An Experience Worth Remembering
Music, Movement & Meaning Heals Trauma and Traumatic Brain Injury
First, Learn What You Are
A moderate to severe TBI with four brain bleeds forced me back to experience what I am at the most foundational level: a body, a brain and a nervous system trying to stay safe.
The biological pursuit of safety happens automatically, and under normal conditions it can be easy to reach.
After traumatic injury, the body and brain worry that more harm may arrive because nothing has been done to say it isn’t.
Symptoms persist because of a lack of biological safety, hard experiences harden the body, but music, movement and meaning teaches the brain that you are safe where you are.
Then, Choose Who You Become
Good Mood Method is built on a proven and profound reorientation to recovery. Instead of asking what is wrong with you, we ask what you and your nervous system need to move toward well-being.
Recovery is not the absence of symptoms but the active presence of self. Music, movement, and meaning are not treatments for what is broken. They are the conditions your nervous system has always needed to build coherence, capability, and a life that feels worth living.
Good Mood Method
Safety, The Precondition for Recovery
Polyvagal Music (Dr. Porges) - Certified in SSP, RRP, ILS & PVT
The nervous system cannot receive new information while it believes it is in danger. Precisely filtered acoustic stimulation through the Safe and Sound Protocol engages the vagus nerve directly, bringing the threat signal down so the body can get back to receiving more safe experiences.
The Body, Redraws Brain Function
Foundation Training Movement (Dr. Goodman) - Founder of FT4T
The brain maintains a representation of the body built from sensorimotor feedback. Deliberate movement through the fascial meridians sends safe proprioceptive, vestibular and interoceptive signals that restore clarity to that representation. This restores brain body connection in the present, not past.
The Brain, A Pursuit of Well-Being
Logotherapy & Meaning (Dr. Frankl) - Certified Foundations Provider
Logotherapy provides the tools to find language for what the body is feeling, to locate choice inside what is present, and to understand that who we become is authored through how we move toward our own experience. Meaning is what makes the journey navigable.
Your story is rooted in your sensations.
This is where we begin.
Your Guide, Gilad
Founder of Good Mood Method & TBI Survivor
My recovery from a moderate/severe TBI happened because I gave all of myself what I love.
Brain relief, capability and functionality cannot be willed. They arrive when the nervous system receives new sensorimotor experiences, again and again, until the brain realizes that the danger has passed, and you are once again safe.
We cannot think our way into change. We have to experience it. Let’s give your nervous system what it has been asking for.
No late or cancellation fees, this requires a special kind of care.
What Becomes Possible
“I feel like the nervous system element is the biggest missing piece in concussion recovery! I am so grateful to have found you!”
— Jenna (TBI, PCS, Fibromyalgia, Severe Depression)
“I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the work that you do! Your breath and movement practice has truly transformed my life, my recovery and empowered me to trust my body once again!
I was able to hit a tennis ball with my dad this past weekend with minimal symptoms and it felt amazing! It’s something I never thought I’d be able to do again and it brings tears to my heart to slowly reconnect to parts of myself I thought were lost forever!
Working with you has been a major blessing and I am beyond grateful! Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏.”
— Karmen (PTSD, POTS, Dysautonomia)
"Hiii Gilad.. I'm reflecting on my year & you were a VIP of my 2024! You were such a steady and encouraging support, like a real rock in my recovery process!! I felt held and seen and listened to and it made all the difference on that exciting journey I was on. And now officially a few months after totally feeling better I can say my nervous system is a lot more wise than a year ago!"
— Ellie (TBI, Vertigo, Anxiety)