Melanie Weller
@melanieweller.bsky.social
Neurotheologist Leading The Revolution of Resilience
A Louisiana congressperson’s spouse once told my husband that the legislators all bring a lover when they go into session. I’m sure there’s a blackmail file on lawmakers at all levels to influence their votes.
July 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A Louisiana congressperson’s spouse once told my husband that the legislators all bring a lover when they go into session. I’m sure there’s a blackmail file on lawmakers at all levels to influence their votes.
Things I learned watching Mission Impossible in the theater:
1. I’ve healed a ton of authoritarian trauma from my time as a military wife.
2. I will probably never understand the appeal of seeing a movie in a theater.
3. You don’t have to be a good storyteller to make a ton of money.
1. I’ve healed a ton of authoritarian trauma from my time as a military wife.
2. I will probably never understand the appeal of seeing a movie in a theater.
3. You don’t have to be a good storyteller to make a ton of money.
June 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Things I learned watching Mission Impossible in the theater:
1. I’ve healed a ton of authoritarian trauma from my time as a military wife.
2. I will probably never understand the appeal of seeing a movie in a theater.
3. You don’t have to be a good storyteller to make a ton of money.
1. I’ve healed a ton of authoritarian trauma from my time as a military wife.
2. I will probably never understand the appeal of seeing a movie in a theater.
3. You don’t have to be a good storyteller to make a ton of money.
The eggs situation has everyone scrambling while I'm just here... not vegan and not eating eggs as my usual way of being 🤷
Me and the vegans are completely unbothered. #EggFlation
Me and the vegans are completely unbothered. #EggFlation
February 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The eggs situation has everyone scrambling while I'm just here... not vegan and not eating eggs as my usual way of being 🤷
Me and the vegans are completely unbothered. #EggFlation
Me and the vegans are completely unbothered. #EggFlation
If you’re interested in the fastest ways to rewire religious, authoritarian, and institutional trauma, become a paid subscriber (as little as $5) and join my Heretical Healing Demonstrations twice monthly - the next one is tomorrow at 3:00 PM Central. substack.com/@melanieweller
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February 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
If you’re interested in the fastest ways to rewire religious, authoritarian, and institutional trauma, become a paid subscriber (as little as $5) and join my Heretical Healing Demonstrations twice monthly - the next one is tomorrow at 3:00 PM Central. substack.com/@melanieweller
In my reading of “legitimate” successful exorcisms, the way the demons embodied the person and the way they were cast out aligns perfectly brain science.
Rewiring Religion
A free class on how to transform religious trauma - a fusion of ancient and modern science
www.melanieweller.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In my reading of “legitimate” successful exorcisms, the way the demons embodied the person and the way they were cast out aligns perfectly brain science.
What is the best/most meaningful apology you’ve ever received?
January 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
What is the best/most meaningful apology you’ve ever received?
Does your religious trauma have you mouthing someone else's truth?
Join us Feb 2 and the first Sunday of every month. It’s free.
🧬 Stop lip-syncing your life. It’s time to sing your own sacred song.
www.melanieweller.com/rewiringreli...
Join us Feb 2 and the first Sunday of every month. It’s free.
🧬 Stop lip-syncing your life. It’s time to sing your own sacred song.
www.melanieweller.com/rewiringreli...
Rewiring Religion
A free class on how to transform religious trauma - a fusion of ancient and modern science
www.melanieweller.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Does your religious trauma have you mouthing someone else's truth?
Join us Feb 2 and the first Sunday of every month. It’s free.
🧬 Stop lip-syncing your life. It’s time to sing your own sacred song.
www.melanieweller.com/rewiringreli...
Join us Feb 2 and the first Sunday of every month. It’s free.
🧬 Stop lip-syncing your life. It’s time to sing your own sacred song.
www.melanieweller.com/rewiringreli...
With 20 years as a navy wife and living spitting distance from the VFW post, this article speaks my truth.
January 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
With 20 years as a navy wife and living spitting distance from the VFW post, this article speaks my truth.
The existential wounding from religious and spiritual trauma is neurologically different than other trauma and so needs a specialized approach.
January 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The existential wounding from religious and spiritual trauma is neurologically different than other trauma and so needs a specialized approach.
When someone dies by suicide, their body is so limited in uncompensated range of motion that they are living in rigor mortis.
Their body is telling their brain that it is dead, and that creates the behavioral drive.
It can be objectively measured and treated to change the drive for self harm.
Their body is telling their brain that it is dead, and that creates the behavioral drive.
It can be objectively measured and treated to change the drive for self harm.
January 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
When someone dies by suicide, their body is so limited in uncompensated range of motion that they are living in rigor mortis.
Their body is telling their brain that it is dead, and that creates the behavioral drive.
It can be objectively measured and treated to change the drive for self harm.
Their body is telling their brain that it is dead, and that creates the behavioral drive.
It can be objectively measured and treated to change the drive for self harm.
If we genuinely want to stop it, we need to start viewing terrorism as a trauma response.
January 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
If we genuinely want to stop it, we need to start viewing terrorism as a trauma response.
This holiday, I was able to be with my habit of “trauma cooking” in a new way.
Instead of cooking to cope or process all of the terrible holidays in my memory, I was able to hold the inner child of my ancestors having a tantrum in my nervous system and soothe them. 🤍
Instead of cooking to cope or process all of the terrible holidays in my memory, I was able to hold the inner child of my ancestors having a tantrum in my nervous system and soothe them. 🤍
December 27, 2024 at 1:43 AM
This holiday, I was able to be with my habit of “trauma cooking” in a new way.
Instead of cooking to cope or process all of the terrible holidays in my memory, I was able to hold the inner child of my ancestors having a tantrum in my nervous system and soothe them. 🤍
Instead of cooking to cope or process all of the terrible holidays in my memory, I was able to hold the inner child of my ancestors having a tantrum in my nervous system and soothe them. 🤍
The definition of embodiment is organized time perception and processing in your nervous system.
December 23, 2024 at 3:03 AM
The definition of embodiment is organized time perception and processing in your nervous system.
Grief is a very living thing
It visits at random
You can’t schedule it
I tried to work it away
I tried to drink it away..
All it did was wait for me to finish.”
~Tyler Perry
The holidays can bring up a lot of grief.
It visits at random
You can’t schedule it
I tried to work it away
I tried to drink it away..
All it did was wait for me to finish.”
~Tyler Perry
The holidays can bring up a lot of grief.
December 12, 2024 at 12:42 AM
Grief is a very living thing
It visits at random
You can’t schedule it
I tried to work it away
I tried to drink it away..
All it did was wait for me to finish.”
~Tyler Perry
The holidays can bring up a lot of grief.
It visits at random
You can’t schedule it
I tried to work it away
I tried to drink it away..
All it did was wait for me to finish.”
~Tyler Perry
The holidays can bring up a lot of grief.
I am taking a social media break and hope you give yourself breaks too.
In the interim, if you want a dose of ancient meets modern nervous system regulation, check out my free 40 day Sacred Stomp Revolution
www.melanieweller.com/sacredstomp
In the interim, if you want a dose of ancient meets modern nervous system regulation, check out my free 40 day Sacred Stomp Revolution
www.melanieweller.com/sacredstomp
December 4, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I am taking a social media break and hope you give yourself breaks too.
In the interim, if you want a dose of ancient meets modern nervous system regulation, check out my free 40 day Sacred Stomp Revolution
www.melanieweller.com/sacredstomp
In the interim, if you want a dose of ancient meets modern nervous system regulation, check out my free 40 day Sacred Stomp Revolution
www.melanieweller.com/sacredstomp
Every ancient myth and spiritual text started as
1. A way to describe the movement of the earth and stars.
2. A way to describe human anatomy, physiology, and the effects of stress on the body.
3. A way to describe the effect of the planets on the human body.
1. A way to describe the movement of the earth and stars.
2. A way to describe human anatomy, physiology, and the effects of stress on the body.
3. A way to describe the effect of the planets on the human body.
December 4, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Every ancient myth and spiritual text started as
1. A way to describe the movement of the earth and stars.
2. A way to describe human anatomy, physiology, and the effects of stress on the body.
3. A way to describe the effect of the planets on the human body.
1. A way to describe the movement of the earth and stars.
2. A way to describe human anatomy, physiology, and the effects of stress on the body.
3. A way to describe the effect of the planets on the human body.
The War on Christmas:
Three things we all need to understand about it.
1. We all need drama. When life gets cozy, we'll pick a fight with a barista over "Happy Holidays,” bond with a conspiracy theory, manufacture a crisis, go do CrossFit, or take up a new hobby to live more interesting story.
Three things we all need to understand about it.
1. We all need drama. When life gets cozy, we'll pick a fight with a barista over "Happy Holidays,” bond with a conspiracy theory, manufacture a crisis, go do CrossFit, or take up a new hobby to live more interesting story.
December 4, 2024 at 11:56 AM
The War on Christmas:
Three things we all need to understand about it.
1. We all need drama. When life gets cozy, we'll pick a fight with a barista over "Happy Holidays,” bond with a conspiracy theory, manufacture a crisis, go do CrossFit, or take up a new hobby to live more interesting story.
Three things we all need to understand about it.
1. We all need drama. When life gets cozy, we'll pick a fight with a barista over "Happy Holidays,” bond with a conspiracy theory, manufacture a crisis, go do CrossFit, or take up a new hobby to live more interesting story.
We need a more compassionate society and I am happy to see Joe pardon Hunter.
So many of Hunter’s choices are attributable to trauma responses from losing his mother and sister at a young age.
My mother still reminds me of my worst choices to keep my shame and her superiority alive in her mind.
So many of Hunter’s choices are attributable to trauma responses from losing his mother and sister at a young age.
My mother still reminds me of my worst choices to keep my shame and her superiority alive in her mind.
December 3, 2024 at 2:10 PM
We need a more compassionate society and I am happy to see Joe pardon Hunter.
So many of Hunter’s choices are attributable to trauma responses from losing his mother and sister at a young age.
My mother still reminds me of my worst choices to keep my shame and her superiority alive in her mind.
So many of Hunter’s choices are attributable to trauma responses from losing his mother and sister at a young age.
My mother still reminds me of my worst choices to keep my shame and her superiority alive in her mind.
If you think people in the opposing political party are “stupid:”
“Stupid” at the level of the brain is your amygdala and subconscious circuits driving decision making.
We need to bake solutions for it into our media and communities.
I’m here for it.
“Stupid” at the level of the brain is your amygdala and subconscious circuits driving decision making.
We need to bake solutions for it into our media and communities.
I’m here for it.
December 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM
If you think people in the opposing political party are “stupid:”
“Stupid” at the level of the brain is your amygdala and subconscious circuits driving decision making.
We need to bake solutions for it into our media and communities.
I’m here for it.
“Stupid” at the level of the brain is your amygdala and subconscious circuits driving decision making.
We need to bake solutions for it into our media and communities.
I’m here for it.
Time for a Reality Check: Why We Need to Switch Away From Polyvagal Theory
I’ve been doing vagus nerve work with humans with physical and mental health diagnoses long before it was cool - at least 25 years.
I’ve long had issues with polyvagal theory. Here’s why:
I’ve been doing vagus nerve work with humans with physical and mental health diagnoses long before it was cool - at least 25 years.
I’ve long had issues with polyvagal theory. Here’s why:
December 1, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Time for a Reality Check: Why We Need to Switch Away From Polyvagal Theory
I’ve been doing vagus nerve work with humans with physical and mental health diagnoses long before it was cool - at least 25 years.
I’ve long had issues with polyvagal theory. Here’s why:
I’ve been doing vagus nerve work with humans with physical and mental health diagnoses long before it was cool - at least 25 years.
I’ve long had issues with polyvagal theory. Here’s why:
🧠 Sacred Screens: When Movies Meet Spirituality! 🎬⛪
Your brain processes movies in theaters similarly to religious experiences.
Both create powerful shared moments of awe and transcendence (aka altered time perception!).
Your brain processes movies in theaters similarly to religious experiences.
Both create powerful shared moments of awe and transcendence (aka altered time perception!).
December 1, 2024 at 1:33 PM
🧠 Sacred Screens: When Movies Meet Spirituality! 🎬⛪
Your brain processes movies in theaters similarly to religious experiences.
Both create powerful shared moments of awe and transcendence (aka altered time perception!).
Your brain processes movies in theaters similarly to religious experiences.
Both create powerful shared moments of awe and transcendence (aka altered time perception!).
The story of Jesus’ death and resurrection lives inside of you.
Your brain's default mode network (DMN) is your mind's own form of self-crucifixion 🧠✨
Your brain's default mode network (DMN) is your mind's own form of self-crucifixion 🧠✨
November 30, 2024 at 8:11 PM
The story of Jesus’ death and resurrection lives inside of you.
Your brain's default mode network (DMN) is your mind's own form of self-crucifixion 🧠✨
Your brain's default mode network (DMN) is your mind's own form of self-crucifixion 🧠✨
When I told my mom that she has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing to me, she took pause and we had a meaningful conversation that opened up some healing.
I have said the same thing in other ways before but these words broke through the obstacles. 🐺 🐑
I have said the same thing in other ways before but these words broke through the obstacles. 🐺 🐑
November 30, 2024 at 3:41 AM
When I told my mom that she has always been a wolf in sheep’s clothing to me, she took pause and we had a meaningful conversation that opened up some healing.
I have said the same thing in other ways before but these words broke through the obstacles. 🐺 🐑
I have said the same thing in other ways before but these words broke through the obstacles. 🐺 🐑
If only the religious right knew how much their brain activity has in common with the neuroscience of evil.
November 29, 2024 at 2:12 PM
If only the religious right knew how much their brain activity has in common with the neuroscience of evil.
Toxic gratitude creates toxic neuroplasticity: Being grateful for objectively adverse or harmful conditions can reinforce harmful patterns in your brain and behavior.
November 29, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Toxic gratitude creates toxic neuroplasticity: Being grateful for objectively adverse or harmful conditions can reinforce harmful patterns in your brain and behavior.