We learned to override our “no”, to silence our needs and to shape-shift in order to be loved and accepted. These patterns aren’t failures, they are very intelligent responses of a nervous system doing its best to keep us safe. But what once kept us safe can, over time, start to keep us small. It can leave us feeling anxious, numb, overwhelmed or unsure of who we really are.

Trauma isn’t just what happened, it’s what remains in your body when you didn’t have enough safety, support, or space to fully feel and integrate your experience. 

When you suppress emotions like fear, anger, grief or shame, they don’t just disappear. They settle quietly into your body, waiting for the moment when you are ready to meet them with presence and compassion. Over time, this holding can manifest as tension, fatigue, pain or disconnection. 

Your body holds every story you have ever lived, and it also holds the doorway to your healing.

When you bring awareness, breath and gentle, loving curiosity to what is happening inside yourself, your body begins to speak and shows you what has been ignored, what needs attention and what is longing to be felt. This is where true healing begins, not through force, but through listening. 

Authenticity isn’t something you have to strive for, it is your natural state when you feel safe enough to be yourself. When you can honour the sensations, emotions and truths that are arising moment to moment,  life becomes less about performing and more about presence. You stop trying to be who you think you should be and start remembering who you already are.

Living authentically means being willing to meet all of yourself, the tender parts, the fierce, parts, the ones that are still terrified. It is allowing the heart to stay open, even when fear whispers that it’s safer to close. There’s a deep courage in this – the courage to love ourselves as we are, to listen to the body’s wisdom, and to act from the truth of our heart rather than the stories of our past.

Healing isn’t linear. It is cyclical, layered and often very messy.  Like the tides of the sea, it moves through us in waves. There are moments of clarity and light, and others where the shadows ask to be met yet again. But each time you choose to stay present, to feel rather than flee, you reclaim a little more of your power, your pleasure and your peace. 

The journey of healing trauma is really a journey of coming home:

Home to your body, your breath, your feelings, your truth.

Home to the heart that has never stopped beating beneath all the noise. 

In my work, I weave together somatic awareness, breathwork, movement, sound, touch and consent based practices to create a space where your body feels safe enough to unfold.

We don’t push or rush for change, we allow what’s ready to reveal itself. We honour the intelligence of your nervous system and the wisdom that already living within you. Together we meet what has been hidden – desire, fear, shame, grief, anger – not to get rid of it, but to welcome it home. Because when every part of you is allowed to exist, you start to soften, energy begins to move more freely and your body breathes again. And from that place of safety and self connection joy, gratitude, pleasure and authenticity arise naturally. 

To live authentically is to live with a sovereign heart – a heart that feels fear and still chooses love. A heart that knows it’s safe to be seen, safe to be true and safe to take up space in the world. This is a continuous journey I walk with my clients and within myself: A journey of remembering that our deepest healing doesn’t come from doing more, but from being more of who we truly are. 

If you feel the call to reconnect with you body’s truth and begin living from your sovereign heart I would love to share my offering with you:

The Sovereign Heart – 1:1 Coaching Journey –  A three month container if you are a full yes to move beyond fear and people pleasing and to come home to your authentic self and the pleasure that is your god given birthright. 

Heart of Consent Workshops – These group workshops offer practical tools for embodied communication, boundaries, desires, authentic communication, nervous system regulation and igniting pleasure. 

Every journey begins with a YES to yourself.