Your body is not a problem to solve.
It's the answer.

A site of ancient intelligence, your body carries hundreds of thousands of years of survival wisdom encoded in your nervous system, your gut, your fascia, your breath. Modern neuroscience is finally catching up to what bodies have always known.

What modern living has given us, however, is a culture that ignores, shames, and overrides that intelligence. We got 'civilized' out of our instincts. Out of our rhythms, our rituals, our intrinsic healing, our knowing.

This work is about finding your way back.

Why This Is Different

What I practice is something I call, Creative Self Care — curiosity-led somatic experiencing and creative expression that leads you back to your intuitive healing. 

Trauma and overwhelming stress get stuck in the body when our natural survival responses — fight, flight, freeze — don't get to complete their cycle. Somatic experiencing works to release that stuck energy, safely and gradually, so your nervous system can finally stop running on emergency mode. 

I draw on neuroscience because the research makes it hard to argue that change isn't possible, even when you're convinced you're completely fucked. But I also trust what's older than research: the wisdom of cycles, of slowness, of creativity, of what your body already knows.

That knowing was systematically suppressed in women, in marginalized communities, and in anyone whose curiosity and power threatened the existing order. This history lives in our bodies. It lives in us as fear, as self-doubt, as the narratives we inherited about how much we're allowed to want, feel, or take up — but we can turn that oppressive history into an empowered future.

Reclaiming yourself is both personal and political. And it's fucking revolutionary.

My Story

I spent decades treating my body like the enemy — binge eating, substance abuse, workaholism, extreme people-pleasing. Anything to stay numb or prove I was enough. Childhood trauma has a way of teaching you to abandon yourself.

But when I walked into massage therapy school in 2009, I had a holy shit moment and thought: Oh. This is why I've felt like crap.

Learning about stress, pain, and how the body actually works wasn't just information about how to do my job — it was a gentle, loving bitch-slap. Kind of scary and awakening. I knew I was allowed to take ownership of my healing and embodied-self for the first time. 

But I also realized I was the one responsible for doing the work. 

(gulp)

I explored trauma research, somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, craniosacral therapy. And while I was expanding my cerebral knowing, I was being my own guinea pig- experimenting and (consequently) connecting with my somatic knowing, too.  

And what I found, over and over, was that my so-called failures were never failures.

They were my nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do to keep me alive- despite how counter-productive that felt.

This work didn't just become my profession. It became my own healing. The tools I teach are the same ones that brought me back to myself — out of chronic stress, out of trauma survival mode, out of chronic pain, and into a body I finally love and trust.

Once you understand that your struggles aren't personal failings, the lights come on. You stop fighting yourself and start taking your power back.

That's what I want for you, but without having to do it alone.

I'm an artsy, witchy, science-loving weirdo who uses humor, somatic experiencing, creative expression, and co-regulation to move through this human experience. My mission is to empower people with the knowledge and tools to reclaim their energy, agency and AUDACITY from systems that taught them to stay small, compliant and consuming. 

What I Stand For

My values aren't a disclaimer. They're the foundation everything else is built on.

I stand firmly for bodily autonomy including abortion rights and gender-affirming care, LGBTQIA+ rights, racial justice and equity, and healthcare accessibility for all.

If you're here for a more equitable world, you're in the right place.
If not, this isn't your community.

The Work

You were never meant to heal on your own.

Whether you need someone to help you make sense of what's happening, support when you need resources or accountability, or community when you need to remember you're not alone in this work — this is where that happens.

Because this isn't just coping. It's reshaping your nervous system in a way that builds authenticity, autonomy, and resilience.

The Uprising

Think of this as an online support group for stress management and resilience building.

The Uprising is my Patreon community for people who are done accepting burnout as the default, and are ready to reclaim their agency, energy and AUDACITY.

Inside you'll find nervous system education, somatic practices, creative tools, live sessions, and a community of people doing this work together. Because healing was never meant to happen alone.

Remember. Reclaim. Regulate. Together.

Somatic Bodywork 

Your body holds more than your thinking mind can access alone. One on one, hands on, witnessed without judgment, cared for without contingencies.

Events & Workshops

In person and community based. Connection, creativity, co-regulation. This is where the remembering happens in a room full of people who give a shit about growth and healing.

Blog & Podcast

Free, public, and packed with tools you can use today.