Wellness with Cait

06/27/2025

My handsome test monkey.

Teaching tomorrow (Friday) and Sunday before we head off to the wild for two weeks.

06/17/2025

This week’s classes:

Tuesday, Slow and Mindful
5:30 - 6:30pm, Saddle

Friday, Embodiment Flow
9 - 9:45am, Saddle

Sunday (special solstice class), Embodiment Flow
11 - 12pm, Holter

All are classes!

03/14/2023

There are just 3 spots left for this Monday's Spring Equinox Somatic Play class.

Here's a chance to take an embodied pause on your lunch break on the day of Spring Equinox. An opportunity to honor this moment in time where there's a balance of dark and light as we transition out of hibernation.

It doesn't have to be a big deal or a large investment of time and money, but prioritizing a moment of your day to move and reflect is a bountiful step as we recognize the rhythm of nature.

Please pre-register here: www.thebodyiswise.com/workshops/

02/03/2023

My first series in person since pre-pandemic will be starting at the end of this month. I only have 5 spots left so please sign up if you are interested - Somatic Support for Nervous System First-Aid

Through this 6 week series, we will be using an SE(™) tool called SCOPE as a way to stay embodied while the system experiences the physiological impact of a survival response.

02/03/2023

Hi all! My first newsletter is out after almost 2 years. I have info about a new class and 6 week series starting at the end of February. Check it out and subscribe to future newsletters as I am trying to transition to use newsletters to be where I primarily get the word out!

You can subscribe in the upper left corner of the newsletter below when you click on it or go to my contact page of my website (https://www.thebodyiswise.com/contact/)

Through this time, I have felt bruised.  I've described it as an underlying fever - not putting me in bed, but decreasing my spark and ability to put myself out there.  It was almost as if when he died, a part of me (an excessively connected to him part AKA immeshed) - my wildness, my desire to ...

07/04/2020

Here we are in July - Minority Mental Health Awareness Month as well as the 4th of July. It's impossible not to think about the lack of Independence for the majority of people in our country and the rewrite of history as we land on this holiday.

We are a group of White Mental Health Therapists and Somatic Practitioners here in Helena, MT that consider ourselves allies in training. We have each been individually working to dismantle and better understand our own privilege and how it shows up in our work. We have, and will continue to listen, learn and support the BIPOC community as well as do our own personal work, reading, examining, and all the stuff in between. We are all committed to the long-term focus of this movement and find ourselves humbly offering our skills not as false saviours, but recognizing that part of our privilege is having this knowledge and tools.

Each of us has been highly trained in tools for processing and dealing with the impact of trauma. Within the context of Montana, honoring the Black Lives Matter movement, recognizing Minority Mental Health Awareness Month and asking our communities to take a closer look at what they are celebrating today, we humbly offer the following -

Four free sessions with a trauma specialist (via telehealth) if you are a member of the BIPOC community and you contact us in July. This will be a first come, first serve basis with the understanding that once a practitioner's schedule is full, she will be unable to take more clients through this offer.

If you are interested in working with a Licensed Clinical Therapist (LCPC), please contact
Nolita Becker (also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner): 406.570.1334
Jamie Anesi (sessions would not start until Fall): 406.465.6845

If you would like to work with a Body-Oriented Trauma Support Practitioner, please call:
Caitlin McWilliams: 406.210.4979 (you can also just give me a call to learn more about what I offer and if it's the right fit)
Please let us know if we have missed the mark with this offering or if we can adjust it to be of greater support.

If it feels like it would be a good fit for you or somebody you know, help us spread the word!

06/09/2020

I started reading My Grandmother’s Hands this week and listened to on (which is where this quote is from) on my run this morning. This is where I see the nexus of what I’ve been studying and where I want to support going in the future (among many directions).

The body. The nervous system. The whole body, felt-sense of white body supremacy (which is the system we are all a part of whether we’ve used our privilege to turn a blind eye to it or not) - this is the place I want to continue to dive in, learn, unwind my own construction to increase my capacity. Our bodies are built from 14 generations back of traumas and joys. Think about that. Find the clean pain in this process and use it to open, unravel, re-organize, and metabolize. And don’t do it just sitting down. Move from impulse - the language of the body. Watch where it lands in your body, your breath, the texture of your energy. I’m here if this is your avenue of interest as well. Let’s dive in so we can find sustainable and meaningful ways to truly show up as allies - not just to say the right thing, but do the hard and meaningful work so our whole selves can be a part of this movement - not just our minds.

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