How Art Can Change Your Brain at Any Age

6-15-26 I've suffered visual spatial processing problems my whole life, as well as slow auditory processing. As I was bright, I compensated well enough and problems were never picked up. Nevertheless, I felt dumb and my family thought I was dumb. In my youth, I took years of dancing, mostly jazz. In class, you learn […]

How Spd Explains Rasputin’s Often Bizarre and Repugnant Behavior

7-25-25 Why did Rasputin stare at you with mesmerizing eyes? Why was Rasputin, a religious Russian monk, an unabashed sex maniac? Why did Rasputin not mind stroking his beard with his filthy fingers? Having “crazy monkey sex” all night with the aristocratic women of the Russian court who threw themselves at him, eating with his […]

Sensory Processing Disorder (Spd) & Anxiety

2-10-20 Tammy is terrified of heights. While walking up or downstairs, taking an escalator or walking along a catwalk, she feels vertigo, loss of balance and terror. She has been diagnosed as phobic and has been put on Paxil to control her panic. The medication has helped reduce her symptoms but she still becomes unstable […]

Winston Churchill & Sensory Processing Disorder (Spd)

6-10-25 Winston Churchill stands as an example of depression, mania and low muscle tone, the combination of which is a red flag for sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave out of proportion to the messages coming from the environment. Low Muscle Tone & Depression […]

How Does Your Unique Nervous System React to Sensation

3-27-26 Recently, I spoke to Temple Grandin on the phone. She mentioned how helpful her squeeze machine was to help her calm when she was anxious. I mentioned that I had tried her famous squeeze machine when I did a week of intensive therapy at the Ayres Clinic in Torrance, California. “Did it help you?” […]

Do You Feel a Bit Off Center?

3-5-26 When Sigmund Freud, one of the most influential geniuses of the last century, was asked what he would like to have changed in his life, he replied, ironically, “I wished I had been given a better brain.” My wish would be for a more organized nervous system. Who wouldn’t wish that! The more balanced […]

How Sensory Processing Disorder Throws Off Natural Rhythms

4-3-26 When we think about sensory processing disorder (SPD), a common condition in which you misperceive and misconstrue sensori-motor information and behave out of proportion to the messages coming from the environment, we tend to think about someone who jumps when someone touches their shoulder, puts their hands over their ears when a siren whizzes […]