reducing ongoing stress signaling, Spinal Flow helps the nervous system stop wasting energy on constant defense. As regulation improves, energy can be redistributed toward metabolic stability, digestion, and recovery rather than emergency response.

2. Physical Safety & Threat Reduction
The nervous system is always scanning for danger.
When threat is perceived — physical, emotional, or environmental — protective patterns emerge in the body.

Sapolsky emphasizes that chronic threat keeps stress hormones elevated and shifts the body away from healing.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
Spinal Flow works gently with the spine and nervous system, sending signals of safety rather than force. This allows protective guarding patterns to soften and gives the nervous system evidence that it no longer needs to stay on high alert.

3. Homeostasis (Internal Balance)
Health depends on the body’s ability to regulate temperature, hormones, digestion, immune responses, and inflammation within survivable ranges.

Chronic stress disrupts this balance, creating symptoms across multiple systems.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
By improving communication between the brain and body through the spinal cord, Spinal Flow helps reduce interference that keeps systems dysregulated. As balance returns, the body can recalibrate rather than compensate.

4. Social Belonging & Attachment
Sapolsky repeatedly highlights that humans are biologically wired for connection.
Social isolation and relational stress activate the same stress pathways as physical danger.

A dysregulated nervous system struggles to connect safely.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
As threat responses calm, the nervous system becomes more capable of social engagement. Many clients notice improved emotional regulation, deeper presence, and a greater capacity for connection as their system feels safer internally.

5. Status, Control & Predictability
One of Sapolsky’s most important findings is that lack of control and unpredictability are more damaging than stress itself.

When the body feels powerless, stress physiology becomes chronic.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
Spinal Flow restores a sense of internal regulation and predictability. As the nervous system stabilizes, the body experiences greater internal control — reducing the background stress response that comes from feeling constantly braced or overwhelmed.

6. Stress Regulation & Recovery
Stress is not the enemy — the inability to turn it off is.

Sapolsky shows that chronic activation of stress pathways damages immunity, memory, mood, and tissue repair.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
Spinal Flow helps stress cycles complete rather than remain stuck. By encouraging parasympathetic recovery states, it supports the nervous system’s ability to activate when needed and rest when appropriate — restoring resilience over time.

7. Meaning, Expectation & Predictability
The human brain needs patterns and coherence.
Uncertainty and ambiguity amplify stress responses, even more than intensity.

When the nervous system cannot make sense of experience, it stays guarded.

🌊How Spinal Flow supports this:
As stored tension and stress patterns unwind, the nervous system becomes more organized and coherent. Clients often describe clarity, emotional integration, and a renewed sense of trust in their bodies as regulation improves.

Sapolsky teaches that behavior and health are the outcome of nervous system state.

Spinal Flow supports that state at its foundation.

This is why Spinal Flow isn’t just about symptom relief.
It’s about helping the nervous system meet its most basic biological needs — so healing becomes possible again.

Your body isn’t failing you.
It’s been adapting.
With the right support, it remembers how to regulate.

12/18/2025

A Different Kind of Session

In my work, it’s not uncommon for me to experience sensations or emotions while working with clients. They often arise suddenly and with intensity, then pass just as quickly—only for the client to soon after, or later describe experiencing something remarkably similar. Over time, I’ve come to understand this as part of how the nervous system releases when it feels supported and safe.

What we don’t talk about enough is that energy transfer within the body is real at a cellular and neurobiological level. Human cells communicate through electrical impulses, biochemical signaling, mechanical pressure, and electromagnetic fields. The nervous system itself is an electrical network, and connective tissue is highly conductive. When two nervous systems are in close proximity—especially in intentional, therapeutic contact—co-regulation and resonance can occur, allowing physiological load to shift as the body moves toward balance. This isn’t symbolic language; it’s how living systems organize and adapt.

Yesterday morning, during my own weekly Spinal Flow maintenance session, the experience was different—profoundly so.

Throughout the session, I experienced waves of deep cold moving through my body and cried several times without any clear narrative attached—just release. When the session ended, my practitioner and dear friend shared that it felt as though there was very little available life force energy in my system at first, as if something heavy had been held there for a long time.

She also shared shortly after my session began, she felt an intense weight settle across her own back—so much so that it altered her posture and caused her body to hunch forward. Halfway through, she considered stopping the session due to the strength of the sensation, but chose to continue. The weight lifted only once the session was complete. I could sense that she was leaning against the table, something I've not felt during a session with her before.

Later that evening, when my daughter came home and asked how my session was, my response was simple: very different, I can't really describe it.

She paused, looked at me, and said, “You look taller. Your stance looks more confident—like your chest plate is wider and more open.”

That moment said everything.

Whatever weight was on, and needed to come off my back—thank you for holding this for me, Anita, LeCamp Spinal Flow. 🙏

This work continues to humble me. The body knows. The nervous system knows. And sometimes release doesn’t look dramatic—it looks like standing a little taller than you did before and adjusting life to the weights that are lifted.

12/18/2025

How Spinal Flow Supports the Spine and Nervous System

The nervous system is remarkably adaptive. Under daily load from posture, movement, gravity, and stress, the spinal cord and its surrounding tissues are constantly adjusting to help the body function and remain protected. This adaptability supports communication between the brain, the spinal structures and the peripheral nerves that branch from the spinal cord, influencing muscles, organs, and tissues throughout the body. While this capacity for adaptation is essential for survival, the central nervous system is not designed to remain under constant strain or prolonged stress, whether physically, emotionally or chemically. Over time, ongoing stress and tension can begin to interfere with efficient regulation and communication within the body.

The spinal cord, a central component of the nervous system, is a tightly organized column of nerve tissue extending downward from the brainstem through the center of the spine. Despite weighing only about 35 grams and measuring roughly 1 cm in diameter, it plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of daily life. It carries motor commands from the brain to the muscles, receives sensory information from the body, partially processes it, and transmits that information back to the brain.

Structurally, the spinal cord is well protected. It is housed within 26 vertebrae, cushioned by intervertebral discs that absorb movement and reduce impact, and wrapped in three protective membranes known as the meninges, similar to the brain. Within the cord itself are two distinct tissue types that work together continuously.

The grey matter, shaped like a butterfly in cross-section, contains specialized regions responsible for processing information. The front portions house motor neurons that stimulate muscle movement, while the back portions contain sensory neurons that relay information such as touch, pressure, and pain back to the brain. Surrounding this is white matter, made up of axons that allow signals to travel efficiently up and down the spinal cord, coordinating communication between the brain and the rest of the body.

In addition to transmitting sensory and motor information, the spinal cord contains neural circuits responsible for reflexes — automatic, involuntary responses such as withdrawing from heat or the knee-jerk reflex. These rapid responses help protect the body and reduce processing demands on the brain. Even subtle, persistent, low grade stress and tension along the spine can influence how these pathways function, affecting how efficiently the body responds to both internal and external stressors.

When spinal and nervous system tension becomes chronic, muscles may remain in a state of protective contraction, connective tissues can stiffen, and nerve signaling may become less efficient. Over time, this can contribute to symptoms such as chronic pain, stiffness, fatigue, altered posture, difficulty managing stress, and broader effects on digestion, immunity, and overall resilience.

Healthy spinal function depends on the coordinated interaction between spinal structures, muscular control, and nervous system regulation. When the nervous system is supported and able to regulate effectively, these elements work together with greater ease and efficiency.

Spinal Flow supports this regulation by working across these layers:

Releasing tension in spinal tissues: Gentle contacts encourage the meninges and surrounding connective tissues to soften, reducing unnecessary holding patterns and improving freedom of movement.

Supporting nervous system regulation: By helping the body shift out of constant protection and into a parasympathetic, rest-and-repair state, Spinal Flow reduces excessive muscular tone and supports clearer neural communication.

Optimizing structural and muscular balance: Improved coordination between muscles and spinal structures allows tension to distribute more evenly, supporting posture, movement, and overall nervous system efficiency.

When the nervous system no longer needs to remain in a constant state of protection, the spine and body can move toward balanced, responsive function, supporting reduced pain, improved energy, and greater overall resilience and well-being.

Image courtesy of: Gunther von Hagens, Body Worlds

12/15/2025

Healing Is a Systems-Based Biological Process

Spinal Flow works by supporting the nervous system — the body’s central regulatory network that coordinates pain perception, immune signaling, digestion, hormonal output, and recovery. When the nervous system is under chronic stress or dysregulation, downstream systems are affected. For this reason, while nervous system care is foundational, I also encourage clients to understand and support the broader biological conditions that allow the body to heal effectively.

What follows is shared from personal lived experience and educational perspective — not medical advice — and reflects principles commonly discussed in nervous system physiology, circadian biology, and functional health research.

Mineral balance is essential for neurological and cellular function. Minerals act as cofactors in enzymatic reactions, support membrane potential, and allow for proper nerve impulse transmission. Imbalances can contribute to muscle tension, fatigue, impaired stress response, and reduced nervous system adaptability. Irish Sea Moss is often described as a natural superfood due to its broad mineral profile and traditional use in supporting foundational mineral intake.

Salt quality and intake directly influence hydration status, adrenal signaling, and electrical communication within the nervous system. Sodium is required for action potentials in neurons and for maintaining extracellular fluid balance. Mineral-rich salts such as Celtic salt provide trace elements alongside sodium, supporting cellular hydration and stress regulation when intake is appropriate.

Supporting the body’s natural detoxification and elimination pathways helps reduce overall physiological load. The liver, kidneys, gut, and lymphatic system continuously process metabolic waste and environmental exposures. When this load is excessive, the nervous system may remain in a heightened state of vigilance. Food-grade diatomaceous earth is commonly used as a natural detox support and is often referred to as a superfood due to its silica content and traditional use in supporting elimination processes.

Nutrition quality plays a significant role in inflammation, blood sugar regulation, mitochondrial energy production, and gut-brain signaling. Cleaner, less inflammatory food choices reduce unnecessary stress activation and allow more metabolic resources to be directed toward tissue repair, immune regulation, and nervous system stability. Modern food, however, is often laden with additives, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, artificial colors, and flavor enhancers, which increase the detoxification burden on the liver, gut, and lymphatic system, creating chronic low-grade stress on the nervous system. Additionally, the widespread use of industrial seed oils — such as vegetable, soybean, corn, canola, sunflower, and safflower oils — contributes to systemic inflammation. High omega-6 content and oxidation byproducts from refined or heated seed oils can promote oxidative stress, disrupt neuronal signaling, and influence hormonal and immune regulation, further challenging nervous system balance. By reducing exposure to these dietary stressors, the body can more efficiently detox.

Light exposure, particularly artificial blue light, has a well-documented influence on circadian rhythm, hormonal signaling, and metabolic regulation. Evening exposure to blue light suppresses melatonin secretion while disrupting normal cortisol timing, signaling to the body that it is still daytime. Research also shows that circadian disruption from light exposure can impair glucose metabolism, leading to elevated glucose and insulin levels even in the absence of food intake. This keeps the body in a metabolically and neurologically alert state, interfering with sleep initiation, immune signaling, tissue repair, insulin sensitivity, and parasympathetic nervous system activation. Reducing blue light exposure at night supports proper circadian signaling, allowing cortisol to follow its natural daytime rhythm, melatonin to rise appropriately in the evening, and metabolic processes to shift into a restorative, recovery-focused state.

Sleep is one of the most biologically active healing states. During deep sleep, parasympathetic tone increases, inflammatory processes are regulated, growth hormone is released, and neural integration occurs. Chronic sleep disruption keeps the nervous system in a stress-dominant pattern, limiting the body’s ability to integrate care and repair efficiently.

Spinal Flow helps restore communication, adaptability, and safety within the nervous system. These additional foundations help ensure the body has the biochemical, hormonal, and environmental support required to respond to that care.

I don’t believe healing is about adding more interventions. It’s about reducing interference, restoring regulation, and supporting the body’s inherent capacity for repair over time.

This content is shared for educational purposes and personal lived experience only and is not intended as medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Each individual’s needs are unique, and any health decisions should be made in alignment with appropriate guidance.

Healing is not forced.
It emerges when the body is given the right conditions.

12/12/2025

How Healing Your Nervous System Strengthens Your Immune System

One of the most overlooked truths in healing is this: your nervous system directly shapes the strength of your immune system.

When your body lives in chronic stress — even subtle, long-standing stress you may not consciously notice — it diverts energy away from immune function. Stress hormones like cortisol rise, inflammation increases, and the body shifts into “survival mode” rather than “repair mode.”
Over time, this makes you more susceptible to illness, fatigue, and slow recovery.

But when your nervous system begins to unwind, regulate, and feel safe, a powerful shift happens:
~~Your body re-enters rest-and-repair states
~~Digestion, detoxification, and cellular repair improve
~~Inflammation decreases
~~Immune cells become more responsive and efficient
~~You have more reserves to handle life’s stressors without crashing

This is one of the reasons practices like Spinal Flow create such profound changes—not just in pain, not just in emotions, but in overall health.

As your system learns that it is safe to soften, energy that was once tied up in tension, vigilance, or old survival patterns becomes available for healing.

And I can speak from personal experience…

For most of my life, I would get sick twice a year—every spring and every fall like clockwork.
But since focusing on healing at a nervous-system level, it’s been almost two years without getting sick. Not because life got easier, and not because stress disappeared, but because my body finally shifted out of chronic protection and into balance.

People often think healing is only physical or only emotional. In reality, it's all connected: your spine, your stress, your energy, and your immune system are constantly communicating.
When one begins to shift, the others follow.

If you’ve been curious about how nervous system healing could support your immunity, your energy levels, or your overall resilience — this is exactly what Spinal Flow is designed to do.

Let your body remember what safety feels like.
Healing begins there.

12/11/2025

Most people move through life operating at a level of unawareness—not because they’re careless, but because their nervous system has adapted to stress, tension, and old experiences by bracing and holding. Over time, these internal patterns become familiar, and the body’s “default setting” begins to shape how they see the world.

When the body is tight, guarded, or overwhelmed, our perspective often matches it.
A contracted system creates a contracted outlook.
A bracing body creates a bracing mindset.
A dysregulated nervous system leads to reactive emotions, limited clarity, and a sense of “stuckness,” even when the mind knows something needs to change.

Since becoming certified as a Spinal Flow Practitioner, I’ve noticed something clearly:
those who question, doubt, or dismiss this work are often operating from that same level of unawareness. They aren’t aware of what their body is holding, and they aren’t aware that this lack of internal awareness shapes their skepticism. They’re also unaware of how the body actually operates—how the nervous system responds to stress, especially emotional stress, and how these responses form long-term patterns of tension, bracing, and protection. These fundamentals shape the patterns people live in every day, yet most have never been taught how their body truly works.

And these patterns don’t stay “energetic.” They become physical.

When the nervous system is constantly bracing, the body expresses this in very real ways:
~~ Chronic neck or shoulder tension from hypervigilance
~~ Headaches and migraines from upper cervical strain
~~ Low-back pain from long-term survival mode
~~ Tight hips from stored fear, grief, or overwhelm
~~ Shallow breathing that amplifies fatigue and anxiety
~~ A sense of heaviness or “carrying too much” in the upper body

These symptoms aren’t random—they are the physical imprint of emotional and neurological patterns that were never released.

As a practitioner, this is where I get excited and deeply passionate.
When I explain how the system truly works and I see a lightbulb go on in someone’s eyes…
when I witness their body soften instantly just through conversation…
when tears begin to fall before a session even begins…
I get to witness the moment their awareness opens. That moment where something inside them shifts, and I know their healing journey has already begun.

Spinal Flow helps unwind these patterns at their root.

By releasing stored tension, clearing survival responses, and restoring natural flow through the nervous system, the body begins to open, soften, and reconnect. As the physical system shifts, perspective shifts with it. Pain patterns ease. Breath deepens. Clarity grows. Emotional space expands.

Change becomes something the body can support, not resist.

Spinal Flow reconnects people to their inner awareness—and when awareness returns, everything begins to transform from the inside out.

12/09/2025

Last Night, My Daughter Had a Close Call — And a Health Lesson We All Need to Remember

My daughter called me last night while driving home in the dark on the highway. She had just experienced a near-miss with a deer at high speed. The deer hesitated for a split second — long enough to keep it from landing directly in front of her car — but in that same moment, it was struck by a transport truck. The impact launched it over her vehicle.

She pulled over immediately because her entire body was shaking. When I asked if she was okay, she said, “Yes… but my body won’t stop shaking.”

I told her something most of us were never taught and something I only learned recently:

🛑 Do not keep driving until the energy moving through your body has completed its cycle.
Stop. Get out. Walk. Cry. Shake. Breathe. Yell if you need to. Let your physiology finish what it started.

And she listened.

🌊What most people misunderstand about trauma and the body
In moments like these, the body reacts exactly as it’s designed to. A sudden threat triggers a surge of adrenaline and cortisol, rapid changes in heart rate, shifts in blood flow, heightened reflexes, and a powerful wave of autonomic nervous system activation.

This is not “anxiety.”
This is biology doing its job.

But here’s the part we often ignore:

If we override that natural discharge — by pushing through, suppressing it, or forcing ourselves to “calm down” too quickly — the residual survival energy has nowhere to go.
The body holds it. It stays in the tissues, the fascia, the breath pattern, the spinal cord tension, and over time it becomes part of the long-term stress load the system carries.

This is one of the ways incomplete stress cycles may become:
~~chronic tension
~~digestive disruption
~~sleep fragmentation
~~emotional reactivity
~~shutdown or numbness
~~persistent sympathetic activation
~~spinal blockages and areas of reduced flow

Our culture teaches: “You’re fine. Shake it off.”
But biologically, shaking is one of the body’s way of resolving the threat.

🌊Why allowing movement matters
From a neurophysiological perspective, spontaneous shaking, trembling, crying, pacing, or deep exhalations are all signs that the autonomic nervous system is completing the massive electrical and hormonal surge that protected you in the moment.

When we allow this cycle to finish, the system returns to homeostasis.
When we don’t, that incomplete charge becomes stored survival physiology.

This is the work I see within clients of Spinal Flow: people carrying years of unresolved experiences that the nervous system never got to finish.

Last night was a reminder.

My daughter did everything right.
She listened to her body.
She let the energy move instead of trapping it.

And that choice is health.

If you ever experience a scare, a shock, a near accident, or anything that sends that electrical wave through your body — give yourself the time to let it complete. Your biology depends on it.