Daniel Siegel
Trauma-Informed Addiction Recovery
The relationship between trauma and addiction is not correlational — it is causal, bidirectional, and deeply embedded in neurobiology. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study, conducted by Vincent Felitti and Robert Anda with over 17,000 participants, demonstrated a dose-response...
Emotional Intelligence: The Capacity That Changes Everything
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Polyvagal Theory as Applied Healing Framework
Stephen Porges did not merely propose a theory of the autonomic nervous system. He overturned a century of physiological orthodoxy.
Trauma-Informed Care: Principles, Evidence, and Practice
Category: Emotional Healing | Level: Jaguar (West) — Medicine Wheel
Interpersonal Neurobiology: Daniel Siegel's Framework for the Relational Mind
Ask a neuroscientist where the mind is, and they will point to the brain. Ask a philosopher, and they will point to the brain (or claim the question is meaningless).
Ubuntu Philosophy and Relational Consciousness: I Am Because We Are
In the Nguni languages of southern Africa — Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Swazi — there is a word that has no equivalent in any European language: ubuntu. Its most common translation, "I am because we are," gestures toward its meaning but cannot contain it.
Parenting and Child Development
Parenting is the most consequential human activity for which no formal training exists. The decisions parents make — and more importantly, the relational qualities they embody — shape the developing brain's architecture, stress response systems, attachment patterns, emotional regulation...