Archive - the healing lab

Lab Notes: Before You Can Heal, You Have to Feel Safe

The science, the stories, and why it matters.

Oct 31 •

Finding Safety at 3:45 A.M. at the Price Chopper

Because when it comes to feeling safe, you gotta do, what you gotta do.

Oct 24 •

With Love, and Wafflenugget | Chapter 4. Friendship or Contamination?

Kate receives an unsettling text message from an old friend, and has to make a choice.

Oct 17 •

With Love, and Wafflenugget | The Complete Chapters (So far...)

Start here to explore my second memoir — the story of how I rewired my entire brain. This work is in active development.

Oct 17 •

14 Ways to Befriend Your Nervous System

A set of gentle experiments to start connecting with your body's own alert system.

Oct 16 •

Healing in Real Time: Rage, Tears, and a Nervous System Rewired

Plus, 14 ways to experiment with connecting to your own nervous system

Oct 10 •

A Life in Fight, Flight, Freeze... and Fugue

How my Nervous System tried to keep me alive.

Oct 3 •

September 2025

August 2025

Welcome to The Healing Lab

A place for the exhausted, the overwhelmed, and the brave...

Aug 29 •

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