Week in Review 4-4-26
Round up of this week in body-led healing
Greetings fellow human,
Happy Easter. I hope you have been able to carve out time to come together with loved ones and some time to reflect on how personal sacrifice walks hand in hand with our ability to give and receive love.
A little round-up of this week in body-led healing.
We’ve launched the Somatic Academy. It is pleasing to see not only sign-ups but also course progress rates, keep at it!
Along with the academy, there is the material backbone: The Defense Cascade - What if the Body Was trying to Save You?
Monday meditation focused on alternate nostril breathing, a great technique to rebalance our inter-hemispheric connectivity. Such connectivity has been found to break down in PTSD and be impaired in those with poor memory consolidation more generally.
Lastly, the 3 most shared pieces of content (naturally, clips drawn from the Somatic Academy):
Transferring gut bacteria from humans with ADHD into mice leads to deleterious effects on the rodents’ hippocampus, an area of the brain described as our ‘personality mediator.’
Designing the shy child. What might be revealed if, instead of pushing children who seem to be living inside their shell off a cliff and hoping they enjoy it, we asked, why does the body deem it necessary to build a shell in the first place? Here, we find that cortisol levels at 15 weeks of pregnancy predict amygdala volume in children at 7 years, and those amygdala volumes are inversely associated with extraversion scores.
People with ADHD experience increased connectivity between the amygdala and reward areas of the brain, a circumstance that makes waiting, i.e. momentarily forgoing a perceived reward, as threatening in the brain as what is experienced in healthy controls by fear-eliciting negative stimuli.
I’ll leave it there for now.
To your healing 💙,
Jas