My coaching style is different from most, in that it prioritizes reconnection with what’s happening in your body, and building skills to recognize, work with, and allow for your somatic (body) experience to play a main role in your personal growth journey.

We’ll work together to build skills that help you get to know what’s happening inside of you, so that you can integrate and honor the body’s messages in and outside of session.

We’ll move at a pace that’s right for your nervous system so as not to do too much too fast. You’ll gain deeper insights into the ways you may be unconsciously operating from a stress-state, and build skills to help you feel more calm, at ease and connected to yourself & others.

I deeply believe you’re the expert of your own experience and your path toward growth and healing. I’m not here to give you advice tell you a list of 10 things you need in order to “self optimize.” In my experience, that sort of prescriptive version of coaching only goes surface-deep.

I’m here to co-create a container with you so that you can reconnect to the wisdom and knowledge that’s already within you– I’m a sort of steward, supporting your own wisdom to come forward from the body through sensation, emotion, implicit memory, image and more.

This means we’ll focus our attention to what’s most present and important for you in each session, and we’ll work on building your capacity to attune to your emotions, body sensations and felt sense. These are the building blocks for deeper self-trust and inner resourcefulness.

My coaching style is less about action and more about creating space– to breathe, listen inwardly, to repair.

This work is not about doing more or knowing more. It’s about creating safety and space for you to pause and become aware of what’s happening inside of you, so that you can take more values-aligned actions IRL.

That spaciousness to pause and drop into what’s happening unconsciously in the body is where the magic happens.

That’s where we get the answers we’ve longed for for why we’re stuck and what’s needed to heal. That’s what I’m here to help you explore and gain access to.

I believe all coping is adaptive. Meaning, all the ways in which you self-soothe/ self-regulate are wise, valid, and have helped you survive through painful times. This being said, I also recognize that not all coping skills might be serving you or your values and goals in the long-term.

One way to look at this is to start differentiating between “survival” coping skills and “creative” coping skills. There are those coping skills you use to just get through the pain or stress. And there are those that you use when you feel grounded enough to take the long road; tools that may not make the pain go away in the short term, but bring you closer into alignment with your vision and values.

Harm reduction shows up in my coaching practice because we’ll at one point or another likely be talking through your go-to coping skills, and exploring how they serve you (and perhaps how they don’t). But I will never ask you to give up a coping skill under the premise that it’s “bad.” What I will ask you is to explore what happens in you when you use your coping skills, what the risks are, and if the risks outweigh the rewards.

Ultimately my aim is to help you generate a set of coping tools that support you in regulating your nervous system and bring you closer to your big dreams.

My particular flavor of somatic coaching is grounded in inviting you into a state of mindfulness in order to really drop deeply into your feelings, needs, desires, blocks and patterns.

‘Mindfulness’ has become a big of a buzz word these days, but at the core it’s about being a witness to our experience from a place of compassion, curiosity and non-judgement.

This work will teach you how to “be with” your feelings rather than think them, react from them or avoid them altogether.

Being with is the act of asking: “what’s happening inside of me right now?” and then “Can I let that be?” or “can I be with that?”

The work we do together offers space for you to self-study, being curious about your beliefs, pain points and needs from a place of mindful compassion.

It’s in this practice of acceptance -of ALL the thoughts, feelings, sensations- that we can separate our Selves from the stories, and create space for presence, connection, ease, healing and joy.

Emergence or Emergent Strategy comes from the work of adrienne maree brown. In essence, adrienne defines it as “a strategy for building complex patterns and systems of change through relatively small interactions, and as an adaptive, relational way of being.” Emergent Strategy also looks to nature for models of how to be together and be in this world.

For our purposes, this means we’re going to trust that our small, daily, DOABLE actions matter, and shape larger patterns of growth and change over time.

We’re going to work on moving with change, rather than forcing it. We’re going to follow the wisdom that arises within you, no matter how spiralic and non-linear it might feel at first.

I’ll support you to integrate gentle changes that bring you into alignment with your greater purpose and gifts.

I trust that your body and it’s ways of self organizing, self directing and self correcting are inherently wise and adaptive.

Your body is it’s own ecosystem, self-managing in order to maintain homeostasis. l honor how all of that’s showing up now, how it might have protected you from past pain, and how it wants to evolve from the work we do together.