My name is Meredith Alger, and I am the founder of the Services offered through Liminal Horizons, PLLC; I am also the CEO of Sensing Fields, LLC. I have also successfully been using polyvagal-inspired tools, such as the Safe and Sound Protocol and ILS, Vagal Toning Exercises and Movement, Parts Work and EMDR. Now MY PASSION, MY MISSION, AND MY LIFE'S PURPOSE is to BRING IT INTO THE WORLD. 
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I spent my life feeling anxious, depressed, rejected, unworthy, and completely dysregulated. My nervous system was extremely sensitive, because I was born prematurely, in an emergency C-Section, and was taken to another hospital. I wasn't able to see my mom for a couple of months. My dad came, and I'm sure lovely nurses. But, there is simply no question that my life has felt harder than it appears it is for most others. So, you might not be surprised to learn that I had years of self-destruction, with wonderful years in between of great education, working for community organizations located in schools and the Chicago Cook County Centralized DV Courthouse. I have worked with students and adults with significant developmental challenges, in a workshop where the folks could do some easy work and get paid. My youngest aunt, Betsy, lived (once my grandmother could not take care of her) through a small staffed house with several other people through this agency, so it was personal for me. 
 
Dysregulation wreaked havoc on my mind, my body, and my faith. Born two months early was the beginning, but then I lived in a home of 'yellers'. My mom also happened to be the 'Drug Counselor' (Student Assistant Coordinator, largely in prevention, and also in working with students, with kindness, not punishing. Many people loved my mom there, but those who didn't weren't fond of me so much either. And, as may also have the idea of what happened in college... I drank. I wasn't sober for the next 20 years. My mal/adaptive coping strategies became problematic and I only knew that my depression, anxiety and complex trauma were more likely to kill me than (even when I got close to death) alcoholism. Importantly, the lack of safety was not tolerable, and removing the numbing mechanisms is the time I tried to commit suicide.
 
Eventually, I stopped drinking, got sober, and continued my path of healing personal traumatic patterns, relationships, self-hate, believing I was a burden, feeling unloved and unlovable. I came into the field to find out what was wrong with me. I now know that we are amazing conscious connected beings in a universe that we may know far less than we even previously and we are continuing to learn more literally every day. I returned after a short break of clinical work, and at a beautiful time in our fields as IFS, Polyvagal Theory, Sound Healing, EFT, Energy Psychology, Joy, Resilience, Positive Psychology, and even quantum physics are learning and understanding those things in which we previously needed faith; Beyond vision, we have sight. We have sensations, and information coming in at lightning speed to our Brainstem, and our amygdala has already sent the signal to the hormones and adrenals to get up because our system (obviously finds fear, since it is pretty much always scanning for threats, from internal and/or external cues. Neuroception, our embodied, physiological, almost predictive energy and unconscious associations (even only within language, Relational Frame Theory understands the idea that anything can be related to anything else, in the most round about, undiscoverable ways). Polyvagal Theory is the most current toolkit I have. It has brought me to greater healing, even control over my states (in my ANS), and definitely know how to an immediacy influence how I feel. THIS IS FREEDOM. JOIN ME. THE SOONER YOU BEGIN, THE SOONER YOUR NEW NEURAL PATHWAYS AND BEHAVIORS, COGNITIONS AND EMOTIONS, SOMA AND THE UNCCONSCIOUS SHIFTS COME ONLINE become the over-riding mechanisms.