by gemma | Oct 3, 2012 | health & happiness, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
in {ask gem} I answer question from people just like you. Want your question answered? Shoot me a note and I’ll do my best to come up with something helpful. Why do people cut themselves? If you check with other professionals, they might tell you something like...
by gemma | Sep 19, 2012 | health & happiness, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Every minute there are millions of neuronal patterns flashing. Whenever we’re exposed to something – a laughing child, a gentle breeze, the scent of the ocean, seeing the face of a lover, hearing the opinions of another – neurons fire. Once they’ve fired in a...
by gemma | Sep 5, 2012 | health & happiness, meaningful & life lessons, mind & brain, relationships & sex, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
If when we are young we are shown a healthy form of love, our limbic systems encode this as the way to be in relationships, and we end up having a reliable guide for how to form and maintain a healthy relationship. If when we are young we are shown unhealthy or...
by gemma | Aug 16, 2012 | health & happiness, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, videos & ask gemm
Various people have various ways to chat about the complex web of mystery called neurons. I call these neural networks “maps” because they show us how to see and navigate our world. The more often you think, feel, or behave in a certain way, the more likely it is that...
by gemma | Jun 21, 2012 | inspiration & wisdom, mind & brain, spiritual & out there, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Family Constellations allow us to break messy & sticky patterns of suffering so that we can live healthier, happier, and more fulfilled lives. Bert Hellinger (a crazy smart & deeply intuitive fella) is the founder of this work. He studied and treated families...
by gemma | Jun 2, 2012 | beloved & praised, mind & brain, self sabotage & stuckness, thoughts & musings, tools & strategies, videos & ask gemm
Your brain is continually looking for bad news and for scary situations. As soon as it finds the scariest news, it fixates on it and shoots that information into memory storage. Later, it reactivates that information as soon as a similar situation or signal arises....