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"Recognition of Humanity should be the central focus of Human Existence" ~ Paulo Freire
"I dream of a world where I can lay my vulnerabilities out there, open for everyone, until they are my strengths. I am longing for this."
Harper Steele
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
If you are feeling suicidal you are NEVER alone... JUST dial 988
Or Click Here for a link to their website and talk/text links or click the logo at left.
WARNING!!!
The Trump Administration cut funding for the
specific LGBTQ+ part of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Beginning in JULY 2025
If you are LGBTQ+, you will not receive the quality of the previous (specialized and appropriate) support through the 988 line and will be better supported by calling or texting other crisis support lines below.
Here are some options for other LGBTQ+ Suicide and Crisis support:
The Trevor Project: Offers crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people (ages 13-24). They provide a lifeline (1-866-488-7386), text support (Text START to 678-678), and online chat, available 24/7.
Trans Lifeline: A peer support hotline run by and for transgender people, offering direct emotional and financial support, available 24/7. The US number is 1-877-565-8860 and the Canadian number is 1-877-330-6366.
LGBT National Hotline: Provides peer counseling, information, and resources for callers of all ages. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-888-843-4564.
LGBT National Youth Talkline: Specifically for youth up to age 25, offering information, support, and local resources. Available Monday-Friday, 4pm - 12am ET and Saturday, 12pm - 5pm ET at 1-800-246-7743.
5 Neuro-Tools for Depression
5 Neuro-Tools for Depression
Watch This FIRST to Get a Better Understanding of Your Depression
Watch This FIRST to Get a Better Understanding of Your Depression
This is a must watch if you live with, work with, or care about someone with, Depression.
What Can Neuro-Tools Do For YOU?
What Can Neuro-Tools Do For YOU?
If your Depression is related to Trauma - go to the PTSD & CPTSD page
NeuroMeditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
NeuroMeditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
This meditation assists you in moving through the waters of Depression which ebb and flow.
Being reworked! Will be up again soon.
5 Tools for Working with the Ebb & Flow of Depression
5 Tools for Working with the Ebb & Flow of Depression
This allows you to enter your zip code to find a therapist near you or for telehealth practitioners. You can filter by insurance, style of practice, ages, years experience etc...
This website has SO many AMAZING resources, which are broken down in clear and usable ways, to help you that is safe and inclusive.
This link takes you to the crisis section of a page, which has very important info, but also has more info if you scroll up. There you will find links to finding whatever resource you need.
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
This Site is NOT a Replacement for Therapy, Medication or Medical Treatment
Sometimes Mindfulness CAN be very helpful for Depression
Sometimes Mindfulness CAN be very helpful for Depression
If you have tried medication but it isn't working well ENOUGH
If you have tried medication but it isn't working well ENOUGH
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid it?
Toxic Positivity: What is it and How to Avoid it?
What is toxic positivity? How do people engaging in toxic positivity impact people who are struggling with any issue? Learn how to identify and avoid toxic positivity in yourself and in others. Additionally this discusses what to say to people who approach you with toxic positivity.
Beware the Grifters
Beware the Grifters
Grifters abound in the "healing" profession and community. Watch this video for some information on how to avoid those who are preying on your vulnerability, pain, suffering, difficulty and/or struggle. Be CAUTIOUS with your heart, mind and psyche - treat it with the care it deserves with choosing who you work with.
My 2025 NMI Level Three Certification Small Research Project
Comparing Two Interventions To Reduce Activation Through Accessing the Vagus Nerve
Impacts of AWE & Wonder on Depression
The Power of Awe and Wonder
The Power of Awe and Wonder
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Watch for the GEMS
Watch for the GEMS
Nature is often the easiest and most beneficial place for connecting with the feelings of Awe and Wonder.
Go to the Begin Here page for more on Awe and Wonder and to the NATURE page for more on the importance of Nature.
Nature and Depression
The Power and Impact of Nature
Finding Special Spots in Unlikely Places & Being SAFE in Nature
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Various Ways to Access Nature: Especially When You Can't Get There
Neuro-Tools for Depression and Connecting with Nature
BE = Brain Exercise
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Body, Mind Soul 6 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
This practice uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection. Weave yourself into life.
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Mind, Body, Soul 6 YouTube
Quiet Mind - Being the Tree & the Forest NeuroMeditation
Reworking this - up again soon!
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Go to the pages below for more information and meditations for each:
To Increase Feelings of Connection
WHEN you can feel/connect with it - If not go to FOCUS
Using Neuro-Tools for Connection
Increasing Compassion for Self & Others - OH NeuroMeditation
This practice is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for the self and for all others sharing existing on the planet right now.
Music: Let Your Soul Speak by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
The Net of Indra
Reworking this - will be up again soon!
This Open Heart NeuroMeditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Open Heart: Being the Tree & the Forest
This practice uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection. Weave yourself into life.
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Mind, Body, Soul 6 YouTube
The Law of Kindness Increases Feelings of Connection
The Law of Kindness
The Law of Kindness
Living by the Law of Kindness inreases connection with, and compassion for, yourself and others. If you live by one law, let it be this one! Helps you and helps the world.
The Vagus Nerve & Polyvagal Theory
Attuning to the Body NeuroMeditation
This practice guides you through shifting your attention inward to build connection with and awareness of what is happening in the body (interoception), to increase awareness of nervous system state, which can help you determine which tools, or interventions, to turn to. Regular practice increases your ability to listen and notice.
Music: Beyond by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Anchoring Bi-Lateral NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Neuro-Tools to Increase Connection with Self, Safety, Anchored Strength, and LOVE
Preparation for the Cave of Safety - How to Create YOURS
The Cave of Safety NeuroMeditation
The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This practice increases feelings of inner safety, and is helpful when you need a buffer from the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work.
Music: Safe and Loved by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
What is Safety REALLY?
What is Safety REALLY?
For more information, go to the Safety page
Fostering Self-Love NeuroMeditation
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
OH: The Net of Indra
Weave Yourself INTO Life
This Open Heart meditation increases the felt sense of being woven into the very fabric of life
Being reworked - up again soon!
For Active Depression States:
** or when you feel one emerging or building **
What is an Active Depression & Which Neuro-Tools are Most Helpful?
What is an Active Depression & Which Neuro-Tools are Most Helpful?
Active states of depression are when you have noticeable symptoms presenting. This varies depending on HOW your depression presents itself. If you aren't sure what your symptoms are, work with a therapist and watch the Sapolsky video toward the top of the page.
NOTE: When your depression is active you usually can't connect with Open Heart practices. This is when it is important to practice FOCUS. Determine HOW, and on what, your brain likes to focus on. Watch the video below for more information on this.
Basic Info on Using Focus & When to Use it
Basic Info on Using Focus & When to Use it
Neuro-Tools for Active Depression
from iAwake Technologies
from iAwake Technologies
These offer a passive way to change your brainwaves. READ the descriptions to determine which to use. Always use EAR BUDS for best efficacy! Try listening while practicing a NeuroMeditation.
NeuroMeditations & Brain Exercises for Active Depression
Meditation for the Ebb & Flow of Depression
Being reworked - up again soon!
This meditation assists you in moving through the waters of Depression which ebb and flow.
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate NeuroMeditation
Use this practice to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This is my version of one from the NMI page on insight timer and also on this page.
Music: Limitless Focus - 40 Hz by Study Sonic Focus on YouTube
Connecting with Awe & Wonder NeuroMeditation
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life NeuroMeditation
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
You can try to practice the other meditations below, HOWEVER, it is important you do NOT judge yourself if you just can't FEEL it or connect with it. This is not a lack on your part. Rather, this is literally about brainwaves, neurobiology, and how our lived experiences change our brains.
For People with Depression but NOT in an Active Depression Cycle:
When you live with Depression, but are NOT currently in an ACTIVE state, or you are at the edges of one
When you live with Depression, but are NOT currently in an ACTIVE state, or you are at the edges of one
To keep Depressive Cycles at bay it can often be helpful to work with Open Heart (aka Loving Kindness) Meditations. The key is to choose the right target. If you can't feel the connection and genuine love or positive feeling you won't feel the benefits. YOU HAVE TO FEEL IT!!
Listen to Yourself:
if you feel the need for love use - yourself as the target
If you need to feel appreciation for the good people in your life or in the world - choose accordingly
if you need to feel connected - choose to focus on all those you feel connected with near and far
if you need to feel hope in the world - focus on all the people working to make the world a better place and feel your connection with them
if you need to expand your compassion for others - choose all people or specific people
if you want to feel connected with nature - focus on the feeling of AWE see the information above or try the Tree and The Forest on the Begin Here Page
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
Increasing Compassion for Self & Others NeuroMeditation
This practice is the basis and foundation of Open Heart meditations. It increases love and compassion for the self and for all others sharing existing on the planet right now.
Music: Let Your Soul Speak by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice anchors you in your strong, immoveable center and allows you to rest in strength as you observe all thought, feeling and sensation that arises
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Body, Mind Soul 6 by Paradise Tonight on YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
This practice uses imagery of being both the single rooted tree AND the entire forest to Open the Heart and increase connection. Weave yourself into life.
Music: Relaxing Meditation Music Heals Mind, Body, Soul 6 YouTube
Anchoring Bi-Lateral NeuroMeditation
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
The Net of Indra and Ouroboros as Symbols of Connection
OH: The Net of Indra
Weave Yourself INTO Life
Being reworked - up again soon!
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
These below are being reworked and will be up again soon!
Quiet Mind: Being the Tree & the Forest
This meditation connects you with being like a tree and then slowly to the feeling of being the entire, vast and expansive forest
Music: Relaxing Flute Falling Leaves by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Holding Both When You Feel Opposing Things
Holding Both When You Feel Opposing Things
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
Music: Krishna’s Harmonious Flute by Buddha’s Lounge
Ouroboros for Letting Go & Shedding the Past
Ouroboros for Letting Go & Shedding the Past
**Caution: This meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation**
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Go to the PTSD - CPTSD page for more info on using Neuro-Tools for Trauma
Depression and Grief/Loss -
These will be up again soon!
OH for When Grief Rocks Your World
OH for When Grief Rocks Your World
This meditation is pretty self explanatory. It can offer some sense of soothing to the pain.
Music: Listen to the Flute’s Lament by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
Holding Joy AND Sorrow
This NeuroMeditation supports you in expanding yourself as you hold both your joys and your sorrows.
Music: Buddha’s Flute - Healing Mother by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
The Science of Trauma & Grief
The Science of Trauma & Grief
Go to the GRIEF & LOSS page for more meditations and information on using NeuroMeditation with Grief/Loss
Guilt and Depression:
Fostering Self-Love NeuroMeditation
This practice guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Music: Meditation for Inner Peace by Peaceful Meditation Music YouTube
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
Meditation for Self Forgiveness
Reworking this - up again soon!
This meditation guides you through increasing love and compassion for yourself. Observe yourself and how the experiences of life have impacted you. Through the lens of love, connect with both giving and receiving whatever is needed, fostering and growing your compassion and understanding for yourself.
Meditation for Holding BOTH When You Feel Opposing Things
Meditation for Holding BOTH When You Feel Opposing Things
Reworking this - up again soon!
This meditation can be helpful when you feel pulled in opposite directions or the splitting experience arising from what seems to be conflicting thoughts, feelings, or sensations. By helping you stretch and expand the meditation this supports you so that you don’t have to pick either/or, and rather can hold BOTH things.
The two meditations below are NOT recommended if you are experiencing suicidal ideation
Being reworked - up again soon!
Meditation for Shedding the Past and Letting Go
Meditation for Shedding the Past and Letting Go
** This Meditation is not suitable for people living with, or experiencing, suicidal ideation **
Using imagery of Ouroboros, this meditation supports you through times of great change, growth and/or transformation. It assists you through your process of, and your acceptance of, letting go and shedding the past - moving you forward into this new life phase.
Music: Peaceful Garden by Buddha’s Lounge on YouTube
Accepting What IS
Accepting What IS
*This meditation is not appropriate for people struggling with suicidal ideation
This meditation helps you to gently stretch into acceptance of things that may be difficult
Music: Dive into Tranquility - Buddha’s Flute on YouTube
Medication and Psychedelic Therapy
Psychedlic Therapy: How Spravato PROFOUNDLY Helped Me
Don't let the word psychedlic put you off. Watch the videos below to learn more about how this treatment affects the brain and its incredible efficacy for Depression, PTSD and many other struggles.
Medication and Depression
Medication and Depression
Don't let ANYONE make you feel bad about trying medication for Depression. Your brain chemistry changes with depression and often medication does help and can be necessary. Again - this isn't a flaw in YOU, it is a result of depression.
How a Single Psilocybin Dose Can Change Your Brain (Latest Research)
How a Single Psilocybin Dose Can Change Your Brain (Latest Research)
New documentary explores use of psychedelics to treat combat veterans with PTSD
New documentary explores use of psychedelics to treat combat veterans with PTSD
How one psychedelic trip can alter an entire lifetime - with Matthew Johnson at John's Hopkins University
How one psychedelic trip can alter an entire lifetime - with Matthew Johnson at John's Hopkins University
When Your Depression (or your child's) is a Response to the World's LACK of Understanding Gender and Sexuality
The current administration is making choices that make all LGBTQ+ people LESS safe. This is my advice for his second term.
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
From a Mother Who Knows the Risk: My strongest recommendation for parents of LGBTQ children
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ+ Children in Conservative Areas & Those Who CARE About Protecting Them
The Facts About Gender
Brain Gender
Transgender Neurobiology
Neurobiology of Trans-Sexuality
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America
by Will Roscoe
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology
by Rosemary A Joyce
Why Understanding Your Temperament is Important?
Why Understanding Your Temperament is Important?
Knowing what temperament you are at a base level can help you as you come to KNOW YOURSELF more fully.
We come into the world having a base temperament. This is our Nature. Who we are is comprised of this and our NURTURING or how we were nurtured. Understanding your nature can offer you amazing insight into yourself. Exploring the impacts of how you were nurtured or where you weren't allows you to see the story that is YOU. Our Nature can't be radically changed. However when we come to understand ourselves better we can gain the awareness to make choices which are in alignment with our nature so that our lives can feel more peaceful and fulfilling. It is part of learning to truly love, accept and respect yourself and the WONDER which you ARE! No one is the same as us... we are connected and can have shared experiences, but the internal world that is us is something which is as unique as our fingerprint.
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Why Understanding your Personality Type is Helpful
Click Above for the link to the FREE survey!
Take time to answer the questions slowly and honestly for accuracy. They offer a breakdown of a buttload of very interesting and helpful information that can help you gain insight into yourself.
Why Does Your Perception Matter? Unpacking and Re-Defining YOURS
Courses for Depression
I am currently focused on creating the following self-paced online courses:
Neuro-Tools for Vagus Nerve & Nervous System Regulation
Adaptive Resilience: Neuro-Tools for Stress Regulation
Interrupting Anxiety: Neuro-Tools for Calm State Regulation
Shifting State: Neuro-Tools for Depressive Cycles
Reach out to me if you would like to be notified when they are ready, or to request one of the other courses listed on the available courses page.
Learn more about the ways each style of NeuroMeditation impact the brain, or how to determine which style is right for you!
They have a free survey, free short classes and longer courses, trainings and certification available.
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