My story is one of SELF-DISCOVERY.  And OWNING MY TRUTH. HEALING. and GUIDING beautiful SOULS.

My story is one of Courage. Of walking into the unknown. Going against the grain. Making the unpopular choice. Of Trusting my Body to guide me past pain and imbalance to BEAUTIFUL, SACRED PLACES.

When I was young, I often felt vaguely detached. Unreal. Not fully there. In my 20’s I was diagnosed with low-grade depression. It was all that I had experienced.  YET my soul was inside of me…holding the space and knowing and truth that: I could feel better.  I could even feel VIBRANT. CONNECTED. BLISSFUL. 

I decided I was DONE FEELING THAT WAY – detached, fatigued, far-away. I tried to LISTEN TO EVERYONE ELSE. Between Doctors, counselors, meds, and alternative treatments, I realized something was missing.  There were gaps between the help available and the help I needed in order to feel WHOLE. And FEEL GOOD and FEEL LIKE MYSELF.

 

So I set out on a mission to feel good. To heal. To BE WHOLE. To discover and be my FULL, GLORIOUS SELF.

 

My first discovery was MASSAGE THERAPY. Finally, on the massage table, I felt BLISS. I felt PRESENCE. I FELT WAAAAY LESS DEPRESSED. MASSAGE brought me out of my head, out of the looping, out of the overthinking. It brought me out of the place I now lovingly call … the distant deep alone.  If you are feeling these words, you know that place well.  

It brought me into my body (aka embodiment) which was a place where I was just beginning to understand that I largely did not live. My time on the massage therapy table felt like sacred work and sacred space.  I began nurturing myself, becoming more present, feeling pleasure and bliss, and LISTENING TO MY BODY on and off the table.

I became a massage therapist and I felt for the first time in my professional life the feeling: THIS IS WHO I AM. IT FELT BLISSFUL.

I got married, had kids, became a nurse.  Though I was healing, I was still self-sacrificing, people-pleasing, lacked boundaries, wanted to be loved, needed and not abandoned or rejected. I accepted crumbs and less than I deserved. Can you relate?  As I listened more deeply, my body told the truth of my story … in it’s own language… Low energy. Fatigue. Brain fog. Detachment. Numbness. Sadness. Sensitivity. Poor choices. Unprocessed experiences stored in my body.

My lack of understanding of what my body needed and how to honor it’s guidance led me to more pain until I learned to listen to my body.

I remained deeply committed and devoted to my healing. This was the 2000s…a time when no one talked this way and no ‘experts’ were available to follow on social media. Through much research, trial and error with my body as my guide, I worked with GUT HEALTH, NUTRITION, DETOXIFICATION, A LIFESTYLE OF DAILY SELF-CARE, and felt more and more like ME. I RECEIVED COACHING. I became the FIRST Health Coach I knew or had heard of. I became an energy practitioner with multiple years of training before Reiki became a household name. I EXPERIENCED DEEP ENERGY BALANCING and Reconnection. SYMPTOMS CONTINUED to DROP AWAY. I no longer felt depressed. MY body’s story became one of JOY. FEELING ALIVE. LESS LOOPING. MORE BALANCE. MORE PROCESSING EXPERIENCES THROUGH AND OUT. MORE BLISS.

Now it all makes sense, though I had no idea what was happening at the time. My deepest root cause was TRAUMA. AND my body was BRILLIANT and guided me to HEAL TRAUMA and nervous system freeze states for myself. OUR BODIES ARE SO INCREDIBLY WISE.  Did you know almost everyone has layers of unprocessed experiences stored in their body, expressed as imbalances – a.k.a. trauma. Yes, even you. Trauma is not necessarily as scary or shocking as you may think, It is simply any unprocessed experiences that your body was so kind to store for you so you would not become overwhelmed at the time.

ALL THE PIECES that put me back together finally came together and MADE SENSE. AND EACH PIECE WAS ACTUALLY BRILLIANT. BODY WORK helped me become present – both giving and receiving – slowly unfreezing my nervous system. Daily self-care and nourishment was grounding, stabilizing, balancing and nurturing, keeping me grounded in the now. Deepening my trauma recovery bodywork skills with Alchemical Alignment training and Inner Child Embodiment coaching was a beautiful experience.  My body’s knowing and intuition guided me brilliantly to the help that I needed.

The guidance from my body brought me full circle, fully back to myself.

Now, I am still on a mission. Because feeling good is a birthright and you deserve to feel good too. It is my mission to help you get there. I am honored to hold sacred space for you to listen to your body as it guides you back to wholeness. Back to yourself.

Are you on a mission to allow your body to guide you to wellness, balance, and even bliss?  I am ready to hold the sacred space for you.

 

My passion, heart-felt desire, and purpose is to help and guide you to address the root causes of your imbalances and improve your health and life.  I not only want to hear your story, I want to help you re-write the next chapter.