As a Somatic Practitioner, I work with adults to resolve chronic stress, cultivate mindfulness, and empower an inner sense of agency. Agency is important because many of the people who come for support deeply struggle with self-assertion and boundaries. This is the spectrum of people-pleasers, codependents, and chronic fawn responders…

My friend and I were on a hike, and I was processing how uncomfortable it was to feel so unclear about which choice to make regarding a big life decision. There were a couple options under consideration, but all I experienced when I thought about them was confusion. …

How Dropping Beliefs Has Connected Me More For many years, I was obsessed with spirituality. And for many years, I was a devoted Buddhist in a Mahayana tradition (on my way to ordination in a ministerial program). This path, and the truly wonderful teachers I was fortunate enough to practice…

Support in Switching Gears — This is an empowerment note for those stuck in low-to-medium chronic distress. A nervous system-based boop in a new direction… for the fridge-riding, doom-scrolling, cannabis-smoking, drinking a bit extra-ing, tv-binging, over-exercising, drama-seeking, workaholic, stressing lot of us. In the OI model, we think of the nervous system as adversely impacted…

What is the freeze response, and how might we relate to it and ourselves during the highly stressful experience of global pandemic Just a note: “Somatic” means “of the body”, and in this case refers broadly to study, practice and guidance towards embodiment, trauma resolution, nervous system resiliency, and trauma-safe…