Your Body is Trying to Tell You Something
What you think, what you feel, what you've been through lives in your Body
Maybe it's chronic pain that won't release. Fatigue that no amount of rest seems to touch. Anxiety or chronic stress that no tool seems to reach. A nervous system stuck in overdrive. Tension that lives in your body no matter what you try.
Your body is responding to your past, your present mental state, what you believe to be true. And it's not wrong. What I don't have is the specific answer. That lives in you. What I do have is the pathway. Because here's the thing: your body wants to work with you, not against you. We're building the ground to stand on.
You've done the work. And something's still not reaching it.
I spent 26 years in that same struggle
I've lived many lives in this one life... and want to know what I learned from all of them? The only person anyone can be is unapologetically themselves.
When I started listening to the whispers of my body, or the yelling when the chronic pain and fatigue took over, I began to see that my body was trying to guide me the whole time. In each life I learned another thing about my body, which informed me about my mental state and emotional being. It became the path of being with whatever was present, especially the discomfort and feeling my way THROUGH. And once I began to cross each threshold something remarkable began to happen... my body began to heal and each part of me that I dismissed to try to fit into the life I was living became an important part of me. Time and time again, over and over, piece by piece integrating into being unapologetically me.
I pursued a Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Duke because I was a chronically injured athlete who wanted to know why I hurt and how to heal. Myofascial release found me because it was the only thing that brought real relief, teaching me to let go of outcome and allow the fascia and nervous system to guide the way. Somatics taught me to actually feel what was present. I pursued trauma-informed work because I could see it everywhere in my clients and knew that meant it lived in me too. Pilates to retrain the motor patterns MFR couldn't reach. Coaching because the mind is either a tool or it runs the show.
There isn't enough time in the day to do all that I want to do...ceramics, mother young children, business build, create, garden, play guitar, move my body, care for the house and cook nourishing meals.
Instead of making excuses, I looked for possibilities, for another way.
When I started to say yes/and... it's like a faucet of flow opened.
Life feels challenging AND is joyful in raising two young kids. Ceramics grounds me AND is part of what my body sees as rest. I needed myofascial release AND nervous system regulation AND Pilates-based movement AND a supportive family AND most importantly, building the capacity to actually FEEL instead of pushing through to heal.
“Your body isn’t broken... it’s responding”
I help people build the strength to feel what's actually here.
Not by adding more treatments or trying harder. By learning to understand why their body responds the way it does and developing the capacity to work with it - even when it's uncomfortable.
This isn't about fixing what's broken.
Here's what's missing:
WHY your body responds the way it does… so you're motivated to practice.
Understanding what's happening in your nervous system, your fascia, your body's patterns gives you the knowledge to make different choices.
HOW to stay present with discomfort… so change actually lasts.
Not tools to reach for in crisis. Ground to stand on. When you build the ability to stay present with discomfort, you unlock what you've been longing for… ease, joy, spaciousness. We feel on both ends of the spectrum. Negate one side and you negate both.
Knowledge motivates practice ~ Capacity and resilience make it sustainable
How To WorK With Me
WHO I AM
Integration isn't something I achieved. It's what I practice every day.
Someone who can't separate the living from the learning. I spent the last 26 years on this path and that's exactly why I want to walk with you.