Healing
- Ever feel like you know what makes everyone around you happy, but not really what makes you happy?
- Do you feel like you are living life for other people and not necessarily yourself? Or that you don’t have the freedom to follow your desires?
- Ever feel like you are stuck and can’t find your way forward towards that dream in your head?
- Do you feel like you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders and there is nothing you can do to change that?
- Do the words Self Care, Pleasure, and Fun seem foreign?
If you’ve had any of these feelings or questions, then you are probably already on the path of deep introspection or are perhaps being called forth for deeper introspection. As a child of a bipolar parent, I also had these issues and questions, and I now understand how common they are for people who grew up with similar conditions.
In my own experience, I see that the number one thing that holds us back is ourselves. It’s those hidden belief structures within that keep limiting us, the ones that were created by our early, challenging life experiences, that were somewhat traumatizing to our nervous systems. These experiences often create hidden belief structures, such as: ‘I’m not safe,’ ‘I’m not worthy,’ ‘I’m not free,’ ‘I must act or be a certain way to be loved.’ Even if none of these are your particular beliefs, you have some. We all do. What we must do is get to know our habitual beliefs and where they came to be a part of us in the first place. As early trauma survivors, we often have hidden our responses so well that we don’t even know they exist. And when we discover the hidden reasons why we do the things we do, we then have more capacity to make a choice of how we react or respond, rather than unconsciously react in ways that we end up regretting.
A word about trauma. When we think of trauma, we often think of big trauma, like violence. But there are also ongoing traumas that we experience daily that greatly affect our nervous systems and our internal beliefs, thereby creating unconscious reactions. When these patterns were created, they initially worked well to keep us safe and to get us through whatever traumatic experience we had. However, as we mature, these patterns and core beliefs often become hindrances to the way we wish to live our lives.
This work particularly addresses our smaller ongoing trauma experiences by helping people feel safe in their bodies through mindfulness, loving presence, and patience. Together, we can uncover deeply buried experiences and nervous system responses so that they can be seen and healed.
Because in the end, we all want to be deeply seen.
In general, I work with clients on a one-on-one basis similar to therapists. I trust you to know if you are in need of my services or not. I am happy to have a possibilities chat with you to see if we are a good fit for each other because I know the deepest work happens when the healer and the client are able to create a trusting and sacred space together.
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More about the top three modalities I often use with my clients…
Hakomi
Hakomi is a Hopi word meaning ‘all these many realms’ as in all the different realms of our experience. It is a mindfulness based body centered psychotherapeutic practice. The 5 principles of Hakomi are: Mindfulness – holding a space of loving presence, Non-Violence (both in words and actions), Unity – everything is one and connected, Organicity – what wants to happen is what needs to happen is what will happen, Body-Mind Holism – the body and mind are connected and work in unison. With this work I get to hold sacred non-judgmental space for my clients as they dive deep within to discover the beliefs that are holding them back from living the life they desire.
Energy Healing
Energy healing works with the energy body to assist a client’s healing process. Energy can be manipulated at the energy body level, the chakra level or the divine blueprint level. Each energy body is correlated to a chakra of which I typically work with the seven main ones. Energy healing can repair distortions that occur in a person’s energy field which can impact their quality of life and create dis-ease. The type of energy healing I do is based on the book Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan. I work in both the energetic realms and the spirit realms by calling in the support of my client’s healing guides as well as my own.
Shamanic Practices
Shamanic Journeying is probably the oldest meditation practice around. A practitioner walks between both the physical and the worlds beyond the veil. Shamanic journeying helps you get a representation of what’s happening in your physical world through images, sounds, feelings while in a light dreaming state of consciousness. It is a safe and accessible way to get information and access to your own inner wisdom and deep knowledge. I prefer to teach people how to journey as I believe everyone has the capacity to journey on their own behalf. However I am also happy to do journeys and other spiritual healing on behalf of my clients.
