Most people were never taught how their nervous system works. Christina Hull is changing that. As an educator, author, speaker, organizational consultant, and retreat facilitator, Christina translates the science of polyvagal theory and trauma into real tools for real people in classrooms, communities, organizations, and transformative retreats through Sage and Soothe Wellness.
I gave up coffee a while back. My body asked me to and I listened. But I kept going back. Not because I did not want to change. I was just reaching for the same cup I had always reached for, in the same moment I had always reached for
In September 2025, Stephen Porges published a peer-reviewed paper in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience titled "Polyvagal theory: a journey from physiological observation to neural innervation and clinical insight." It is thirty years in the making and it belongs in the clinical conversation. This is not a newsletter response
There is a line from Nietzsche's Schopenhauer as Educator that I have returned to more times than I can count. He writes that whoever wants to achieve something great must not seek to satisfy or please anyone but himself in his work, that as soon as he fishes
Something I come back to often in this work: the map is not the territory. It is a phrase borrowed from philosophy, from Alfred Korzybski, who was writing about language and abstraction in the 1930s. But it has found its way into clinical work for good reason. The frameworks we
Something has been circulating in mental health and trauma circles recently. If you have heard about it, you may be wondering what it means for you, for your healing, or for the way you think about your own nervous system. Here is what happened, and here is some context that