The Blog

Grounded explainers on sound and the nervous system, alongside reflective writing on the patterns underneath it all.

Prefer To Listen?

I co-teach through Pure Heart Centre alongside Moira Williams, and I've joined the Pure Heart Podcast a couple of times to talk through this work out loud. If reading isn't your thing, these two episodes cover a lot of the same ground, or read my written reflections on each below.

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The Plain-Language Version

Straight answers to the questions people actually ask me, about sound, the nervous system, and what a session is really like.

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What Mitochondria Taught Me About Sound

Mitochondria make the cellular energy your whole nervous system runs on. Here's what studying them, alongside researchers like Dr Jack Kruse and Randy Lee, taught me about sound, regulation, and why calm alone isn't always the answer.

12 September 2026
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The First Sense: Why I Believe Sound Is Medicine

Before we could see or breathe on our own, we could hear. Here's the story of the inner ear bone structure, and why I think of sound work as retuning, not fixing.

30 August 2026
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The Art of Listening: What Auditory Retraining Taught Me

Long before it was my work, listening was something I had to relearn. Here's what auditory retraining taught me about the nervous system, and why I think of listening as a skill, not just a sense.

20 August 2026
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My Story With Sound: How I Found This Work

Before sound was my work, it was something I needed. Here's how a background in economics and classical piano led to tuning forks, and why I think sound can offer a gentler way into what talk therapy sometimes can't reach alone.

21 August 2026
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What Sound Frequency Actually Does In The Body

Sound isn't just something we hear, it's something we feel. Here's a plain-language look at how frequency and vibration interact with the body, and why I'm careful with the claims I make about it.

22 August 2026
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Sound, Stillness and the Layers We're Made Of

Ancient traditions described the self in layers, body, breath, mind, and beyond. It's a useful map for thinking about why a single session can touch more than just physical tension.

23 August 2026
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What Is a Sound Bath? A Beginner's Guide

If you've never been to one, here's what a sound bath actually is, what happens in a typical session, what you might feel, and what to expect the first time you go.

30 August 2026
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Tuning Fork Therapy: What It Is and What to Expect

What a tuning fork actually does, its real medical and acupuncture uses, whether it's safe, and what a tuning fork therapy session with me actually looks like.

13 September 2026
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What Is Neuro-Acoustic Science?

Neuro-acoustic science looks at how sound and the nervous system interact. Here's a plain-language look at the field, and where it shows up in an actual session.

1 September 2026
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What's Actually in a Natal Chart Reading?

A natal chart reading isn't a prediction, it's a map of the sky at the exact moment you were born. Here's what's actually in the report, and what it isn't trying to tell you.

2 September 2026
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Bringing a Sound Bath to Your Workplace

A growing number of workplaces are bringing sound baths in as part of how they look after their people. Here's what a bespoke corporate session actually involves, and why teams are booking them.

3 September 2026
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Private Sound Healing: What to Expect From a Session

What actually happens in a private, one to one sound healing session, from the Spinal Walk to the difference between the 60 and 90 minute options, and what you might feel.

18 September 2026
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Tuning Fork Starter Set: Which Forks to Begin With

If you want to start a home tuning fork practice but don't know where to begin, here's what a starter set actually needs, and a simple way to use it.

19 September 2026
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Voice Mapping Consultation: What to Expect

A remote, 30-minute Zoom consultation that maps the tones in your own voice, so you're not guessing which tuning forks are actually yours. Here's what actually happens.

20 September 2026
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What Your Voice Frequency Reveals About Your Nervous System

Sharry Edwards spent over 30 years and hundreds of thousands of voice prints documenting what a voice frequency shows about the body. Here's that research, properly sourced, and what a Voice Mapping session actually is.

21 September 2026
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Sound Healing Is a Coming Home: Reflections From the Pure Heart Podcast

Some reflections on why sound healing tends to stop feeling like something you try, and starts feeling like something you return to, following a conversation on the Pure Heart Podcast.

14 September 2026
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Your Chart Is a Map, Not a Verdict: Reflections From the Pure Heart Podcast

Some reflections on how I actually use a natal chart, and why the most useful thing astrology ever did for me was help me stop fighting myself, following a conversation on the Pure Heart Podcast.

15 September 2026
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From My Own Writing

Some of what I send out in my newsletter. More personal, less explainery, on the patterns I keep noticing in sessions, and in myself.

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The Snake and the Saw

There's a kind of rage that doesn't come from cruelty. It comes from confusion, and it has a way of showing us where we're still gripping something that was never actually an enemy.

24 August 2026
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The Beggar's Bowl

We read the room before we finish a sentence. We soften what we really want to say. Somewhere along the way, most of us learned to hold out a bowl, quietly, for approval that never quite satisfies.

25 August 2026
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What Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Catches Up

When we have a sensitive nervous system, we don't usually listen to words. We listen to tone. To intent. To what's underneath what's being said, often before the mind has caught up with the facts.

26 August 2026
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Why Certain People Trigger Us

Why does one person leave us feeling contracted and small, while someone else opens something expansive in us? The older I get, the less I think these reactions are random.

27 August 2026
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Judgment Is a Posture in the Nervous System

Judgment is rarely just a thought. It's a posture in the body, one that can feel like safety through certainty, while quietly costing us the openness we actually want.

28 August 2026
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The Butterfly Doesn't Need Help

If someone tries to help a butterfly out of its cocoon too soon, they don't support it, they take away the very struggle that strengthens its wings. There's real wisdom in timing.

29 August 2026
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Returned, Not Lost

The Stoics practiced imagining loss on purpose. Not to soften grief when it comes, but to notice what we're already holding, and whether we've mistaken it for permanently ours.

16 September 2026

The Newsletter

Every so often I send out a reflection, a note on something I'm sitting with, or word of an upcoming circle. No fixed schedule, nothing salesy.

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