Patricia Tosi

https://youtube.com/shorts/nminR7Qi24k?feature=share It’s not just what we say to them… It’s what they hear around them. • Conversations filled with stress. • Arguments. • Worry about money, work, or life. • Even silence that feels heavy. A child’s brain is incredibly receptive. In early life, it is constantly forming connections, learning what is “safe” and what is not. Research in developmental psychology shows that repeated exposure to stress in childhood can shape how the nervous system...

We often use the expression “trapped emotions” to describe feelings and experiences that have never been fully processed, expressed or resolved. Perhaps you were taught to stay strong, keep quiet, carry on or pretend that everything was fine. The emotion may have been pushed aside, but the stress connected to the experience can remain active. So, when does this begin to affect your health? It can happen when thinking about or being reminded of a past experience repeatedly activates your...

Look around any therapy room, wellness clinic or holistic practice and you'll notice the same thing I have. The chairs are mostly filled by women. Colleagues across the alternative and holistic therapies field tell me they see it too. And yet men experience stress, anxiety, grief, burnout, emotional pain and trauma just as much as women do. They doubt themselves. They struggle in relationships. They lie awake at night. The difference is rarely in how much men suffer. It is in what they do...