I learned this exercise in a writing group with Serene Calkins , and it immediately brought me back to a practice I leaned on over a decade ago called the 'Morning Pages' from The Artist's Way . Serene calls it “taking out the trash.” The idea is simple. You set a timer for two minutes and you write down whatever is on your mind. The mental clutter, the to-do list, the half-formed thoughts, the things circling that don’t quite land anywhere. You don’t shape it. You don’t fix it. You don’t...

Recently, a clinician said something to me that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about: “I love offering KAP in my practice… but it’s a terrible business model.” I immediately knew what she meant. The strange thing about effective therapy When KAP works the way we hope it will, something interesting often happens. A client might have a meaningful experience. They process something they’ve been carrying for years or access a sense of possibility that hasn’t felt available to them. And...

Phase 5 Brainspotting training this past weekend left me with incredible insights. And it did so by giving my brain permission to stop trying to produce them. We are conditioned to orient toward understanding: "What does this mean?" "Where did it come from?" "How do we resolve it?". Over time, “something is happening” becomes insufficient unless it can be named, contextualized, and fixed. The Neuroexperiential Model (NEM) , which lays the groundwork for Phase 5, is not convinced that...