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Creating a support system often means exploring modalities that are in alignment with who you are on your healing journey. My journey...
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June is PTSD Awareness Month
June is PTSD Awareness Month. There is so much more than the "label" of PTSD. It's complex and highly individualized. One of the hardest...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Oct 7, 2023
- 4 min
Nervous System 101: Microdosing
Sharing my own journey of living with PTSD/CPTSD, healing from burnout and compassion fatigue. My nervous breakdown saved my life. It...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Sep 9, 2023
- 3 min
How to Scaffold the skill of movement with PTSD
Seems silly to think about scaffolding the skill of movement, with PTSD/CPTSD, I often get stuck in freeze mode. Learning how to...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Sep 8, 2023
- 3 min
Scaffolding the skill of movement with PTSD/mental illness
Sharing my journey as authentically as possible, means I also discuss scaffolding the skill of movement. #PTSD is a #TBI (traumatic...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Aug 31, 2023
- 3 min
Back to Routine may trigger Sensory Overload / Executive Functioning
As the school year is fast approaching, back to routines, back to the constant movement, back to sensory overload, challenges with...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Aug 25, 2023
- 1 min
Mindfulness workshop
Join me as I lead my first mindfulness workshop. The focus of the evening will be on the importance of regulation. It will be located in...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Aug 8, 2023
- 3 min
Learning to connect the dots....
Think back to Pre-K/K/1, learning how to complete the activity worksheet of connect the dots. Think of the expectations put on the class...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Jul 14, 2023
- 2 min
Sensory Processing
Vulnerable post sharing my own sensory profile. I share this due to personal experience of having to endure a sanctioned psychological...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Jun 27, 2023
- 3 min
Author of my own story
There is something about turning 50, and there is also something about having a nervous breakdown. It shifted me. It gutted me. I lost...
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Lori Anne Spilman PhD, ND, MEd, DAUS, BEd
- Jun 18, 2023
- 2 min
Co-regulation tips
Co-regulation is the process of someone with a regulated nervous system, meaning they are in a parasympathetic state (rest/digest). They...
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