About Me
I contracted Lyme Disease in my early twenties, just as life was starting to take off and while that was the beginning of my healing journey, it was merely the tip of the iceberg. Misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis followed which left me bedbound, increasingly unwell and vulnerable.
Nothing I tried worked, the storm raging inside me would not quite because I was not listening. The tick bite had taken my health, but beneath that, my nervous system was shot, my coping mechanisms off kilter and my close relationships toxic.
Only a fraying thread of the real me remained within this storm of infection layered with trauma and programming.
Gossamer and fragile as it was, it was enough and I clung to it as I kept reading, learning and experimenting…
When there’s trauma trapped in the bodymind, be it medical, psychological or physical, when you’ve been dismantled from the outside in and the inside out the approach needs to shift…a lot.
My Vision
Standarised methods don’t work, gentle poses and well-meaning words don’t hold when the fascia is on fire, the muscles are locked on incoming threat and the brain is running a loop of survival.
The trauma needs an out, the body needs to trust again, and a new foundation needs to be built before true healing can take place.
It’s a frequency shift, a cleansing, a recalibrating and a rebirth.
It’s reclamation of the raw and beautiful power that lies within. An acknowledgement of the bravery and courage. A celebration of irrepressible light.
No matter what kind of transition you’re currently experiencing, how hard life is hitting, how shadowed and dark it might seem, the light within you is stronger.
If you’re sitting in the in between where the pull of the old is calling and the draw of the new is terrifying…
Where despair is tangled in a web of seemingly insurmountable pain and your body no longer feels like home…
Why It Matters
It’s probably because you’re a force to be reckoned with, a mind blowingly powerful being about to rise.
I use a combination of energy work, sound healing, body work and yoga to recalibrate the system so that you can safely come home to your body, to you.
To your dreams brave soul, your right to feel safe, vibrant and truly alive.
Because I’ve been there, facing road block after road block, trying all of things all of the time to no avail.
Wondering why nothing truly resonated, eased the darkness or held its charge.
Why when everyone else seemed to be thriving, living, I was merely surviving, and barely managing that.
Oscillating between dorsal vagal shut down, fawning, fighting and fleeing in a rinse repeat cycle of lost, I felt betrayed by the people I’d loved, infuriated with my body, isolated and alone.
Until I realised that a traumatised body mind system is wired differently.
That we need to be healed differently.
When we’ve faced abuse in a space where we should have been safe, from the people who should have safeguarded us, it obliterates our foundational security and infects the home we embody – the very blood and bones of our being. Disrupting and dismantling our boundaries, the electrical circuitry, our energy production and emotional autonomy until all we know is off kilter inside and out.
While the toxic ones feed on our dysregulation as vampires, we become depleted and disorientated and slip into the shadow land of fuel source. Of ghost. No safe haven to rely on, we become disembodied and in response our bodies begin to scream. They yearn to be heard, to be held and offer up symptoms to draw us back home. If opportunistic infections have crept on board as our boundaries faltered and burned, the screams are louder and all the more overwhelming.
If you feel your essence has been dimmed, your hopes and dreams diminished and contorted to fit the narrative of toxic, be it within a family system, a work place environment, an authoritative body or a relationship – breaking free and reestablishing internal coherence and safety can feel impossible.
It isn’t…I promise it isn’t.
After years of living amongst the poison, environmental toxins (mould), chronic illnesses (Lyme Disease, MCAS, EDS, Dysautonomia) and disordered people (overt and covert narcissists), I realised that although I desperately needed to detox on every level, the detoxification process is complex and if rushed or coerced, gruelling.
Every brave soul who has experienced dysregulation on such a deep soul level needs gentle inquiry, a kind and patient witness and an individualised approach.
If you would like to work with me, your body will be our ultimate guide and together we will alchemise the shadow imprints to power.
Join me and begin your healing journey
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