Embody Healing

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

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

There are seasons when we rise, and seasons when we return to ourselves.We rebuild.We remember who we are.We walk throug...
10/26/2025

There are seasons when we rise, and seasons when we return to ourselves.

We rebuild.
We remember who we are.
We walk through the dark and realize we were the light all along.

These are the moments when the old life calls us back - but we don’t answer.
We keep moving forward, guided by inner truth, led by soul.

This is how we claim freedom.
Not all at once, but through every choice to stay aligned.
To trust the spiral.
To let our wings remember they were made for this.

✨ Which one spoke to your heart today?

You hold tension you didn’t choose to carry.That startle response that shows up out of nowhere, the exhaustion that slee...
10/23/2025

You hold tension you didn’t choose to carry.

That startle response that shows up out of nowhere, the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, the feeling of being frozen or on edge without knowing why.

This is shock trauma.

When something overwhelming happens too fast for your system to process, your body freezes to protect you.

But when that freeze doesn’t get to complete, it stays. In your muscles. In your breath. In the way you move through your days.

Your body is still holding what it couldn’t release.

This carousel shares what shock trauma actually looks like and how it lives in your system. More importantly, it offers a path toward release.

Inside the Embody Healing Membership, we work with your body’s innate wisdom to complete what was left unfinished. Through somatic practices, nervous system tools, and trauma-informed guidance, you’ll learn to support your system in finding its way back to safety.

No forcing, no rushing, just gentle, body-based healing at your own pace.

If this lands for you, I’d love to welcome you into our community 🤍

Link in bio to join us.

10/23/2025

Before we can “heal the trauma,” we have to help the body feel safe enough to unfreeze.

In moments of overwhelming threat, the body instinctively goes into fight, flight, or freeze. And when that energy has no safe place to go, it gets stuck.

That’s shock trauma.

It’s not just the memory of what happened that haunts us. It’s the incomplete survival response still looping in the body.

This is why true trauma healing doesn’t begin with telling the story.

It begins with helping the body complete what it couldn’t finish.

Gentle shaking, trembling, small movements, tracking sensation. These are the nervous system’s way of releasing what it couldn’t discharge at the time.

When we honor the body’s pace and start with the freeze response, we create the foundation for lasting healing.

Because once the body feels safe again, everything else begins to soften.

What if the chaos, the blame, the divisionwasn’t just out therebut a reflection of the unseen in here?Jung taught us tha...
10/20/2025

What if the chaos, the blame, the division
wasn’t just out there
but a reflection of the unseen in here?

Jung taught us that the unconscious doesn’t stay hidden.
It plays out in our lives as projection, fate, conflict, and pattern.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - C.G. Jung

The parts of us we exile
the pain we push away
the fear we silence
the power we’re afraid to hold
they don’t disappear.
They leak into how we relate,
how we react,
how we interpret the world.

When we avoid our inner work, the outer world carries the burden.
When we meet our shadows with compassion, we create space for change.

This is why healing is not self-indulgent.
It’s how the collective heals.
Every internal reconciliation ripples outward.

The world mirrors the self.
The self mirrors the world.
And in tending to one, we are always tending to the other.

Most of us assume stress shows up in our shouldersBut the body has its own mapSometimes stress lives in the calvesWhere ...
10/19/2025

Most of us assume stress shows up in our shoulders
But the body has its own map

Sometimes stress lives in the calves
Where your legs are bracing to run
Or in the hips
Where a boundary was never spoken
Or in the jaw
Where unsaid words still echo beneath the surface

Somatic healing invites us to slow down and listen
Not just to the story in our minds
But to the language of sensation
Tightness
Holding
Buzzing
Heaviness

You don’t have to fix or figure it all out
Just begin by noticing
Where does your body hold your past
And what might shift if you met it with curiosity instead of control

Your body remembers
But it also knows how to let go
One breath
One moment
One gentle invitation at a time

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