Nourished Energy

10/30/2025

10/25/2025

I just love looking at pictures of Hugo & his mom. Nurturing is such an important part of life 🧡 also his rolls are just adorbs!

10/21/2025

I have always loved butterflies 🦋

Did you know butterflies rest when it rains because it damages their wings? It’s okay to rest during the storms of life. You’ll always fly again once it’s over.

Art: Kotaro Migishi

10/19/2025

Sadly some people never grow-up really, but it is also never too late to do the work.

10/18/2025

"Childhood emotional neglect is a parent’s failure to respond enough to the child’s emotional needs. Emotional neglect is, in some ways, the opposite of mistreatment and abuse. Whereas mistreatment and abuse are parental acts, Emotional neglect is a parent’s failure to act.

It’s a failure to notice, attend to, or respond appropriately to a child’s feelings. Because it’s an act of omission, it’s not visible, noticeable or memorable... It is insidious and overlooked while it does its silent damage to people’s lives."
-Dr. Jonice Web

AND we can bring this into consciousness as adults, work through the pain and protest as we learn to turn toward our emotional experiences which are a huge part of being alive.

10/16/2025

Some of my favorite office hearts ❤️.

10/14/2025

Perimenopause and Menopause are hot topics lately for women in their late 30s/40s and beyond. There is SO MUCH misinformation that is rooted in weight bias and harmful, contributing to mid-life eating disorders and deepening body shame. Just like in puberty our bodies change again in peri and menopause, that does not have to mean there is anything wrong with our bodies! So many "menopause influencers" are shilling their overpriced supplements and reinforcing body shame. I am so sick of it all. So happy to be able to share this FREE summit being put on by my trusted teachers & mentors at the Center for Body Trust:

the menopause summit Reimagining “The Change”—TogetherNOVEMBER 12-14, 2025FREE VIRTUAL SUMMIT* SIGN ME UP The thing everyone’s suddenly talking about—but few truly understand. The gaping hole in healthcare research around menopause. The life-altering transition often reduced to jokes, sham...

10/13/2025

Recent retreat in Northern California with the Complex Trauma Training Center was a really beautiful and profound experience. I got to spend time with beloved colleagues and make new friends too. I grew professionally and personally. My heart is full.

10/08/2025

Intuitive Eating is not a fad, it has years of research behind it since it was coined in 1994 by two brilliant dietitians who were sick of watching people suffer from chronic yoyo dieting.

Intuitive eating is "an approach that focuses on trusting your hunger cues," says dietitian Jinan Banna. In 2010, Taylor Swift was practicing the eating pattern.

10/01/2025

This is an important sentiment and we could switch out ADHD with many other things that humans experience, too.

06/13/2025

I am consistently in a self inquiry process around "what is the purpose of therapy". Lately it is boiling down to creating a space and opportunities for another to not run away from themselves. Humans are incredibly skilled at survival and cutting off pain - running away from ourselves - however doing so ultimately cuts us off from ourselves. Therapy is a place to find ourselves. I can only show up in my humanity offering space, witness and sometimes even tools for those I serve. It is up to each of us to find our own courage to face our fears and ourselves, if we so choose. 🙏💜

06/10/2025

I am now one of a just handful of NARM® Master Therapists in Michigan. I am incredibly proud and humbled. "The spontaneous movement in all of us is toward connection and health. No matter how withdrawn and isolating we have become, or how serious the trauma we have experienced, on the deepest level, just as a plant spontaneously moves towards the sun, there is in each of us an impulse moving toward connection. This organismic impulse is the fuel of The NeuroAffective Relational Model™."