Understanding Your Body’s Alerts: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn
Your body is always talking, most of us were never taught how to listen. Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn aren’t flaws or failures, they’re survival patterns that kick in when your system feels threatened or overwhelmed. This post breaks down what each response looks like in real life, how to notice when you’re slipping into one, and why understanding your own patterns is a powerful step toward inside out healing that actually sticks.
Stabilizing When Life Won’t Stop Spinning
When life starts spinning faster than you can keep up, inside out healing begins with stabilizing yourself long enough to breathe again. This isn’t about fixing everything at once, or pretending you’re fine, it’s about finding small, steadying practices that help you come back to centre when the world feels loud and your system is overloaded. In this post, I talk about what it means to anchor yourself in the middle of chaos, and how simple tools can help you rebuild your footing one moment at a time.
To the men reading this blog
If you’re a man reading this, you’re not here by accident. Something in you is tired of carrying everything alone, or pretending you should have figured it out by now. This post is a quiet nudge, a reminder that you’re not broken, you’re rebuilding, and there’s space here for you to be honest about what hurts and what you hope for. You don’t have to do this work perfectly, you just have to keep showing up.
From Forgotten to Fierce: The 1958 Edsel Villager Reimagined as an SUV
In the realm of what-if automotive history, few cars lend themselves to redemption stories quite like the 1958 Edsel Villager. Once written off as one of the greatest flops in automotive history, the Edsel has become a cult classic—especially when viewed through the creative lens of the Parallel Garage. This isn’t your granddad’s station wagon […]
AI + Cars = My Kind of Art
A few months ago I stumbled across a Facebook group dedicated entirely to AI Automotive Art — which, for a guy like me, feels like finding the motherlode. Two of my favourite things in one place: classic cars and cutting-edge tech. Naturally, I dove in. Then, as fate would have it, soon after we were […]
Off Duty: The Place I Go When the Workday Ends
This is the part of my online presence that has nothing to prove. No SEO strategy. No polished pitch. No professional hat. Just the side of me that has always lived between deadlines and life rebuilds. Before social media took over, I blogged as newmediaMike. I wrote about whatever pulled my attention that day. Experiments, […]
What “Inside Out” Healing Actually Means
Inside out healing isn’t a slogan, it’s a shift in how you move through struggle. Instead of trying to muscle through life from the outside, you learn to work with what’s happening inside your body, your emotions, and your beliefs. This post breaks down what inside out healing really means, why it matters, and how it can change the way you rebuild when life knocks you off balance.