Neuro-Transformation Journey: Recent Episodes
Bold Brave Media Talk Radio
“Neuro-Transformation Journey” introduces viewers to the simple self-care steps that address medical mysteries and restore healthy vitality. Decades of teaching the “Neuroscience of Medical Interventions” to healthcare practitioners internationally, and healing from her own brain injuries, illuminate Dr. Cathy’s grounded, logical approach to self-care and healing.
Our imagination is a vital, dynamic process that underlies our conscious cognitive function. This week we'll explore how our self-presence illuminates our creativity and our resilience, and so much more.
As we learn more about how our Autonomic Nervous System organizes us internally, we can feel how it plays a role in pain processing as well. This week we'll explore how our self-care strategies can rewire us out of chronic pain issues.
We are multi-sensory beings, relying on our internal synchrony circuits to make sense of our embodiment, our sense of purpose, and our presence in our world. As we grow more familiar with our sense of self, our resonance reaches the social support that receives us, and we celebrate (and grow!) together.
Our powerful practice of belly-breath-landing is an important step in regulating our Autonomic Nervous System agility and easing our stress triggers. But there's more to it than that! Under the old clench patterns, we deserve to thrive in our own unique way. This week, we'll explore the dynamic transformations, from stress to self-vitality.
Our Neuro-Transformation Journey has shown us that our personal healing takes us deep beneath the "Why of Our Wiring" and into our powerful embodied dynamics. This week we'll explore that comprehensive process and how we live our joyful path forward.
Our multisensory environment can be overwhelming, especially if we are not secure in our embodied sensory processing. This week we'll explore our fascinating brain capacities for filtering out irrelevant input so we can focus on the task at hand, and flow into our creative brilliance.
The neuro-research exploring the brain dynamics of our internal meditation processes is fascinating. But it still pivots around organizing to external stories and expectations. This week, we'll land more securely in our embodied transformation and learn how our meditation practices can serve us better.
As we learn to unclench and land in our soft, source strength, we are learning new patterns of stress navigation. The more we organize from our truth, the less we have to organize to the chaos around us. This week, we'll explore those peaceful, powerful possibilities.
As we've seen, we could get quite immersed in the stories of our complex body-brain wiring patterns. But all that activity begins with our interoceptive self-presence and the richness of our self, source, and stories. This week, we'll explore this dynamic, social, self-process.
We are wired for wonder, and experiencing our world from our embodied presence helps us release old, restrictive, defense patterns. This week, we'll explore our multidimensional emotional processing and reclaim our true self-expression.
Have you been defined as "right-brained" or "left-brained"? This week, we'll reframe those old stories into a deeper understanding of our brilliant brain organization and how we create our unique wiring-world processing, which drives our self-presence and world dynamics.
Our multisensory learning begins at birth and continues until we complete our journey. This week, we'll explore the fascinating dynamics of internal processing and external support that create our learning patterns, memories, and meaningful connections.
Stories of Dopamine, our "happy brain juice," have burbled through to our cultural awareness. However, dopamine facilitates powerful dynamics in our emotional connections, learning and reward patterns, body movement, and so much more. This week we'll explore the many embodied processes of that dance.
Surprise! As we land deeper in the embodied experience of our lives, we discover what's meaningful to us, and then bring our gifts forward. An important element of this is learning how we process surprises. Yes, from infancy throughout our lives, we are wired for that invitational process. This week, we'll explore how we navigate a world full of surprises from our secure grounding.
As we slide out of holiday stresses and find our soft landing again, it's a wonderful opportunity to explore our embodied creativity and the joy our creative process brings. This week, we'll explore the fascinating body-brain processes that enhance our juicy creative expressions and experiences.
Our world is pulsing in oscillating rhythms, from fireflies to heartbeats, and these patterns shape our lives. This week we'll explore our dynamic, embodied rhythmic organization, from body to brain, breath, and movement, as we illuminate our authentic presence and bring our magic to the world.
In our busy, stressful times, the need for self-care is more critical than ever. Making time for "social retreats" into our nourishing, restorative solitude rhythms can be a powerful stress-management strategy. This week we'll explore these social-emotional, self-care dynamics.
As we learn to land in our soft, organizing breath, our emotional truths emerge to guide us forward. The mysteries of our connections, feelings, memories, and stories dance to bring us to our full celebrations.
As we enter a busy holiday season, it's a good time to talk about sleep. Our complex, multisensory environment has a profound impact on our internal sleep processes, so we'll explore the challenges and possibilities to maintain our healthy sleep rhythms
Empathy dynamics flow from recognition and connection, first within our own embodied presence, and then to the world around us. This week we'll explore the essential grounding power of this dance from self-empathy to our social support.
Today we’re going to learn more about our multidimensional, integrative brainstem circuits that pulse with the neurochemical flow of who we are, oscillating through the rhythms of time, and even drive our sense of humor!
We've lived a lifetime of labels: introvert, extravert, anxious, lonely, disconnected. Today we'll explore the power of our embodied attention in understanding our true presence, which lets us create our connections to our world in our unique, meaningful way.
In our dynamic process of restoring our embodied vitality, we can become aware of a curious, powerful dance between rest, relief, and resilience. Yes, the deeper we land in our interoceptive flow, the better we can navigate the chaos of the world. This week we’ll explore these fascinating body-brain processes, and celebrate our own rhythms of resilience.
The core functions and processes of our embodied consciousness rely on the organizational dynamics of the white matter pathways in our brain, not just our gray-matter-cortex! Today we'll explore our sensory processing and perceptual, whole brain function, illuminating our multidimensional presence in body, brain, mind, and imagination.
Traumatic incidents occur throughout our lives, impacting us physically, emotionally, psychologically, and socially. This week we'll explore these different dynamics, and the deeper realms of reorganization, restoration, and healing that await us within our source-landing process.
As we land in our embodied presence, our brain's plasticity power is illuminated, with the potential to transform our physical, psychological, emotional, and social processing. This week we'll explore the pivotal dynamics of our thalamus, the multisensory circuit centers that organize us from body and brain to mindful meaning.
How we see the world, inside and out, reflects our extraordinary visual processing systems. This week we'll explore those wiring dynamics and the multisensory perceptual fields we are interacting with every day (and night!).
In our embodied transformation process, we're learning to feel what what's right for us as we release old stories and behaviors. This brings us to a different, internal awareness of what embodied self-care might mean for us. This week we'll explore these empowering dynamics.
Our consciousness evolves as we process multisensory input and learn how to orient to the dynamics surrounding us. Our internal and external attention skills play a critical role in this as well. This week we'll explore those processes from our interoceptive wisdom, to illuminate our vital, life presence.
As we learn to receive our rest and play from there, our interoceptive, self-engagement changes. Today we'll explore our internal attention and new awareness of emotional, social, and sensory interactions, supported by our brilliant, body-brain, interoceptive dynamics.
From inspiring our creativity to restoring our healthy sleep rhythms, honoring our need to rest is critical to every aspect of our lives. This week we'll explore the many benefits to our restful rituals, and how to illuminate and integrate those benefits into our daily life.
Play is an instinctual behavior that is crucial to our brain development, our social and emotional connections, and a critical part of how we make sense of ourselves in this world. This week we'll explore these fascinating dynamics and create a plan to celebrate this process in our lives.
Another fascinating interoceptive function is body temperature regulation. This week we’ll explore the surprising dynamics of our embodied thermoregulation and find our balance between our internal temperature vitality and environmental heat challenges.
Our brain’s predictive processing includes generating appropriate body movements as we navigate our world. Today we’ll explore the surprising network dynamics that are organizing us for our secure presence, mobility and action.
Our brain's multidimensional brilliance is driven by its predictive processing systems. This week we'll explore how we can transform our dance betwe
As we land deeper in our belly breath and begin navigating the world from our truth, old defense triggers and patterns emerge. This week we'll explore how our brain is wired to meet the world, as we release old defense edges and create our vital boundaries.
Our simple practice of meditative breathwork illuminates our deep body-brain connections. This week we'll explore the impact of this attentive practice on memory, cognitive flexibility, and story transformation, restoring ease and enjoyment to our lives.
Our brain's attention networks reflect the intriguing neurodynamics of both internal, interoceptive attention and external attention to the world around us. This week we'll explore how our embodiment strategies can illuminate and organize those attention networks, carrying us more smoothly throughout our lifetime.
This week we’ll explore the neurosensory dynamics of our self-presence, purpose and process. Engaging our self-care strategies, as we land in our soft breath and body-brain synchrony, brings an invitation to the fullness of our lives, as we bring our magic to the world.
Let's continue our interoceptive journey and explore the creative dynamics of our multi-sensory systems. Far beyond our "five senses," we are wired to interpret and interact with our world in the most amazing ways.
As we land deeper in our self-organizing, body-brain breathing, we find patterns of old triggers, which carry their own stressful stories. Today we'll explore our story-reframe process, that lets us soften and strengthen into our true presence and process.
Our imagination is a vital, dynamic process that underlies our conscious cognitive function. This week we'll explore how our self-presence illuminates our creativity and our resilience, and so much more.
This week we'll explore how the rhythms of nasal breathing organize and activate so many important brain functions, from cognition to emotional processing to memory recall – and so much more. We'll restore these critical rhythms and enrich our self-care strategies and presence.
This week we’ll explore the wonders of our Circadian Rhythms, and how they organize our health and wellbeing. We’ll look at the emerging “Circadian Medicine” approaches that enhance medical and lifestyle interventions, and coordinate our self-care strategies with this powerful process.
As neuro-research explores the brain dynamics of our internal meditation processes, the practice becomes more valuable in our everyday lives. Our "parasympathetic pause" is a critical first step in our embodied meditation landing.
Our sense of touch is a critical part of our multisensory human experience. Today we'll explore the dynamic interaction of touch with our other senses (including hormone function), and how our stories may affect those functional processes.
This week we will learn about the importance of our brain flow and circuit connectivity, and the impact of cognitive fatigue on those dynamic processes. We'll explore the critical, regulating relief of our restorative rest rituals.
As we land in our Neuro-Transformation Journey and learn to organize from our calm, resilient belly breathing, how does that change our brain's cognitive prediction patterning? This week we'll learn about those functional networks and how we can further transform our clench reaction patterns.
We continue our exploration of neuro-diverse dynamics in the Autism Spectrum experience, and consider the creative, compensatory circuitry of our neuro-processing dynamics.
This week we'll continue our explorations of body-brain wiring, and how those circuitry dynamics impact our learning skills as well as our social engagement. Our powers of presence and connection are illuminated beyond culturally defined neuro-dysfunctions, and new research is highlighting our unique neuro-capabilities, as we'll see in the evolving stories of Dyslexia.
This week we'll be exploring the Vagus Nerve and its critical role in our autonomic regulation. Its dynamic body-brain process illuminates far more than our gut function, transforming our body, brain, mind and connections.
This week we'll explore the story framework that supports us in our authentic healing journey. As we land deeper in our interoceptive dynamics, our creative brain connections expand to empower us.
This week we'll explore the extraordinary wiring and wisdom of our sensory processing dynamics. From our soft, source landing within we can engage our world in our creative, authentic way.
This week we'll explore our stress-defense-survival wiring patterns, and deepen our transformation into our parasympathetic, powerful resilience. Let's create our rituals and rhythms of renewal and restoration.
This week we'll explore the interoceptive dynamics of healthy, embodied resilience, that illuminates and transforms a lifetime of story and stress patterns. When we create our rituals of parasympathetic landing within, we can move through life's challenges from our deep, restorative resources.
This week we'll slide in to our soft, organizing parasympathetic breath and explore how this practice of embodied presence changes our interoceptive dynamics within our body, brain and being, and transforms our dance with our world.
This week we will review the intriguing dynamics of our internal healing processes, from our interoceptive reorganizing to our story transformation. When we are securely landed in “what makes sense” to us, how do we celebrate that and bring that to the world?
This week we'll explore the neurophysiological and psychological experiences of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, including recent progress in neuroscience-based treatment approaches. We'll see how our embodied stress regulation strategies can be powerful for addressing these issues and rewiring us for our calm, smooth body-brain-being connections.
Gut-Brain Dynamics
This week we'll explore our gut-brain axis, and the dynamic, multi-sensory communication processes between gut tube and brain tube. We'll learn how our self-regulation skills can promote healthy connectivity and interoceptive function.
This week we'll explore how dental alignment and function is far more than just a mechanical process. "Beyond the Bite" there is a complex dynamic with airway function, brainstem wiring and subsequent sleep agility that can impact autonomic well-being throughout a lifetime. We'll see how our regulation techniques can facilitate healthy breath, bite and sleep.
This week we'll slide a little deeper into our brain dynamics, exploring the wiring and circuit organization that organizes our sensory processing. We'll see how disruptions in early brain rhythms may contribute to sensory dysfunction or developmental delays, and how our self-care strategies can reorganize this perceptual circuitry.
Vertigo and Tinnitus: Rewiring for Relief. This week we'll learn about the "Cranial Nerve Circuit Board" in your brainstem, and explore the circuit-board confusion that leads to vertigo and tinnitus. We'll experience the possibilities of restoring smooth function from our simple, interoceptive strategies.
This week we’ll learn what this important term means regarding our body-brain connections and our autonomic functions. We’ll explore the mindset transformations that interoception illuminates, and apply our stress-relief strategies to this embodied awareness process.
Today we'll explore the neuroscience of concussive impact and the importance of pre-existing impact episodes. We'll learn how this confusion manifests and how to recognize movement, cognition and sensory compensatory patterns. We'll review the re-wiring possibilities that our stress-relief strategies bring to these challenges.
In this episode, we'll explore our "sixth sense" of proprioception and its origins in our wiring development, and look at common compensation patterns that "wire-up" when there's wiring confusion and our mind can't figure out how to move our body. We'll consider how simple body awareness can illuminate new movement patterns, and explore this creative movement process that rewires body-brain connections.
Today we'll be speaking with Pamela Anderson about her Parkinson's Disease experience, and the multidimensional healing journey she is experiencing through our work together. We'll explore the newest research discoveries and the integration of our healing strategies.
Today we’ll look more specifically at the “why of the wiring” that’s involved in our stress reactions, and what those “circuit strategies” mean in our daily experiences. We’ll explore the process of recognizing the impact of chaos and confusion on our survival patterns, so we can reframe the stories and reclaim our internal calmness, where our truth is bigger than our trauma.
Today we'll continue our exploration of chronic pain processing and the correlating stories of orthopedic imaging and diagnostics. We'll land deeper in the dynamics of stress resolution and pain relief.
Join Dr. Cathy as she guides you through the wiring dynamics of chronic pain, and the common triggers that perpetuate it. She'll introduce more specific strategies to begin the calming, rewiring process to regain your smooth body-brain connections.
Today Dr. Cathy will talk about the dance between our stress wiring systems with our peaceful wiring functions. Learn how to restore your innate calming sources and navigate with ease.