Christina Hull is a trauma educator, clinician, and systems thinker with over a decade of experience translating the science of healing into real tools for real people. Her work moves between graduate classrooms, organizations, rural communities, and the mountains, guided by a deep belief that understanding yourself is not a luxury. It is a foundation. She writes, teaches, speaks, consults, and facilitates retreats through Sage and Soothe Wellness. If something here resonates, you are in the right place.
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
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