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Finding Your Anchor: The Power of EMDR Resourcing in Everyday Life
Curious to understand more about EMDR and learn an EMDR Resource that you can practice at home? Join Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN, Certified EMDR Therapist for this workshop, EMDR Therapy: Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Resourcing on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 from 6-7:30pm at the River Falls High School. Pre-registration is required.
ANNOUNCING: Goodwill Donation Based MOVEMEANT: Open Floor Moving Meditation Cycle + Self-Brainspotting!
At Coriander Living Collective, we often talk about resourcing your body and engaging the rhythm of regulation. Whether we are in a Brainspotting session or dancing Open Floor, we are working directly with the intricate, brilliant wiring of your nervous system.
While most people think of the nervous system as just the brain, it is actually a vast, multi-layered network. Understanding the eight key subsystems of this network can help you make sense of why you feel stuck, on edge, or disconnected—and more importantly, how you can find your way back to a life well lived.
Here is a breakdown of the eight subsystems that keep you moving, sensing, and surviving.
Inherited Wisdom, Embodied Healing: Brainspotting for Pre-Natal and Ancestral Trauma
When we think about our personal history, we often start the timeline at our first clear memory—perhaps a birthday party at age five or the first day of school. But at Coriander Living Collective, we look at the "whole-person system," and that system has a history that stretches back much further than your conscious mind can remember.
In fact, your story began long before you took your first breath. It began in the womb, and in the lives of the ancestors who came before you.
Beyond the Brain: Understanding the 8 Subsystems of Your Nervous System
At Coriander Living Collective, we often talk about resourcing your body and engaging the rhythm of regulation. Whether we are in a Brainspotting session or dancing Open Floor, we are working directly with the intricate, brilliant wiring of your nervous system.
While most people think of the nervous system as just the brain, it is actually a vast, multi-layered network. Understanding the eight key subsystems of this network can help you make sense of why you feel stuck, on edge, or disconnected—and more importantly, how you can find your way back to a life well lived.
Here is a breakdown of the eight subsystems that keep you moving, sensing, and surviving.
ACCEPTED! Brainspotting Consultant-in-Training!
I am excited to announce that I began my Brainspotting Consultant-in-Training Program in January and that it will run for the majority of 2026.
10 Ways to Regulate and Resource Your Nervous System During Intense Times!
The more you are able to resource your body and stay regulated the more capacity you will have for health, making intentional choices versus being reactive, staying calm, grounded, centered, and making a positive impact as you ride the waves of what life is sending your way.
Coriander Living Collective is here to support you and your nervous system. We are taking new telehealth private pay clients in MN/WI ages 14+.
Learn to Self-Spot Tension, Sleep, Stress, and Anxiety!
Come learn through lecture, demonstration, and practice how to Self-Brainspot to RELEASE tension and stress, IMPROVE sleep, and CALM anxiety on THURSDAY, January 29, 2026 from 6-7:30pm at the River Falls High School.
BIBLIOTHERAPY: The Sensitive Patient’s Healing Guide by Neil Nathan, MD
The Sensitive Patient’s Healing Guide by Neil Nathan, MD review.
Coriander Living Collective LLC recognizes that we are whole person systems and that one factor influences all the other parts and whole system. We believe our nervous systems are in our service of survival and strive for integration and health. Our bodies are miraculous and we are bombarded with daily threats to our wellbeing. Psychotherapy and BRAINSPOTTING can be important treatments to support recovery from sensitivity and chronic health struggles. We are familiar with these conditions and would be honored to join you on your recovery path. Reach out for a free consultation!
INNER WELL, OUTER WORD In-Person Spontaneous Writing Group Starting January 2026!
I offered a writing workshop several weeks ago and it was beautiful what unfolded. Such vulnerability, honesty, tears, and deep belly laughs. Come try something new this winter!
Sign up now! Starts Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at 6pm! Start the new year off “write.” ahah!
The Window of Tolerance
If you are struggling to feel present and at ease within your body and emotional range, reach out for a free consultation. Coriander Living Collective loves teaching people how to work with their nervous systems!
Can You Do Brainspotting on Yourself?
YES! If you are curious about learning more about self-brainspotting:
I am happy to teach my clients in session, you can book a session here!
I teach self-brainspotting classes, follow Coriander Living Collective to find out when the next one will be offered. I am offering a Group Advanced Self-Brainspotting Class in September.
Read Dr. David Grand’s book, Brainspotting
Inner Well, Outer Word Fall 2025 Writing Group Now Accepting New Members!
In a world that feels more divisive by the moment, I believe more than ever that we must come together in community. It’s important that we all belong to different groups and weave webs of connection with various people. Being part of a group offers the opportunity to cultivate your three core psychological needs of belonging, security, and significance.
Are You Ready to Stop Outsourcing Your Answers and Look Inward?
Struggling to make time for inner reflection? Feeling disconnected from yourself, others, or spirit? Needing to prioritize self-care? Are you ready to stop outsourcing your answers and look inward?
Advanced Self-Brainspotting: Practice Group!
If you have experience with BSP, you are welcome to join us for this Advanced Self-Brainspotting Practice Group Tuesday, 9/23/25 at the River Falls High School. Come advance your skills, learn more about the current Neuroexperiential Model of BSP, additional set-ups to turn up or down intensity, and do an extended group practice. Self-BSP can help with sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety, negative self-beliefs, grief, stress, pain, and making choices!
BEYOND TALK THERAPY: Is Brainspotting Better Than Talk Therapy?
Talk therapy absolutely can be beneficial and uses our higher thinking brains. Yet as some point, talk therapy is limited because it is not able to access the lower parts of the brain where we hold stress and trauma responses. Talk therapy alone is often not enough to heal human issues.
GeneSight Psychotropic Testing
If you are interested in taking medications to help manage mental health symptoms, have tried medications in the past without positive results, or with negative side effects, doing a GeneSight test may guide you and your provider to the best dosages and medications based on your genes. I have had multiple clients benefit from doing a GeneSight Test.
Bibliotherapy: Magnificent Sex by Kleinplatz & Ménard
Peggy J. Kleinplatz, Ph.D. and A. Dana Ménard, Ph.D. in their book, Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers share research and insights gathered from conducting interviews with extraordinary lovers. They realized there was much research on sexual dissatisfaction and dysfunction, but little evidence on magnificent sex. Here is what they learned from their Optimal Sexual Experiences Research:
Magnificent sex, “it can be life altering.”
Brainspotting Parts of Self!
In the Brainspotting work I do, I incorporate parts work. We’ve all got lots of parts and they are all self-created to serve certain purposes. The intersection of BRAINSPOTTING and PARTS WORK creates unique opportunities for healing and harmony.
How Do We Heal?
We all know that if we get a cut, there is a natural healing process that will follow. But what if the injury we have suffered is not physical? What if it is emotional, psychological, or spiritual?
Bibliotherapy: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD
I would highly recommend this book whether you’re an A+ sleeper, a parent, or struggle with sleep. Coriander Living Collective is here to support you in creating a life well lived, and sleeping well is a pillar of that! Reach out for a free consultation!