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Root Grow Thrive therapy | soul care | consulting Here we prioritize inner work and exploration within safe and trauma-conscious container, growing from the inside out.

At Root Grow Thrive, I provide holistic and integrative soul care that sets aside convention and leans into innovation, inclusion, and hope. We prioritize healthy community, humility, and openness in order to foster resilience and soul sustenance in the challenging world in which we live. As a trauma therapist and as a certified spiritual director trained in the Jungian Mystical tradition through

the Haden Institute, I offer sacred space for all seekers on the journey. It's not about where you come from, or really where you're going. Soul care is about deep listening, companionship, and belonging. It's about knowing and reclaiming power, purpose, and peace--when we feel disconnected, burned out or weary. My vocational spirit and desire is to provide "soul friend" presence so you can unravel what knots that no longer serve you so you can better open into and revel in nourishing connection to your own definition of inner Source.

In my work with burned-out helpers and healers, I often hold space for considering how loss, grief, and bereavement are ...
01/08/2025

In my work with burned-out helpers and healers, I often hold space for considering how loss, grief, and bereavement are significant players in burnout and renewal.

The truth is, grief is not the same as burnout, but unresolved grief can foster burnout. Burnout is not just exhaustion; it is a crisis of meaning, a slow erosion of spirit, purpose, and connection. Grief is the heart’s response to loss, rupture, and change.

When we struggle to tend to our grief, it can show up in over-functioning, resentment, numbness—even a relentless drive to keep going—until we just plain can’t anymore.

On the blog: discerning the difference and first steps. Link in bio or https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/is-it-burnout-or-grief

Hi. A quick hello. And if you’re a caption reader— I’m so glad you’re here. Let’s chat. I want to tell what you’re feel...
29/07/2025

Hi.

A quick hello. And if you’re a caption reader— I’m so glad you’re here.

Let’s chat.

I want to tell what you’re feeling right now, here and now, it is valid.

It is real.

That tension in your chest, that stomach clenching. That weariness that emits from your bones—you’re not crazy. And you’re not alone.

If you’re anything like me, being a deep feeler in these times of violence and fear is certainly tough. It’s heart-sickening. Evil is fresh in its delight as it dances on the graves of our hopes and compassion in the broad daylight for all of us to see. It’s trauma, embodied.

It’s easy to feel like hope is a slipping.

It’s easy to take the easy way out and fall asleep to what this moment is asking of you.

In fact, that is what they’re betting on.

But you aren’t a victim. You’re the majority. If you’re reading this, if you have breath in those wet, alive, pink-balloony lungs of yours. You have actionable steps. You have agency. But always, always, first: these feelings. They’re there for a reason.

Look around: we are standing on a threshold.

Oh, those invitations for strength: the rage, the fear, the righteousness, the sadness, the overwhelm, the grief and loss. Your feelings are valid just as this breath you take—here and now, in…out..together.

Together.

Here, now: In, out.

Together.

Only then, can you be with that hope shimmering around us. Only then can we can be with what’s next.

And oh, that next is coming.

First book I recommend to new clients who come to me for burnout care? Set Boundaries Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawaab....
17/07/2025

First book I recommend to new clients who come to me for burnout care? Set Boundaries Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawaab.

The second?

Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey.

Seriously, this is a game-changing book.

This book is for those of us who want to answer this question:

Can I live in systems of oppression and not get burned out?

These systems are our ecosystem—we are not victims of their impact but rather we are an integral part of the cellular makeup. When we learn about our blind spots where we contribute to oppression, we reclaim a sense of choice back into our lives.

When one of us gets stronger, so does the whole. As in psychological family system theory, mitigating threat begins with each link in the chain. In this way, inner work is essential for the reclamation of the health of the ecosystem as a whole. It's literally what I do--personally, and in my work at RGT.

Yes there is time when I struggle for the sunlight and grapple for the nutrients and fight for my understanding of who I am in it all. But also, in equal measure, there is rest, and the fallow time, that is so essential to my ability to resource myself. As activist Tricia Hersey says, rest is resistance, and our shame about rest is a result of our conditioning: “Grind culture is violence and violence creates trauma. We have been traumatized deeply.”

Burnout is a cycle when we don't understand this reality. So I schedule rest, I put it on the calendar and tell people I do so. I take concerted time off, I put a note on my door and take an hour or two to do my own soul care, get consultation, have friend and colleague time, and listen to my own needs through silence, stillness, and being in nature.

This week? I'm loving the morning wren chatter as the sun rises--listening to their twittering reminds me the value of voice in community.

How are you resting this summer?

(Photo of Olive and Simon as kittens 😍)

Simon teaches us everyday the value of rest. Aren’t cats rest gurus?Rest isn’t just about naps or bubble baths. It’s abo...
25/06/2025

Simon teaches us everyday the value of rest. Aren’t cats rest gurus?

Rest isn’t just about naps or bubble baths. It’s about interrupting the lie that your worth is tied to what you produce.

If you’re tired, you’re not failing—you’re finally hearing yourself.

For many of us, rest is ancestral repair.

A refusal to keep sacrificing ourselves on the altar of urgency, perfectionism, or some image of who we’re supposed to be.

Rest is where your soul catches up.
It’s where grief breathes.
It’s where resistance takes root.

You don’t need to earn rest.

You ARE the reason to rest.

Letting things be what they are is not about settling for less. Actually, it is about a reorientation to our power of ch...
19/06/2025

Letting things be what they are is not about settling for less. Actually, it is about a reorientation to our power of choice in a world that often tells us we are powerless. Enoughness practice is about intentionality about how we focus our energy. It is choosing presence over any type of perfection, and trusting that your soul speaks, even if your schedule is a mess, or you haven’t gotten to laundry in over a week, or you feel like collapsing into despair, once again, when you open your news app.

But enoughness looks like rest, not striving. It looks like revolutionary love.

Can you allow yourself to know that this is true?

In this month’s blog, link in bio or here: https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/finding-a-way-forward-being-enough

You’ve been taught to ignore the cues. To override the ache. To call your body’s exhaustion a mindset issue.But your bod...
13/06/2025

You’ve been taught to ignore the cues. To override the ache. To call your body’s exhaustion a mindset issue.

But your body isn’t a machine. It’s a living archive. It remembers the harms you’ve carried. And it’s asking for more than a mindfulness app.

It’s asking for rest. For slowness. For truth.

Let this be a reclamation:
My worth is not measured in output.
My rest is not negotiable.
My body belongs to me.

So many helpers—nurses, therapists, moms, community organizers—are collapsing under the weight of unspoken pain. We don’...
08/06/2025

So many helpers—nurses, therapists, moms, community organizers—are collapsing under the weight of unspoken pain. We don’t need more coping strategies. We need spaces to grieve, rage, and reclaim.

Too many spaces bypass the pain of this moment with platitudes. But you deserve more than “just stay positive.” You deserve a place to be real.

At Root Grow Thrive, we honor healing as sacred and collective—not a solo hustle to get back to work, but in true sovereignty to our soul.

Rest isn’t a privilege for those who’ve “earned it.” It’s a basic need. A right. A rebellion in a culture that thrives o...
05/06/2025

Rest isn’t a privilege for those who’ve “earned it.” It’s a basic need. A right. A rebellion in a culture that thrives on your depletion.

We’ve been trained to override our bodies. To ignore our grief. To keep pushing through. But this system doesn’t need your sacrifice—it needs your liberation.

Being lost from our soul-center can sound like a lot of things. It often looks like our inability to put boundaries in p...
02/06/2025

Being lost from our soul-center can sound like a lot of things.

It often looks like our inability to put boundaries in place that are healthy for us.

It can look like being in a freeze state—what others may see as “lazy”, but is actually your nervous system screaming—”IT’S TOO MUCH!”

When we live in a world that is focused on productivity—even our healing can be another thing on the to-do list—meditation apps, stack of unread self-help books, the yoga mat collecting dust in the corner of the room—they all unconsciously affect us, like they whisper, “You’re not quite there yet..”

But—what if you already are?

What if, in this moment, you’re already enough?

Link in bio or
Click https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/finding-a-way-forward-being-enough

On a walk with my kiddos recently, I found myself having trouble being present. I was thinking about what is coming this...
02/06/2025

On a walk with my kiddos recently, I found myself having trouble being present. I was thinking about what is coming this week and up ahead on the family calendar, who I should remember to connect with, and what I need to remember next time I head to the store.

“Mom, look!”

My son was holding up a stone, his eyes glistening with delight. He knew I loved stones.

I took it and he clambered ahead, and I found this stone to be exactly what I needed, as I turned it in my hand, to remain present here and now. My brain may be popcorn some days- but I have the ability to look, see, and return.

A robin’s hope, peeking through our weeping hemlock. As spring unfolds, I’m reminded that even after long winters—litera...
27/04/2025

A robin’s hope, peeking through our weeping hemlock.

As spring unfolds, I’m reminded that even after long winters—literal or metaphorical—life stirs beneath the surface.

Jung taught that the Self is the central archetype of wholeness, holding all opposites in creative tension. When the world feels divided or we feel fragmented, my Self remains intact, holding space for my return.

Spring invites me to ground into this wholeness. Would you join me? Try this: Step outside and place your bare feet on the earth. Feel the support beneath you. Let your breath deepen and repeat: I am held, I am whole, I belong. Earth offers this wisdom daily—no matter the turmoil above, roots grow downward and life renews.

For those of us in the US, our world has turned upside-down seemingly overnight. So many of us are feeling increasingly ...
01/04/2025

For those of us in the US, our world has turned upside-down seemingly overnight. So many of us are feeling increasingly unsafe, from the effects of layoffs and illegal seizures of jobs and livelihoods on behalf of a government run by the unelected, to cuts to safety nets, to censuring voices and eliminating life-saving and life-sustaining programs and systems.

While many of us are struggling to understand our place in the chaos, we still hold values of the unending pursuit of justice and peace. Yet we risk burnout if we aren’t careful.

You’re not alone. Social justice organizers and activists experience burnout, moral injury, and emotional exhaustion as we push for change in a world that often resists it. Burnout doesn’t just affect individuals; it weakens movements and communities. It is what oppressors expect and hope for—it’s part of the strategy to maintain power. So without intentional well-being check, we can find ourselves depleted, disillusioned, and disconnected.

Your voice matters—and so does your well-being.

Read on this month’s blog- link in bio or https://www.rootgrowthrive.com/blog/hidden-costs-of-advocacy-burnout-in-social-justice-and-political-resistance

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