The Practical Healer

The Practical Healer A integrated approach to healing.

Spring.Making the most of the glimmer of a still, sunny, bird filled morning here at Evoke đŸŒ± 🌞
04/22/2026

Spring.

Making the most of the glimmer of a still, sunny, bird filled morning here at Evoke đŸŒ± 🌞

04/19/2026

Health is a way of being as much as it is an outcome or a to-do list.

Can you invite yourself fully into the things you’re already doing and practice presence
 intentional being?

We shift out of endless doing the second we notice exactly where we are, and all of our biological systems thrive on more being than doing.

Yes, we can do things that support health/wellness/lower symptoms
 but if we do those things with no presence, we are only ever checking short term boxes.

Whether your goals are health, high performance, symptoms shifts or something else
 presence and capacity for simply being in life are two important ingredients.

Right time, right relationship, right context
 these are the life changing ingredients, not any one modality.Skilled pra...
04/16/2026

Right time, right relationship, right context
 these are the life changing ingredients, not any one modality.

Skilled practitioners and facilitators are attuned to this. This is powerful intuition and nuance. This is why sometimes things feel slow and subtle, and sometimes things feel “all of a sudden” transformed. The work is happening all along.

It takes trust, time and practice to build right relationship to modalities, to the therapeutic relationship and to the rhythm of transformative work.

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04/09/2026

And by work I mean loving every minute of time spent in my studio space lately.

The days are full and the work is deep, lately.. and there is so much magic.

Thank you all for being here with me đŸ«¶đŸ»

04/09/2026

I can’t tell you how many times in a week I ask “what happens if we follow that?”.

It’s usually at the threshold of something someone has been trying to combat or escape or fix for some time.

A heaviness that won’t ease. A tension that won’t release. A pressure that won’t settle.

Before we have thought, emotion, expression and regulation we have feeling, sensation and felt states.

Somatic work expands our capacity for wading into the waters of our dreamlike bodies and learning their language.

It’s in softening to the current of our wise bodies we find the resolution and integration of the experiences we feel stuck in.

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A custom blend for a client desiring lymphatic support in this season of transition.What emerged as I sat with the plant...
04/07/2026

A custom blend for a client desiring lymphatic support in this season of transition.

What emerged as I sat with the plant options I have in stock was a nourishing, hydrating and gently moving combination of Angelica Root, Calendula, Red Clover, Peppermint, Orange Peel, Yarrow and Ginger.

Sampled a cup before packing it up and it was tasty and just right for this in between season.

It’s been a winding road for me, expanding my scope of practice and focusing it over the years.I knew well before I even...
04/02/2026

It’s been a winding road for me, expanding my scope of practice and focusing it over the years.

I knew well before I even graduated and certified that I was fascinated by the body-mind connection, though the word somatic wasn’t on my horizon yet.

I was lucky enough to experience quite a few injuries and illnesses that shifted my perspective and deepened my embodied experience of the body-mind systems, the hard way, during my high-school and university years. I was also lucky to meet professionals during those years that helped me bridge the gap between body and mind.

Working with an AT and a mental performance focused counsellor to manage a chronic back injury in my early university years and onwards from there for various other rehabs was integral to how I saw the rehab process as I began working with clients.

As I stepped out into the wild world of private practice, toe dipping first in owning and managing a large multi-disciplinary practice and then refocusing to a solo practice.. my foundation in yoga and expansions into the beginning intend Breathwork and somatic realms validated hugely what I was feeling in a large percentage of my clients: there is no separation between our felt experiences and our mental/emotional/nervous system states.

Seeking a language for that interplay that was unfolding with so many of my cases, and being challenged both by the chronic and complex cases that were finding me from day one- alongside my own ongoing health journey- is what drove me to widen the scope of practice.

There are many tools in my tool-box today, as a practitioner. Young-therapist me was right in her knowing that there was a way to offer more holistically. She was also right in her urgency to find ways to do so sustainably. I’m so proud of her for noticing and inquiring on the layers of sensation, and building her capacity for the emotional and energetic experiences on her table.

She was also right when she sensed that touch based, hands on care is invaluable - and when done with intention, usually a game changer. Likewise when she noticed that a compassionate conversation could be the tool no other practitioner had tried yet.

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Full post on my Substack now, along with accompanying guided practice!practicalhealer.substack.com
04/01/2026

Full post on my Substack now, along with accompanying guided practice!

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🌞 happy place ✹
03/25/2026

🌞 happy place ✹

03/24/2026

What is the story of your breath?

What lore is it binding you to or freeing you from?

The breath helps us narrate our experiences and every chance we take to become intentional in our present moment is another chance to author the next version of our story.

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We are biological beings on a roller coaster of lived experiences that have been conditioned to believe that we must uph...
03/21/2026

We are biological beings on a roller coaster of lived experiences that have been conditioned to believe that we must uphold an industrial level level of consistent over-functioning to keep up appearances in what is a literal micro-second of time in the broader evolution of our world.

The way of being our cultures believe is “right” has only been around for a few generations. We are dramatically under nourished in terms of food, touch, connection, time and perspective. We are living into so many questions and answers, and there can’t be any inherent wrongs to what our bodies do to help us integrate change.

There’s no sales pitch here. No lead in this caption. Just Saturday morning rants that I’ve been steeping on for the week. So much of my work is constantly asking the question: what need is this symptom/sensation/belief/etc serving? That simple reframe from diagnosis of the problem to desire to understand what question is being answered has shifted my entire practice, even in the cases I see that are “conventional” physical rehabilitation.

03/19/2026

The art of creating a client’s herbal infusion begins with sitting in what plants are wanting to work with them, and how that fits into their current experience and intentions for having a blend made.

Sometimes there are specific health considerations to be made.

Sometimes the season plays a part, of the world or of our lives.

If the client is with me, I want to know how they respond to plants through their senses. What colours catch their eye, what smells.. what herbs are they drawn to on my shelf by those senses alone. What stories are they coming in with, how’s their mood lately.

That information, paired with the knowledge of plant personalities and relational dynamics, supports me in narrowing down what finds its way into the mix.

Often I’m blending while a client is integrating an experience we’ve had in session, or is on the table with acupuncture or cups doing their magic. The information their body says, non-verbally, helps me too.

If a client isn’t with me while I’m blending for them, I’m paying attention to tone and information as we chat about what their hope is for the blend.

Creating teas and herbal infusions, for me, is rarely about following a written recipe and much more about discovering the recipe in the moment. Yes there is science and textbook knowledge that supports that, but as always, science is best paired with a healthy dose of art ☕

Excited to be offering some group and individual opportunities this spring and summer to experience this kind of tea blending first hand. Stay tuned 💛

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