We offer a body-based approach in reclaiming your body, recreating your personal narrative, and reconnecting to your innate freedom.
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It is a practice in remembering.
Remembering all that you are and have always been.
It is a practice in reclaiming your body, integrating your associated stories, and recreating your personal narrative. It is a practice in embodiment. It is a practice in finding your freedom and remembering your truth. It is a practice in taking up space and in not abandoning yourself as you and your story continues to evolve and change.
It is remembering that this is all just a practice in awareness: life, you, me, vulnerability, health, growth, tension, joy, and pain.
There is no destination, no mastery, no end point. There is only practice.
Remembered Practice is a practice to strengthen your ability to remember, trust, and have compassion for the most important aspect to your self and your healing:
You.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a pioneer in trauma research, says:
“The only way you can change your survival orientation in your brain is by accessing your interoceptive world—the part of your brain that allows you to observe yourself…observing yourself, knowing yourself, being curious about yourself, befriending yourself, taking care of yourself.”
I invite you to say “yes” to yourself.
![One of the pieces I love most about the work that I do with people is around emotions.
There is so much misunderstanding and stigma around emotions. They’re often accompanied by labels like “good, bad, negative, positive” which is just confusing and hinders your ability to take meaningful action based on what you’re feeling. People are often unfairly labeled as well, most often as too sensitive, too emotional, and too much.
In my work, I see emotions and feelings as incredibly valuable tools that offer a breadth of information and insight in to who you are. It’s a bit of a paradigm shift, right? Rather than identifying with an emotion as who you are (“I’m an angry person”), it is a reclamation of your innate truth as the human being you actually are in your core who experiences emotion flowing through you (“I have anger”).
So what can your emotions offer you?
Your emotions can show you where your values lie.
They can show you what your boundaries are and quite often where your boundaries are lacking, being repressed, or were never established.
They can clue you in to what has meaning for you in life and relationships.
They can help you to get clear on what isn’t working for you.
They can clue you in to unconscious belief systems that aren’t working for you anymore.
They can let you know whether you are safe or in danger.
And so much more.
It has become such an important part of my work with people to help them understand that their relationship to and with their emotions can be collaborative - symbiotic - meaningful. To welcome them, acknowledge them, be open minded about them, learn from them, and to allow them to have movement by feeling and expressing them. To not only identify them but to have curiosity about what lies within them and/or underneath them in order to fully integrate them in to your growth and associated stories so that you can live from a place of freedom; a place of true responding, rather than reacting.
What emotion(s) have you experienced lately? What did you do with that emotion?
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![A client recently asked me if I had any advice on stepping in to who you are and staying there.
I don’t. I mean I do, but I rarely give advice. You and your story are so unique to you that you are the only one that truly knows what is best for you. So while I probably won’t offer you advice, I can explore with you what is stopping you from stepping in to and being anchored in your deepest truth.
Most often that includes curiously exploring and uncovering unconscious belief systems, personality patterns, your emotionality or emotional fluency, physical dis-ease, and repetitive behavioral, relational, and energetic patterning in showing up.
Because honestly there is an abundant amount of space for you. There is an abundant amount of resources, time, action, and support. If you don’t believe that, reach out to me. Let’s see what is at the root of that disbelief.
In the mean time, I want to offer you this:
Think of your future self. Think of him or her as the future You completely anchored in who you are. Living the life of freedom that you dream of or feel called to live in all of your truth.
If I could offer you a magic potion that allowed you to step in to the shoes of that unique and authentic person, what sorts of things would he or she remember that got you to that point? What things did you have to say? What needs did you have to acknowledge? What actions did you take? What was your mindset? What belief systems did you decide weren’t yours anymore? What line of bullshit did you decide to let go of because it continued to keep you stuck?
If you find that there’s a little voice saying “yes” coming from your core as you read through this, a little voice that has a deeper knowing that there is more for you than a life of lessening who you are, head to my website in my bio and schedule an appointment with me at the bottom of the page.
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![“There is an ancient longing wired in us as infants to be seen, to be felt, and to have our surging, somatic-emotional world validated by another. When our subjective experience is empathically held, contained, and allowed, we come to a natural place of rest. What is love, really, other than fully allowing the other to be who they are, for their experience to be what it is, and to offer the gift of presence to their unique subjectivity? In this sense, I love you = I allow you.
...A brilliant psychoanalyst used the term ‘holding environment’ to describe the ideal mandala in which growth and development could occur, weaved of the qualities of contact and space. Through making attuned, present-time, somatically-engaged contact with another as they are – and by providing an open, warm sanctuary in which their experience can unfold and illuminate – we become vehicles of love in action.
Simultaneously, by offering the gift of space, we do not interfere with the unfolding of their heart and majestic inner process. We do not pathologize their experience or demand that they be different, change, transform, shift, or ‘heal’ in order for us to love them. If sadness is there, or fear, or despair, or shame, or depression, or profound grief, we will infuse their inner mandala with validation and presence. We will be there for them, but only if they need us. We will not engulf them with the projections of our own unlived life, nor will we unload upon them our own requirements and agendas, arising out of our own undigested psyches and bodies. Instead, we will seed the intersubjective container with tender space.
While not talked about as much, we can provide this same contact and space to ourselves and come to discover that our nature as awareness itself is in fact the ultimate holding environment. You are always, already resting in the majesty of presence and are always, already held – by the beloved – who is none other than your own miracle nervous system, heart, and somatic brilliance. [continued in comments]](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5909d902ff7c5036ea139ec5/59cbc91dcd0f680945663a23/5b6932f85ccc0f5ea3698f08/1533620992434/)
