Body-Led Mental Health

09/16/2026

Join me and SunCloud Health for a FREE CE opportunity today!

If you’re a therapist, social worker, counselor/MFT, psychologist, psychiatrist/MD, nurse/NP, or another eligible professional, come join me TODAY at 11 AM Central!

I’ll be presenting:
The Hormonal Conversation: How Stress and Cycles Shape Eating Disorder Symptoms — Physiology and Psychology

We’re talking hormones, nervous system regulation, mood, and how all of these can show up in eating disorder symptoms.

It’s FREE + CE credit is available for eligible attendees!

You must attend the entire presentation to receive CE credit.

Register here for the free CE training

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WgoTo7JQSaafRBXUX1YEiA #/registration?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ctct

09/16/2026

FREE CE opportunity today! 🎉

If you’re a therapist, social worker, counselor/MFT, psychologist, psychiatrist/MD, nurse/NP, or another eligible professional, come join me TODAY at 11 AM Central!

I’ll be presenting:

The Hormonal Conversation: How Stress and Cycles Shape Eating Disorder Symptoms — Physiology and Psychology

We’re talking hormones, nervous system regulation, mood, and how all of these can show up in eating disorder symptoms.

It’s FREE + CE credit is available for eligible attendees!

You must attend the entire presentation to receive CE credit.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WgoTo7JQSaafRBXUX1YEiA #/registration?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ctct

Register here for the free CE training

09/15/2026

“The world will get messy again. The grass will grow. The tabs will reopen. But for right now, this one is closed.”

Maybe our nervous systems need a few more finish lines. 💛
New on Body-Led Mental Health: My Nervous System Really Likes Finishing Things.

https://bodyledmentalhealth.substack.com/p/my-nervous-system-really-likes-finishing

09/15/2026

Just show me how GOOD It can get! Try it out…and let me know what shoes up!

09/08/2026

The tracker was never just an add-on to Mood & Moon—it was actually the idea that inspired it all. 🌙 Because sometimes the biggest shift comes from finally being able to see the patterns your body has been trying to show you all along.

Check it out at: https://bodyledmentalhealth.substack.com/p/the-tracker-that-inspired-it-all

09/05/2026

Being a woman is hard enough. Your hormones don’t have to feel like a mystery. 😂🌙

Mood & Moon helps you understand your hormonal patterns, connect the dots between your body and your mood, and start anticipating the days when you might feel a little more like you…or a little more like you want to slap someone. 😬

📖 Check out Mood & Moon at the link below.

And remember—the Hormone Tracker is always FREE, whether you buy the book or not. 💛

https://healingrootswellnesscenter.com/body-led-books/mood-moon/

09/01/2026

What Would Dolly Do?

A few days after Dolly Parton passed, I was sitting at a conference in Dallas when an entire room of clinicians was asked to talk about our favorite Dolly songs.

The room erupted.

Stories. Laughter. Music. Memories.

Later, driving around Dallas, I noticed enormous Texas flags flying at half-mast. And I kept thinking about what happens when millions of people who have never met somehow grieve—and remember—together.

There’s actually a name for some of this: **collective effervescence.** That feeling of connection we experience when we sing, move, laugh, celebrate, or even grieve together.

And Dolly gave us a whole lot of opportunities for that.

But what I’ve always admired most about her wasn’t just what she accomplished. It was how much she shared once she did.

So I wrote about Dolly, our nervous systems, those giant Texas flags, the books that will keep arriving in children’s mailboxes, and the little sticker on my water bottle that will keep reminding me to ask:

**What would Dolly do? 💗**

New on *Body Led Mental Health.*

I was at a conference in Dallas on Friday, just a few days after Dolly Parton died, when we were asked to turn to the person beside us and talk about one of our favorite songs of hers.

08/27/2026

I'm at the airport now heading to Dallas to present at the **IAEDP Dallas/Fort Worth 2026 Summer Workshop!**

I’ll be closing out the conference with:

**The Hormonal Conversation: How Stress and Cycles Shape Eating Disorder Symptoms, Physiology, and Psychology**

One of the conversations I keep coming back to in eating disorder treatment is this: **we cannot separate what is happening psychologically from what is happening physiologically.**

Hormones, stress, nervous system state, sleep, hunger, sensory changes, and the menstrual cycle can all change how someone experiences their body—and sometimes, how accessible our therapeutic tools even are.

I’m excited to spend time with other eating disorder professionals talking about how we can bring more of the **body** into the conversation.

And I’m especially excited to learn from the other presenters throughout the day. Dallas, I’ll see you tomorrow! ❤️

08/25/2026

One of my favorite therapy memories actually started with someone **overhearing a session through the wall.**

My client and I were laughing hysterically. Later, the person who heard us stopped by and basically said, *“If therapy can be like THAT…I might actually be willing to try it.”* 😂
I’ve never forgotten that.

Yes, therapy holds grief, trauma, tears, and really hard things. But **laughter, joy, playfulness, and connection belong there too.**

Sometimes healing is learning that your body can hold more than one thing at once.

You can grieve **and** laugh.
You can struggle **and** feel joy.
You can do deep work **without every moment feeling heavy.**

I wrote more about why I think laughter belongs in the therapy room in my newest Body-Led Mental Health article:

https://bodyledmentalhealth.substack.com/p/waityou-also-laugh-in-your-therapy

08/20/2026

Imagine if trees spent as much time trying to look like each other as we do.

We compare our size, our shape, our curves, our skin, the way we’re aging—and all the ways our bodies seem different from the ones around us.

But imagine walking through a forest and wishing every tree looked exactly the same.

We don’t look at a wide trunk, crooked branch, exposed roots, or changing leaves and decide that tree is doing something wrong.

Those differences are what make a forest look like a forest.

Maybe we could offer our bodies a little more of that same permission—to grow, change, age, take up space, and be different from the body standing next to us. 🌲