It’s so nice to meet you!

My Healing Journey Started by reading Brene’ Brown’s book Daring Greatly. It was an amazing introduction to myself - to my True Self. I felt my calling and my very nature in what she was saying. She talked a lot about Shame, Resilience and the need to be Vulnerable. From this moment on I was hooked. I wanted to learn more, grow more, be ME more! I felt called to take an intense Masters program for DeConstructing Religion such as Christianity and that was the beginning of starting to Question EVERYTHING…….. I questioned everything that was told to me, everything I had not had a choice around. I started to say 'do I actually want this'? 'Does this serve me'?

As I started to look more closely at the life I had created, I saw how much more I wanted for myself, but had been told I couldn’t have or was not allowed to want. I realized I had been given ridiculous messages like 'artists only make so much money' or 'good girls don’t sleep around'. As I shed these messages, I realized that I no longer wanted to be told what to do or how to be or what my body should look. I was dissatisfied with it all and I asked the universe for help: "What can I do now? I feel stuck I know there is more but how do I get there? No one I know is on this path it feels lonely'. The Universe answered……… But not in the way I thought at the time. I was in a 3 car accident in 2018 on the highway and my body was not ok. My body said: I have taken your abuse and neglect and lack of self-care for too long' and this last bit of trauma was what pushed everything over the edge for me. I needed help, real help, and I was lucky enough to be recommended to an amazing Physical Therapist practitioner named Barbara who did Somatic/Rolfing/Hakomi body work. I had no clue that even after 20+ years of dancing my body wanted to talk to me to tell me the things I was not noticing and inform me of its preferences. I am so grateful for this woman because, by starting that work and then through a series of interesting events, I found the Somatica® Institute. I'm now well on my way to getting certified in the method and have started seeing clients in my private practice.

~ I also want to acknowledge and honor the tribes whose lands I now reside on the Potawatomi, Sauk, Ottawa, Chipawas and Fox tribes. Thank you for your sacred work on this Earth.