The Practical Healer

11/13/2025

Had the pleasure to speak to the practicum level students at my Alma Mater today on the topic of Trauma-Informed Care and how that can integrate into an Athletic Therapy practice 🤓

A topic I can speak to all day. Thanks for much for having me!

11/12/2025

Lessons in healing:

✨ Very rarely is the antidote to this world of urgency doing more. Often the remedy is in being, feeling and simplifying.

✨ It’s going to take time. Different time than you expect. That doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. One small step, one small thing. Let it compound- that’s the magic.

✨ The right guides will nudge you, console you, empathize with you, invite you and enlighten you in ways you didn’t expect, and usually in ways that don’t involve timed programs, expensive supplements or contract commitments.

✨ You can’t do it alone. No-one can. Those saying they can are usually selling something (see above).

✨ You’ll have to do hard things and when the timing is right, the hard things simply feel inevitable and necessary more than hard/impossible.

✨ Timing does matter.

✨ Slowness is so valuable to practice and is the ultimate clarifier of urgency.

✨ Contemplate over and over the meaning and feeling of integration. Find people who do the same.

✨ It’s okay to take a break.

11/06/2025

If you’re ever wondering what the vibes are like in the treatment space at … 👀✨🍂

11/04/2025

Gasp! A reel with no trending music. Just floor creeks and breath. Can you stay with me for 3min of relative quiet?

When I was young I didn’t consider myself an athlete until I was told I should play sports because I was tall and able and my small high school needed bodies on the teams.

I fell in love with sport and cross training during that era because it helped me feel connected and valued in my community.

After high school I fell in love with corrective movement and more technical strength training because it took away the body pain I’d been burdened by for a long time, and helped me navigate through a number of injuries that developing as an athlete had come with.

I met yoga based movement for the first time in my very early twenties after a concussion taught me what anxiety, depression and neurodivergences are like the hard way and I couldn’t handle the intensity I was used to right away. I met yoga again when my body told me she couldn’t handle the stress of endless more on all levels in my later twenties and I could still feel capable and embodied in movement.

In each phase of my life story, movement served me at exactly the right moment and it’s also harmed me in some.

It’s been a constant coping tool, progression tool, feeling tool and foundation. No matter what I’ve faced or how my capacity shifts.

Breath and Somatics entered when I needed a language for what I was already feeling unfold, and they unlocked layers of bodywork I didn’t know even existed. Nuance has become the most important medicine I have.

Why am I typing this all out?

No matter where you are, the thing you CAN DO (and want to do) is enough. We get so lost in the should and the endless stimulus of next best thing we forget that it can all be good and it doesn’t have to be a linear upward progression. Let it fall apart and discover something new as it does. Let it challenge you and see that as just a snapshot for the scrapbook. Let it be easy.. let it be whatever.. just practice feeling it along the way and you’ll find the right thing in the right time. I promise.

11/03/2025

Who might you be in a couple years if you took any opportunity to engage with the present day as you’d hope your future self might?

We don’t always (or ever) have control over what forces our external environments toss our way. We can’t control life. And yet.. we can find ways to transmute that force through our bodies, minds and souls in a way that shapes us (literally) perfectly for whatever the future holds.

Even the things that break us hold opportunities to kick start healing on scar tissue and patterns we thought long set.

This isn’t about bypassing the hard stuff and only gazing into some perfect imagined future we might manifest.

It’s about choosing to be so intentionally present with what’s here now we see it was the building blocks for what comes our way next.

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10/29/2025

I got a say. The health and wellness field, whether it’s in conventional or alternative landscapes, truly is a wild place sometimes.

What spooky 💩 have you encountered lately?

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10/24/2025

10/20/2025

One of my favourite places to be on a rainy Monday morning 🤓

Immersed in research, consultation notes and about to mix some infusions before in person clients arrive for the day 🌱💛

10/17/2025

How old were you when mission statements shifted to intentions?

I was somewhere around my fourth experience of burnout that rocked me to my hustle and grind girly core.

That was before a pandemic rocked us all.

An intention guides direction and awareness toward desired action. I work from a foundation of lived experience, extensive professional training and embodied awareness of how each of my tools work, feel and can impact with nuance.

Happy Friday 💛

10/14/2025

POV you go on a walk with me and I insist on pointing out and telling you all about every medicinal plant we come across 🤣🌱

Thanks for the great pic, ✨