Lake Norman Mind and Body Connection

11/05/2025

Where you look affects how you feel.

If you’re interested in exploring more about Brainspotting or EMDR, I am currently accepting new clients and would love to chat with you.

✨🧠 Where you look affects how you feel 🔍

A Brainspot is more than an eye position—it’s a
doorway. A precise point in your visual field that connects to buried emotion, memory, and sensation. It’s where your nervous system flinches, where your story lives beneath the surface.

Brainspotting doesn’t force the mind—it follows the body’s wisdom. It’s gentle. Deep. Somatic. It meets you where you are and helps you move through what’s been held too long.🧘‍♀️

This is trauma therapy that honours your pace. That trusts your brain’s ability to heal when given the right space.🍃

To find out more or explore training opportunities in Brainspotting or receiving Brainspotting therapy, visit Brainspotting Training Uk - Transform Your Therapeutic practice!🌀🌿

📧 info@bspuk.co.uk

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10/27/2025

For the first time in forever (cue my Frozen sing along voice) I wrote on my blog. I've had so many ideas to share but time has just not been my friend. But, I finally found some time to sit down and put thoughts into my keyboard that have been sitting with me the longest. This blog speaks about how somatic (body-based) therapies can be more effective for those with trauma histories than traditional talk therapy and why. Let me know what you think and if you have any blogs you'd like to see me write.

https://www.lknmindandbodyconnection.com/blog/when-words-arent-enough

10/22/2025

Come see us at iShine Yoga & Wellness. We have a little bit of something for everyone!

10/15/2025

Meet my newest furry coworker, Fuzzy the Bear 😀 When scary stuff happens to children they often seek comfort from stuffed animals or other safe objects. So its no surprise when adults are processing childhood trauma, their child parts might still want to seek comfort in a stuffed animal. So Fuzzy is a weighted bear that clients can use to replicate that comfort or hold like they wanted to be held as a child. For my Cooper lovers, please don’t worry that he has been replaced. Cooper is a 75-pound doodle and being held tightly in someone’s lap for 45 minutes might not make him or a client’s legs very happy. But Fuzzy can handle a lot of love so I can’t wait to put him to work next week.

10/10/2025

I never thought I’d be sharing the Muppets thoughts on mental health, but here we are. 💯 agree

Just a reminder that your mental health is just as important as any other part of your health.

You are loved, and you deserve to be here. Take care of yourself.

09/30/2025

When a respected source like the National Geographic is sharing about the power of movement in mental health, we know the landscape of treatment must be changing.

**Please don’t stop taking your medicine if it helps you, but consider the idea you might feel even better if you add movement to your daily routine in addition to your medication.

A new analysis shows that moving to music with others can be a powerful way to ease symptoms of depression. Unlike walking or yoga, dance engages the brain in a unique “neurochemical symphony,” blending physical activity with joy, connection, and self-expression. Here's why it helps and how to harness it, according to experts: https://on.natgeo.com/47WKONQ

09/29/2025

This is for my clients and friends that have told me they want to try yoga but don’t know where to start. You can sign up a 4-week session beginning in October at to learn the basics of yoga and get a month’s worth of what iShine has to offer. You don’t need any equipment or props, just yourself and some comfy clothes so no excuses to join in. DM me if you have any questions!

08/27/2025

When your office has no windows and its 70° in August, you take your lunch outside and get some natural grounding and light therapy while you can.

08/26/2025

Sometimes its the smallest little things that can help with the biggest changes. Like this pointer that’s useless on its own. But when you use this small tool in a Brainspotting session and let it be the focal spot, it can take on a tiny role in client’s healing. The pointer isn’t magic in any way, but watching the healing happen while its involved can definitely feel magical at times.

07/16/2025

I knew the first time I saw a picture of this concept, I needed to have it on the wall of my office. It makes my science-loving heart so happy to see the human emotions explained in a way that makes sense to me.

07/02/2025

A client and I were talking about how different yoga poses can make your brain feel differently. While I am not aware of any research that supports the idea that specific yoga postures cause different brain activities, there is research to support that the total physical practice of yoga can influence brain activity. And many of the brain activities that show improvement with yoga are the exact same activities my clients report wanting to improve with counseling. So, think about what could happen in the brain if you combine counseling AND yoga? #

06/25/2025

So many of my clients associate movement with exercises they were taught in school and they hated it then so they won’t do it now. The key is to find movement you like now and do that. I don’t care how you move your body, just move it.