The only way around is through.

To thrive, not just make it to the end of a day, requires immense love and connection. However, trauma—whether daily stresses or more complex trauma—shatters these connections. So it makes sense then that the places where we experienced this kind of shattering are places we’d rather not return to.

Healing, however, involves turning toward those places in us that we’d rather turn away from. This may sound counterintuitive, because there are good reasons for turning from those places of pain. But you already know how this kind of truncated life diminishes your ability to thrive.

So we gather the pieces and make something new. This is rooting down to rise up.

Together, we’ll listen for what has been silenced, for what has been exiled. As we listen deeply, we begin to cultivate a voice of radical self acceptance, and we also shift ways of relating that have caused disconnection and heartache.

Our work together will be both somatic and relational, looking at what your body already knows and has held so well for you, and noticing what comes up between us as we sit with each other. Slowing down and turning toward, making space for what is, leads to creativity and compassion as we find a way forward.