My Heart is endlessly fascinated with the evolving multidimensional resilient human. I really do believe my work gifts me over and over with the best seat in the house. I operate on a few studies/principles/approaches that I incorporate into my work regularly. The Polyvagal Theory, ACEs findings, and somatic practices are the foundations of how I comprehend the world and our work:
1) Trauma directly and deeply impacts physical health and the body knows how to heal itself when provided with aligned integrative support.
2) There is deep order to our trauma/pain patterning and with integrative body approaches we can gently make changes to repattern our trauma responses.
3) The body and our reality are physical manifestations of our beliefs and they can be changed anytime with work and commitment.
A few promises from me… I will educate you on your astounding, marvelous and intimately complex Central Nervous System. Your body utilizes a wordless comprehension system that ascends light years beyond the intellectual mind. My 15 years of experience has illuminated for me that most of us carry some form of trauma/PTSD and that the body can fully recover when given the right support. Our trauma responses can motivate us to do very unusual things. We dissociate, we fight, we flee… we become the victims, the villains, the heroes... all responses that gravely interfere with our relationship with ourselves and others. I will teach you how these responses can be re-patterned and healed. For white identifying clients - this work includes dedicating efforts to expanding your racial consciousness/awareness. Race is a myth. Our unexamined narratives around this topic are keeping our Central Nervous Systems deregulated and operating from a place of scarcity and threat. It is imperative for you to examine your patterning/relationship to your own white body and with other bodies that identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color and/or Bodies of Culture. I will guide you through this with ongoing readings, discussions and practices.
I am certified in nutrition for Mental Health and I will guide you how to treat your body with love and care from the inside out. We will carefully look at your diet to see what is working and what is not. If you are living with depression, anxiety or addiction we will also create a program that supports a healthy mind/body reunion (incorporating healthy fats, amino acids, proteins, carbs, supplements, exercise, meditation and eliminating all processed foods). Working with me will give you access to some of the most heart centered holistic and integrative providers in Chicago (fascia tissue release specialists, acupuncturists, reiki, cranial sacral, nutritionists and integrative physicians).
From an emotional/mental/spiritual approach I will teach you very potent tools that will guide you how to slow down, get quiet and curious about your discomfort and heartbreak in a way that will expand and energize you, enliven your right brain with new hobbies and reconnect with the artist you always were (or, perhaps never knew). Your growth requires your commitment inside and outside of sessions. Our work together will incorporate specific readings, exercises, meditations, intuition awakening practices and artistic projects.
I believe that channeling your inner artist self is essential to your well being. Whether you have curiosity in the traditional arts, performance arts, visual/graphic arts or any other medium of creation, you at your core are an artist who needs to allow your inherent creative force to flow. I am so excited to help you uncover/remember and nurture this part of you. A happy body is one whose right brain and heart are activated regularly. Together we will discover/nurture dusty hobbies that may have fallen asleep.
