As the season grows full, your body may ask for a different pace. This blog explores five ways to honour your energy through intentional rest, gentle boundaries, and meaningful connection.

There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much, but from drifting away from what matters. This blog unpacks misalignment burnout and offers a somatic pathway back to rest, nourishment, and embodied clarity.

Social media has made therapy language widely accessible, helping people name feelings and understand trauma. Yet when terms like gaslighting, triggered, or boundaries become buzzwords, they lose depth. As a somatic practitioner, I see how this can disconnect us from our bodies and each other.

True healing means slowing down and noticing what’s beneath the label — the need for safety, space, or connection. When therapy language is used with care and curiosity, it can foster genuine understanding and deeper relationships.

Not sure what to talk about in therapy? You’re not alone. This post explores why uncertainty can actually lead to deeper emotional insight, and how pausing, grounding, and listening to your body can reveal what truly needs attention. Learn how a mindful pause can shift you out of performing or overthinking and into more authentic, meaningful therapeutic work.

Somatics makes space for embodied joy . The more fully we allow ourselves to inhabit our soma, the more capacity we have for embodied solidarity—where liberation is not only imagined, but experienced in our bodies. 

Click to learn of embodied tools for cultivating both inner connections and outer community , include dance/movement therapy, meditation and community connection

Many people enter therapy wanting to “fix” something, but somatic healing focuses on widening the nervous system’s survival window so we can feel more, not less. This post explores how survival patterns form, why pleasure and positive sensations can feel overwhelming, and gentle practices that help recondition the nervous system toward flexibility, safety, and joy. Learn simple ways to reconnect with your body, build resilience, and experience nourishment—not just stress.

Trauma doesn’t just overwhelm the mind—it fragments the body. In moments of shock, our system does whatever it must to survive, but the real ache often comes later. This post explores how dissociation, freeze responses, and embodied numbness protect us in crisis, and why healing can feel more painful than the original wound. Through somatic therapy and consensual embodiment, we learn to meet sensations we once avoided and reconnect with the parts of ourselves that went offline to keep us safe.

Many people enter therapy feeling vulnerable, embarrassed, or frustrated with themselves—believing they need to “fix” something. But you can’t shame yourself into change. This post explores how radical acceptance and compassionate inquiry create the foundation for transformation. By understanding our emotions instead of criticizing them, we reduce anxiety, expand our window of tolerance, and reshape long-held patterns through somatic psychotherapy. Real, lasting change begins with compassion—not judgment.

Try this guided somatic exercise to help you reconnect with your authentic voice—the parts of you that have been quieted, dismissed, or forgotten. Through grounding, sensation awareness, and an introduction to Authentic Movement, you’ll be invited to follow your inner impulses, listen to your body’s wisdom, and explore what’s ready to be expressed.

How do we stay human while witnessing genocide, collective trauma, and overwhelming suffering? This post explores how somatic responses like numbness, rage, and dissociation shape our capacity to bear witness—and how practices of interbeing, Indigenous knowledge, and grounded presence can help us move from paralysis into compassionate action. Inspired by Palestinian storyteller Jenan Matari, it invites us to reconnect with our humanity and the interconnectedness that makes justice possible.