Trauma & Healing

One of the most difficult challenges we face as human beings is learning how to remain open to life while knowing that life can hurt us. At some point, most of us experience a loss that changes our relationship with certainty. It may be a betrayal, a divorce, a health diagnosis, the death of a loved one, redundancy, financial hardship, or simply the collapse of a future we thought was guaranteed. Before these experiences, many people move through life with a relatively uncomp

A few clients have mentioned L-theanine to me recently. They’ve described less catastrophic thinking, fewer negative loops, more energy, and better sleep. Not a dramatic shift, but a noticeable one. It got me thinking about how much of what we experience as “thoughts” is actually shaped by the state of the nervous system underneath. When that state shifts, even slightly, the way thoughts land can change.