CALIBRATE

ROOT-LEVEL MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Cultivate new ways of relating to self and others
Discover choice points that can shift your trajectory
Informed by coaching, counselling, science and philosophy

tweak your operating system

Recalibration is always possible, due to the human brain remaining malleable throughout adulthood (thanks neuroscience). In turn, there are many things we can do to amplify capacity for plasticity. Human beings make hundreds of macro and micro decisions every day (read more about that) offering incredible opportunity to make new selections, rewiring neural pathways.

The mission begins with curiosity, getting to know your operating system. How are you built? How has life shaped your programming? What are the changes you are wanting, and what has stopped you from being able to get there? Most people are acutely aware of the task, but struggle to implement. This work uncovers what is blocking you from making those choices.

Underlying mechanisms often include:

fear-response physiology of our nervous system
automatic patterns of beliefs, habits or attachments...
resistance to accepting what is
environmental conditions + unmet needs

These houses of ours----these fleshy meat suits---are continuously sending signals through the nervous system in an infinite feedback loop about the world around us, and within us. How we support those connections, and how we interpret this data is what matters.

We must learn the language of our home. What it requires to function and what it needs to be able to rest---how it perceives safety and how it remembers danger. We must learn to listen as much as to speak. To create a new reality our biology needs to be recalibrated as much as our thoughts.

Deeply impressed fears and habits are often encoded beyond the reach of the rational mind, unable to be accessed by talk therapy alone. Those stories we cannot bear to repeat. Those events we have forgotten. Those feelings and reactions we cannot logically make sense of. Those instinctual imprints, and indescribable experiences that ripple through us not as words, but as textures and shapes. Novel tools such as somatic therapies and Brainspotting offer ways of reprocessing embodied patterns and history beyond the reach of words...

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