Human Flourishing

Sacred Plant Medicine Integration

Self-acceptance

Body Image and Breast Implant Illness

Trauma

Boundaries

Life Transitions

Relationship

Grief

HEALING IS SHOW, NOT TELL 

After years of training in somatics, Polyvagal theory, trauma training, and working with clients, one of my core beliefs is that the primary reason for most of our unhappiness, stuckness, struggles in relationships, and pain is unhealed trauma.

​Unhealed trauma is stored and relived in our bodies. We experience this somatically, which means in the form of reactions, sensations, behaviors, feelings, and eventually, thoughts. 

When we are activated, the parts of our brain that process language go offline. Therefore, we can't talk ourselves out of these experiences, we have to somatically show these parts we are safe.

In the drop downs ​below you will find the philosophies that are the cornerstones of my practice Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, Inner Child Healing and Boundaries . Together, we will use these to support you in creating internal safety, which will allow you to safely step towards the life you want to be living.

SOMATIC EXPERIENCING

Trauma is stored, relived and experienced in and through our bodies. 

"The foundation for Human Enrichment, DBA Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, is a 501(C)(3) Non-Profit dedicated to resolving trauma worldwide by providing state-of-the-art professional training and public education in Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).

Somatic Experiencing is designed to support individuals in processing trauma in a titrated (tolerable) way that allows for integrated healing to transpire and brings freedom from the overwhelm that past traumas leave us with.

We have all experienced traumas and if they have yet to be resolved they will cause problems in our bodies, relationships, purpose and overall life. Somatic healing work is foundational in healing trauma.

In essence, somatics heal. And that means we no longer have to cope and instead can step into the lives we are meant to be living.

POLYVAGAL THEORY:

WHY YOUR PROTECTIVE PARTS ARE SO IMPORTANT.

“Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, offers a way to understand the human autonomic nervous system and directly engage with habitual patterns of response. Through a polyvagal lens we can learn to listen to our embodied stories.”

-Deb Dana

Our Autonomic Nervous System is what you’ll hear me refer to as your own private navy seals. This incredible protective force within each of us is here to protect us from threat and danger and also support us in being in safety.

When traumas are stored and/or an insecure attachment style is developed, our Autonomic Nervous System becomes dysregulated as a brilliant and beautiful way to self protect.

This is experienced by spending the majority of our time in either our Sympathetic Nervous System or our Dorsal Vagal Complex. This means being in fight/flight/freeze/immobility or shut down for long periods of time.

A dysregulated nervous system is an incredibly common experience and is a primary marker for unhappiness in our lives.

Through somatic healing you will begin to regulate your nervous systems, which will allow you to step into the life you want to be living and support you in feeling more in control of your internal experience, so that outside circumstances aren’t chronically effecting your state.

ATTACHMENT THEORY

“Early-life experiences lay the blueprints for attachment patterns. When the primary childhood caregivers are unable, for whatever reason, to meet the child's needs of safety, trust, attunement, love etc., a secure attachment is inhibited."

- Diane Poole Heller

This lack of a secure attachment with our primary childhood caregivers results in the development of insecure attachment styles in order to cope and find safety.

These include ambivalent (anxious), avoidant or disorganized. We all have a combination of all four attachment styles with one being more predominant. Insecure attachment styles are here to serve the purpose of providing safety among other things.

An intrinsic part of healing is coming into a secure attachment with others and ourselves.

​Our work together is helping you safely step towards this.

INNER CHILD HEALING:

"It's never too late to have the childhood we deserve."

-Peter Levine

Inside each of us, there are many parts. Each of those parts have ages and if they were subject to trauma of any kind that was not able to process through, those parts are then left to relive that experience over and over.

Remember, trauma is not simply physical/emotional/sexual abuse. Trauma is also not being emotional seen, or attuned with, being left alone to process parents divorcing, being a parentifed child and much more.

Part of our work is to somatically come to the aid of these younger parts, giving them completed experiences, protecting them, providing them safety, reparenting them and eventually, integrating them fully. This work is imperative in the healing process.

Boundaries

Boundary setting is a struggle for so many of us...

If we did not have a secure attachment with our primary childhood caregiver or if we experienced traumas in childhood where our boundaries were encroached upon or we experienced boundary abandonment, we will likely struggle to set boundaries in our adult life.

Boundary setting is directly linked to understanding our limits, our needs and our truth. Part of healing is gently coming back into our felt sense experience of being in our bodies where we gain access to our truth, limits and needs.

In our work, you will gain an understanding of your internal truth, then take therapeautic somatic steps to implement these boundaries in your current life. Boundaries create safety!

As you may have heard, breast implants are not lifetime or problem-free devices. At some point, you may want or need to remove yours, and you may feel uneasy every step of the way. Even if you want to be implant-free, you may struggle as you move toward explant and as you adjust to your body afterwards.

Because there’s more than meets the eye with breast implants; there’s a deeply felt inner journey as well.

My goal is to help you move through your breast implant or explant journey on your terms, without continued domination by society’s “rules” about women and breasts. Defying those rules can feel threatening. But you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through explant’s harder-to-see inner journey. No matter how difficult your thoughts and feelings may be, or where you are in your journey, I help you mindfully reconnect with what matters deep down to you and then use those things to guide your way.

Saline and Silicone implants are made toxic chemicals and carcinogens that cause serious health problems. An implant will always be an unnatural, foreign object in your body, and your immune system will recognise it as such. From the moment the implant is placed in the body, your immune system is activated. It wants to ‘protect’ your body from this intruder by forming a capsule, made from your own scar tissue, around the implant. As this capsule becomes contaminated with the chemicals from the implant (heavy metals, even bacteria and mould have been found in explanted capsules), your body will never see this tissue as its own, leading to a continuously heightened immune system. The porous nature of this capsule does not contain the aforementioned microscopic toxic particles that are released via gel bleed and can thus spread all over the body causing more damage.

This physical stress means the immune system is fighting continuously. 24/7. This takes a lot of energy, energy that is otherwise directed at healing, keeping your organs working optimally and keeping you generally healthy. The implants are the trigger that pushes the body into a highly inflamed state and an imbalanced immune system which we now know lead numerous chronic health problems and autoimmune diseases. In other words, it leads to Breast Implant Illness.

Explanting, removal of the implants and the surrounding capsules, is highly recommended so that your body can reset and start to heal itself. Our bodies will always find a way to maintain what is know as homeostasis (balance), so once the source of toxicity is removed, it will work at healing itself provided it is nourished physically and psychologically

The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and the people with whom we are in relationship is to take responsibility for our own healing.

The more that we heal and commit to our own development in this lifetime, the better chance we have of breaking intergenerational trauma and not passing along the same patterns of wounding or suffering to our children.

The more that we heal our own wounds, the more capacity we have to be in authentic relationship with others and care for our society at large.