Empowered Spaces

01/30/2026

Tomorrow is ICE Out.

Being trauma-informed requires us to name systems that produce harm — not just support people after harm has occurred.

ICE operations create collective trauma.
Family separation is trauma.
Detention and deportation are trauma.
Living under constant threat of removal is trauma.

These are not abstract policies.
They are lived, embodied experiences that keep nervous systems in survival.

As trauma therapists and healing practitioners, we are trained to recognize what chronic fear, surveillance, sudden loss, and instability do to bodies, families, and communities.

If we claim to be trauma-informed, we are called to name and resist the systems that actively produce this harm.

Standing against ICE is not outside our work.
It is part of our ethical responsibility.

Collective trauma requires collective response.
Care requires courage.
Healing requires us to stand where bodies are being harmed.

Everyday, we stand in solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities.
We stand against ICE.
We stand for safety, dignity, and belonging.

01/28/2026

We don’t practice to bypass what hurts.

We practice so we can stay present with what’s true.

This is the practice we are committed to - especially now, when so much is asking our nervous system to brace, harden, or shut down.

we remain committed to this practice as we show up for dignity, safety, and collective care – while refusing the ways harm and oppression, disconnect us from our ourselves and one another.

Take this in slowly. Let your body decide what’s enough for today.

✨What helps you stay with what’s true—without leaving yourself?



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We practice not just to feel calm.
We practice so that we can feel.

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Calm is not the absence of strong emotion.

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Calm is the steadiness that allows feeling
to move without overwhelming us.

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We practice so we can feel anger
without exploding.

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Grief
without collapsing.

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Fear
without freezing.

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Rage
without turning away from ourselves or others.

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Right now, many of us are living inside
conditions that pull us away from center—
urgency, injustice, collective grief, constant demand.

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Without practices that help us return,
we lose access to our bodies.

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And when we lose access to our bodies,
we lose access to choice.

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Practice isn’t about feeling better.

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It’s about widening our capacity
to feel more—
with honesty, care, and connection.

01/25/2026

This is what I am holding close today.

We are in an ongoing experience of collective grief and trauma.

Another life was brutally taken by ICE.
While one death was named today, many more immigrants were violently detained and taken from their communities.

Many of us are carrying sorrow, anger, fear, shock, or numbness — sometimes all at once. It all makes so much sense. Every response is valid.

Healing asks us to tenderly hold all parts of our experience.

It’s about making room for what is here — together.

We can ground into the support of the land beneath us,
AND notice the contraction in our bodies.

We can deepen into our exhale,
AND allow grief to move.

We can orient to what is resourcing in this moment,
AND turn toward the discomfort of bearing witness.

We can lovingly tend to our grief,
AND honor our rage — listening to it as information that can guide right action rooted in care.

We can connect with a loving presence,
AND let our hearts break.

We can rest,
AND take conscious action toward liberation.

Healing is collective.
Care is relational.
Grief is an expression of our shared humanity.

💜We don’t carry this alone. We show up for one another.

With love and care

01/21/2026

One of the questions I’ve been holding close for quite a while now is, how do we hold each other when we are all holding so much?

In November we held our first EmPower Bowls, an event that Angela Dahm brought to our collective.

this community gathering is about nourishment - nourishment for body, mind, and community.

The whole process from preparing the food leading up to the gathering, gathering around a table with community members, and sharing food with one another… truly a way to slow down and remember what it means to hold one another.

If you are looking for a space to be held and nourished, please join us this Sunday.

it is free to participate, you just show up with a couple portions of prepared veggies, beans, or grains. leave with jars of prepared food to nourish yourself or share with others.

so grateful that Alicia .steady.yoga and Franca are hosting this month‘s gathering.

Community is how we will continue to get through.💜

01/21/2026

For you—

For the ones who keep showing up
to things that are heavy, unfair, and dehumanizing,

not because you don’t feel it,
but because turning away would cost something you’re not willing to lose.

For the ones who are organizing, resisting, protecting.
And for the ones who are witnessing, grieving, accompanying,

For anyone trying to stay connected to their humanity in a world that keeps asking people to harden and disconnect.

This work isn’t abstract.
It lives in bodies.
It lives in nervous systems.

It lives in the ache of seeing harm clearly
and still choosing not to look away.

If you’re tired, that makes sense.
If you’re angry, that makes sense.
If you’re grieving, that makes sense.

Nothing is wrong with you.

A question I am holding close —
how do we hold each other when we are all holding so much?

How do we turn toward one another without asking for more endurance or urgency?

Maybe it starts
with staying human together.

With care that doesn’t ask us to numb out or push through.

With remembering that belonging is part of how we survive.

If no one has said it today—
you don’t have to carry this alone.

With love and care
Kelly

01/19/2026

AA Gentle Space for Grief: An expressive movement practice to release what the body has been carrying - https://mailchi.mp/f3df658dfd78/revolutionary-astrology-somatics-17662986

01/16/2026

01/16/2026

As we continue to navigate a moment in this country that asks a lot of our nervous systems, we remain committed to creating spaces rooted in nervous-system safety, relational care, and shared humanity.

I’m honored to welcome a new practitioner whose work reflects these values and helps hold the conditions for healing we care so deeply about. I’m grateful to share more about her and the work she offers below. ✨

✨ Welcoming Erin Renée Roberts (she/her/they)✨

Erin Renée is a healer, performance art maker, self titled, Creative Inhabitor and visionary of C.H.A.T. with Erin Renee a virtual self transformation/maintenance, community healing space.

Her journey has expanded her from a freelance performance artist entity to a location free community healing artist practitioner. She became a licensed massage therapist in 2016 to introduce more creatives to the necessity of self-care and stress reduction through bodywork, energy work, Reiki, and meditation.

Erin Renée continues to develop her own creative healing arts practice, to cultivate a performance art movement that incorporates physical theater and dance techniques with somatic therapy and permaculture principles, an artistic mission that strives to create lines of communication and expression for community.  

Her work includes realms of movement art and creativity, energetic healing and spiritual awakening, somatic and holistic praxis; and, exploring.

Expanding one’s connection to self, by cultivating and regeneratively inhabiting internal and external ecosystems.”I find that seeing art being made and being the art that is made has enabled me to create and connect with my purpose and intentions as an artist, a healer, and as a being in the world.”

She continues to build her practice around body and mind awareness, advocating to make self sustainable, self maintenance an accessible resource.

Marrying her movement therapy with her art, Erin Renée joins Empowered Spaces to offer support in reactivation work, encourage connection with nature, and build customized wellness practices inspired by collaborations with artists of various mediums.

Info on upcoming classes coming soon💜

01/14/2026

Slowing down isn’t a lack of skill — it’s a practice of care.

In healing and community spaces, care isn’t just something we feel or intend.

It’s something we practice — through the pace we set, how power is held and shared, and how we respond when impact is named.

Slowing down creates room for bodies and nervous systems to orient and choose.

Sharing power makes collaboration, dignity, and repair possible.

Accountability is how trust is built — and rebuilt — over time.

These aren’t abstract values.

They show up in decisions, boundaries, access, pricing, facilitation, and how harm is addressed when it happens.

Whether you’re a therapist, teacher, facilitator, organizer, healer, or community care-holder —

the way we practice care shapes whether spaces feel safe enough to stay, honest enough to grow, and strong enough to hold complexity.

Care becomes real when it’s practiced consistently and collectively.

Which of these feels most alive in your work right now — pace, power, or accountability?

In practice
Kelly

01/14/2026

There is a lot of grief moving through this country right now— personal, collective, spoken, and unspoken.

Much of it lives quietly in our bodies.

When grief isn’t given space to move, it often turns into tension, fatigue, numbness, or overwhelm.

On Thursday, January 27, we’re offering a gentle space to tend to what you may be carrying — through breath, movement, sound, and connection.

Expressive Movement offers a way to gently release what’s been held, without needing to explain, analyze, or perform.

Releasing Grief from the Body is a one-hour, trauma-informed practice led by Margie (Lewitt) Golden, designed to support feelings of grief, loss, anxiety, and overwhelm.

This session includes:
• grounding and breath
• gentle, seated or standing movement
• opportunities for emotional expression
• moments of connection and rest
• a closing practice of surrender and stillness

This isn’t about fixing or forcing anything.
It’s about letting your body do what it knows how to do when it’s given care, permission, and time.

Everything is invitational.
You decide how you participate.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, heavy, or worn down by the state of the world, this is an opportunity to let your body soften — even just a little.

Thursday, January 27, 5:30–6:30 PM
No movement experience needed

01/12/2026

Synergize your core needs & values so deeply your BONES Feel it. - https://mailchi.mp/ea7bf35e204d/revolutionary-astrology-somatics-17662894

01/11/2026

When things feel heavy, I often return to what’s steady.

The ground. The land. The quiet consistency of what’s been here longer than us.

You don’t have to feel calm to feel supported.

Sometimes just noticing what’s holding you is enough.

Take a moment if it feels okay. 🤍