The Innerwork Studio

12/10/2025

🌲 Your nervous system remembers what you forget.

I spent the weekend in nature with a small group of close friends- as my shoulders softened and stress melted, I was reminded of something I tend to lose track of when life speeds up or gets heavy:

🌲Even the strongest parts of us need places to rest.

And the nervous system does something interesting when we’re overwhelmed.
It protects us by turning inward, but it regulates through connection.

Not connection with everyone.
Connection with the right people... the ones who help your system exhale without you even noticing.

🌲So here’s something to sit with this week: Who helps my system soften?

You don’t have to carry everything alone.
Your system was never designed for that.

12/10/2025

Your body is communicating with you long before it sends up smoke flares for help.

And why does it matter?

Because hearing the subtle cues is how we can respond BEFORE the flares go up. It gives us a chance to meet the need early, soften old patterns, and offer the support the nervous system is quietly asking for.

Listening is your power to-
Interrupt stress.
Invite connection.
Reclaim your true calm.

11/19/2025

Your body whispers... long before your mind understands why you’re overwhelmed.

Most people look for psychological explanations like long "to-do" lists, work loads or just having too much on the calendar - but your nervous system sets off signals in the body first:
- shorter breaths
- that tension in your shoulders
- snapping faster than you meant to
- decision fatigue
- opening an email and immediately feeling too over capacity to finish reading, let alone respond

We’re conditioned to ignore these micro-shifts, yet they’re the body’s earliest language for:

“Something here doesn’t feel predictable enough for me to settle.”

Your nervous system is not asking for calm.
It’s asking for predictability, a familiar cue that says:

"You’ve been here before. You know what to do next."

After the LA fires last winter, nothing in my environment felt familiar.
My mornings didn’t feel like mornings.
My system was tracking threat before I even got out of bed.

So I rebuilt one thing it could count on:
- the same blanket
- the same light
- the same breath
- the same corner of the room

Not as a morning routine.
As a signal.

Predictability → Safety
Safety → Capacity
Capacity → Choice

This is the order most nervous system work gets backward.

You don’t start with optimizing your mindset, planning better, or trying to be calmer.
You start with one repeated cue your body can trust.

One cue is enough to begin rewiring how your system responds.

Try this:
Choose one action your body already softens around like light, breath, warmth, or a familiar chair.
Repeat it for one week.
Same cue, same place, same message: "You’re safe enough to settle in this moment."

What’s one small thing in your space that helps your body exhale a little?

11/05/2024

I think we could all benefit by taking two minutes to watch this bear at play...consider this an official nervous system regulation exercise! 🎈🧸

10/16/2024

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10/15/2024

Sometimes you just wake up (or don't , in my case 😂), and things start going downhill.

So what did I do to get back on track for the 3 clients I had counting on my calm and centered presence in the afternoon? Not to mention the promise of helping my daughter with Geometry after school?!

Well, you should first know I DIDN"T meditate...honestly, I didn't have time, and more importantly, my anxious energy would not have been best served by meditating.

My racing heart, jittery limbs and racing thoughts needed me to match THAT anxious energy first.

🏃🏼‍♀️ So I listened to the signals in my body, put on my headphones, leashed up the dog and did a run/walk up to my favorite view spot. (I also love to "dance" to release energy, but that's a post for another day 😊)

🌿 By the time I got to the view (only a half mile away, lol), I had definitely released a lot of the stored up energy, and so I took a quick pause in nature.

👆🏻I checked in with my body sensations and what thoughts were still rolling around in my head...did some quick EFT taping on those until I felt neutral.

🫁 I finished up by adding in some coherence breathing (6 breaths in-6 breaths out) for about a minute.

🙏🏻 And then sealed it all in with a quickie gratitude.

It may sound like a lot, but in total, it took me about 20 minutes, and it COMPLETELY transformed how I am feeling mentally & physically. Now I can now show up from a truly present state (and not have to fake it!) for my next clients and my family.

But I wasn't always able to "regroup" so quickly after a sh%t-storm of a morning like this....

💫 I can come back to calm quickly only because I re-trained my nervous system, and you can too! Want to learn how or find out about my new program specifically for Mom-stress?

Send me a DM to learn more and set up a free stress assessment.

08/07/2023

EFT can be incredibly helpful in the classroom…for both the students and the teachers!

Licensed school psychologist, Cindy Baker, reveals how she was able to inspire enthusiastic support from key school administrators for introducing EFT into the school, and how students embraced EFT and its benefits. Read more here: eftuniverse.com/education-learning-disabilities/teachers-accessing-peak-performance-with-the-help-of-eft/

06/17/2023

Try taking a little load off your nervous system today and allow yourself to search for some treasures in your everyday! 🪶

04/17/2023

04/17/2023

Starting my Instagram Journey...please join me!

03/16/2023

The first step in managing stress is meeting ourselves exactly where we are at...not where we wish we were, want to be, or think we should be.

Where is your mind and body actually at in the stress response? Let's start there.

12/21/2022

I am a HUGE fan of the power of gratitude…and there is so much research out there to support the physical and emotional benefits of gratitude (check out this beautiful article on gratitude).

But I also want to recognize that it is not always so easy to be grateful!!! When we have been stuck in cycles of pain, or attached to long held limiting beliefs…it can be so much harder to see the good and summon up those positive thoughts.

In these situations, I rely on my experience as an Energy Psychology practitioner and Clinical EFT specialist and recommend trying this 3 step process….
(1) Go easy on yourself!
How many times have we heard, “can’t you just be grateful?”, or “you should just be grateful for x, y or z”. Well, maybe so, but easier said than done depending on your personal experiences. Give yourself a little extra love if you have difficulty with gratitude, there is likely a good reason.

(2) Use a mind-body practice (such as Clinical EFT/Tapping) to acknowledge this is difficult for you…or maybe you just do not feel like having gratitude and do not know why!..it’s all okay, just release/forgive yourself for feeling this way.

(3) Try a “priming technique” to test the gratitude waters on something small. Choose something in your immediate environment you have no major attachment to and just try to come up with 10 positive aspects (one for each of your fingers!)…for example, with an apple I might say, I the deep red color, the smooth feeling in my hand, it smells slightly sweet, it can feed people, etc.

After these 3 steps…get out that pen and paper and try some gratitude again, you might be surprised by how much easier it is!

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Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.” “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that...