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Healing Hearts Counseling

Healing Hearts Counseling provides trauma-informed therapy rooted in compassion, resilience, and hope.

We specialize in EMDR & nervous system healing to support lasting emotional and relational wellness for children, teens, individuals, couples & families

03/19/2026

We all have two levels of experience happening at the same time.

The story we can tell.
And the story our body is telling.

You might say, “I’ve worked through that.”
But your jaw tightens when it’s mentioned.

You might say, “I’m not angry.”
But your breath gets shallow.

This isn’t hypocrisy.
It’s implicit memory.

Trauma is stored in patterns… not just thoughts.
Real healing happens when we gently bring consciousness to those unconscious patterns.

For clients:
This is why awareness of your body matters.

For therapists:
This is why tracking breath, tone, posture, and pacing is essential.

Insight is powerful.

But reorganization happens when the implicit becomes conscious in a safe, regulated space.
The body often tells the truth before language can.

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03/18/2026

The skills are there.
The insight is there.
The intention is there.

But the body still shifts into:
• fight
• flight
• freeze
• collapse

Because trauma doesn’t just live in thoughts.
It lives in the nervous system’s expectation (prediction) of danger.

Coping skills can help manage the moment.
But if the nervous system hasn’t experienced safety in the body, regulation often doesn’t sustain.

➡️ This is where somatic work changes everything.

Instead of trying to override activation, we help the nervous system experience:
• support
• orientation
• grounding through sensation
• safety while activation is still present

Over time, the body begins to learn:
“I can feel this… and still be safe.”

And that’s when regulation becomes something the nervous system can actually hold.

If you’re a therapist working with trauma and want to deepen this work… I’m teaching a masterclass on somatic resourcing and nervous system capacity.

Comment EMBODIED and I’ll send you the link!

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03/17/2026

As a therapist, I don’t believe healing comes from luck.

It comes from awareness.
From support.
From regulation.
From doing brave, uncomfortable, honest work.

But today, I’m blessing you with something softer:

More safety in your body.
More clarity in your boundaries.
More relationships that feel like exhale instead of effort.
More joy that doesn’t come with fear attached.

If you’re in a season of deep healing, know this —
growth often feels messy before it feels magical.

You don’t need a four-leaf clover.
You need capacity, connection, and compassion for yourself.

And those are things you can build. 🍀

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03/16/2026

Many trauma therapists have experienced this moment in session:
You practice breathing.
You install resources.
And your client says:
“I know what to do… but my body still panics.”

This doesn’t mean the client isn’t trying.
And it doesn’t mean the intervention was wrong.

It often means the nervous system doesn’t yet have the capacity to stay present with activation.

Coping skills can help manage distress in the moment.

But somatic resourcing helps the nervous system experience something deeper:
Support.
Grounding.
Safety in the body.

Over time, these experiences expand the window of tolerance and increase nervous system capacity.

When capacity grows, trauma processing becomes much more possible.

If you’re a therapist who works with trauma and want to deepen your work with somatic resourcing…
I’m teaching a masterclass on this.

Comment EMBODIED and I’ll send you the link.📥

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03/13/2026

If you didn’t grow up with consistent emotional safety, you might not even know what it feels like.

Safety isn’t butterflies.
It isn’t intensity.
It isn’t constant reassurance.

Safety feels like your body settling.
It feels like not having to shrink, brace, over-explain, or prove.

Your nervous system is always scanning:
Am I safe here?
Can I relax here?
Can I be fully myself here?

When the answer is yes, your body knows.
And when you experience enough of that… in friendship, partnership, or therapy, your nervous system begins to learn:
“I don’t have to be on guard all the time.”
That’s how healing happens.

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NervousSystemHealing

03/12/2026

Some people count sheep to fall asleep…
Trauma therapists count theories, nervous systems, and somatic frameworks. 📚

If you’ve ever laid in bed thinking about the missing pieces in trauma therapy, you’re not alone. These are some of the books that shaped the way I teach EMBODIED: Somatic Integration for EMDR Therapists.

📖 Sensorimotor Psychotherapy — Pat Ogden
One of the foundational texts that helped therapists understand how trauma lives in the body. Ogden’s work teaches us to track posture, movement, and autonomic responses so the body can complete defensive responses that were interrupted.

📖 Getting Past Your Past — Francine Shapiro
Francine Shapiro’s work introduced the world to EMDR and the Adaptive Information Processing model. It reminds us that the brain already knows how to heal — our role is to help unlock the system so those memories can reprocess.

📖 Polyvagal-Informed EMDR — Rebecca Kase
This book bridges polyvagal theory and EMDR, helping therapists understand the autonomic nervous system while guiding clients through reprocessing. It deepens our ability to recognize when clients need regulation before processing.

📖 EMDR and Somatic Psychology — Schwartz & Maiberger
This text beautifully integrates EMDR with body-based awareness, helping therapists work with sensation, movement, and nervous system regulation inside EMDR phases.

📖 The Hakomi Method — Ron Kurtz
Hakomi introduced the powerful idea of mindful somatic inquiry—how unconscious beliefs organize the body. It teaches us how to gently “study the present moment” to reveal the implicit patterns shaping experience.

📖 The Nervous System Reset — Jessica Maguire

Each of these works points to the same truth:
✨ Trauma healing isn’t just cognitive.
✨ It’s neurobiological.
✨ And the body has to be part of the process.

This is exactly why I created EMBODIED: Somatic Integration for EMDR Therapists — because many clinicians sense there is something missing when working with complex trauma using EMDR alone.

If you’ve ever felt that…
Comment EMBODIED and I’ll send you more information about the training.

03/11/2026

If you want resilient kids…
focus on regulation before resolution.

Behavior is communication.
Under every meltdown is a nervous system asking for safety.

Resilience isn’t about raising children who never struggle.
It’s about raising children who can return to calm after stress.

And they learn that from us.

Before correction, offer connection.
Before discipline, offer steadiness.
Before fixing, offer presence.

Spring reminds us that growth doesn’t happen through force — it happens when the conditions are right.

Your nervous system is one of those conditions.

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03/08/2026

International Women’s Day feels especially meaningful when you work in healing spaces.

Because I see women every day who are doing the bravest work there is…
breaking generational patterns, learning nervous system regulation, reclaiming their voices, building boundaries, and choosing growth over survival.

Strength doesn’t always look loud.
Sometimes it looks like therapy.
Sometimes it looks like rest.
Sometimes it looks like saying, “This stops with me.”

To the women in my life… my team, my clients, my colleagues, my daughters and sisters… and to the woman I’m still becoming… thank you for the courage to heal and the courage to lead.

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03/07/2026

One of the most important distinctions in trauma work is the difference between coping and capacity.

Coping skills matter…
They help people interrupt spirals, manage stress, and get through difficult moments.

But many coping strategies are forms of symptom management. They help regulate the moment without necessarily changing the underlying organization of the nervous system.

Somatic resourcing works differently…

Instead of moving away from sensations or emotions, we help the nervous system learn to experience safety while activation is present.

Through the body we begin to notice:
Support
Breath
Grounding
Orientation
Space

These small embodied experiences teach the nervous system something new:
“I can feel activation and still remain connected to safety.”
Over time this doesn’t just calm the moment… it expands the window of tolerance and increases nervous system capacity.

Coping skills help us manage the waves…

Somatic resourcing helps the nervous system become a bigger ocean. 🌊

🛋️ Are you an EMDR therapist looking to integrate a somatic approach to trauma healing? Comment EMBODIED for more information on my next cohort of my course, EMBODIED: Somatic Integration for EMDR Therapists.

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03/05/2026

The somatic container is what allows trauma work to be sustainable.

It’s not a grounding script.
It’s not a coping skill.
It’s not “calm down.”

It’s the nervous system sensing: “I can stay present with this.”

Before we reprocess trauma, we build the structure that allows the system to tolerate activation without tipping into overwhelm or collapse.

This is why somatic tracking in EMDR Phases 1 & 2 matters so much.

We don’t rush toward memory.
We build capacity first.
And capacity is built in relationship.

✅ If you’re a therapist, this changes how you do history taking

✅ If you’re healing, this changes how you approach hard emotions.

Therapists, comment WAITLIST and I’ll update you on my next cohort of EMDBODIED: Somatic Integration for EMDR Therapists.

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03/04/2026

“Just calm down.”

If it were that simple… we would. 🤯

When someone is dysregulated, their nervous system isn’t choosing chaos.
�It’s responding to perceived threat. 🚨

You can’t logic someone into regulation.�You can’t shame someone into safety.
And you definitely can’t command a nervous system to settle.

Regulation happens through:�• safety�• co-regulation�• slowing�• breath�• presence�• connection

Not pressure.

If you’ve ever been told to “just calm down,” there’s nothing wrong with you.

Your nervous system just needed support. 🤲

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03/03/2026

Insight can name the pattern. 💭
But the nervous system has to reorganize it. 🧠

Somatic work builds the container so your body can stay present for what your mind already understands.

Save this post if you’re building safety, not just insight!

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2680 S Val Vista Drive Building 15 Suite 185
Chandler, AZ
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Tuesday	9am - 9pm
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