Serene Wave Spinal Flow

04/06/2026

How Artificial Light Is Destroying Your Children's Health (not just children, adults too)

👉 If there is only one thing you take the time to read - please let it be this ❗️❗️
Link to blog is in the comments.
Melatonin, a hormone produced by the body, is far more than just sleep.

I remember when my son was little - I did everything in my power to not let him have a screen - not for these reasons - but because I wanted my child to have more of a life in nature. I also kept a strict bedtime routine--same time every night for years.

That all changed when his big brother gave him his old Gameboy device when he was 9. I remember feeling devastated - although my son was absolutely ecstatic!
He's now 21 and over a year ago, I gifted him blue light blocking glasses and began educating him on circadian rhythm.
He felt the effects immediately. I see the positive effects in his body, every time he visits me now.

When we are born, we come into this world naked.

No clothes. No sunscreen. No sunglasses.

☀️Your body is inherently designed to be exposed to the natural and full spectrum of sunlight. ☀️

That is why we have light receptors in our skin and in our eyes that capture light and create powerful physiological changes in our body.

04/04/2026

What if your gut isn’t the problem… your nervous system is?

Your gut and brain are in constant communication—and stress changes that conversation in ways most people don’t fully understand.

When your body perceives stress, it shifts into survival.

Your brain signals a cascade through the body:
~~The sympathetic nervous system turns on
~~Stress hormones are released
~~Blood flow is redirected away from digestion
~~Energy is mobilized for action—not healing

In that moment, your body isn’t concerned with digesting your meal.
It’s concerned with keeping you safe.
So digestion slows… or even shuts down.

This is why, during stress, many people:
~~lose their appetite
~~feel nauseous
~~experience tightness or discomfort in the gut

But here’s where it becomes more complex.

Your body doesn’t just respond during stress—it also responds after.
Different stress hormones act at different times:

Early in stress, signals in the brain suppress appetite
Later, hormones like cortisol rise and begin to increase appetite, especially for quick, high-energy foods

This is why you might:
~~not feel hungry during stress
~~but later crave sugar, carbs, or heavy foods

Your body is trying to replenish what it used to survive.

Now layer in modern life.
Most people aren’t experiencing one single stressor…

They’re experiencing repeated, ongoing stress throughout the day:
~~work pressure
~~parenting
~~emotional strain
~~constant mental load

This creates a pattern where:
~~stress signals fire repeatedly
~~cortisol stays elevated longer
~~the body cycles between suppression and stimulation

And the result?
~~irregular appetite
~~emotional or mindless eating
~~increased fat storage (especially in the abdomen)
~~a gut that feels unpredictable or reactive

Stress also directly impacts the gut itself.

When the nervous system is in a prolonged stress state:
~~stomach acid, enzymes, and motility decrease
~~the movement of the intestines becomes disrupted
~~the gut can become more sensitive to pain and pressure
~~the colon may speed up (diarrhea) or slow down (constipation)

Even conditions like IBS can strongly be linked to how reactive the nervous system is to stress.

So what does this have to do with Spinal Flow?
Everything.
Because none of this starts in the gut.
It starts in the nervous system.

Spinal Flow works with the body at that level—helping to release stored stress patterns and restore communication between the brain and body.

When the system begins to shift out of survival:
~~the parasympathetic (rest and digest) state can come back online
~~digestion can begin to regulate
~~the body can process food more efficiently
~~cravings and patterns around food can begin to change

Not because we forced it…
But because the body is no longer stuck in protection.

This is the missing piece for so many people.

You can change your food, your routines, your habits…

But if your nervous system is still in survival,
your gut will continue to reflect that.

Healing doesn’t start with control.
It starts with safety.
And when the body feels safe—
it knows how to heal.

04/03/2026

As I was getting into my car to receive my own session yesterday, a client messaged asking for a last-minute appointment.

I let her know where I was headed.
She knows I don’t just facilitate this work — I live it. Consistently. For almost 3 years.

Her response brought me to tears.
Because this is the part people don’t always see…
The surrender.
The humility.
The willingness.
The trust in their own healing, because I trust in it so much.

The truth is — most people don’t actually understand what healing is.

We’ve been conditioned to believe healing means something goes away.
Fast. Clean. Done.

Pain & tension? Fix it, medicate it.
Emotions? Talk them out.

And while there is absolute value in being heard…
at some point we have to acknowledge:
Talking about something is not the same as the body resolving it.

This client has been on her healing journey for over 40 years.

She shared with me that all the talk therapy on her journey has never touched what she’s experiencing now.
That her body is making adjustments on its own… in places she’s never felt before and her pain is lessening.

No forcing.
No directing.
Just the body… finally doing what it was designed to do.

My response?
Welcome to expansion. ☺️🙏💝 Welcome home to yourself.

Because real healing isn’t about subtraction.
It’s about greater awareness and safety.

A nervous system that no longer has to brace.
A body that no longer has to hold the same patterns.
A human who no longer has to stay in survival.

That takes time.
It takes consistency.
And it takes the courage to be supported.

There was a time I too, didn't understand any of this.

Because we tend to disregard what we haven’t experienced…
Until we do.

Today was a reminder:
We don’t walk this path alone.
Each person’s willingness matters.
And sometimes, witnessing someone else step into it is what makes it feel possible for us, too.

03/30/2026

03/28/2026

Daylight is our greatest free healthcare, no matter the season. ☀️💝

Most of us are light-deprived—and it's affecting our mood. In this clip from The Healing Catalyst, Dr. Satchin Panda, circadian rhythm expert and professor a...

03/27/2026

I’m going to speak openly and directly to this community.

I take every single review of my work seriously. To those of you who have taken the time to publicly share your experiences—know that I deeply respect and appreciate you. Your words are not taken lightly.

At the same time, I will not stay silent when something is misrepresented.

A recent negative Google review has been posted about my practice by someone who is not a current client, has not received care since October 2024, and is sharing information that is simply not accurate. I will say that during the time this individual was receiving care on the other side of the globe, their expressed experience to me was extremely positive—they communicated feeling deeply relaxed, and spoke very highly of their sessions. The contrast between what was shared in real time and what has now been posted publicly is both confusing and misrepresentative.

Due to ongoing Google business verification issues, I am currently unable to respond to it publicly on that platform.

Let me be clear: I welcome feedback. I welcome questions. I even welcome discomfort when it arises in care—because that is often where the real work begins. But in my practice, those conversations happen directly, with honesty and respect. Every single time a client has brought something forward to me, we have worked through it.

What I do not stand behind is indirect communication, or any type of narrative that misleads others about the integrity of my work as a practitioner.

My commitment is unwavering—to hold a grounded, safe, and regulated space for those who choose to work with me, and to show up with clarity, honesty, and respect in every interaction.

If you have something to say, I am here to hear it. Directly.

Thank you to those who continue to stand in trust, truth, and integrity alongside this work.

03/26/2026

Why I no longer wear these - 😎
Why I wear colored glasses - 🤓
Choosing to live from a place of biology to support my nervous system.
Light spectrum may not be visible to the human eye, but your nervous system is always responding.

03/26/2026

💯 true, lasting healing takes time and often times we can be our own worst enemies.

03/25/2026

Spinal Flow Technique is an entrainment of the autonomic nervous system.
Light is an entrainment of the eyes into the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)—the brain’s master clock.

Two different inputs.
One nervous system.

Spinal Flow works through gentle, specific access points along the spine that signal safety to the body. Not by forcing change—but by giving the system the right input so it can begin to reorganize itself.

Over time, stored tension patterns start to unwind.
The system shifts out of protection and into a state where regulation, adaptability, and healing are possible.

Light works just as powerfully—through a different pathway.

When light enters the eyes, it feeds directly into the SCN, which sets your circadian rhythm and timing for your entire body. But it doesn’t stop there—

The SCN also communicates with and helps regulate the autonomic nervous system.

This means light is not just affecting when you sleep—
it’s influencing your state.

Your ability to shift between stress and rest.
Your heart rate, digestion, and recovery.
Your overall capacity to regulate.

This is why light impacts:
~~your sleep-wake cycles
~~your hunger and feeding patterns
~~your metabolism and energy production
~~your hormone release
~~your nervous system state

Morning light tells your system: wake up, be alert, increase energy.
Evening darkness tells your system: slow down, repair, sleep.

When those signals are clear, the body works with you.
When they’re disrupted—by artificial light at night or lack of natural light during the day—the system gets mixed messages.

Now your body doesn’t know when to upregulate…
or when to downregulate.

That’s not a lack of discipline.
That’s a mismatch in input.

You are always being shaped by what your nervous system is receiving.
Through touch.
Through light.
Through your environment.

The quality of those inputs matters.

03/24/2026

Why I take this work so seriously…
and why I’m so passionate about it.

Because there was a time in my life when I didn’t want to be here anymore. It was the strongest it's ever been, just before I found nervous system healing.

I’m not going to soften that.

For most of my life—especially in my lowest moments—I was a walking, functioning (or so I thought) dysregulated nervous system.
I was surrounded by people who were also deeply dysregulated.

And I didn’t just hear them…
I believed them.

I let their words define me.
I let their perspectives shape how I saw myself, my life, and what I thought was possible.

I thought it was truth.

It wasn’t.

It was pain.
It was fear.
It was unregulated nervous systems speaking from their own limitations.

And I built my inner world inside of that.

That’s why I take this work seriously.

I don’t do this for likes.
I don’t do it for attention.
I don’t do it to be an influencer.
Half the time, my nervous system would rather not be on social media at all.

But I show up anyway.

Because I know what it’s like to live inside that noise…
and I know what it’s like to come out of it.

For almost 3 years now, I’ve lived in a body that feels different.
More regulated.
More present.
More awareness.
More me.

And before that?

I spent nearly 10 years trying to think my way out.
Trying to understand it.
Trying to fix it from my mind.

And it didn’t work.

Because this isn’t just mental.

This is nervous system.

And it’s not something most conventional spaces are even talking about.

So I will.

Even when it’s uncomfortable.
Even when I’d rather be quiet.

Because if you’re still listening to voices that are rooted in fear, pain, and dysregulation—
and calling that truth…

I need you to know it’s not.

There is another way.

And that’s why this work matters.

***de

03/23/2026

Why do emotions come up during a Spinal Flow session?

-- To exist is to be aware of oneself --