Embody Healing

Embody Healing I help guide clients to heal trauma and fully embody their presence. — EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Mind-Body-Spirit

Some emotional patterns begin long before our conscious awareness.Many of us move through the world believing we are too...
12/14/2025

Some emotional patterns begin long before our conscious awareness.

Many of us move through the world believing we are too sensitive, too anxious, or not resilient enough, when parts of what we experience are shaped by genetic variants that influence neurotransmitters, stress hormones, inflammation, and emotional processing.

This information is not meant to diagnose or box anyone in.
It is meant to offer compassion.

When you understand your biology, you understand your needs.
And when you understand your needs, you begin meeting yourself with more softness and less self-blame.

If any of these gene variants resonate with your lived experience, let it be an invitation to support your system with rhythm, nourishment, nervous system practices, and environments that feel safe.

Your wiring has wisdom.
Your sensitivity has context.
And none of it limits who you can become.

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What if your body already knows the difference between judgment and discernment long before your mind catches up?Most of...
12/09/2025

What if your body already knows the difference between judgment and discernment long before your mind catches up?

Most of us were never taught how to track the sensations that come with clarity.
So when something feels “off,” we often assume we’re being judgmental, harsh, or unkind…
when what’s actually happening is that a deeper truth is surfacing.

Judgment tightens.
Discernment steadies.

Judgment pulls you into old stories.
Discernment brings you back to yourself.

One is protective armor.
The other is protective wisdom.

When you pause long enough to notice what your body is doing, the breath, the pressure, the contraction, the softening, you begin to feel the difference between a reactive no and a grounded no.
Between an inherited belief and your actual truth.
Between fear speaking and your inner authority speaking.

Let this be an invitation to listen more closely.

Your nervous system is trying to guide you toward what is safe, aligned, and real.

You don’t have to force clarity.
You only have to feel it.

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When your body is overstimulated but you keep pushing through…Your system is trying to protect you.Overstimulation is th...
12/09/2025

When your body is overstimulated but you keep pushing through…
Your system is trying to protect you.

Overstimulation is the body’s way of saying:
• “Too much, too fast”
• “I can’t process all of this at once”
• “Please slow down so I can catch up”

Most of us learned to override these cues because survival once depended on it.
Work depended on it.
Family roles depended on it.
Being the strong one depended on it.

But your nervous system heals through permission.

Permission to pause.
Permission to soften the pace.
Permission to feel what’s actually happening inside you.

Your body is your compass.
And when you listen, it will always guide you back into steadiness 🤍

Your body is always speaking.Not in words.In sensations, cues, and shifts.Tightness, pressure, warmth, heaviness, pulsin...
12/06/2025

Your body is always speaking.

Not in words.

In sensations, cues, and shifts.

Tightness, pressure, warmth, heaviness, pulsing, or the sudden urge to rest…these are not random. They’re messages from your nervous system trying to guide you back to safety, clarity, and truth.

You don’t have to analyze every sensation. Just notice it. Stay with yourself for a moment. Let your body know you’re listening.

Presence is the real translation.

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Sometimes your system asks for quiet, and the mind jumps to old stories like “I’m being distant,” “I’m disappointing peo...
12/03/2025

Sometimes your system asks for quiet, and the mind jumps to old stories like “I’m being distant,” “I’m disappointing people,” or “I should try harder.” But often, your body is simply choosing regulation over performance.

Quiet is not withdrawal.

Quiet is not disconnection.

Quiet is not rejection.

It’s your nervous system saying:

“I need space to settle so I can stay connected to myself.”

When your chest feels tight, when your breath gets shallow, when your energy feels pulled in too many directions, your system is trying to protect you from overwhelm. This is wisdom. Not weakness.

Honoring your need for quiet often brings you back into deeper, more true connection later.

Save this for the days when you feel tender.

Share it with someone who needs permission to rest.

Anxiety is often your system asking for contact, not control.When everything feels fast, tight, or overwhelming, this 90...
12/02/2025

Anxiety is often your system asking for contact, not control.

When everything feels fast, tight, or overwhelming, this 90 second reset helps your body come back into the present. Not by forcing calm, but by giving your nervous system cues it understands.

Try this when you feel:
• chest tightness
• spiraling thoughts
• restlessness
• emotional overload
• pressure in the throat or chest
• that disconnected or “floaty” feeling

Your body isn’t failing you. It’s protecting you.
These small steps help it recognize that you’re safe enough to settle.

Save this for later.
Share with someone who needs a gentle reset.

A lot of people think therapy “didn’t work” for them.And usually, the issue isn’t that they can’t be helped.It’s that th...
11/17/2025

A lot of people think therapy “didn’t work” for them.
And usually, the issue isn’t that they can’t be helped.
It’s that they were only shown one narrow version of therapy - talk, analyze, repeat - and it didn’t meet the place where their real pain lived.

For so many clients, the trauma wasn’t in the story.
It was in the body.
In the breath.
In the patterns of freeze and collapse.
In the old protective responses that couldn’t be spoken out loud.

And when someone is asked to heal through talking alone, they often walk away feeling like therapy failed them…when actually, the modality just wasn’t aligned with what their system needed.

Therapy today can be different.
It’s somatic.
It’s nervous-system based.
It’s body-led.
It honors energy, lineage, physiology, memory, and the mind.
It moves at the pace the system can tolerate.
It works with your whole being, not just your words.

If you’ve ever felt like therapy didn’t help, it might simply be because you haven’t met the right approach yet - the one that speaks the language your body understands.

When the whole being is met, the whole being can heal.

11/15/2025

When we talk about PTSD, we often think about memories, triggers, or emotional reactions…
but underneath all of that is something deeply physiological happening inside the body.

One of the most profound shifts researchers see in people with chronic trauma is this:

The body develops more cortisol receptors.

Why does this matter?

Because cortisol is the hormone your body releases when it senses danger.
It’s meant to spike, help you respond, and then fall once the threat is gone.

But with prolonged stress or trauma, the system becomes overloaded.
Your cells begin to up-regulate - meaning they create more cortisol receptors so they can “catch” more of the stress hormone circulating in your bloodstream.

It’s the body’s way of saying:

“I need to be ready for anything. All the time.”

This is where the HPA axis (the hypothalamus–pituitary–adrenal loop) becomes disrupted.

Normally, it works like a thermostat:

• Stress rises
• Cortisol is released
• Cortisol sends a message back up the chain saying, “We’re safe now, you can turn off.”

But with PTSD, this negative feedback loop is weakened.

More receptors = stronger sensitivity to stress.
Stronger sensitivity = the “off switch” doesn’t work as easily.
And the system that is meant to calm you…can’t.

This is why people with trauma may feel:

• Wired but exhausted
• Startled easily
• Flooded by minor stressors
• Hyperaware of surroundings
• Difficulty winding down or sleeping
• “On guard” even during calm moments

Not because they’re dramatic.
Not because they’re overreacting.
Not because they’re not trying.

But because their biology adapted to threat.

And here’s the hopeful part:

These patterns can shift.

Through nervous system work, somatic therapy, EMDR, softening practices, breath, safety, connection, and time -
the body begins to recalibrate.

Cortisol receptors down-regulate.
The HPA axis becomes more responsive again.
Your system remembers what it feels like to stand down.

Healing isn’t about forcing calm.
It’s about teaching the body that it no longer has to live in survival mode.

Your biology is not broken
it has been protecting you.
And it can learn something new.

There are infinite ways forward. No single path is more sacred than another, only the one that feels alive in our hearts...
10/30/2025

There are infinite ways forward. No single path is more sacred than another, only the one that feels alive in our hearts.

Destiny isn’t a straight line but a living landscape that shifts as our consciousness expands. Every choice, every breath, every act of courage opens another doorway.

We’re being asked to tend the quiet flame within, to honor the spark that wants to grow into something real.

This is a time to partner with our own fire, to trust that even small steps guided by truth will ripple outward in powerful ways.

And though the journey may feel uncertain or uneven, the deeper ecosystem of life is still at work. What feels tangled is being composted. What feels delayed is being rooted. Renewal is already underway beneath the surface.

We stand at a crossroads of infinite possibility.
Tend your inner flame with faith.
Trust that the ground beneath you is still nourishing your next bloom.

Every path chosen from love leads home

Sometimes our body reacts to a time of year before we realize what memory it holdsWe wake earlierFeel unsettled in the g...
10/29/2025

Sometimes our body reacts to a time of year before we realize what memory it holds

We wake earlier
Feel unsettled in the gut
Tight in the chest
Emotionally more raw than usual
And only later do we realize…this is the season when everything shifted

This is often a somatic anniversary
The body remembering what it couldn’t fully process at the time
It doesn’t always speak in words
Sometimes it speaks in tension, fatigue, sensitivity, gut releases, or a sudden need for stillness

We’re not going backward
We’re cycling through a place where our body once felt overwhelmed
But this time, we can meet it differently

With softness
With presence
With the safety we didn’t have before

We don’t have to push through
We can move through
With care
With reverence
With trust that the body is always trying to come back into wholeness

Let this be a season of deep honoring
Let it be sacred

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