Blog
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To Begin Again is Hope (Body Awareness Practice)
Dear Ones, The healing journey is not linear. It has hills, valleys, and when you reach a mountain top, there is a sense of elation and self discovery. Admittedly, when you dip into a valley it does not feel great, triggering the tender younger parts of you to arise with their well meaning, but constricted
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The Benefits of a Regulated Nervous System
Dear Ones, We are all aware of the impact of developmental trauma on our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being, and how it can affect the quality of life. I strongly believe in the healing potential within each individual. Let’s explore the importance of a regulated nervous system and how it can significantly enhance life.
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Nervous System Regulation in Pregnancy and Post Natal
Dear Ones, I have reflecting on this as I have just become a Grammy for the first time, and sharing my daughter’s pregnancy, delivery and early days at home with her new son. I was heartened by the encouragement of skin to skin contact from the nurses, with a message of “bringing moms and babies
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Allowing is An Empowerment of Choice
Dear Ones, Allowing is the internal practice of accepting things as they are/were as a gift to ourselves. To choose to end the struggle of self rejection, self shaming or numbing of self, to the past. It takes energy to bury wounds in the basement of our soma labeled “trauma”, which ends up in costing
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Resting is Important Self Care
Dear Ones, In my past life, I would have either poo-pooed resting or told myself I was resting, but relentlessly planning and/or trying to figure out what things about my life I needed to fix. This pattern is a mix of social conditioning and my upbringing. “No rest for the “wicked”, “Buck up and soldier
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Blue Butterfly Healing Somatic Circle
Dear ones, I have just completed my certification in Transforming the Experienced-Based Brain® (TEB) modality to become a Transforming Touch® Practitioner, and I am excited to share this gentle healing experience on a bigger scale. What is Transforming the Experienced-Based Brain? TEB is a Regulation Based Modality. The modality is based on the theory that
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The Felt Sense
Dear Ones, Happy April everyone! My workshop “The Art of Healing” (combining Trauma-Informed yoga and Transforming Touch) was a success and I will be offering another series in the fall. I have moved office spaces this week and will now be at 11-1638 Pandosy Street, in Kelowna. This space is welcoming, warm, and decorated
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Come Back Home To You
developmentaltrauma, traumahealing, nervoussystemregulation, transformingtouchtherapy, #somaticexperiencing, somatictraumatherapy, internalfamilysystemstherapy, cptsdtherapy, developmentaltraumatherapy, developmentaltraumasupport, chronicfatigue, chronicpain, anxietyhelp, depressionhelp, ptsd, mentalhealth, womantherapist, womensupportingwomen, selfagency Dear Ones, Of the many faces and roles that you were and play in your life – who is the real you? Different versions in life like the work you, you that is a friend, the
