Safe & Sound Holistic Nursing Services

01/24/2026

What Would Florence Do?

01/22/2026

Heavy stuff going on in the world...listen to your Spirit, notice how things land inside of you. You are a conduit, be mindful of how you consume. Peace & love 🧡

01/21/2026

Please jump over to The Holistic Psychologist page and give them a follow, her page and a few others like her are really very validating along the self-healing journey. It's hard out here; we need collective voices raised to shed light on the path as we walk...it feels dark and unsure and scary sometimes, but there's nothing like the peace on the other side of the suffering. Voices who validate experiences are so necessary so thank you for helping me grow! 🪴💗

Bridget, 38, grew up as the oldest daughter in a home where she played the peacemaker for her parents.

She’d comfort her dad after fights and listen to her mom vent. She tried to protect her younger siblings who heard a lot of yelling, betrayal, and harsh words. The next day her parents would often pretend nothing happened. They’d be back to “normal” and no one ever talked it. Bridget learned to keep the peace, but her body was always bracing for the next sign of tension or snide remark between her parents. They lacked communication skills and the ability to repair, and that soon the home would become an emotional tornado.

Sometimes she’d go to the parent trying to seek affection or reassurance. But both of them were highly self focused and stuck in survival mode themselves. Bridget tried to get her parents to how so much fell on her shoulders. She tried to get some recognition from them, but often they told her “you have it so much better than I did.” Or “I’m sorry you don’t have a perfect family.” Or “you’re ungrateful.” Her reality of having to deal with too much, too soon was denied over and over again.

As she got older, she found herself with partners who also denied her reality. Her intuition would go off and she’d ask questions only to be told she was “crazy,” “insecure” or “jealous.” Even when she was being betrayed by people she loved and trusted— she was always the problem. Her reality was always denied.

When Bridget started feeling sick and exhausted, she went to doctor after doctor. She got blood tests and was told there was no problem. She got serious about nutrition, but still she didn’t feel any better. When she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder she finally had some answers.

Bridget’s body tired desperately to protect itself. Responding to consistent emotional pain and stress, her body flooded with cortisol and adrenaline. Her immune system “overreacted” to the perceived emotional threats resulting in widespread inflammation in her body.

Nutrition was a great start, but her nervous system needed safe people who validated her reality, her intuition, and her life experiences

01/20/2026

Unabashedly bashed around and grateful for the experience....kinda 💪🏻😉

01/18/2026

A heart breaks over and over again; such is the purpose of life.....to salvage enough of the pieces to rebuild and keep moving forward in growth with grace 💔💪🏻

There is both relief and grief in this truth.

Relief, because you were never meant to carry the weight of changing another person.

Grief, because loving an adult child often means watching them choose a path you would not choose for them.

Lasting internal change cannot be forced from the outside.

Pressure, control, and repeated correction tend to increase resistance and distance, while humility, emotional steadiness, and respectful connection create greater openness over time

God’s Word tells us:

Ezekiel 36:26 (NLT)
“I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you.”

Zechariah 4:6 (NLT)
“It is not by force nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord.”

Heart change has never been a parental assignment.

Heart change is reserved for God.

In this season, faith looks like releasing the role of redeemer…

choosing to pray and trusting that God is at work even when you cannot see evidence yet.

You are not stepping back from love.
You are stepping into trust.

Where might God be inviting you to lay down control and lean more fully into prayer right now?

01/17/2026

“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet, 1929.

01/10/2026

Holistic nurses help people process emotional things and move through life transitions. We also help people seek out and find joy in life and reclaim their own personal healing capacity and their senses of wellbeing, flow, and contentment.

Sometimes when I ask people what brings them joy or contentment, they will say "I'm not sure, I don't really know what that is..." This is problematic. Let's personify Joy for a moment:

We must be able to recognize Joy when she enters our lives so that we can seek her intentionally. She's so fun to be around! She's the backbone of good memories, the belly laughs at a gathering, the beauty of a sunrise... she's not just important, she's INTEGRAL. She loves to be noticed so call her out when you see her! "Hey, Joy!!"

Joy helps to regulate our nervous systems and prime our bodies for the healing process. The most healing occurs when the bodymindspirit is in its optimal healing environment: happy, quiet, calm, and at peace. Joy is all of those things.

If you seek Joy and consciously acknowledge her when you find her ("Oh look! There's Joy! Love her!! Come back soon, Girl!), the process of healing becomes so much easier. Our nervous systems and immune systems respond to positive emotion and the awareness and the living presence that positive emotion provides.

So much of the healing process is built upon the back of feeling Joy-ful...being at peace with where we are in life at any given moment--being primed for Joy--means being readily capable to notice the glimmers and gifts of synchronicity that God provides us when we are open. Being ready and willing to acknowledge Joy when she's around and quietly noticing Her in life's little moments brings trust that The Creator of The Universe has our 6; trust of that magnitude brings peace and peace brings healing.

These types of conversations help holistic nurses determine areas in our lives that would benefit from shedding some light and making necessary upgrades so the bodymindspirit can heal. These upgrades don't require exhaustive effort, wellness spas, injections, expensive lab test panels, or thousands of dollars spent.

They simply require someone who understands the process to open up a safe and informed space, offer lovingkindness, and assist with removing blockages so that people are ready to make positive changes when necessary to facilitate their own personal version of healing.

How does joy show up in your life?

01/09/2026

Most of us weren’t taught discernment. We were taught endurance.​​​​​​​​
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So we learned to call disconnection strength, numbness peace, and self-abandonment love, because it kept us connected.​​​​​​​​
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Healing isn’t becoming softer or harder. It’s becoming more honest about what your body already knows.​​​​​​​​
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You’re not distant. You’re learning how to inhabit yourself.​​​​​​​​
꩜ Ella​​​​​​​​
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⚓️ Rebel Thriver — Founder​​​​​​​​
🐦‍⬛ Writer​​​​​​​​
🖤 Trauma-informed guide

01/09/2026

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01/07/2026

01/06/2026

As above, so below...

08/12/2024

Well if it's not the consequences of my own actions...😅

This is me this morning 100%, I don't know what position I slept in, but I'm guessing it was something like this or at least that's what it feels like...