Soft Path Healing

Soft Path Healing Trauma-informed support & nervous system nourishment for practitioners, survivors and the world we a

Connecting with the body can be transformative for survivors.And yet embodiment practices might feel scary or overwhelmi...
05/10/2026

Connecting with the body can be transformative for survivors.

And yet embodiment practices might feel scary or overwhelming if our body has been harmed, violated and traumatized.

So now what?

There is nothing wrong with you if you want to connect with your body, and it’s hard to find the doorway in.

The instructions we often receive don’t work too well for folks who live with complex trauma and chronic pain.

When I work with people, they are often a little stuck.

Talk therapy isn’t working as well as it used to. But somatic healing feels impossible.

This is why I work in layers. This is why embodiment takes time.

If these words resonate with you, Softer Somatics is coming soon. 🌥️

If somatic, nervous system practices don’t always work for you (and sometimes make things feel worse), try this:🧘Instead...
05/09/2026

If somatic, nervous system practices don’t always work for you (and sometimes make things feel worse), try this:

🧘Instead of a whole body scan...

🧐Try: Do I feel open to connecting to any part of my body?

Do I feel drawn to connecting to any part of my space?

🪨Instead of a grounding or regulating practice...

🍃Try: Reminding yourself you don’t have to be still or settle down.

What would it feel like to let my jittery energy be here? If my body could do anything, what would it do?

😮‍💨Instead of taking a deep breath or noticing your breath...

😻Try: What feels grounding to notice? Your bones or muscles? Your feet on the ground? The earth beneath you? An object in your space that is pleasant and still? Your pet’s breathing?

🫨Instead of shaking it out to release...

🙂‍↔️Try: Gentle swaying. Feeling the corners and edges of your feet on the ground. Heel drops. Body brushing with soft hands. Tapping on different parts of your body. Allowing your hands (or something else) to tighten and release.

❣️None of these are bad practices.

They are just common practices that might not work for you. (Ironically, so are the alternatives I listed in this carousel.)

Your nervous system, body and lived experience are unique so your practices can be, too!

💞To find the right practices for your body and nervous system, I invite you to join my free email series

Somatic Healing for Brainy Bodies! 🌀🌈💌

Link in bio.

Somatic healing, as the western world knows it, is not built for neurocomplex folks.if you’re neurodivergent and somatic...
05/07/2026

Somatic healing, as the western world knows it, is not built for neurocomplex folks.

if you’re neurodivergent and somatic healing hasn’t helped (and maybe made you feel worse) there are reasons why.

The reason isn’t that you’re broken. 🙂‍↔️
Or that healing is hopeless. You probably need an approach to somatic healing that works for your body, brain and nervous system.

We don’t put an orchid in the desert and wonder why it’s not growing.

Please don’t do that to yourself.

You need and deserve the right conditions for somatic healing.
In this world, they can be hard to find. But it’s my joy to help create them. Stay tuned.

Softer Somatics is coming. Link in bio to join the waitlist. 🌥️🌈🐸

Sharing my face (plus Bub and this ginormous snake plant we scooped up this weekend) and a few things I’m thinking about...
05/03/2026

Sharing my face (plus Bub and this ginormous snake plant we scooped up this weekend) and a few things I’m thinking about lately.

1) How can I hold so much (like, the most!!!!) hope for my clients to grow and change and heal (and I literally get to watch and witness while it happens) while watching someone related to me just …. withers.

1a) That’s a rhetorical question, please don’t answer it my heart can’t take it, but you can leave solidarity in the comments if you relate.

2) When is it going to become an industry norm in online healing for folks to share their experience and/or trainings on their website? I get that the letters after our name don’t mean everything (and also many folks are decolonizing!) but just not saying anything? I don’t get it.

3) Why is it a quintessential q***r experience to not feel q***r enough? When will I ever locate a sense of enoughness in *any* regard and where will I feel it in my body?

4) Are we onto something or a little bit off the path when we keep asking people to get into their bodies? I know our world often prioritizes the brain which can be problematic, but is this “jump all the way into the body and out of the intellectual” thing also problematic but just the inverse? Can’t knowing also come from being connected to our brain which is also part of our body?

4a) This one is not rhetorical and I would love to know your thoughts. I know I generalized. I feel allowed to do that on instagram, even though I try to do it sparingly.

What are you thinking about lately?

If a somatic practitioner asks “where do you feel that in your body?” and you literally don’t even know, here is what mi...
05/01/2026

If a somatic practitioner asks “where do you feel that in your body?” and you literally don’t even know, here is what might be happening.

Did any of these resonate for you?

And, if you’re worried somatic healing won’t work for you, but something in you wants to try . . . I might be the practitioner for you!

I made a free email series called Somatic Healing for Brainy Bodies 🌀for trauma survivors who’ve tried somatic practices and felt worse, or felt nothing.

Link in bio 🌥️

What are (and aren’t) you healing for? Here are a few of my hopes. Share yours in a comment if you feel moved to. 🩷I hop...
04/22/2026

What are (and aren’t) you healing for? Here are a few of my hopes. Share yours in a comment if you feel moved to. 🩷

I hope we’re not healing so that we get really good at navigating painful moments. I hope we’re healing so we can be open when joy knocks on our front door.

I hope we’re not healing so we can perform okayness in a culture that demands it. I hope we’re healing so that we have access to the full spectrum of our emotions.

I hope we’re not healing so that we learn to shut out a hurting world screaming. I hope our healing helps us bear witness to the rally cries, and even join in.

I hope we’re not healing so that we make the choices easiest for others. I hope we’re healing so we have access to our agency in its true form.

I hope we’re not healing so that we forgive all of the harm, unless we want to forgive the harm. I hope our healing centers survivors.

Maybe this is your moment.🌷Heal the parts of you that talk therapy can’t reach. Practice feeling a little safer (yes, ev...
04/04/2026

Maybe this is your moment.🌷

Heal the parts of you that talk therapy can’t reach. Practice feeling a little safer (yes, even right now) alongside a small group of people who get it.

The folks gathering for our April 8th SSP Group are really, really wonderful — and there are 2 spots left.

I can’t wait to see who else joins us. 🤗
Applications close tonight. Link in bio to apply.

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