The Living Current Podcast

The Living Current Podcast What moves us, connects us, and renews us? Grounded in presence, relationship, and the nervous system.

The Living Current explores resilience, renewal, and creativity as living currents felt in the body, between us, and in the world around us.

See you all on Saturday! Feeling stoked to share this one. šŸ¾šŸŒæEMBODIED KIN: LISTENING TO THE ANIMAL WITHINMovement, Creat...
08/24/2026

See you all on Saturday! Feeling stoked to share this one. šŸ¾šŸŒæ

EMBODIED KIN: LISTENING TO THE ANIMAL WITHIN
Movement, Creativity, and Expression

A playful space to connect with what feels instinctive and alive within.

Step out of your head and into a more intuitive way of sensing and responding.

This experiential workshop invites you to explore instinct, movement, and expression through an animal-inspired lens. Through guided practices, creative exploration, and open play, weā€™ll notice and follow different qualities as they emerge.

Animal intelligence lives in how we rest, respond, protect, and play. This space offers a way to listen for that intelligence through sensation, rhythm, movement, and imagination.

There is nothing to perform and nothing to get right, just curiosity, presence, and a willingness to listen.

WHAT TO BRING

Basic art supplies will be available. Feel free to bring a sketchbook, drawing materials, clothing, jewelry, textures, or a small meaningful object that helps evoke an animal, image, feeling, or quality youā€™d like to explore. Or simply come as you are.

Come as you are. Move how you feel. Discover what is already alive within you.

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www.thelivingcurrent.com

07/30/2026

One of the greatest gifts of being a therapist is that the work continually invites us deeper into our own presence.

While the focus is often on supporting the client, healing is never entirely one-way. Every session asks something of us too. It calls us to become more grounded, more attuned, more spacious, and more fully embodied.

Our presence isnā€™t just what we bring to the work. It becomes part of the work itself.





The storm just got started. Vincent says heā€™s doing well and has made it safely to his safe spot.
07/21/2026

The storm just got started. Vincent says heā€™s doing well and has made it safely to his safe spot.

07/09/2026

The banks of the river are what allow the water to flow.

Without banks, the river spreads out, floods, disperses, or loses its direction. With enough containment, the river can move with strength, rhythm, and purpose.

Our bodies are similar.

Boundaries are not only walls we put up. They are part of how we find our shape. They help us feel where we begin, what belongs to us, what matters to us, and what we are available for.

When we have a felt sense of our own boundedness, our inner flow has somewhere to gather.

Our energy becomes less scattered.
Our attention becomes more available.
Our yes becomes clearer.
Our no becomes more honest.
Our authenticity has a pathway into the world.

Containment does not shut down aliveness. It gives aliveness somewhere to move.

The steadier we become in our own body, the more our natural current can find its way through us.

Boundaries support flow.
Containment supports expression.
A clear sense of self helps our life move with more integrity.





07/09/2026

Have a hard time separating yourself from other peopleā€™s energy?

Some of us learned to survive by feeling everything.

We track the room.
We sense subtle shifts in tone, mood, tension, disappointment, desire, and need.
Before we know it, someone elseā€™s emotion is living inside our body as if it belongs to us.

A simple somatic boundary practice can begin with orientation:

This is me.
That is you.

This is my body.
That is your body.

This is my breath.
That is your breath.

This is my energy.
That is your energy.

Try saying it slowly and notice what happens in your body.

You might feel your feet, your legs, your back, your breath, or the shape of your own space. You might notice your quads engage, your pelvis settle, or a clearer sense of ā€œI am here.ā€

Boundaries are not only mental decisions. They are also bodily experiences.

We can reclaim our own space.
We can feel where we begin and where another person ends.
We can care without merging.
We can connect without abandoning ourselves.

Sometimes the practice begins very simply:

This is me.
That is you.





06/25/2026

Slow Enough to Integrate: somatic experiencing in the 21st-century

There can be a belief that moving faster will get us where we want to go sooner.

We hurry toward healing. We try to understand everything at once. We push for insight, resolution, or transformation, hoping that more effort and more speed will produce more change.

Yet our nervous system often works differently.

When we slow enough to remain connected with ourselves, we begin to notice more. Subtle sensations become available. Emotions have room to unfold without overwhelming us. We start to recognize the quiet signals our body has been offering all along.

Slowing doesnā€™t mean less is happening. It often means more is being received.

Integration isnā€™t simply having an experience. It is allowing that experience to become part of us. That takes time. It takes enough presence for the nervous system to organize around what is unfolding rather than simply trying to get through it.

Sometimes moving quickly creates the feeling of progress while leaving much of what matters behind. We may collect insights without embodying them, or move from one breakthrough to the next without giving our system the opportunity to reorganize.

A pace you can remain connected within will often take you farther than a pace you have to survive.

Lasting change is rarely built through force. It grows through a relationship with ourselves that is steady enough to notice, receive, and integrate each step along the way.

06/21/2026

Acceptance is not the same thing as opening ourselves to everything all the time. If we were fully open to every sensation, emotion, thought, memory, demand, and stimulus at every moment, we would likely become overwhelmed. The nervous system naturally regulates the amount of experience it can take in.

Instead, acceptance often becomes meaningful in relationship to what we value.

When something matters deeply to us, we become willing to open to experiences that we would otherwise avoid. We make space for discomfort, uncertainty, grief, vulnerability, fear, or disappointment because doing so allows us to move toward something that feels important and life-giving.

Values provide a kind of steady orientation. They become a compass we can return to when friction arises. Without that orientation, opening can feel random, overwhelming, or even unnecessary. With it, opening becomes purposeful.

In this sense, acceptance is not passive resignation. It is an active willingness to make room for experience in the service of what matters.

A parent may open to exhaustion because caring for their child is deeply valued. An artist may open to self-doubt because creating feels meaningful. A grieving person may open to sorrow because love itself is worth remaining connected to. A person healing from trauma may gradually open to difficult sensations because freedom, connection, and aliveness matter more than continued avoidance.

Values help us determine what is worth the cost of opening.

The discomfort does not become pleasant, but it becomes meaningful.

Acceptance then becomes less about enduring everything and more about increasing our capacity to participate in the life we want to live. We open where opening serves life. We make room for what arises because doing so allows us to remain connected to what we care about most.

Often the question is not, ā€œAm I willing to feel this?ā€

The deeper question becomes, ā€œWhat am I opening for?ā€

When we know what we are opening for, the experience of acceptance can transform from mere tolerance into an expression of devotion to what we value.

06/18/2026

We often judge, suppress, or feel ashamed of the very strategies our nervous system naturally employs in an attempt to regulate and find stability. Many of these responses are so ordinary that we barely notice them. Shaking a leg, tapping a foot, pacing while thinking, stretching, humming, sighing, looking out a window, holding a warm cup of tea, or reaching for movement after sitting too long.

Yet our conditioning frequently teaches us to view these impulses as distractions, nervous habits, signs of weakness, or evidence that something is wrong. Over time, we can become disconnected from the subtle intelligence that lives within these responses.

What happens when, instead of immediately correcting or suppressing them, we become curious about them?

What happens when conscious awareness joins an already existing regulatory process?

Often the strategy itself begins to deepen. A restless leg may reveal itself as an impulse toward movement, grounding, or discharge. A spontaneous stretch may become an opportunity to feel more fully supported by the chair beneath us. A sigh may become the doorway to a breath the body has been seeking all along.

Bringing awareness to these organic regulatory strategies is not about controlling them or turning them into techniques. It is about entering into relationship with them. Awareness can amplify what the nervous system is already attempting to do, allowing more of the bodyā€™s innate intelligence, self-organizing capacity, and regulatory wisdom to come online.

Rather than asking, ā€œHow do I regulate myself?ā€ we sometimes begin to ask a different question:

ā€œWhat is my system already doing in this moment to support itself, and what happens if I gently join it?ā€

That shift can reveal that regulation is often less about adding something new and more about recognizing, supporting, and participating in processes that are already quietly unfolding within us.

Feeling really grateful today.A huge thank you to the team at Teal Saguaro Wellness for hosting such a thoughtful and me...
05/15/2026

Feeling really grateful today.

A huge thank you to the team at Teal Saguaro Wellness for hosting such a thoughtful and meaningful gathering at the Central Ohio Mental Health Professionals Conference. The hospitality, care, and intention behind the event could truly be felt throughout the day.

It was a genuine honor to open the conference with the morning keynote and to be in conversation alongside so many incredible presenters and clinicians. There was such a depth of knowledge, heart, experience, and dedication in the room. Iā€™m leaving feeling inspired by the collective care so many people are bringing into the mental health field.

I also felt deeply honored to offer my workshop, Healing Beyond Words: Supporting Safety and Integration Through Body-Based Trauma Care, exploring nervous system-informed approaches to trauma, embodiment, relational safety, pacing, and integration through a somatic lens.

These conversations feel incredibly important right now. Grateful to be part of a field that continues moving toward deeper presence, humanity, and understanding in the way we support one another.

Thank you again to everyone who attended, participated, shared reflections, and helped create such a welcoming space.





Iā€™ve been putting this workshop together, and Iā€™m feeling really excited about whatā€™s taking shape:Healing Beyond Words:...
05/03/2026

Iā€™ve been putting this workshop together, and Iā€™m feeling really excited about whatā€™s taking shape:

Healing Beyond Words: Supporting Safety and Integration Through Body-Based Trauma Care

Trauma shapes how the nervous system organizes around safety, connection, and threat. When protective states dominate, cognitive insight alone is often insufficient to support integration. This presentation explores how body-based, nervous systemā€“informed approaches create the conditions under which trauma recovery can unfold without overwhelm.

Drawing from Somatic Experiencing and polyvagal-informed perspectives, participants will examine how orienting, pacing, embodied awareness, and relational presence support nervous system organization across mind, body, and lived meaning. Emphasis is placed on understanding safety as a physiological condition and applying ethical, titrated interventions that support integration rather than impose regulation. Conceptual frameworks are paired with optional experiential demonstrations to support clinical application and deeper understanding.

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If youā€™re looking to expand beyond traditional talk therapy and bring more body-based approaches into your work, Iā€™d love to have you join us.

šŸ“… May 15, 2026
šŸ“ Dublin, Ohio

šŸŽŸļø Use code NicholasMay15 for $25 off registration

More info + registration:
https://www.tealsaguaro.com/event-details/may-15-2026-central-ohio-mental-health-professionals-conference

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