What Exactly is Deep Healing and Transformation?
This work of self-empowerment starts with picking ourselves up out of the rubble, tending to our wounds, internal and external, and then applying the balm of healing modalities.
what exactly is deep release and transformation?
Deep release and transformation include release of old wounds, release of old patterns that no longer serve you. This helps move towards healing and transformation. You release old stories about yourself which are no longer true.
This deep release opens up space for coming home to yourself after a long time or finding your self for the first time.
How do we do deep healing work?
We meet you where you are. Right now. So if we notice that daily meditation isn’t working, we aim for 2 or 3 times a week. We observe honestly what you do have space for and we start there.
This is not about perfection. It’s about the commitment. The commitment to come back to the practice to come back to yourself.
So each week, when we meet and I ask you how the week before went, how you showed up for yourself, I’m not listening for the things you did not do (and most folks will feel bad and say, “I didn’t meditate everyday!”). I’m listening for what you did do. And then I reflect that back to you. How you did show up for yourself. We are doing more than we realize. We are so used to being hard on ourselves, we aren’t used to celebrating what we are doing well. That’s what I’m here for. That is the muscle we support you in building.
trauma-informed healing
My commitment to trauma-informed healing and self-compassion is the foundation of my work.
Trauma-informed means meeting you where you are, not where I want you to be.
It means offering many different ways of doing things and seeing what you find supportive, versus forcing you to use just one technique and making you feel bad if you "fail".
Trauma-informed work is rooted in safe space.
Space where you don't have to do the labor of explaining your identities. They may be shared with others, or there are others who have their own multiple identities and therein lies the understanding. I don't jolt your nervous system with assumptions that I share your exact journey either because that can feel just as violating, and it’s just not true.
Being a trauma-informed practitioner means I am in dialogue with you about everything and how it feels, how you receive it, how we must change it so it works for you.
“you are enough”
Many of us spent our lives being told we were less than. Here, the message is always; “you are enough”, just the way you are.
With me, the message is always: you are doing enough. Whether you practice at home or not, whether you forget to do some of the techniques one day or one week or one month, we always start over.
I am always here for you, without shame or blame. Because we are all human. We work with your humanity not against it.
why this approach?
We approach this work in increments. With self-compassion, self-forgiveness, moving towards self-love. Why?
This work of self-empowerment starts with picking ourselves up out of the rubble, tending to our wounds, internal and external, and then applying the balm of healing modalities.
From there, we stand up. We lift our heads high. We come into the full extent of our power. Our lives are never the same again.
How I Create Safe QTPOC Space Using Trauma-Informed Practices
Trauma-informed means I meet you where you are, not where I want you to be. I don’t come over and maneuver your body into a yoga pose because that’s the way I want it to look. Rather I trust your body’s wisdom to guide you to do what you see fit.