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Tom and Ruth continue to unpack Autonomic Healing Problem Solving, where the brain informs the mind what is actually rational. Tom shares the patterns of seemingly rational perceptions that people have and how AHA PS empowers them to move into their actual rational alternatives.
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Many people have phobia's - fear of snakes, fear of small spaces, fear of dentists! In fact there are more than 400 phobia's that people experience.
In this episode Tom and Ruth share their latest adventure of climbing one of Colorado's 14,000 ft mountains - Grey's Peak. Listen as Ruth shares how this was an achievement in more ways than one, as her Acrophobia (fear of heights) has always hindered her from climbing. They share how Autonomic Healing and the activation of homeostasis helped her normalize as she achieved the climb and managed to submit the mountain.
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Stress and trauma's lingering effect settles itself in our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the situations we face daily. We all have (what Tom calls) seemingly rational perceptions - they seem perfectly rational to us, but often they are a product of how stress and trauma have formed us.
In this episode, Ruth and Tom introduce the work of AHA Problem Solving - where the activation of homeostasis helps individuals to see a problem from an actual rational perspective enabling them to be the authentic version of themselves.
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Join us as we explore the impact of trauma: Tom shares how trauma affects our physical health, relationships, and perceptions.
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In this episode, Ruth and Tom begin to unpack the complex trauma topic. Trauma is something we've now started to talk about a lot more as a society, but understanding what it is, its effect, and its impact on a human being, and more importantly, how we can heal from trauma is a much-desired conversation.
Listen as Tom shares how Autonomic Healing Activation has revolutionized the treatment he offers to traumatized individuals, giving them the hope of not just surviving life but healing and thriving.
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Chris is a therapist in Colorado and has been treating offenders for the last 18 years. Listen to the story of how he and Tom met and how he became Tom's first AHA-certified practitioner. Chris now offers AHA therapy each week as part of his private practice and makes incredible headway with his clients.
Check out Chris at www.cruxcounseling.com.
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In this last episode on rational intimacy, Ruth and Tom explore how loving ourselves is essential to loving our neighbor.
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How can two words have such a different impact? Do we react, or do we respond to the circumstances we're facing? One is part of the predictable pattern we see in the tsunami of stress, and the other gives way to living in rational intimacy. Listen to part three of our mini-series on rational intimacy. We look at how the choice to respond instead of reacting makes an incredible difference in how we relate healthily as humans.
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Part two of our rational intimacy mini-series looks even more deeply at this healthy alternative to the tsunami of stress. Tom explains the importance of understanding what's beneficial and detrimental and how that informs our decisions as we relate to ourselves and others in this healthy paradigm.
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Our intimate relationships that are so life-giving can become the casualty as we experience the destructive escalating patterns of the Tsunami of Stress. How we relate with ourselves and others often becomes compromised as we encounter stress, trauma, and those triggering events that make 'then' feel like 'now.'
In this episode, Ruth and Tom introduce the mini-series of Rational Intimacy - a whole new paradigm that Tom has observed over his many years as a therapist that gives us an alternative way to live and a way to thrive in a loving, healthy community.
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The Autonomic Homeostasis Activation (AHA) Podcast explores the autonomic nervous system, interoception, homeostasis, nervous system regulation, and the neuroscience of stress, healing, and…
Hosted by Tom Pals and Ruth Lorensson, each episode combines neuroscience, living systems thinking, and practical insight to help listeners better understand how the brain and body work together to support resilience, recovery, and thriving.
Through conversations on stress, trauma, emotional wellbeing, cognition, and whole-person health, Tom and Ruth unpack the science behind Autonomic Homeostasis Activation™ and the brain's innate capacity to facilitate healing and restore regulation.
Whether you're interested in nervous system health, trauma recovery, emotional resilience, or the mind-body connection, this podcast offers evidence-informed conversations and practical tools to help you flourish in body, mind, and spirit.