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What actually happens in your nervous system when you genuinely crack up, and why your instinct to find something funny is smarter than you think. "Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top." ~Norman Cousins There's a reason that line has survived decades. Cousins wrote it after laughing himself out of a degenerative disease (not as metaphor, but as documented clinical intervention). He checked out of the hospital, checked i

I can’t take credit for this idea, it was passed on to me. I share it here because it is one of the most fun and simple reminders I know about the power of counting your wins. The Awesome Jar is for the moments when you forget how far you’ve come. When the mind clings to what didn’t work and conveniently overlooks what *did*. We’re very good at cataloging our missteps. We scan for danger, right? It's part of our old survival biology. We’re much worse at remembering our wi

We hear the word somatic a lot these days. It shows up everywhere: on social media, in wellness spaces, in therapy rooms. But what does it actually mean? At its most basic level, somatic simply means relating to the body . Depending on who’s using the term, it may carry different nuances, but it always points back to the same core idea: the lived experience of being alive inside a human body. Your consciousness, nervous system, and life force housed within what is, functiona