The Strongest I’ve Felt in Years: How Nervous System Work is Changing the Way I Move

This blog post was inspired by two episodes of my podcast, Coregulation Conversations - Episodes 52 & 53. If you'dĀ rather listen than read,Ā you can find themĀ here.

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What Came After Letting GoĀ 

I’m having an athletic breakthrough at 44.

Which is not necessarily where I thought this story was going.

If you’ve been around for a while, you know that for the past handful of years, I’ve been in a slower season. My priorities shifted through my fertility journey and a deep dive into somatic nervous system healing and studies. My body wanted to move slower, and instead of pushing, I listened.Ā 

Indeed, letting go of the assumption that I would eventually get back to the athlete I had been was a very important part of that season.

From where I’m standing today, it was clearly a worthwhile process - even though it took a lot of time to untangle my sense of worthiness from my athletic ability.Ā 

For a long time, that ability had been where I found safety. In my ability to keep up, do impre...

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How to Regulate Your Nervous System In Outdoor Adventures: My Conversation with the See Her Outside Podcast

Embracing Adventure and Resilience with See Her Outside

I recently joined Angie Marie on the See Her Outside podcast for a heartfelt and wide-ranging conversation about adventure, nervous system resilience, and how our bodies carry us through both the wilderness and everyday life.

We talked about my journey from moss-castle childhood play in Alaska to grueling wilderness classics, and how those eras of adventure shaped the way I approach challenge today. I opened up about the lessons I learned through my fertility journey, and how that experience shattered my old belief that effort always equals outcome. And I shared the story of my life-or-death moment with anaphylaxis in the backcountry, and how nervous system skills, community, and the land itself helped me through it with a sense of growth rather than trauma.

Angie and I also dug into how suffering, novelty, and joy show up in different seasons of adventure, what post-traumatic growth can look like, and eve

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