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I help women who feel unworthy change their relationship with food & body.
Somatic Coaching
Parts Work
Weight Neutral
Trauma Informed
🌌She/Her

Have you ever loved an animal so much you feel lik

We can develop so many sneaky strategies to just a

This is a form of spiritual bypassing. What I've c

Feeling is healing, and to feel requires healing.

I'm learning to let transitions take as long as th

I'm learning to let transitions take as long as they need.
Rather than rushing through to avoid the discomfort of not knowing, I'm learning to let it be.
Rather than jumping into creation, I'm learning to linger in the questions without needing immediate answers.
Rather than pursuing external resources, I'm learning to slow down at the edge of the unknown.
Just existing there, on the edge of what sometimes feels like a cliff.
But there's clouds and so you can't tell what's truly there until the clouds part.
But they're not parting.
So all you can do is be in that place.
Surrendering.
Not trying to fix or figure out but learning to trust life.
Learning all the subtle ways you try to control it.
And then allowing.
There's medicine in these transitions.
It's a space where we get to grow our capacity for discomfort.
A place where we get to deepen into the mystery that is this life.
A place where we get to turn towards different aspects of ourselves we may have ran from in the past.
There's a building of tolerance to go at a different pace.
A deepening into our core essence.
Just like the transitions I teach in a yin movement practice.
Slow and intentional.
Turning inwards and being present with what's there.
Not judging.
Moving like you're going through honey.
How do we practice this off the mat and in life too?
That's what I'm deepening into.
Trusting that I'll know when I know.
And that action will come from that knowing.
But for now, it's honey.
It's slow.
It's subtle.
It's the incubation period.
The season of winter.
And some winters are longer than others.
How do we trust the timing of our own inner seasons, while being engaged and present to the experience.
Rather than trying to skip over it.
Or rush it.
Or end it prematurely.
Or force a detour.
I'm learning to let my inner seasons and the transitions between them, take as long as they need.

If trusting transitions is hard for you, I'm currently taking 1:1 clients. Reach out and we can arrange a discovery call to determine if we're a good fit.

Soul hunger happens when we're not meeting the nee

Soul hunger happens when we're not meeting the needs and desires of our soul. We can turn to food to try to feed this hunger, but it will never satiate.

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Fighting binge eating with control, force and will

Fighting binge eating with control, force and willpower doesn't work.

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And when that identity begins to crumble it can fe

And when that identity begins to crumble it can feel scary, uncertain and untethering. Yet there's so much magic, opportunity and exploration available here too.

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It's interesting to me that we can seek joy to avo

It's interesting to me that we can seek joy to avoid pain.
That we can chase pleasure to get high and forget our discomfort.
It's interesting to me that adventure can be used as an escape from reality.
That play can be a distraction from hard truths.
All these things can be deeply nourishing, or contribute to disconnection, bypass and avoidance.
I find discerning the difference requires a noticing of the felt sense when engaging in them.
Are you lingering in the joy?
Are you present to it?
Do you notice how it opens your heart?
Can you hold joy, without minimizing your pain?
Is pleasure about an outcome or are you engaging in the journey?
Do you mindfully get curious about what small doable things can add more pleasure to the moment?
And what does it feel like in your body to sense that?
Can pleasure and discomfort co-exist?
Is adventure about connection, or is there a subconscious level using it to disconnect?
Are you moving towards adventure, or are you running away from something you don't want to deal with?
Is play embodied, or constructed in the mind?
Can you play, and attend to hard truths?
Is it an either/or relationship?
Can it be a both/and?
I've been getting curious about these questions after spending time exploring different parts of the Rockies, the past few weeks.
I used to fantasize about being able to take a few months long vacation on an island.
I didn't realize I was trying to escape my inner experience and that it would follow me anywhere I went.
It's only been over time as I learned to attend to my inner states, that those fantasies disappeared.
Learning to meet our emotional experience gifts us with more presence.
Presence to exist and act in our life, rather than waiting for when things get better.
And I say this all, while thinking about the very real social factors that may impact us.
There's no shame in using things like joy or adventure to cope either.
It's just that when you're ready to deepen into more authentic, embodied expressions, we'll need to include the discomfort and pain.

📸 Hermit Trail in Glacier National Park, British Columbia
Traditional territory of the Ktunaxa Nation, Okanagan Indian Band and Shuswap Nation.

People pleasing is a deeply misunderstood protecti

People pleasing is a deeply misunderstood protective mechanism. It's often shamed and criticized as being dishonest. The thing is, we learn this defense for good reason and in understanding the autonomic nervous system we can see how people pleasing/fawning isn't a conscious choice.

Last week I experienced a fawn response and I want to share my experience to bring awareness. There's so much victim blaming that happens when we don't understand it. If you have a previous traumatic experience around violation, this might activate you. So please, take care of yourself and if you don't have capacity to read please don't. I trust you to be in your sovereignty and to get support if you need it.

Last week I was walking in my favourite place with my dog. I go there multiple times per week. My morning walks are meditative and I like to be alone. I heard someone come up behind me and I moved over like I always do, so they could pass. They didn't pass though. They stayed behind me for awhile, a little too close.

At one point it sounded like they were going to pass and I thought "finally." I heard their steps start to come up alongside me, and before I could turn to look at them they backed off and went behind me again.

That seemed weird. I kept walking.

Finally they did pass and this time when I looked I saw a man holding his phone. Initially I thought, maybe he was just looking down at his phone and didn't realize he'd been following me so close. He smiled and said hi, so I said hi back. He commented on the weather being great for walking and I responded back in agreement.

At this point he was in front of me and we were coming to a point in the trail where I usually turn right off the main trail. He continued on the trail and I turned. I thought, "good".

I turned and continued down a hill. Past the bottom of the hill my dog stopped to smell the ground. I could hear footsteps coming down the hill and I turned to look as they got closer. It was him. He'd turned around and followed me.

He asked me if he could walk with me.

I said, "sure."

Later I would understand that this was nonconsensual consent. I kept trying to check in with my body and I didn't feel fear.

Let's take the binary out of making decisions.

No one talks about anticipatory grief, so I though

No one talks about anticipatory grief, so I thought I'd share my current experience with it.

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