by Julie Bergfeld | Mar 19, 2025 | miscellaneous
A Hidden Link Between Fibromyalgia and Trauma For decades, fibromyalgia has confounded doctors AND patients. A condition marked by chronic, widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive disturbances, it has long been relegated to the fringes of medical understanding. Many...
by Julie Bergfeld | Feb 17, 2025 | Rest
If you’ve ever felt like trauma is stuck in your body like a caged animal, something that no amount of talking can coax away, you’re not alone. Trauma isn’t just a memory or an emotion—it’s an experience that lives in the body, affecting how we move, breathe, act and...
by Julie Bergfeld | Jun 24, 2024 | Mindset, miscellaneous
Many life experiences and failures to reach our goals may quickly be labeled self-sabotage. However, to truly understand the roots of such patterns, we must dig deep into what motivates them. Research into the unconscious underpinnings of our behaviors suggests that...
by Julie Bergfeld | Jun 26, 2023 | Exercise, Mindset, Rest
Recently I have been visiting a new health care provider. At my first visit, he seized on the fact that I was stuck in a state of fight or flight – trauma brain – and prescribed deep diaphragmatic breathing twice daily. I wasn’t surprised. Through...
by Julie Bergfeld | Apr 30, 2023 | Mindset
“It all starts with waking up… to what our bodies are expressing and our minds are suppressing” Last fall I was driving home from a retreat in Northern Georgia and happened upon an interview between Tim Ferris and Gabor Maté (transcript...
