If you’ve invested time in personal growth, therapy, or mindset work but still feel stuck in familiar patterns, the issue may not be your thoughts or your effort. Often, it’s the nervous system.

True healing doesn’t begin in the mind alone. It begins in the body, where stress, trauma, and old survival patterns are stored. At Teal Yoga & Wellness, I work with TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) and Neurogenic Yoga to support nervous system regulation, release chronic tension, and gently expand your capacity to hold more ease, success, and connection in your life.

One of the biggest myths in yoga is that certain poses are guaranteed to be relaxing. Teachers often recommend postures like legs up the wall to ease anxiety or restore calm. And while these poses may work beautifully for some people, they don’t work for everyone.

For many trauma survivors, nighttime was never safe. It was the hour when silence screamed, when memories returned uninvited, and when the body braced for what it once endured…

One of the most challenging outcomes of CPTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is that not only does it leave an imprint on the nervous system, but it also affects the heart—the part of us that longs for connection, safety, and trust. But there is hope. Healing from CPTSD is not only possible—it is profoundly transformative. It begins with a terrifying, but courageous step: learning to trust again.

Our society is set up to teach us to ignore our bodies: “mind over matter, logic over emotion, doing versus being”. We’ve been taught for as long as we can remember to think our way out of situations, instead of feeling our way…

Most people think of emotional resilience as just the ability to handle difficult emotions. But emotional tolerance is like a rubber band—the more you stretch in one direction, the more capacity you have in the other.

Trauma-sensitive yoga helps people heighten their body awareness and notice what is happening inside themselves so they can learn to release tension, reduce and control fear and arousal, and tolerate sensation…

This nourishing golden milk latte blends turmeric, saffron, nutmeg, black pepper, coconut milk, and honey into a soothing elixir for body and mind.

I wish I knew sooner how important my nervous system was to my overall health and stability. It wasn’t until I started to connect the dots within my own journey and see how myself and my clients were healing that I realized it was a simple fix: Heal the Nervous system…