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Forward I’ve had the real pleasure, and challenge, of working with both young adults and their parents, sometimes starting with the child...

In our family, we’re not trying to eliminate arguing. We’re trying to understand it. To ask: is this a need? Is this a plea for justice? Is there a more resonant way to express? Voice matters—but so does how it’s held, heard, and returned.

“Nervous system regulation” is everywhere — but what are we actually regulating, and why? Rooted in industrial logic, the language of regulation often reinforces control rather than connection. HETA invites us to shift from managing symptoms to meeting sensations. Through awareness, attunement, and resonance, we begin to reclaim what we’re truly seeking: not compliance, but safety, presence, and relational truth.

In 1934, Bill Wilson’s sobriety began not with prayer or penance, but with a belladonna-induced rupture in a New York detox ward. This essay traces the overlooked entheogenic and colonial roots of AA—revealing how psychoactive plants, institutional medicine, and spiritual crisis shaped the 12 Steps. What happens when we remember that recovery started with a chemically-induced awakening—and what could that mean for healing today?

This piece explores the layered nature of the Mother Wound—personal, archetypal, cultural, and planetary—and how anchoring into the Earth Mother can offer safety and connection for healing. Through Plant+ medicine guideship, Body Deva work, and intimate reflection, it offers insights and a somatic meditation for reconnecting to the Mother within and around us.

Discover how the Body as a House exercise from HETA reveals the wholeness already within you. Reconnect with your full-spectrum self.

The transformative power of Polyvagal Theory - delving into the intricacies of our autonomic nervous system.