Our early childhood experiences shape our nervous system and our emotional landscape. We can heal a hypervigilant nervous system, an internalized critical self, and our ability to set boundaries. By exploring your patterns through an embodied, compassionate lens—moving with awareness and regular reflection—you will begun to disentangle old survival habits from your present self.
These patterns made sense at one time. Ripples of these patterns include: shutting down and/or dissociating from ourselves (which can take many forms, including addictions, difficulty with relationships, and anxiety and depression, among other patterns), in order to curtail the deep emotional pain of not receiving what we truly needed.
Somatic healing unfolds as we create space for slowing down, noticing, and unwinding—both within ourselves and in our relationships. Through intentional capacity building, resourcing and self-nurturing, we reclaim the care and validation we needed; learning to tend to our wounded parts and build authentic, resilient connections. This journey is profoundly transformative. It invites integration, wholeness, and peace—something we explore together.
This gentle, attachment-focused, body-led somatic work, supports those who are healing early developmental trauma. We create the conditions where you can begin to experience yourself as who you truly are – you will gain more access to your own wellspring of aliveness and truth. With this newfound ability to know and understand yourself, you will be able to move into more intimate, healthier and ultimately more satisfying relationships with yourself and others.
Some of us carry wounding, that has been inherited from previous generations. This trauma can show up in different ways in our lives, derailing our health, undermining our relationships, and/or financial success. Somatic healing work is particularly suited for this kind of trauma, allowing people to experience a felt sense of safety and to find rest in their own bodies, in the present moment. This focus on physical and emotional safety is an area of focus for me.
Your body is asking for ease and freedom.
The body is the last truth teller of the soul. And in the quiet ways we cannot choose ourselves, cannot name what we want, and cannot negotiate our own desires. These are the places shadow lives – ordinary, intimate, close to home yet carrying the doorway to transformation.
When we leave our shadow unclaimed, it drives the very defenses that keep us stuck, replaying old patterns, holding life at arm’s length and keeping our deepest choices on hold.
The shadow is where our unlived life waits. To leave it buried is to live divided – half in the light, half in the dark – always compensating for what’s missing. Sooner or later, the split costs us: in our bodies, our relationships, our purpose, and our capacity to choose a life that is truly ours.
Somatic shadow work is the work of returning – transforming what once bound you, into the very force that sets you free.
We can unhook from the roles that keep us small, good, permissible and palatable. Stop using our bodies as dumping grounds for our unprocessed rage, shame and sadness. Learn to notice our triggers and symptoms as trail markers back to buried power. Face the cost of living divided, and learn what it takes to come back whole. Turn what once bound you into the force that propels you forward.
You can begin to centre your life around what matters to you. Understand your family dynamics and how they live on inside you. Trust the voice of your own instinct over the noise of expectation. Create from the deepest part of yourself – without asking if it’s allowed. This is what becomes possible when you walk back through the gates, gather what you left behind, and return to yourself as whole.
I’ve poured my heart into therapies that truly heal – let’s embark on this transformative journey together.
I support clients working through a wide range of concerns, including:
- Embodying emotions and resolving painful cycles of self-judgment, blame, and shame
- Early attachment wounds and early developmental trauma that impact adult relationships (move towards secure attachment)
- Depression, anxiety, anger, and ADHD
- cPTSD and complex trauma (psychological and neurological effects)
- Sexual abuse recovery and boundary repair
- Autoimmune conditions, chronic pain and chronic fatigue
- Life transitions, decision-making, and changes in life path
- Pre & perinatal trauma, shock trauma, and early developmental trauma
I provide clients with body-based techniques they can use to support their own healing between sessions. I want to support each person to access their inner resilience, develop self-regulation skills, and build sustainable practices for psychological and physical well-being.
Many of us learned to leave our bodies and retreat into our minds when things felt too much, too fast, or not safe.
What is the “source” of chronic stress, muscle tension, defensiveness, angry emotions and isolation? The brain and nervous system connection effects the whole body. The brain tells us when to breathe in and out and how much oxygen we need at any given moment. The brain tells our organs how and when to function.
And the brain monitors our muscle tension — when to contract and when to let go. We can apply pressure to or stretch the muscles and they’ll release, but within a short time frame, they go right back to their habitual “patterns” of contraction.
The brain is always working for your benefit.
These unconscious habitual patterns of “holding” or contraction in your body – were put into place by your brain when your brain perceived that there was some instability in you as a whole — perhaps you experienced a period of extreme stress, perhaps there was some injury somewhere else in your body, maybe while healing, part of you was immobilized to mend, perhaps you practiced some repetitive movement or posture so often that certain muscles became the stabilizers while others didn’t carry their weight.
Every person’s circumstances and history are unique.
But when we work with the brain and nervous system, the interesting thing is we don’t have to definitively understand WHY our bodies contract and hold, or the exact path of what caused what, when. We only need to recognize the patterns that are presenting themselves.
Let’s reinforce new neural pathways.
New healthier neural pathways override the old, unconscious, habitual pathways and when these movements are practiced with attention, and reinforced for a period of time, the old muscle tension is permanently gone.
We will go slowly, deeply and at your own pace – to recognize that healing as an inside job – the unfolding of our intrinsic and natural wholeness.
The Deep Work for Women is an integrated mind/body/spirit approach to healing as wholeness happening, wholeness unfolding. It is a practice that is designed to cultivate wakefulness and present-centered awareness to bring the freedom of choice and new possibilities to the healing journey.
You are invited to experience your own healing as a journey of remembering wholeness and to participate in each other’s healing as a profound gift of Presence.
Let’s begin the somatic healing process together:
Slow down – notice your breath, pay attention to your skin and allow yourself to truly land where you are. Feel this.
Notice where you feel energy moving in your body. Maybe you don’t notice anything, maybe you do. You can’t do this wrong and there is no way to fail.
What emotions are present with the sensations?
This work supports you to feel more ease through deep embodiment, the immense gifts of slowing way down, how to lovingly hold and transform your story and become a master of our nervous system.
I have two new openings now for clients who want to work together to build an emotional container of resilience and expand their nervous system capacity to be with all of their emotions.
As a Women’s Somatic Trauma Healing Guide, Nervous System Specialist, Nature Therapy Guide, and Feldenkrais Movement Facilitator – I will support you with body-based approaches, parts work, inner child healing, healing co-dependent patterns, movement, patriarchal awareness, mother wound and father wound healing, shadow work and self compassion to support you in experiencing joyful aliveness, self-compassion, peace and deep care – for your body, mind and heart. Are you ready to meet yourself?Let’s go deeply and flow together.
Whole Body Mental Health & Well-Being from the Inside Out.
Deep healing at the level of the nervous system enables you to explore and expand your inner landscape where self – confidence and inner agency reside. When you heal your nervous system, you can more readily access deeper ways of knowing and being that include intuition, imagination, sensuality, and the subtle body of emotions.
SLOW HEALING SOMATIC TRAUMA INTENSIVE SESSIONS – Heart Healing Somatic Trauma Intensive sessions are all about you, your path and healing. These intensive extended sessions are scheduled during one day or a period of days to support you along your healing path.
My clients love this work, it is nourishing and gentle. It is wonderful for healing early developmental trauma, attachment repair and shifting to a more regulated place where the heart can freely open into abundance.
You may want to schedule these sessions as a focused time for letting go of all that you healing. Heart Healing sessions consist of combining several sessions over a short period of time. They are a great way to get out of your daily routine and be immersed in healing. We may meet for multiple sessions per day over a period of days. Since you will be out of your typical routine, this will give plenty of time for integration of the work and healing.
FEMININE EMBODIMENT & PATRIARCHAL DYNAMICS – get in touch with your feminine energetic dynamics, internal felt sense, your deepest heart, masculine and feminine energies, layers of dissociation, learn about how patriarchal dynamics effect your relationships and your sense of self, heal the survival responses and defensive accommodations that keep us out of connection. Explore somatic blocks to expansion, heal chronic anxiety, illness and pain patterns, and have an open space to explore the deepest parts of yourself in relation to yourself, your work, your life and your relationships with others. This work happens online via Zoom.
BEING HELD – ALLOWING YOUR BODY TO YIELD – DROP-IN CLASSES
Guided, intentional and supportive rest, is a process of renegotiating our relationship to feeling safe in our body,. In our earliest years, the experience of feeling safe enough in our body; to let go, to drop-in, through the developmental movement of Yielding – the bodies way of trusting. We are designed to naturally yield in the arms of a safe caregiver that holds us when we cry or are tired. For many of us, this experience was interrupted or went missing for our little bodies. Now we practice supportive rest not just as a way to soothe our body and nervous system, but to give our body the opportunity to safely yield once again, and to receive an often unmet need. When our body feels safe enough to let go of bracing patterns, soften into support and “drop” in to heaviness, it learns to trust being safely supported and safely at ease. This is essential for healing.
($57.00 per class)
Tuesday, November 11th at 6:15pm to 7:15pm
The SAFE and SOUND LISTENING PROTOCOL / The REST and RESTORE LISTENING PROTOCOL – Both the SSP and RRP are sound healing therapies for increased nervous system regulation and resilience. The SSP starts by inviting the body to really receive the signals of connection and safety. Then, once that connection is made, it invites the body to remain connected to safety even as signals of threat are introduced and increased. The RRP is designed to entrain with the systems in the body such breath and heart rate and to coax those systems to be less fixed, to have more flow. The music bypasses cognition and “speaks” directly to the body and the body systems. Your sleep and waking cycle will improve, as will your digestion and chronic feelings of anxiety. “By fostering coherence and harmony within their neural pathways, RRP is designed to help individuals feel more at ease and to improve mental and physical well-being.”
HEALING FAMILY TRAUMA IMPRINT – 90-minute – in-person or online Zoom session – an opportunity to get to the roots of intergenerational trauma patterns & begin a path towards relational & relationship healing.
HEALING THE BROKEN MOTHER FIELD – Healing the Mother Wound – process unconscious contracts – uncover your hidden family dynamics and trauma history – this is an opportunity to strengthen your internal relationship with your self – as well as your mother, father and extended family – in ways that contribute to receiving more abundance, intimacy, deep care and peace – get in touch to schedule an online session – www.kimcochrane.ca
NERVOUS SYSTEM HEALING for RELATIONSHIPS – (6 Session Package) Awaken in Relationship – Being Present to the Relational Wounding and the Pain We Carry – Ongoing Online Sessions for Couples – Learn to Process Deeply Held Emotion, check-in with each other regularly and learn to communicate from the heart and to connect deeply with one another again or for the first time.
Meet for a series of focused, online sessions to help uncover, understand and practice noticing ongoing nervous system triggers that keep you locked in a negative cycle of conflict / avoidance that is very difficult to resolve. Your early developmental trauma and co-dependent patterns are very much at play in your closest relationships and we can understand and work towards healing:
1) Your individual early developmental trauma patterns – what got missed or neglected and why.
2) Your individual nervous system patterns, responses and reactions – and how you can do your own healing work to soothe and ease your responses and pain.
3) How your family of origin plays a very significant role in your relationships now, how they do, and to work towards a healing program for your relationship, and for each person in the relationship.
4) Be with Relational Wounding & Defensive Accommodations when it shows up in your relationship – and how this effects emotional & physical intimacy.
5) Be with and Face Hot Button issues when they arise and cause conflict.
6) Take 100% responsibility for yourself in your relationship.
Our feelings, bodily sensations and relational patterns are clues to what is being held in the unconscious – so we must be present to them. Conflict can give us the opportunity to awaken out of the conditioning that we are a separate, disconnected self. Get in touch to learn more and work together – www.kimcochrane.ca
- Embrace Personal Responsibility: Understand self-sovereignty as the key to collective healing.
- Discover Your Soul’s Purpose: Explore how to step into the fullest expression of your soul’s purpose for this lifetime.
- Identify Self-Imposed Limitations: Recognize where and how you may be holding yourself back.
- Address Codependency: Identify codependent tendencies and distorted thought processes.
- Unearth Limiting Beliefs: Discover the origin points of limiting beliefs that prevent you from standing in your power.
- Balance Belonging and Authenticity: Balance your innate need for belonging while releasing fear-based ways of relating to others.
- Enhance Community Engagement: Learn to engage in your community and relationships more authentically.
Get in touch to learn more about Embodied Recovery, Nurture Surround & Family Systems Imprint Sessions & Individual Body-Focused Therapy Sessions, and Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma, NeuroAffective Touch – The Anxiety, Stress & Trauma Restorative Clinic – virtually online – and to set up a time to work together: www.kimcochrane.ca
“Your support has been life changing for me. The way you work is unique, and it has made a huge change in my life. Thank you so much.”
“I feel alive and have a sense of self for the first time.”
“This work has helped me to accept myself layer by layer, become curious about myself and life, and learn to feel embodied feelings of joy.”
“Our shadow will run our lives until we turn and face it.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
