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The Hidden Links Between Childhood Trauma, Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia
For many people living with chronic pain and fibromyalgia, the story is deeply frustrating and painfully familiar. Years of doctors’ visits, medications, scans, and specialists with little relief and even fewer answers. Countless test results come back “normal.” Symptoms are minimized by doctors and loved ones who might even accuse you of making it up. The lingering impacts of hysteria and many chronic pain conditions remain in the medical world even in 2025. Fibromyalgia s
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Rethinking Group Healing For Neurodivergent Humans
In the wellness and retreat space, group healing has become the dominant model. Large circles. Shared ceremonies. Group processing. Open vulnerability. For many, this is powerful. For many neurodivergent people, like our found and clients, it is not. This matters. Because you cannot design safety for a nervous system you do not understand. Instead of asking our clients to adapt to a model, we adapt the model to the client. Autistic, ADHD, highly sensitive, and otherwise neur
Jan 84 min read
How Art Heals Survivors Of Abuse: Restoring The Brain, Body And Self
Survivors of all types of abuse including emotional, psychological, financial, physical, sexual and narcissistic often carry wounds that go far beyond memory. Abuse reshapes the nervous system, disrupts brain function, and fractures identity. Its not a weakness, its simply biology. It doesn't have to be life long though. The Impact of Abuse on Survivors When someone lives in chronic threat, control, or violation, the body adapts to survive. Over time, this can lead to: PTSD
Jan 82 min read
The Healing Power of Hot and Cold Therapy for nervous system regulation
Across cultures and throughout history, humans have turned to heat and cold as medicine. From Nordic sauna traditions and Japanese onsen, to Indigenous sweat lodges, river immersions, and sun bathing rituals, contrast therapy has long been used to cleanse the body, restore the spirit, and recalibrate the nervous system. Today, modern research is finally catching up to what the body has always known: intentional exposure to heat and cold is profoundly healing — physically, m
Jan 84 min read
Ancient Medicine In A Modern World: Psilocybin Assisted Therapy, PTSD And Trauma
The Medicine Is Not New Long before clinical trials, white coats, and regulatory boards, humans were already in relationship with psilocin-containing mushrooms . For thousands of years, Indigenous cultures across Mesoamerica, the Amazon, and other regions have worked with these sacred medicines for healing, vision, grief, and spiritual restoration . What the modern world is now calling “psychedelic-assisted therapy” is, in truth, ancient medicine expanding beyond the fringe
Jan 83 min read
New Mexico Makes History with Senate Bill 219 — The Medical Psilocybin Act
New Mexico Makes History with Senate Bill 219 — The Medical Psilocybin Act In a landmark move during the 2025 legislative session, New Mexico enacted Senate Bill 219 — the Medical Psilocybin Act , a pioneering piece of legislation that establishes a state-regulated medical psilocybin program to help New Mexicans suffering from some of the most challenging mental and emotional health conditions. ( New Mexico Legislature ) Legislative Leadership and Approval A broad coalition o
Jan 83 min read
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