Insights & Tools for Healing

Welcome to the resource area! Discover a curated collection of somatic practices designed to support mind-body connection, emotional resilience, and holistic well-being. Explore resources that guide you through gentle, body-centered techniques for healing, self-awareness, and personal growth.

Can Trauma Cause Insomnia?

If you’ve found yourself lying awake at night, feeling exhausted but unable to sleep, you’re not alone.

Shame vs. Guilt – A Somatic Approach to Healing

We’ve all felt it—that pang in our gut, the heaviness in our chest that somehow feels like it’s pulling us down from the inside.

Somatic Tracking for Healing and Self-Awareness

Somatic tracking is a beautiful way of tuning into our bodies, to notice the sensations that arise and truly connect with them.

Trauma Coach vs Therapist

If you’re here, it’s likely that you’re considering support for your healing journey. I’ve been there, too—wondering who to trust, what will

Breath: A Pathway to Expansion

I hope this message finds you in good health and high spirits as we embrace the unfolding of a new year together. I am excited to share...

What is Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience (DAre)?

Experiencing early trauma can disrupt our ability to cultivate healthy, fulfilling relationships. We might struggle to trust others or...

What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

Whether you realize it or not, you’re likely already familiar with the central tenet of IFS: parts. Ever felt like part of you wanted to...

What is the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP)?

Chances are, you probably enjoy listening to music in your day-to-day life. But what if it could actually repair your nervous system and...

What is Somatic Experiencing?

We often think of trauma as a mental or emotional experience. While it certainly has lasting effects on our inner world, it’s important...

What is Hakomi Somatic Psychotherapy?

When you hear the word “therapy,” you might think of a stark, clinical space where your practitioner asks you about your emotions,...

What is Pain Reprocessing Therapy?

If you experience chronic pain, you know how debilitating it can be. It’s especially frustrating when doctors, healthcare providers, and...

Learning to Embrace Change

They say that change is the only constant – and I can’t begin to tell you how that resonates with me. Life’s journey has led me through...

What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

Have you ever found yourself thinking or feeling something like... A part of me knows I should get up and exercise, but another part of...

What is somatic therapy?

Did you know that 80% of your body’s signals are sent to the brain from the body, while only 20% travel from the brain to the body? This...

What are you noticing today?

Questions are powerful tools. When we ask ourselves the right questions, we can unlock an entirely new pathway on our journey to...

You've Come This Far

"Pull over to the side of your journey and love how far you've come." — Danielle LaPorte I’m writing this post on a flight to Atlanta,...

Do you feel nourished?

Notice how the ebbing and flowing of your breath is mirrored in a day of your life. As day flows into night and night flows into day …...

What is Pain?

In some posts I share things that are going on for me personally, because I feel it’s so important to let you see that we’re all on this...

How's your relationship with you?

February often lends itself to thinking about relationships – ones we have, ones we’ve lost, ones that have perhaps broken us, ones that...

I yelled at a 90-year-old. But wait...it gets worse. (Then better.)

Twice in my adult life I can recall losing my temper, or perhaps more aptly “losing my shit.” Both times, my normal state of levelheaded...