Nicole Baxter

Hey, babe. It's not you. It's the job. Before questioning your patience, management skills, or decision to get into this industry, consider what construction actually demands of you. Think about a typical residential project. Hundreds of products, dozens of suppliers and subcontractors, multiple inspections, thousands of decisions, and a schedule that depends on an extraordinary number of things happening in the right order, at roughly the right time. Every moving part re

Understanding why the body responds to stress is one thing. Learning what to do with that information is where somatic coaching begins. The underlying idea is simple: your body isn't trying to make life more difficult. It's trying to protect you. But sometimes that protection is based on what your brain has learned to expect rather than what's actually happening. Your body's response isn't something to overcome. It's information worth understanding. Imagine there's a conversa

Interoception helps explain one of the most frustrating parts of being human: why intelligent, capable people sometimes struggle to do something they already know they should do. We avoid difficult conversations, put off uncomfortable questions, or tolerate situations we've already decided need to change. If knowledge alone determined our actions, those moments wouldn't exist. It's easy to assume the answer is discipline. Just make the call. Ask the question. Have the convers

When we think about the senses, most of us can name the five we learned in school: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Those senses help us understand what's happening around us. But another sense is working quietly in the background, helping us understand what's happening within us. It's called interoception, and it plays an important role in how we experience stress, uncertainty, emotions, and decision-making. Although we're rarely conscious of it, this constant exchan