Kim Cochrane, Author at Kim Cochrane - Page 15 of 254Kim Cochrane

“The discovery that peace, happiness and love are ever-present within our own being, and completely available at every moment of experience, under all conditions, is the most important discovery that anyone can make.” ~Rupert Spira

At its core and in its natural state, life is simple—now in this moment, and always. During trauma healing work, we can soften our grip on our judgement towards ourselves (and others), the stories we tell ourselves, so we can feel more spacious and free inside of our bodies, release long-held, hidden trauma, anxiety and depression patterns and liberate ourselves from chronic stress patterns and emotional distress.

Slowly, softly and from the heart – let’s begin:

What do you notice in your body?

Are you feeling heavy, buzzy, frustrated, hungry, sad, lonely, overwhelmed, overworked, in grief or in fear?

What does your body want you to know?

How do you know? Attend to yourself with deep care in this moment.
What do you notice?

Let’s be with what you notice – together. Give your body space and time to notice and feel what it is experiencing – creating new pathways for energy to move and flow.

Our bodies need deep care, and hidden early trauma may have shut down our ability to be in touch with the language of our bodies. Or we can feel so much anxious energy moving inside of our bodies, that we can’t feel anything but feelings of overwhelm and chaos deep inside.

During our work together, I invite you to pay attention to your body – heal trauma patterns as a pathway to a safe relationship with yourself, so you can experience greater resilience, flexibility, and vitality. Let’s tap in to the energy patterns of all parts of your body, become deeply aware, notice sensations, feel emotions, and shift tension patterns to allow more energy to flow. By learning to pay attention to your own root patterns, you can enhance and ease the flow of energy moving through your body.

This work is a combination of trauma healing, healing from chronic stress patterns held in the body, post-traumatic growth through the lens of nervous system science and the polyvagal theory, somatic awareness – opening to the invitation to movement and flow through the body, release fascia patterns and somatic nondual awareness practices. This is a deep combination of bodywork and somatic psychotherapy practices, relational and intergenerational trauma healing at the roots of emotional and physical patterns and pain.

Be gentle with yourself. You are precious. Speak to yourself softly with compassion, care and acceptance. Remind yourself that you are doing your absolute best with the level of consciousness, wisdom, knowing, and capacity you have access to in any given moment. And so is everyone else.

We hold our life challenges in every cell of our body. If we choose to, we can see all of our challenges as doorways to awakening and greater freedom. They invite us to go deeper and expand our understanding of our selves and our life. From this place, it is possible to fully release hidden trauma conditioned patterns and deep beliefs that cause emotional and physical suffering. Awakening to our true nature provides the most direct and lasting way to be free from the issues that limit our potential and happiness. This brings an infinite wisdom, love, clarity and compassion to the therapy and makes true transformation possible. My work is experiential and addresses issues and long-held concerns at the root. This is possible for all those who are ready to move beyond the conditioned mind structure into the freedom of our essential nature.

I work with each person from a whole person perspective – this is Whole Body Mental Health – with a focus on the whole self, allowing a deeper wisdom to guide me to what works best in each moment. In addition to offering the deep presence and nurturing awareness as the primary agent of change, I utilize methods such as Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma, NeuroAffective Touch, Somatic Experiencing (SE), Transforming the Experience Based Brain for Somatic Resilience and Nervous System Regulation, Healing Ground Realization Process – to assist with releasing protective trauma patterns and resolving many other issues such as depression, anxiety, addictions, eating disorders, relationship and attachment issues.

When a child’s core needs aren’t met, they innocently conclude that there must be something wrong with them. By making themselves bad, they retain the hope that if they can fix and change themselves then maybe their environment will meet their needs.

A child can’t hold both their love and their anger towards their caregivers – they simply don’t have the capacity to hold both. Furthermore, the risk of expressing their protest – at not having certain needs met – is too great, for it ultimately threatens their connection to love itself.

Therefore, a child has no choice but to split off their anger and turn it towards the self as shame, and it’s from this sense of deficiency that the need for perfection can begin to sprout.

There’s a deep invitation to address what underlies this need to project our inherent goodness outside of ourselves. To address the pervasive tendency to reject, berate, belittle, and attack oneself. A tendency that often goes unseen.

When we acknowledge the failure of our environment to meet our early developmental needs, we inevitably touch the anger we exiled.

When we acknowledge this anger, we dismantle the tendency to turn it towards our self, and when we honor the healthy protest that lives at the heart of this anger, we fuse the split between good and bad, light and shadow.

It’s in this fusion that we uncover the love that’s not dependent on another. It’s in this psychological maturation that we discover the wholeness that lives within, and we can end the war with ourselves.

As children, we learned to brace against feeling difficult feelings and become hypervigilant towards anything that threatened our physical and physiological safety. Unconsciously, we were trying to keep ourselves safe; and in so doing, many of us were not free to express our deep, true selves and our voice – freely and authentically – and became disconnected from our deepest selves.

We all want to feel grounded, resilient and in the flow of life. Deep somatic Transforming Touch healing bodywork from trauma can support you to experience yourself as ongoing, undivided internal wholeness – allowing us to feel more of what is happening in our bodies – both difficult feelings and good feelings and everything in between – with less overwhelm and fear. We can encompass the depth, intensity and free flow of our perceptions, thoughts, emotions.

The presence of awakened, compassionate, non-dual awareness is the true agent of change. When therapy takes place in the field of this presence, there is a deep safety that gently points each person beyond their conditioned patterns and into the same presence within themselves. Deepening our awareness of the sensations in our bodies, allows us to slow down and accept ourselves in all of our humanness.

Feeling fear is a part of the healing process and can be softened with our own understanding of it and by practicing compassion towards ourselves.

Release protective holding patterns held in the core of your body – release and untangle holding patterns in relation to your mother and father.

Come back to your body and notice what it needs, even when you don’t know what that is in each moment, just the action of attuning to what you notice and attending to it, is what is most important.

You begin to experience a state of being that is embodied, visceral, grounded, open, and always in process, and you begin to feel like this is your home.

You begin to realize that there’s a much bigger range of emotional and perceptual information coming to you than you’ve ever been aware of before.

You begin to sense into the limitless terrain of your physical being – the endless, open spaces we can enter through the body. Now you can have a context within which you can actually experience the energy of your body – and the tremendous inspiration that arises for life, without the mediation of your ego.

Wise Ways to Be with Early Trauma Patterns

Together, we can recognize and care for the tender and young parts of ourselves that still live in us and are the fuel behind our struggles in everyday life. In a supportive field of loving connection, we’ll bring attention to the places in us that feel unsafe, unseen, and disconnected. And we’ll practice skills and wisdom-based tools to care for the fear and feelings of inadequacy that drive these stressful energies. We’ll discover the possibility of relaxing our nervous systems and expanding into the spacious openness of the present moment.

We create a field of safe space to explore these tender parts of ourselves. As we discover we can meet them with deep acceptance and care, we have space to realize there is so much more to life.

The heart essence of all true healing involves being present with, and allowing, what is. Yet, there are many life challenges that can interfere with our ability to be present with what is, such as: emotional wounding, hidden trauma and the symptoms we feel, physical pain and discomfort due to chronic illness, relational disturbance and conflict, negative beliefs about ourselves, others, life itself.

You will have the opportunity to work with these challenges in your body-mind so you can develop more capacity to be present with what is and find true healing and awakening.

This is a combination of therapeutic support, body-focused work, as well as a focus on connecting to nature, the earth, the healing feminine and all there is. We will focus on:

Body: Regulating and balancing body physiology
Emotions: Increasing our capacity to be with emotions
Mind: Being with and releasing traumatic memories and beliefs

Our work together will include:

Deepened recognition of your true nature through guided connection to the deepest parts of the core of your being.
Healing practices to untangle long-held mother/father wound patterning held in the body.
Pre & perinatal healing practices to provide a new experience of being birthed into the world.
Integenerational trauma healing – healing long-held energy from the past
Co-regulating touch bodywork for trauma – specialized touch and table work for healing early developmental trauma patterns held in the body.
Somatic practices to help regulate the nervous system and build resilience.
Psychotherapeutic processes for resolving the blocks to our full expression.

The presence of our own being is a powerful healing force. As we awaken to/as being and allow it to fully meet all our humanness as it is, we are healed and transformed from within.

You don’t need to be concerned with changing who you are or figuring out how to solve all your problems. You can’t erase your painful past. These goals will keep your mind busy forever and won’t bring you the happiness you long for.

Right now in this moment, you can relax away from the stressful mind and lean into the open, loving space of being aware that is completely at ease with things as they are.

And this is what’s true in any moment.

Slow down and recognize what is present for you.

Instead of feeding the story of lack and limitation for one more second, you become aware of the breath.
Instead of embellishing the drama of your emotions, you expand your attention to be aware of physical sensations appearing in your body.
Then letting go of the breath and physical sensations, you rest in presence, coming home to the peace of your true nature.

Conditioned programming recurs—that’s its nature. It pulls you into ruminating about the past and worrying about what might come. When you enter the timeless now, and it’s an all-encompassing, naturally welcoming field of presence that holds everything with love.

Working with themes such as early development trauma, medical trauma and chronic pain, and examining how our bodies have constricted over time to help us survive. Although once effective in our survival, they are no longer required to constrict us. Using somatic practices, release techniques and embodiment attunement exercises to reduce body constrictions and enhance one’s vitality and restore resilience and well-being.

Experience yourself living and being in an unrestricted body. Soften years of holding, gripping and straining melt away. Take us on this journey inward through Awareness, Physical Sensation and Emotion, allowing us to fully embody ourselves in an entirely new way. As she said during our last session…..”it’s like remembering to come back to our wholeness – that part that has never been fragmented.

Together, we will recognize and care for the tender and young parts of ourselves that still live in us and are the fuel behind our struggles in everyday life. In a supportive field of loving connection, we’ll bring attention to the places in us that feel unsafe, unseen, and disconnected. And we’ll practice skills and wisdom-based tools to care for the fear and feelings of inadequacy that drive these stressful energies. We’ll discover the possibility of relaxing our nervous systems and expanding into the spacious openness of the present moment.

Here, finally we’re available to peace, freedom, intimacy, and inspiration.

Together, we create a field of safe space to explore these tender parts of ourselves. As we discover we can meet them with deep acceptance and care, we have space to realize there is so much more to life.

Over and over, we’re guided to be grounded in present moment awareness and live it in all areas of our lives.

Experience the part of yourself that has never been hurt. Resolve hidden trauma patterns using gentle attunement and trauma release somatic practices.

Heal emotional wounds, reduce anxiety, and move through long-held emotional and physical patterns using mind-body integration and subtle energy clearing.

Practice being more focused, present and resilient in your every day life.

Practice being grounded and settled in your relationships and social situations.

Practice quieting your mind and body with powerful body-focused techniques. Experience the core of your being as innate clarity, love and power.

This is an offer of deep wisdom for your body, wise to humanness, wise to universal love, wise to the process of deep transformation.

We will focus on a wide variety of areas of concern that you may have:

Family of Origin Relational & Ancestral Healing – Understand the effect of your early childhood or adverse childhood experiences on your emotional & physical health now
Somatic Deep Body Healing – Reprocessing deeply held traumare within your brain and nervous system
Attachment Healing – Rewire early attachment and familial patterns – Mother & Father Wounding
Birth Trauma & Early Developmental Trauma Healing – Learn about your HPA axis, levels of cortisol and adrenaline and how these may be adversely be effecting you
Embodied Recovery – Understand your somatic narrative and cultivate resiliency as a felt sense in your body
Embodied Movement – Understand how movement, flow and sound can help you move through deeply held emotion
Become aware of how stress feels in your body
Facilitate emotional processing of deeply held or stuck emotion
Process long-held anger, grief & loss
Reduce feelings of anxiety, depression and overwhelm
Integrate gut felt sense with cognition
Work with and know your own needs and self care
Become aware of stress activation patterns
Work with communication, energy, movement, boundaries & limits

I support individuals and couples to uncover the root cause of the emotional and physical symptoms that they are experiencing. Our symptoms can be indications that our bodies and lifestyles are out of balance. With a special interest in chronic stress, chronic pain, ongoing chronic women’s health concerns, including eating disorders, cycles of anxiety, overwhelm and and hormonal health – from PMS and fertility to menopause, and digestive issues.

If you find yourself repeating painful patterns in your relationships – and/or are you often feeling frustrated, overwhelmed or anxious?

Perhaps you’re ready to stop avoiding, numbing, fighting, running or dissociating from the pain? I can support you to heal long-held trauma that shows up as working too much, eating disorders, addition to drugs and alcohol, chronic stress, pain and illness.

I support people to connect to their core self: This alone can begin to restore what was lost through developmental trauma and life’s circumstances. We each have within us everything we need to recover from what happened to us, or what should’ve happened that did not.

I am deeply devoted to supporting others to remember the innate deep wisdom of their hearts as part of my journey.

Be ever so gentle with your heart.

I look forward to being with you.

sending soft love and wishes for a joyful summer, Kim xoxoxo
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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.

Get in touch to learn more about working with me – [email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

What to Expect During a Whole Body Health Somatic Practice Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma Session

For true emotional and physical healing, we can’t leave our body and how it feels and responds, out of the process. Each person needs something very specific in their healing journey, which is why it is so important to have a customized approach with sessions that are specifically tailored for you – a combination of emotionally-focused psychotherapy and body-focused Transforming Touch, Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma.

Your body doesn’t have energy – it is energy. When we allow traumatic stress that is contained in our nervous system to begin to move through our system – flow begins to happen in our body and we feel more energetic, grounded, healthy and alive.

We explore our fluid bodies through the language of sensation, co-regulating touch,and subtle movement. We have the opportunity of allowing time to slow down, to notice, let go and shed that which needs to shed, and to come through anew and refreshed.

For those who would like to focus on a body-focused, somatic approach, we begin by talking about your background, symptoms and history. We do this online and or in-person by sitting in chairs across from each other or you lie on your back on a table. When you are sitting in a chair, we can do some talk therapy, and you may also be asked if you are open to closing your eyes and noticing your feelings, emotions and body sensations that are happening for you in each moment.

For those who would like to do Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma Session – sessions consist of lying on a table with eyes closed – and I offer touch on several areas of the body: the head, stress organs, the belly, and joints in the body.

Sessions are done fully clothed. Each session is one-hour, unless we are doing an extended session – and is unique depending on what you are experiencing on that day and would like to focus on during a session – we want to tune in and understand what’s really going on in your body – beyond pathology and diagnoses – to allow your body to move into a flow state, rather than to remain stuck in a stress response state – during the session and in the hours and days afterwards.

NEW Offering – An Invitation to Healing Ground – Living from the Core – An Embodiment Community Class – Coming September 2022

Let’s be together in nurturing community. Softly – let’s practice coming back to the body – together. We will go within to experience ourselves consciously living within our whole body. Feel more vibrantly alive, awake and responsive to life. Begin from the comfort of your own space – noticing the warmth and softness of the pillows and blankets underneath you. Know the truth of who you are. Feel authentic, real, free.

Slow down. Breathe. Open to somatic awareness, flowing energy and ease. Pay attention to your moment-to-moment biological unfolding process, taking you to places previously unknown to you. Sounds and breath soften your tissues – and water flows through your flesh and bone, rehydrating your body.

We will notice what happens in your body when your nervous system is activated, what supports you towards caring for yourself in this moment?

Together, we will practice being with sensation, emotion and awareness as it arises, sensing into our bodies and feeling them – becoming more aware of our bodies and selves in our wholeness. Practice subtle inward attunement and access to the subtle, flowing core of our bodies.

This is a practice of caring for ourselves and learning to be with difficulties as they arise – along with balancing our awareness in our bodies.

Be with your body – we will focus on your organs, cells and systems. Practice living more clearly balanced and settled in the core of your being. Recognize and care for the tender and young parts of ourselves that fuel our struggles in everyday life.

Be with the fear and feelings of inadequacy that drive your chronic stressful energies. Heal long-held nervous system patterns. Dive deeply into the sensations of your body to find the ground of your being. Practice fully receiving all of the nuances of life’s changes, inhabit your body, disentangled from habitual grasping of the movement of life.

Explore the qualities that nourish the experience of the ground of being: awareness; emotion; physical sensation; love; power; wisdom; wonder; intelligence. Attune to yourself and others within the pervasive field of fundamental consciousness.

Expand into the spaciousness of present moment awareness.

Experience Stillness. Silence. Movement. Flow. Breath. Sound.

6 x 1.25 (1 hour and 15 minute) classes

6 Mondays –

September 26
October 3, 17, 24
November 7, 21

$350.00 for all 6 classes

These classes are for everyone – current clients and those who are new to my work. Please get in touch if you have any questions – registration and payment can be accepted via etransfer–[email protected]

HEART HEALING Sessions – Heart healing sessions are all about you, your path and healing. It is about several sessions scheduled over 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 2-4 days. Since you will be out of your typical routine, this will give plenty of time for integration of the work and healing.

The Heart Healing Sessions are held in my office in Markham. You can schedule between 2-4 sessions over a period of days. Since this work is done away from your typical day to day life, integration of the work is deep and truly transformative.

I am sending softness, gentleness and love from my heart to yours. May you slow down and receive the wisdom your body is seeking to share with you breath by breath.

Let’s plan your sessions in advance – if you are interested in scheduling or have questions, please get in touch and we will make a plan for your visit. [email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

POLYVAGAL THEORY Safe & Sound Protocol OFFERING – The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is an auditory intervention for adults and children – using headphones – that is intended to accelerate the effectiveness of other modalities by preparing the client’s emotional and physiological state. Dr. Stephen Porges (developer of The Safe & Sound Protocol & of The Polyvagal Theory) explains that we need a calm autonomic/physiological state for health, growth and restoration, and achieving this becomes the foundation of an effective therapy. The Safe & Sound Protocol is a way to support a change in your physiological state; opening the system to further neural change and improvement for other therapies that follow. The process is designed to reduce stress and auditory sensitivity while enhancing social engagement and resilience. The intervention uses prosodic vocal music that has been filtered to train the middle ear muscles to focus in on the frequency envelope of human speech. You’ll find you are better able to feel calm – less chronically stressed and/or anxious. Clients who have experienced long-held trauma and are healing from PTSD, troubling chronic health concerns, chronic pain and troubling chronic emotional responses, can experience an increased sense of safety in their physiological state.

OTHER Offerings – Nurture Surround Healing Session– 90-minute In-Person session. Allow yourself to slow down and experience deep healing. You are deeply supported on the table with weighted blankets, soft pillows and bean bags on your body – you choose what is most comfortable for you – providing soft, nurturing care – feeling supported and held – with choice. We will take time to attune to your body’s core needs and comfort at a deep level. Your needs are important. I will use a variety of touch skills with you – and invite you to place a hand wherever you would like to on your body – and to pause, slow down and notice what you feel.

Using mind-body skills to stabilize your nervous system – befriending, grounding, slowing down, tracking and resourcing. We will listen to your body’s narrative while utilizing body-mind emotion dialogue. We will explore biological survival strategies and process historical trauma by creating moment-to-moment interpersonal experiences of safe connection. We will utilize non-cognitive senses of relational connection – auditory, visual, movement, and touch – co-creating manageable ways to defuse internal feelings of pressure, anxiety and stress.

HEALING CODEPENDENT Patterns in Relationships – healing through the body for codependent patterns in relationships – healing from resentment, blame, shame and addictive patterns – nurturing your inner child – learning your needs in relationships – and finding ease in the body, mind and heart for longstanding conditioned patterns.

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.

DISCOVER YOUR INNER MOTHER– Healing the Mother Wound – uncover your hidden family dynamics and trauma history – this is an opportunity to strengthen your internal relationship with your inner your self – as well as your mother, father and extended family – in ways that contribute to healing – get in touch to schedule an online or in-person session – [email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

SESSIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES – Relational Neurobiological Somatic Healing -an Embodied invitation for you – to slow down and feel the strength of a supportive resource, move beyond blame and notice how our nervous system states inform our interactions with our partner, feel present in your body, to unwind patterns of anxiety, depression, anger, hopelessness, chronic stress & pain, trauma, regulate your nervous system, to cultivate trust in your moment-to-moment experience, your naturally wise heart, and your capacity to connect to yourself, those you love and the love that surrounds us.

Somatic Body Learning & Practice and Somatic Experiencing Trauma Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma sessions are available for you now. Waking you up to Somatic Resilience & Regulation – the innate wisdom of your body, healing inherited, ancestral and pre & peri natal trauma patterns, feeling yourself below the level of thought, and accessing your full beingness in flowing, fluid motion.

Get in touch to learn more about The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP), 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 – in-person and/or online – and to set up a time to work together: [email protected]

The Anxiety, Stress & Trauma Restorative Clinic:
Creating Well-Being Through Nervous System Regulation.
Heal Relational Trauma – Break the Cycle of Inherited Family Trauma.
Nurturing Connection, Restoration & Building Resilience.
Easing the Body ~ Calming the Mind ~ Opening the Heart.
Somatic Experiencing ~ Somatic Practices ~ Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma ~ Movement Practices ~ Whole Body Systems Approach for Healing Inflammation.

Movement & Breathwork – discover energetic awareness and simplicity.
Sensory Awareness … becoming more in touch with oneself and the world.
Somatic Reclaiming … re-integrating the body/mind/spirit.
Pre and Perinatal Therapies … consciousness begins before birth.
Somatic Experiencing … resolving shock and trauma.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy … helping restore integrity in our living organism.
Relational Therapy … awareness in therapy; awareness in life.

Somatic work can be done effectively online, as well as in person – online sessions are available for those who would prefer not to come in to the office at this time, for those who live far away from the office, or prefer to work from your own home – [email protected]

Working together enables everyone who is willing to do the work an opportunity to decrease feelings of anxiety, pain, depression, chronic stress, pain or illness – as well decrease the chatter in the mind, and ground your mind and body with the depth of the intelligence found in the body. Experience lasting somatic transformation and feelings of calm, peace and wholeness – within your own body and within your relationships.

You will learn to feel and by doing so, you will move towards whole body health and well-being that you can feel within you.

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“I look forward to my bi-weekly session with Kim – I feel seen, heard and cared for in her presence. I leave a session feeling more myself, integrated, and whole, even after addressing and touching traumatic and painful past experiences and feeling how they still affect me today. It’s healing without being re-traumatizing.” ~ client

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