Summary
I’d love to chat with you about the process of integrating our bodies and brains, healing our trauma, our animal nature, and our true essence.
About Me
I am a Freedom Guide specializing in renaturing, helping you find and trust your true nature. Think of me as a nature guide; I walk with you as you seek personal freedom. I point out interesting or important sights along the path. I have been down this way before, so I know where the pitfalls are, where the cool stuff is, and potential footholds when the going gets steep. My goal is to take you through the woods, show you its beauty, and bring you out to an overlook, where you will be able to see your own new path to take from there.
I utilize over 35 years of professional experience with animals, Somatic Experiencing, and life coaching.
The expectations we live under in this world can become oppressive. The internal and external, explicit and implicit ideals we strive to meet or achieve are, in fact, impossible. They can, and often do, lead to a feeling of being trapped. Over the years, we have been socialized, acculturated, traumatized, and flat-out told to be and act in all sorts of ways that differ from our true nature.
To add insult to injury, we often try so hard to fit in that we erode the final vestiges of what makes us us.
I can offer your listeners some of the following:
- Insight into moving from feeling trapped by everything to anchoring in your own freedom and path in life, as illustrated by my personal journey.
- Discussion about what happens when we lose trust in ourselves and others, when we lose touch with our bodies, and how to get back to our true nature.
- Discussion of trauma (including everyday “little-t” trauma), the nervous system, expanding the zone of confidence, and the process of resolving trauma.
- How the process of Renaturing and Somatic Experiencing can bring us back to our true nature.
- Working with these techniques in a closely facilitated group setting can be amazing.
- Humanity’s place in the natural world and why remembering our role as one species in a vast ecosystem is vital to the health of all life on earth.
- My background, alluding to trauma history, working with animals, physical/mental/emotional effects of trauma (fibromyalgia), and how I came to transform that.
- Discussion of trauma, the nervous system, survival states, and how they combine to shape our perception of, interaction with, and movement through the world.
- How hard and rewarding it is to learn a new way to interact with ourselves as more than “meat robots” controlled by our brains.
- How much we need each other, groups/communities of healing humans, to become more whole.
- And lots more!
I’ll be talking from both personal and professional experience about our nervous system and how trauma affects our bodies in the long term, and how we can begin to transform those effects in the present and future. I can speak to my own physical/mental/emotional expressions of the accumulation of trauma patterns, without too much detail about my own traumas, and how I found my way to Somatic Experiencing as a trauma resolution modality, first for myself, then for almost a hundred people – so far. My professional background is in animals and nature, so I understand humans and our nervous systems and bodies in that context, and I love to discuss how we work in a similar way. I combine an earthy, spiritual, holistic understanding of us with a scientific understanding of how we work to hold space for it all, what I call Renaturing.
Location
I am based in New Hampshire, USA, but I work and guest virtually, using the most effective technology available to me.
Background
I spent the first 35 years of my life shaping myself into the picture-perfect member of society in every role I played – daughter, aspiring career woman, wife… I became more unhappy and ill through the repression and oppression as the years wore on. I searched for new happiness in the right career and life for over a decade, finally having to suspend it all because of chronic illness.
Once I hit bottom, I was able to climb out and see what I had been missing.
I needed to clear away the layers to uncover my true nature hidden beneath them; I wasn’t missing anything, really.
Now, I’m working to help others discover and trust their true natures and heal from pervasive trauma so that they can experience the freedom of walking their own path in life.
I’m conversational and cheerfully passionate about my subject. I use metaphors and analogies that are based on nature, animals, and earthly subjects.
I can publicize your podcast:
Through my website, email list, Facebook, BlueSky, and YouTube Channel.
I have guested on other podcasts:
- Self Help Podcast
- Reproductive Rebel
- Human=Paradox
- The Salty Ginger
- Talk Radio
- Climbing Everest
- Belle, Book, & Candle
More…
My own podcasts have been discrete series. I was part of a podcast called The Hive Queens, hosted a podcast series called Grounding Connection, and hosted a podcast called Return to Your Nature.
For a more general idea of who I am and my work, you can find me through the menu at the top of this page.