My Peace in 50 is a weekly blog exploring small, evidence-based practices to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose—one week at a time. Rooted in nervous system care, personal reflection, and embodied healing, each post offers insight, encouragement, and a gentle invitation to reconnect with what matters most.
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores something both deeply personal and profoundly universal: belonging.
Most of us can remember moments when we felt fully included — welcomed without having to prove ourselves. And most of us can also remember moments when we felt just slightly outside the circ...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is about something that surprised me.
Years ago, when I worked at the Children’s Hospital, Healing Touch practitioners would visit our staff meetings. I was curious—but skeptical.
How could something so gentle have such a profound impact?
And then I experienced it my...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores something that has quietly reshaped my understanding of both relationships and nervous system regulation: partner presence.
So much of healing focuses on how we regulate ourselves. But most of us live in relationship—with partners, family members, and others...
 Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores one of the simplest—and most powerful—practices for nervous system regulation: walking meditation.
Not walking to exercise.Not walking to clear your inbox in your head.Not walking to achieve anything at all.
Just walking.
Walking meditation is the practice ...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog explores a concept that can be both comforting and complicated: post-traumatic growth.
When I first encountered this idea, part of me resisted it. Because trauma is not something to romanticize. It hurts. It disrupts. It changes us in ways we never asked for.
But pos...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is about perfectionism—the kind that looks like competence from the outside, but feels like constant pressure from within.
Recently, my aunt told a story about me at three years old, sitting on the stairs with a box of animal crackers. I carefully opened the box, too...
Hi everyone,
This week’s blog is one of the most personal I’ve written in a while.
For much of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me because I froze in moments of acute stress. My mind would go blank. Later, the clarity would come—but not when I needed it most.
I now understand so...
Hi friends,
I’ve spent years teaching and writing about boundaries—especially in leadership. Clear, compassionate boundaries still matter deeply to me, and they always will.
But this week’s blog explores a different layer of boundary work—one that often comes before words, policies, or conversati...
 Hi friend,
Last week, we explored how sound and music can bring us back to ourselves.This week, we’re turning inward — toward the way we talk to ourselves.
In this new blog, I share how affirmations can become embodied practices that:
Gently rewire our nervous system
Shift us from criticism to ...
Hi friend,
This week’s blog is one of my favorites — a heartfelt reflection on music as medicine.
From 90s grunge (hello Pearl Jam) to the quiet hums that steady us, music shapes our nervous system, our memories, and our sense of self. It’s not just entertainment — it’s regulation, release, and r...
Hi friend,
This week’s blog explores one of the most accessible nervous system tools we have: nature.
After a difficult few weeks supporting my mom as she recovers from a broken hip, I found myself pulled into the eucalyptus forest near my childhood home. What I felt there wasn’t just nostalgia —...
Hi friend,
This week’s blog is an invitation to practice gratitude without pretending everything is okay.
Not the Pinterest version.Not toxic positivity.Just honest gratitude — the kind that can sit beside grief, burnout, and uncertainty, and still help us notice what’s soft, beautiful, or sustai...
My Peace in 50 is a weekly blog exploring small, evidence-based practices to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose—one week at a time. Rooted in nervous system care, personal reflection, and embodied healing, each post offers insight, encouragement, and a gentle invitation to reconnect with what matters most.
Send the resource
Enter your details below to receive "Seven Steps to Becoming a Trauma-Informed Leader" in your inbox.
