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Certified Hakomi Practitioner, Advanced Certification in Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Licensed Massage Therapist

Somatic Therapy for trauma healing and chronic pain recovery.

02/23/2026

“Bring more of your body into the room.”

My good friend and wise teacher, Devorah Bry said this during a recent trauma-informed facilitation training.

“We want more of you here. Shake it up a little bit. Let yourself play!”

That landed.

I stand with anyone who has struggled with an invisible illness — physical, mental, or emotional.

As a woman who has lived with chronic illness and complex trauma, it’s been easy to hide. To override. To pretend everything is fine. To look like I have it all together — especially as a soon-to-be therapist. And especially in a world that grossly ignores women's health issues.

When sensations in the body feel overwhelming — from chronic pain, from trauma, from survival responses wired into the nervous system — it’s natural not to want to feel. Dissociation makes sense. Flight makes sense. Numbing makes sense.

When the body hasn’t felt safe, why would we want to inhabit it?

And yet, when we continually leave the body, those old loops can get reinforced.

The body becomes more foreign. More threatening. More shame-filled. This is how chronic illness and/or trauma becomes more entrenched over time.

There is often a subtle, pervasive shame that surrounds invisible illness — especially when no one can see what you are carrying.

As a somatic practitioner and bodyworker, I’ve noticed a quiet pressure inside myself:
I must be fully healed to serve others.
I must be perfect.

I’m learning to let that go.

I’m learning that what matters is not perfection — but presence. Not getting it right — but having my heart fully online. Letting myself be honest and real. Letting all of me be here.

My experience holds a full spectrum: I know how to deeply resource myself through the body. I know how to find nourishment. And this body has also been a hard place to live.

Both are true.

Lately, I’ve been allowing the medicine of pleasure and play to guide me.

Letting joy interrupt hypervigilance.

A person can struggle with anxiety, depression, or chronic pain, and still be deeply in love with life.

02/17/2026

I am excited/honored/humbled to share that I have accepted an internship with the Center for Grieving Children here in Portland, Maine.

I will be co-facilitating peer led support groups for children, youth, and/or adults who have either experienced loss, or have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

I'm grateful to be part of this awesome organization that offers this kind of care and support to the community, as a threshold onto this path of becoming a Mental Health Counselor.

The realm of grief is a place where being witnessed and held in groups and in community is vital. And I'm honored to step in with my skills, experience, and education - and most importantly, my heart. ❤️

02/12/2026

This kind of presence requires safety.

And most of us need support to stay with what’s uncomfortable without becoming overwhelmed.

Healing doesn’t happen alone.

Staying busy, overworking, addictions, people-pleasing, self-reliance, dissociating, OCD, chronic pain and illness, fawning, avoidance—whatever your own unique flavor of default protection is—it has served as an intelligent response to overwhelm.

In fact, when we try to let go of our protections too soon, they often tighten their grip. These strategies—whether emotional, behavioral, or physical—are often the very reason we’ve survived with the level of functionality we have.

02/02/2026

There are emotions under emotions—layers shaped by culture, identity, and lived experience.

Many women and femmes, for example, have learned that sadness is acceptable, while anger is not. Others may feel anger readily, while fear or grief remain buried.

For a long time, I had easy access to grief and empathy. What I didn’t have access to was anger. When that shifted—slowly and with support—I found clarity and power.

I found a stronger sense of what was true. I found my voice. And I found myself letting go of a few relationships that were not healthy.

You may find grief beneath the anger. Fear beneath the clarity. This is how the body works—not in straight lines, but in layers.

Whether your inner protectors show up as staying busy, dissociating, an addiction, cycling through familiar emotional states that don't shift the needle, or chronic pain - they are not failures, they are intelligent responses to overwhelm.

01/15/2026

The stories that feel really true in the body from a person's lived experience during the years of brain development can become more entrenched with the unjust realities of the world we live in right now.

Here I talked about socioeconomic status specifically, but this can include any kind of marginalized experience that comes up against a person's access to safety, support, power/agency, freedom, and dignity.

It's hard enough to process and heal developmental trauma. Oppression of any kind adds a layer that makes it exponentially more challenging to heal.

I don't say this to add to doom and gloom, but to hopefully offer validation. It's not your fault if you're experiencing marginalization and having a hard time working through your trauma.

12/31/2025

The seeds of authenticity don't sprout and grow from trying to get rid of parts of ourselves we wish to change.

Instead they come from slowing down, listening, and honoring what's here.

12/27/2025

Every somatic therapy session with every client, even on Zoom, is a space I greet with intention.

I invoke a space that I hold as sacred - where all parts of you are witnessed and held with loving presence and genuine care.

I start my day with movement, meditation, and journaling so that I can locate myself emotionally, physically, mentally, and energetically before I enter someone else's internal landscape.

I light a candle, remember my intentions, and ground them in my body before I enter into the space of a session.

For groundedness, open-heartedness, and clarity. ✨

12/02/2025

“I support people living with trauma and chronic pain by using Hakomi-based somatic therapy and Pain Reprocessing Therapy to help shift the unconscious patterns that keep the nervous system stuck in protection mode.

Hakomi offers a unique doorway into accessing the implicit memory - the stored emotional and bodily experiences we cannot reach through logic, willpower, or through talking alone.

Instead of trying to ‘fix’ symptoms, we create a mindful, attuned space where the nervous system feels safe enough to reveal and shift long-held patterns.

We work experientially with these protective patterns the body holds in the present moment so that they can be compassionately witnessed and reorganized in real time. This leads to more meaningful, longer-lasting transformation.”

12/01/2025

I'm grateful for my clients, and for my work.

I'm grateful for the humility required to keep showing up as an imperfect human with the intention to be in integrity to hold space. I'm grateful for my clients who continue to trust me.

I companion people who long to understand themselves more deeply—those living with anxiety, trauma, pain, sensitivity, or loss—to rediscover the wholeness already within them.

My approach is rooted in presence and attunement.

My intention is to offer a space of safety and collaboration where your body’s wisdom leads the way.

Instead of trying to fix what feels broken, we learn to listen—trusting your symptoms as invitations to heal and integrate.

If you have been thinking about working with me, now is your window. 🪟🌅

11/30/2025

This is ideal for you if you’re wanting to work with:

chronic pain
trauma recovery
freeze, dissociation, or overwhelm
feeling disconnected from the body
feeling stuck in any aspect of your life
emotional numbness
nervous system regulation
gentle embodiment

Somatic work doesn’t rush you.
It meets you exactly where you are.
And this offering is here to support your next step.

11/29/2025

I companion people who long to understand themselves more deeply—those living with anxiety, trauma, pain, sensitivity, or loss—to rediscover the wholeness already within them.

My approach is rooted in presence and attunement.

My intention is to offer a space of safety and collaboration where your body’s wisdom leads the way.

Instead of trying to fix what feels broken, we learn to listen—trusting your symptoms as invitations to heal and integrate.

11/28/2025

This is ideal for you if you’re wanting to work with:

chronic pain
trauma recovery
freeze, dissociation, or overwhelm
feeling disconnected from the body
feeling stuck in any aspect of your life
emotional numbness
nervous system regulation
gentle embodiment

10% of proceeds will go to the Wabanaki Alliance.

I want to acknowledge the wild fact that Black Friday falls on Native American Heritage Day. You can also donate directly to the Wabanaki Alliance.

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Portland
North Conway, NH
04102

Website

https://www.embodiedheartsomatics.com/

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