Set & Setting: Transformation Coach For The Personal & Professional You

06/10/2025

This is fascinating!

Somatic therapies, including sound-based approaches, target stored trauma in the body, which is often held in the nervous system and tissues.

On the back of this research, I’ll be extending my sound therapy (gong based) sessions to men that are looking to start families. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

S***m cells carry memories of childhood stress or stress in general I assume (over some specific stress threshold I assume) , and is concluded in many studies from several research teams

(the most recent, that is reported here)
https://lnkd.in/dmMj6RVa

And an older one https://lnkd.in/dQDsipAz.

A groundbreaking study published in "Molecular Psychiatry", reveals that s***m cells can retain molecular "memories" of stress experienced by fathers during childhood, potentially influencing the next generation's brain development.

Led by researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, the work analyzed s***m from 58 men, mostly in their late 30s and early 40s, focusing on epigenetic markers—chemical modifications that regulate gene expression without altering DNA itself.

Epigenetics acts like a dimmer switch on genes, turning them up or down based on environmental cues. Here, childhood maltreatment—such as emotional neglect, physical abuse, or household dysfunction—left distinct imprints.

Men with high trauma scores showed altered DNA methylation patterns near genes tied to central nervous system development, plus changes in small noncoding RNAs, including lower levels of miR-34c-5p, a molecule linked to brain maturation in animal models.

These signatures persisted decades later, independent of adult factors like smoking or drinking, suggesting enduring biological scars. In mice, similar stress-induced RNA tweaks in s***m vesicles have been shown to alter offspring's stress responses and anxiety-like behaviors, hinting at a mechanism: during s***m maturation in the epididymis, stress hormones like glucocorticoids modify extracellular vesicles, which fuse with s***m, embedding the changes.

While human inheritance remains unproven—s***m changes don't guarantee transmission—the findings bolster evidence for paternal epigenetic effects on fetal brain wiring, possibly raising risks for neuropsychiatric issues like depression or autism.

Lead author Dr. Jarnai Tuulari calls it a "rewrite of inheritance rules," urging therapies to mitigate trauma's legacy. This underscores healing's urgency: addressing early stress could safeguard future generations' mental health.

Article: Dimitrios A. Karras

Full post link below:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dimitrios-a-karras-39a89826_this-is-a-really-impressive-finding-that-activity-7379077360630792192-FjCz?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAEhMWcBGHxsFoi2DFFda95OdKz-ox9_7JI&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

24/07/2025

"You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain."

Emilie Autumn

30/06/2025

The Super Conscious Mind is Soul, Source, Love, The Authentic You.

The Sub Conscious Mind is What You Are.
The Conscious Mind is What You Do.

26/06/2025

In my work with Founders, I combine traditional Collaborative Coaching with Somatic practice such as Breathwork, Sound Baths and Sweat Lodges. Where appropriate, Psychedelics are also introduced.

The article I have shared below resonates with me for a number of reasons that I want to share.

I am currently building a Cob SweatHouse on my land. For those that don’t know, Cob is a traditional building material used for thousands of years. It’s a mix of Clay, (in my case Clay Soil) Sand, Straw and Water. Basically, I’m building a sustainable structure on the land, from the fruit of the land that it’s on. As someone with limited knowledge and practical experience, it’s been a wonderful learning curve.

I’m in Portugal, surrounded by Cork Oaks, and wanted to create a sweat experience that is transformative, but also tied to the land that it’s on, as well as to myself, as someone that comes from the UK. Its incredibly important to me, to honour the land and myself, whilst not being culturally appropriative. I have therefore written a Celtic based ceremony, as this is a connection between Portugal and myself that honours history and connects me with the space. The design of the SweatHouse also references the traditional Irish buildings that were common until the late 19th century.

The ceremony celebrates the Cork Oak, The Pine Trees and the fruits of the land, as well as our ancestors. In Druidry, the oak tree holds a position of profound reverence and is considered sacred, symbolising strength, wisdom, and spiritual power. Druids revered oak trees as divine and often performed rituals in oak groves. The term "Druid" itself may even be derived from words meaning "oak knower" or "wise person of the oak.

I started this journey with the aim of creating an experience for my clients that is rooted in nature immersion, in a truly authentic way - Nature Immersion being pretty much the most effective way of grounding an individual - It’s called grounding for a reason.

We don’t need to go to Peru to find ourselves. We need to connect with nature and with ourselves, and get out of the “Fight or Flight” mode that so many of us are stuck in, and manage ourselves into “Rest and Digest” - where we make long term, strategic and conscious decisions, rather than short term survival based decisions.

This is the essence of my work with Founders, particularly those in recent receipt of Seed and Series A funding, where Investors, Boards, Employees and Scaling are taking their toll. This is why I work with the individual and not the business.

We all need Founders to succeed and be better on many levels. For employees, partners, families, investors and for everyone else.

Conscious businesses start with conscious founders.

Thanks for reading, and please reach out if you have any questions.

Stu

The popularity of ‘healing’ through psychedelics is fueling exploitation of Indigenous peoples and threatening biodiversity, say Nina Gualinga and Eli Virkina, both Indigenous women of the Ecuadorian Amazon

07/06/2025

What a privilege it’s been to learn how to build with Cob. Nearly ready for the roof in this beautiful space surround by Cork Oaks.

Not long until the first sweat ceremony!

Thanks to the team of Nikki Woodhams Sean Collins Ian Williams, Lou Jennings and of course Nicci ❤️❤️❤️🤜🏼

19/04/2025

Ready when you are 🙏🏼