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Trauma Healing and Nervous System Nourishment With Christopher Luard/Such Sweet Thunder.
Trauma Healing and Nervous System Nourishment With Christopher Luard/Such Sweet Thunder.
This podcast focuses on trauma healing and nervous system nourishment, incorporating RAIN practices and related trauma-aware content. Hosted by Christopher Luard, it offers guidance for those seeking to understand and heal from trauma.
Episodes
HEAL Meditation
Here is a guided meditation based off of the ground breaking work from Dr. Rick Hanson. The acronym HEAL stands for Have a positive experience, Enrich it, Absorb it into the nervous system, and then Link the positive to a mind stressor. Since the neurons which fire together wire together, eventually the stressor becomes associated with the positive experience. Bon Voyage!
Smiling Meditation.
Smiling offers numerous benefits, from boosting your mood to enhancing your overall health. By releasing neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine, a simple smile can reduce stress and improve your immune system. In this guided meditation we explore the felt experience of a smile. Bon Voyage!
The Hands Of Kindness.
Here is a guided meditation moving through a set of postures. These postures are designed to illicit feelings of warmth and goodness from deep within our implicit memory. Developed by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk and myself. Bon Voyage!Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or oth
Mindfulness Based Resilience Training. Information
Mindfulness Based Resilience Training!August 23rd—November 8th, 2026I am delighted to welcome you all into our 12 week deep dive, cultivating mindfulness, kindness, and self compassion with the intention of nourishing our Window of Tolerance.The program is designed with a unique and profound blend of meditation practice and neuroscience, ancient wisdom and modern somatic techniques. Participants c
Brief Gratitude Meditation with Bilateral Stimulation
Here is a brief guided practice designed to install the feeling of gratitude into our nervous system. We go from practicing gratitude to being grateful.Enjoy!
Trauma is Biology, Not your Identity. A Conversation
Here is a "podcast" I created using a few talks which I gave in Sept 2025 on the topic of Resilience Training. I am offering a 12 week online immersive entitled "Mindfulness Based Resilience Training" where we will explore these concepts, and many others, as a way of developing our window of tolerance, so that we can move from reactivity to responsiveness. The course opens Augu
Gratitude Meditation
Here is a practice designed to help us nourish the nervous system with the warmth of gratitude. By spending time soaking in the feeling of gratitude, we are training our nervous system to more and more be able to connect to that trait. We move from a passing state of gratitude, to a permanent trait.
Feeling Safe Meditation
Here I offer a guided practice designed to help us cultivate an experience of inner safety. With consistent practice soaking in the feeling of safety we turn a passing state of safety into a permanent trait.
Conflict Free Pendulation
Here is a brief guided practice where we are invited to feel into the present moment, and then pendulation to a pleasant memory. This can help us practice intentionally guiding awareness to neutral and positive experiences. A practice designed by Dr. Peter Levine.
The Feeling Safe Massage
Here is a practice which I developed drawing on the works of Dr. Arielle Schwartz and Peter Levine. The intention is to help us establish a deep feeling of safety in the body, and to reinhabit the body in new and helpful ways.
Trauma Resolution Resource: Glimmers, Savoring, Tapping, Havening
Here is a very brief video overview of a talk that I gave on June 28th 2026. Enjoy!
Voo Growl. A Nervous System Hack
Here is a practice originally created by Dr. Peter Levine to help one reconnect with our healthy assertiveness. Enjoy!
Voo Breathing For Nervous System Regulation
Here is a brief talk and guided practice on this truly nourishing practice developed by Dr. Peter Levine called Voo Breathing. Enjoy!
Pendulation. Present Moment to Pride
Here is a guided meditation drawing on the work from Dr. Peter Levine, designed to install the permanent trait of pride, which can help alleviate implicit feelings of shame.
Kindness to Three Parts Of Ourself.
Here is a guided meditation explring offering Kindness to three parts of ourselves. A part we like, a part we feel neutral toward, and a part which we find challenging.
A Compassionate Journey
Here we are invited to explore the felt experience of compassion, helping us to develop this healing quality toward ourselves and others.
Hands of Kindness
Here is a guided meditation moving through a set of postures. These postures are designed to illicit feelings of warmth and goodness from deep within our implicit memory. Developed by Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk and myself. Bon Voyage!Meditation can be challenging at times. Occasionally we may experience things which surprise as a result. If you have any questions or concerns in regards to this, or oth
Welcoming Body Scan
Here is a guided meditation where we are invited to meet our body sensations just as they are. Welcoming in our physical experience can be extraordinarily grounding and warm.
Three Pillars of Self Compassion
Here is a guided meditation based of the work of Kristen Neff. We notice a challenge from our lives and we then sysematically explore that challenge with Mindfulness, COmmon Humanity, and Kindness.
Accepting Body Scan.
Here I offer a guided meditation where we are invited to bring a warm acceptance to our body. The more one does this type of practice, the more one will feel into their physical sensations with acceptance. As our emotions arise first as a pattern of sensation, this can help one step off of the wheel of reactivity.
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