Primitive Brain
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Mental Mugging: What Steps To Take To Reclaim Your Mind
Do you feel trapped in your mind with negative thoughts and stories? Those powerful thoughts can overwhelm, deplete, and shatter our confidence and sense of safety. They literally mug us and build fear and disempowerment. Last time I talked about the difference between being in Victim, Survivor, and Thriver Modes and what a person in…
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Do Not Downplay Your Resilience
The primitive brain is excellent at finding what could go wrong. When we consider travel, visibility, leadership, creative work, or speaking against the crowd, it may produce a vivid inventory of risk. Some risks are real. Emotional freedom does not require pretending otherwise. The overlooked part of the equation is often our capacity to respond.…
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What makes you feel safe?
What makes you feel safe? What if you could trigger that safe feeling more easily? Let’s explore this together… Okay… So when you reach for safety, what do you reach for? Write down the first thing you think of (food, a hug from a certain person, your bed, your pet, or your credit card)
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Reclaim the Gallop in Your Creative Energy
Some people carry a galloping quality: ideas move quickly, imagination travels, and enthusiasm races toward what feels alive. When that energy was repeatedly met with “No, no, no,” the adult system may become extraordinarily good at stopping. The stopping can look like maturity. Underneath, a powerful part of us may still be tied to the…
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Turn Hypervigilance Into Appropriate Alertness
Hypervigilance can feel nonnegotiable: if we stop watching, something will happen and no one will protect us. The system stays at maximum alert in bed, behind a locked door, or during an ordinary conversation. Trying to switch it off entirely may feel dangerous. A more workable goal is range—the ability to choose an alertness level…
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How do I decide… make the right decision?
Ever been stuck… Not sure what the right decision is? It’s a horrible feeling. I don’t know about you, but my brain can suck every ounce of energy out of my life trying to find a solution. The anxiety of not being able to decide feels awful. How do you decide? How do you break…
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Are your emotions CONTAGIOUS?
Are your emotions CONTAGIOUS? Mine certainly were, and I didn’t understand why. I’d be sitting ALONE in my office, far away from everyone else in the building. There would be a software bug, and POW! I would feel this surge of emotion. Anger. Frustration. Rage at the ridiculousness of wasting so much time on a…