Go all in to Let go - Trauma Healing Insights

Feeling stuck in your trauma healing journey? In this episode, I share a personal story of how freeze responses, hypervigilance, and dissociation show up — even after doing "all the right work." You'll learn how body-based trauma tools like pendulation, bilateral stimulation, and somatic orienting can help release stored trauma energy, regulate the nervous system, and create real, lasting healing....

Sometimes, the body - and our younger selves - remember before we do. In this tender episode, I share what it was like to meet my inner child in a moment of shutdown—and to hear her say, "This is really hard for me." Join me as I share a personal *story about navigating the freeze response—especially when it shows up as **sexual numbness. I explore how past trauma shaped my body's protective shutd...

Ever caught yourself saying something just to smooth things over—then walked away feeling small, tight, or ashamed? In this episode, I share how I recognized a fawn response in real time, how my breath helped me reconnect, and what it means to reclaim our truth after self-abandoning.  Healing from trauma doesn't mean we never fawn again. It means we learn to notice when we do, breathe into the fea...

Understanding and Healing the Flee Response: Personal Insights, Grounding  & Releasing Tools Did you know that you can let go of past trauma and that your body already knows how? In this episode, I discuss the trauma response of fleeing, both physically and energetically. Through my own experiences, I share practical tips for recognizing and addressing the 'flee' response, providing grounding tech...

Reclaiming Power: Understanding Trauma and the Fight Response   In this episode, I dive into a personal story and insights about trauma and the fight response in my situation. I explore how past trauma can resurface and how it manifests as anger, control, or defensiveness. I share a personal year long journey with my hair, examining a visceral reaction tied to a memory of my father's criticism. Th...

I can't tell you how many times I used to think this thought when I would get triggered, or when a visceral response would come up in my body that made zero sense to my present self. I want to honor that it's ok. In this episode I share many different aspects of why and how this might come up. I offer ways we can be more kind to ourselves and some possible new reframes. Throughout the episode I in...

Things are seeming to get worse.... Is this a thought you've had during your healing journey? The River of Misery is a tool we offer to our mind when this comes up. It makes sense that as we start to change, rewire our brain and offer ourselves new reframes that the parts of us that are used to the way we do things will freak out a little or maybe a lot. And this is what the river of misery refers...

Resiliency is a common word we hear when we start to heal our trauma. And it's one that I always forgot the meaning of. Does that happen to you? You hear a word, it makes sense and then when you hear it again, you don't understand how it applies to you or your trauma healing? Today, I share a little about my journey with this word and the different phases I see myself and my clients going through...

If you are wondering how Somatics and EMDR could work together, I break it down on this episode. I invite you to listen as I offer ways my clients and I find somatic work helpful, EMDR helpful and then how the combination of the two can be a powerhouse tool for healing. Again, your body knows what you need, so pay attention to how it feels as I share. You can take the nuggets that resonate and lea...

The first week in March I did a 3 day challenge and invited people to join me for a Get Into Your Body for 30 minutes each day series. It was so much fun! And so I wanted to share some of it here on the podcast. Today I share what we did for Day 2. We focused on releasing stress or tension in our chests. The practices I shared are some of my favorites. They are ways to offer ourselves acceptance o...

Yoga is often talked about as a way to heal trauma. Dr Arielle Schwartz brings polyvagal theory into her therapeutic yoga for trauma recovery and I LOVE her approach. In today's epidose, I discuss some things Dr Schwartz shares about the power of healing trauma through yoga. I also share why I was drawn to this specific tool and how I think it helps by offering a few practical examples of yoga pos...

Have you ever thought I can't do trauma healing, trauma healing isn't for me, that seems like too much or another version of this idea? If so, I invite you to listen as I offer that you have good reasons and I honor how valid those are.  I also share the challenge of awareness when this fear of trauma healing is present. As you listen further I invite you to see if your body resonates with any of...

So how do we change then?  If you don't like shame and guilt as a motivator but know it's often been the only way you change…. I invite you to listen and see how else we can change.  I offer some ideas and also address how the fear of shame and guilt is connected to the idea of hitting rock bottom or not hitting it…  I promise there is a better way to change and your body has known it all along. F...

What if this time, you want to be more intentional? Can you really show up as the real you, and say goodbye to the stress, anxiety, worry or fear when that "hard" person will be there? You can Download the FREE Ebook to learn how. I offer 5 tools and this podcast gives the embodiment practices to go along with each topic in the Ebook. The free Ebook is HERE The video of the Embodiment Practices is...

If you have heard the word Embodiment but don't really know what it means or want to learn more about it, I got you. I invite you to listen in while I share what Embodiment is, why I like to use it to heal trauma and how I integrate embodied healing into mine and my clients healing work. It's powerful stuff and I can't wait to share it with you!    And here are the links I talked about in this epi...

Connection is not only what we think, our belief systems, our narratives, our stories and all that mindset work. It is those things and I talk about all of that in this episode  PLUS…. Connection is also the state of our nervous system and what our nervous system will allow in order for us to connect with other people. I talk about all that on this episode as well.   wacky, wonderful Wednesday new...

Inner Child Work has been really powerful for me. It has been yet another tool in learning what I am functioning from in my every day life that I might not be aware of. It is also another tool to help me dissolve and release painful trauma narratives.   This episode gives a brief explanation of what Inner Child Work is and how it's been helpful for me as I heal from trauma. There are many benefits...

The ability to slow down, take one piece of trauma response or narrative at a time and gain tools that help us learn things about our trauma responses, while learning what safety and regulation feels like in our body benefits us so much in our healing. And along the way, we learn how to complete the trauma stress energy cycles in our body safely, so they are released and not a part of our current...

Chakra work is one of the tools, with many tools incorporated in it, that I use because it helps us learn so much about our body and, often from a bottom up first - meaning, we pay attention to what the cues are from our body and then incorporate the other steps. Top Down or mindset and Sideways which includes noticing whether we are being kind or judgy with how we are healing. In today's episode,...

In this Episode, I talk about IF's.   Trauma IF's and Tool IF's. I share how assuming can be an "if" and how it can be a trauma response or a way we cope when we are in a trauma response. I offer lots of examples of what it might look like as a trauma response and then use an "IF" tool as a way to get out of trauma so you can regulate and get back to doing and being the person you want to be in yo...

Today I talk about aspects of sexual assault and mental health that might be triggering and if that is the case, I invite you to please take care of yourself and stop listening as needed. You can always come back to this later if you aren't able to listen right now. I think it's so important to talk openly so we offer a space to support survivors as we increase knowledge and awareness. I also offe...

The phrase Taking up Space….Is it familiar or new to you?   When you hear the words, "taking up space", what comes up for you? I take up too much and want to work on that… I don't take up enough space and want to work on that.. I don't even know what that means…   The concept of taking up space and my right to take up my own space, has been huge in my healing journey.   So, in this episode, I shar...

Today's episode gives a basic overview of what Polyvagal theory is. I offer 4 ways it's been helpful for me & my clients…. 1- Awarenes of what state our body is in 2- Once we have awareness, we can start implementing tools to move between states (which is referred to as moving up the polyvagal ladder)  3- Tools to get into ventral more often 4- Tools that rewire and heal ventral first and then dor...

Healing work can be hard. It can be exhausting and sometimes we forget that we are humans who need fun too. Learn today how adding fun to your life can actually help in your healing journey. I share how fun is a vital part of my healing, why it's valuable and what it looks like for me. I invite you to listen for ideas that might also apply to you. You have a right to have fun, to laugh and to enjo...

In this episode I talk about what victim and martyr mentalities are. What they might look like in trauma and why learning to understand how our body and our nervous system responds when we go into a victim and martyr mentality can help us heal. I use polyvagal concepts to explain the state of our nervous system while in victim and martyr and how we can move between polyvagal states. I also share h...