04/14/2026
Allow me to reintroduce myself.
In the Western world, my name is Lauren N. Perez.
In the spiritual world, my name is Tanama.
In the most sacred world I have ever entered...
my name is Mama.
I went quiet. Not because I disappeared... but because I went in.
I stepped away to birth a life. In doing so, I found myself being birthed too.
Postpartum is not a chapter they prepare you for. It is a dismantling. A descent. A slow and sometimes terrifying return to yourself... if you are lucky enough to find your way back.
I was lucky. It was not easy. I carried that quietly for a long time.
I did not walk through it alone.
A fierce village of spirit family showed up when I could not show up for myself. They held me when I forgot how to hold me. They sat in the dark with me and did not flinch. They fed me, prayed over me, reminded me who I was until I could remember on my own.
I know what it means to be carried.
I know what it costs when that carrying is absent.
That knowing is my medicine now.
We were never meant to heal alone.
Motherhood showed me what becomes possible when the village shows up.
I came through held by spirit, by my daughter's laugh, by the ancestors, by those who loved me fiercely enough to stay. Now I am ready to offer that holding to you.
This is the village.
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Reiki Master, Healing Circle Facilitator... a woman who has been through it and came out with medicine to share.
TanaMAMA, if you will.
Whether you are looking to heal privately, be held energetically, or find your people in circle... there is a place for you here.
Individual therapy · virtual and in-person
Reiki · virtual or in-person · Atmananda Yoga, Edgewater, NJ
In-person healing circles · Edgewater, NJ
To mark this return... this rebirth...
I am hosting a Sacred Mother's Day Healing Circle.
Details coming very soon. I wanted you to know I was back before I announced anything else.
That felt true. I am only doing true things now.
This is an invitation.
Come heal out loud with me.
Come be held.
Come home.
This is the village.