Trauma Informed, Heart Centered, Sacred Healing Space, dedicated to Nervous System Regulation and Generational Trauma healing.
The Healing Studio for all Cycle and Curse Breakers.
02/01/2026
Laying Down "Strong"
Day 7: For the Women Who Feel This Too
If you’re tired of being the strong one,
the capable one,
the resilient one everyone leans on —
You’re not broken.
You’re not failing.
You’re not giving up.
You’re evolving.
There is nothing wrong with wanting a softer life.
A truer one.
One rooted in presence, care, and enoughness.
You don’t owe the world your endurance.
You’re allowed to choose peace.
What might change if you stopped proving and started listening to what you actually need?
01/31/2026
Laying Down "Strong"
Day 6: This Is What Strength Looks Like Now
Strength looks different to me now.
It looks like saying no without explaining myself.
Resting without earning it.
Letting joy be enough.
Allowing my life to be spacious instead of constantly productive.
This kind of strength doesn’t get celebrated.
It doesn’t photograph well.
But it gives me something far more valuable — my nervous system back.
What would your life look like if you let this version of strength lead?
01/30/2026
Laying Down "Strong"
Day 5: I Want to Be Known Differently
I don’t want to be known as the woman who can handle everything.
Or the one who never needs a break.
Or the one who carries more than her share.
I want to be known as honest.
As kind.
As someone who lives in balance instead of burnout.
As someone who chose nurturing — even when the world rewarded depletion.
That feels like a legacy worth living into.
If people described you without mentioning your endurance, what would you want them to say?
01/29/2026
Laying Down "Strong "
Day 4: Choosing Gentleness Was Not the Easy Path
Gentleness didn’t come from comfort.
It came after survival.
After being hardened by experience.
After learning how to protect myself.
After realizing how much armor I was carrying.
Keeping my heart open wasn’t naïve.
It was a conscious choice — made again and again.
Softening didn’t make me less discerning.
It made me more alive.
What kind of gentleness are you longing to offer yourself, even if it feels unfamiliar?
01/29/2026
✨ FEBRUARY AVAILABILITY ✨
Nervous System Support • Therapeutic Bodywork • Energy Healing
I’ve made a few schedule changes this month (hello Tuesday mornings 👋🏼) and opened some extra spots.
February Availability:
📍 Smythe St • Mon Feb 2 – 3:30
• Tues Feb 3 – 9:45, 12:15
• Mon Feb 9 – 11:45, 2:15, 3:30
• Tues Feb 17 – 9:45, 11:00, 12:15
📍 Canada St • Tues Feb 3 – 2:30, 3:45
• Wed Feb 4 – 5:30, 6:45
• Tues Feb 10 – 2:30, 3:45, 5:00
• Wed Feb 11 – 1:15, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15
• Fri Feb 13 – 1:15, 3:45, 5:00
• Tues Feb 17 – 4:15 or 5:30
• Wed Feb 18 – 2:30, 3:45, 5:00
• Tues Feb 24 – 2:30, 3:45, 5:00
• Wed Feb 25 – 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45
• Fri Feb 27 – 1:15, 3:45, 5:00
If your body has been running in survival mode…
If you’re functional but exhausted…
If rest hasn’t actually felt restful in a long time —
This work is for you.
My sessions are designed to downshift your nervous system through the body, not push it harder. We work with safety, breath, tissue, and subtle energy to help your system remember how to settle, soften, and repair.
People often leave feeling: • grounded instead of braced
• calmer without being numb
• present in their body again
• able to sleep, breathe, and feel more clearly
If you’ve been carrying too much for too long, this is your invitation to lay it down — safely.
DM me to book or ask questions.
✨️Like maybe about insurance coverage and if your plan covers you ✨️
Your body doesn’t need fixing — it needs support. 🤍
01/28/2026
7-Day Series: Laying Down “Strong”
Day 3: I Was Rewarded for Endurance
I was rewarded for pushing through.
For staying functional.
For keeping everything moving even when I was exhausted or hurting.
Struggle became proof of character.
Pain became something to alchemize instead of tend to.
No one asked what it cost my body.
Or my nervous system.
Or my joy.
I’m no longer interested in being admirable through suffering.
I’m interested in being well — and those paths don’t always overlap.
What did you learn about struggle being “necessary” that your body might be ready to unlearn?
01/27/2026
Old stock earrings that we packed away and forgot 😆. The ear posts are sterling silver and this packaging let in too much air so they need polished.
Our mistake is your gain! $5 each because you will need to clean them up yourself. Let me know what number/s you want.
01/27/2026
7-Day Series: Laying Down “Strong”
Day 2: When People Say “You’ve Got This”
When people say “you’ve got this,”
it’s usually meant as encouragement.
But for me, it often lands as permission for others to step back.
As confirmation that I don’t need support.
That I’ll figure it out like I always do.
And maybe I could.
But I don’t want to anymore.
I don’t want competence to replace connection.
I don’t want capability to be mistaken for capacity.
I’m learning to let people see me before I’ve solved it.
Before I’ve pulled myself together.
Where in your life have you been assumed to be “fine” when you were actually needing support?
01/26/2026
Direct billing for Blue Cross, Greenshield, and SSQ are all back up and running again.
01/26/2026
7-Day Series: Laying Down “Strong”
Day 1: I’m Not Aspiring to Be Strong Anymore
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I no longer pride myself on being strong and resilient.
How tired I am of being praised for endurance instead of met with care.
For a long time, strength felt like safety.
If I could handle it, survive it, carry it — I wouldn’t need anything from anyone.
But these days, I want something different.
I want presence.
Authenticity.
Peace that isn’t earned through suffering.
Contentment that doesn’t require a backstory.
Letting go of the identity of “strong” doesn’t make me weaker.
It makes me more honest about what I actually value now.
What qualities are you craving to be known for now, not who you had to be before?
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So I've debated on how deep to go into “Who I Am” for months…to the point of just not doing it and dragging my feet in putting myself out there. That, however, will not help anyone - myself included, so here goes!
I was raised in a dysfunctional family (this is putting it lightly and I'll be going into that deeper in my blogs as time unfolds so keep your eyes open and ear to the ground), filled with generational pain, drug and alcohol abuse, and a general lack of Faith in the Divine/God/Source or whatever resonates most with you if any of it.
The highlights of the generational dysfunction include having children far earlier than society deems natural, marrying too young and an over-all case of pure self-loathing that manifested in a broken marriage, physical and emotional violence, and a seemingly deep-seated addictive personality to anything that would numb the pain of existence (money, s*x, alcohol, drugs, and dangerous living).
The pattern would seem to be being broken in one area only to pop up in another place and time with the same general outcome; mother's suffering from anxiety and depression, father's displaced from the lives of children and back to trying to numb the pain all over again!
It seemed like a never-ending circle of hopelessness and anguish that just wouldn't go away! Then trauma hit my oldest daughter and I decided enough was enough… I REFUSED to watch my children ”suffer” the same living experience I had (I had believed that the cycle had already been broken… boy, was I wrong!). I realized the only way to break the pattern was to actually do something different, take different steps than had ever been taken before and to stop pretending that the problems didn't stem from ME first and foremost. That was the hardest thing for me, realizing that each and every decision I made (sh*t-past or not) had brought us to that pivotal moment in our lives. To say that my oldest had finally decided that she was done living the life she had been given is putting it lightly… She helped blow the lid off the entire facade and has brought much needed healing to our family unit 💞
Sometimes our lives have to completely collapse around us before we can see the light… Before we can go inside and start healing the past pain, trauma and dis-ease in our lives. Often we are so blinded to the ‘truth’ that the glass ceiling must fall before we are even able to start looking at where it all came from and what started it all. This isn't blaming our past for the life we live nor is it blaming our parents or our ancestors because I firmly believe we ALL do the very best with what we know and until we know better nothing really changes… Once we know better we do better! Each generation does better than the generation before because we all want to be a better version of what we lived.
Life as I knew it fell down around me almost two years ago and the changes I've seen in myself, my children and those around have been incredible… I won't pretend it's been easy because it hasn't HOWEVER I will promise you it's worth it! There is nothing more empowering than taking the reins in your own life, taking ownership where ownership is due and learning another way live…
If you've had past trauma, family dysfunction, drug/alcohol abuse, anxiety or depression, are feeling stuck in your life, are in physical pain or suffering from any Mental Health concerns or are just done with living a life of pain of any kind then reach out, Reiki has truly saved my life in so many ways, in all ways actually!
There's not a day that goes by that in not thanking the universe for bringing in my beautiful teachers, mentors and all the AMAZING people I've met these past two years… I no longer “live” my past but have learned to love it (most days anyway and the days I'm not loving it, I'm learning to love myself for where I am instead) and all of the lessons it's given me.
Brighter days are possible for All of us and I would be honored and grateful to help you help yourself 💞
