AWAKE
An on-demand 2 hour workshop for learning how to feel & deal with your feelings,
melt chronic nervous system disregulation, and awaken to the goodness of your life.
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$44 Full price
Sliding Scale available
I love//hate to be the one to break it to you, sweet one, but…
Feeling good in & about your life…
Isn’t going to come by reading any more self help books. It’s likely not going to come through consuming more research articles about how trauma has impacted your nervous system. And feeling good again definitely isn’t going to come through taking a willpower approach to ‘bettering’ your self care and ‘quitting’ your most coping skills.
You likely do not need any more cognitive self awareness about your coping patterns, where your trauma wounds came from, or self care practices you “should” be doing to “heal yourself” and feel better.
In fact, pouring more intellectual awareness about yourself, on top of the already heaping mound you have might actually make things feel worse.
To really feel good & right in your life requires FEELING. And there isn’t any amount of intellectualizing about your emotional state that’s going to actually shift it.
If you want to stop feeling swallowed up by crashing waves of big, heavy feelings, and instead feel capable and confident to move with the tides of your emotions…
If you’re ready to stop feeling like daily life is dull, to feel alive and in awe of the simple magic of life around you…
If you’re wanting to really understand how to support your nervous system in a way that honors the nuance and complexity of the human body, while also having simple go-to strategies to tend to yourself in moments of disregulation…
If you’re ready to feel more than just pain, chaos and inner dissonance; to feel good and alive and whole again…
If you’re wanting to stop doubting yourself and shame spiraling every time something challenging pops up…
If you want to reclaim your agency and feel like you have choice in how you respond to life’s stresses, rather than reacting out of old wounds & automatic coping mechanisms…
If you’re realizing that your life is precious, and you’re wanting to commit to living it in ways that nourish your spirit, make your heart dance, and celebrate your innate goodness…
Then what you’re really craving is to awaken to life itself.
To melt the layers of foggy numbness and old wounding that’s been keeping you asleep to the full spectrum of the emotions, needs, desires and goodness within and around you.
Registration includes video & audio replay, plus powerpoint slides
$44 – Sliding scale available
But how do we awaken?
If ever there were a secret sauce to feeling AWAKE and alive to the sweetness your life,
it would be made up of these 4 ingredients:
Metabolizing in-the-moment emotions: Unfelt & undealt with emotions will stay in the body. And until we build the skills & capacity to metabolize them, they’ll be there, silently shaping our mood, behaviors, relationships and sense of aliveness. When we can allow the tides of emotion to wash through us, moving with them rather than bracing or avoiding them, we become intimate with our fullest expression of self.
Stabilizing the nervous system: Establishing a felt sense of safety in the body & nervous system, and broadening our range of regulation so the ups and downs don’t feel so extreme, making way for more presence, stability, resonance & wellbeing.
Addressing & tending to old wounds: Clearing the density of trauma and chronic threat responses the body has been holding, allowing the unconscious pain to form consciously in our awareness, so that old pain may transform into presence & new possibilities.
Growing what’s good: Growing a wide range of resources to help us not only stabilize in shaky times, but reveal to us over and over the goodness, beauty, awe, love, ease and pleasure available to us when we’re able to slow down enough to be present to it. We do this by developing an attention geared towards what’s well and right, and inviting that well and right -ness to be experienced and deepened in the body. This is where we reconnect to the breath of life, the aliveness of the world around us, and really remember our interconnectedness as beings.
↑ This is what I’ll be teaching & unpacking in the workshop.
Secure your spot to learn the foundations for how to interweave these core tenets in your own sweet life.
Registration includes replay & powerpoint slides
$44 – Sliding scale available
Through this work, I've found lighthearted joy in listening to what my body really has to say. As someone who has been searching for answers for years, through just about every healing modality you can imagine, I was surprised how potent and necessary this work feels. Trusting Holly to help me come home to myself was a powerful decision: one of the most important of my life.
—Rochelle
Hey, I’m holly
Certified body oriented coach, somatic practitioner, group facilitator and educator with 7+ years of professional experience in mental health & coaching sectors.
At the heart of it, I support folks to build the skills needed to shift and heal patterns of behavior and ways of being that are no longer serving them.
I do this work because it’s what I needed in order to disrupt the cycles of numbing, masking, and anxious reactivity that were keeping me asleep to all the beauty & sweetness of my own life.
For years I felt like I was just playing wack-a-mole with my coping skills. Emotional eating turned to restrictive eating turned to promiscuity turned to drinking turned to over-working 🔁
Moving from one to the next and sometimes back again, all as a means to feel some sense of okayness & like I was worth loving.
It wasn’t until I was able to slow the eff down with my inner experience and be curious, compassionate and mothering towards my pain, that I was able to unravel the wounding patterns that were keeping me stuck in this loop of suffering.
This unraveling has happened over the last decade with the support of many modalities and people along the way. But the most impactful, lasting work I did (and still do) has been working with my own somatic coach.
Tending to my pain through an embodied framework has been the only version of ‘self care’ that has led to lasting change. This work has helped me feel more capable, self-trusting, safe, connected and downright excited to be alive.
In this workshop I’ll teach you the foundations of the somatic work that brought me here, so that you can begin feeling giddy about your own life again too.
$44 full price
sliding scale available
How sweet might life be
when you’re no longer
merely coping through it?
Get the replay to find out
$15-44 sliding scale
replay includes audio, video & slides
What you’ll receive:
2 brimming hours of teachings that cover the 4 foundations of AWAKE living: Metabolizing in-the-moment emotions, Stabilizing the nervous system, Tending to old wounds, and Growing what’s good.
Somatic practices woven throughout the teachings to help all that you learn “land” in your body, promoting integration
A recording of the call (good for 60 days) & slides, for you to revisit & continue deepening into the materials
I felt held and supported by Holly in my coaching sessions with her. As a Black woman, I felt comfortable discussing how societal traumas impacted how I saw myself and body. Having a safe space to process this helped me unravel years of frustration. – S.
“I use the tools Holly taught me when I’m feeling really anxious and antsy. They help me ground and I feel so much better afterwards. I’m SO grateful to have these tools in my kit moving forward!” - R.
"Holly holds is a guide, a sage, mentor and the best mirror. her wisdom and thoughtful support throughout our time together has been incredibly invaluable to me. I have brought so many of our somatic practices with me into other aspects of my life and have felt so grounded and supported having them. I really look forward to our sessions and chew over kernels from them in between. – R.
Working with Holly was the beginning of the end of a decade and a half of struggles with disordered eating. She never beat around the bush and I felt as though from day one working with her, that I was moving forward on the path of healing. She gave me tangible action steps to take, supplemental resources, esoteric insights, and rational advice when needed. I felt safe, seen, and supported by Holly in every session. She offered a nonjudgmental space at a time when I needed it most and for that I am so grateful. – K.
My work with Holly was the most important thing I did to help heal from disordered eating and broken body image. Having an informed and empathetic coach to talk with every week made me feel like I could tackle my issues, even on the days that were frustrating and painful. She never pushed me beyond my own capacity but encouraged me to have curiosity through all the discoveries I was making. As someone who not only saw a 180 degree transformation in my own body image but now works with others to support them in their recovery, I would recommend Holly's practice as a pivotal resource for healing. - A.
“I recently started working with Holly and already have seen and felt a big shift happen in our sessions. Holly was able to lead me to get out of my mind and tap into my body in a way I never have before. This resulted in me finding some answers and relief that I really needed. – J.