Am I safe?
Is there a threat present?
What information is my body and nervous system giving me?
How can I continue to live and thrive in the world now?
We certainly can. Healing happens from the inside out.
When we begin to slow down, go within our bodies, learn about how our bodies behave during chronic stress, become one with our bodies wisdom, and rest in states of deep nourishment, we can flourish. We begin to notice the unconscious detection of threat or safety from our bodies that we are picking up from our environment and our relationships.
Many of us are hoping to transform core patterns in our lives. I work with early development trauma patterning and attachment, embodiment, complex trauma, inner children, birth trauma, mother & father wounding, codependent relating, sexuality, inherited family trauma, ancestral healing, and more.
We need a space to dive in to the mysteries of life. We need to honour and protect the experience of integrating our wounding back into our bodies. Our true nature within can be reclaimed. When you feel supportive and safe, your being is always aligning itself to health and healing.
Being an adult is very challenging – and many of us begin our lives with early developmental trauma. Challenges we didn’t create. Challenges that are hidden from us – that we don’t remember or know about. They exist in the memory of our body and our psyche and there isn’t a day our life is not impacted by them, even if we don’t consciously realize it.
I offer you a supportive environment for lovingly and spaciously uncovering early life experiences we may not remember as adults. Experiences that show up in the body as pain, tightness, anxiety, stuckness and more. This helps us access more life force and make new choices about how we live.
You grew your body and nervous system inside your biological mother.
How your mother is feeling, the lifestyle she lived, what she ate and her relationships, all impact your developing brain and nervous system. This lays the groundwork for how you sleep as an adult, how you nurture and take care of yourself, how you feel and show up in intimate relationships and what you attune to and pay attention to in your life.
The first significant movement and action you ever went through was your birth. No matter the circumstances, it is a challenging and potentially a life-threatening (too often so) experience.
Your first experience entering the world in your body sets the stage for how you complete projects and tasks, engage in transitions and big events in your life and how your brain and body move together.
As infants, we are a sponge of the world at this stage of development – deeply taking into their being the feelings and thoughts that mother and father (if he is there or not).
None of us survive without loving and being loved. Attachment and bonding are essential to nourishment, learning, rest, curiosity and the most important experience of belonging.
How your bonds formed or didn’t form with your family set the stage for how you form and maintain relationships as an adult.
As little ones are too often presented with difficult choices – do I get to be me, do I get to belong and what can I do to be attached to my caregivers. This sets the underlying survival strategy and inner conflict that I may not fully get to be me and also be loved.
Creating a space to slow down to explore and understand our inner little one opens the possibility for us to choose differently as adults and have both authenticity and belonging.
We use a combination about many modalities including Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Resilience & Regulation, Transforming the Experience-Based Brain, The Polyvagal Theory, Autonomic Nervous System Mapping, The Safe & Sound Listening Protocol and Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma, we work closely with your body’s deeply held threat/fear/stress responses, allowing your body to slowly begin to move towards safety.
The social engagement system broadcasts and receives signs of warning and welcome. Through information sent from someone’s eyes, voice, eyes. face and gestures, we know if they are safe to approach and can intentionally use these pathways to send an invitation for connection.
Identify the signals being sent from another person that feel welcoming to you. Notice what it is about their eyes, voice, face and gestures that invites you into connection.
– Their eyes signal safety when….
Use these same phrases to get to know the ways your own eyes, voice, face and gestures invite others into connection.
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 inherited family 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.
Here, finally we’re available to peace, freedom, intimacy, and inspiration.
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 trauma 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
If you find yourself repeating painful patterns in your relationships – and/or are you often feeling frustrated, overwhelmed or anxious?
Connect to your core self and allow your body to feel fully alive – 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 and did not.
I am deeply devoted to supporting others to remember the innate deep wisdom of their hearts as part of my journey. I am dedicated to freeing myself and helping others free themselves from the unintended burden of familial, cultural, and ancestral imprinting. It is your right to experience being in your body as an easeful, pleasurable and joyous experience.
I support 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.
As you heal, you begin to feel your core as goodness; to deeply know that you belong, to feel a oneness with life. You can feel an unshakeable love in your heart that becomes a stable background in your life. The greater empathy and compassion you feel for yourself extends to all beings and the earth itself.
Who would you be if you felt nourished and loving towards yourself every day?
Say ‘yes’ to what feels nourishing, joyful and expansive.
Be ever so gentle with your heart.
I look forward to being with you.
sending soft love your way, 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.
The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)+
Co-Regulating Touch Trauma Resolution Bodywork = Somatic Healing
The POLYVAGAL THEORY – SAFE & SOUND PROTOCOL OFFERING – The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) is an auditory listening intervention for adults and children – using headphones – that is intended to accelerate the effectiveness of other modalities by preparing each person’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.
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
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.
NEW – SOMATIC MENTORING – I am now welcoming therapists, health care professionals, healers, coaches, bodyworkers and anyone who resonates with my work; who would like to have open space to explore how early developmental, prenatal and intergenerational trauma lives in their bodies – 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 on the table, in-person and online via Zoom.
Let’s explore together – [email protected]
THE COUPLES SESSIONS – Awaken in Relationship – Being Present to the Relational Wounding and the Pain We Carry – Ongoing Bi-Weekly or Monthly Sessions for Couples (online or in-person) – 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.
1) Be with Relational Wounding when it shows up in your relationship
2) Be with and face Hot Button issues when they arise and cause conflict
3) 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 – [email protected] – www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com
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.
- Move Energy Through Body – 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.
- Autonomic Nervous System Mapping – learning about what happens for you in different areas of your nervous system
Somatic Healing 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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Feedback from a recent client:
Kim’s presence and touch helped me feel at home… Held. Seen. Known. Grounded. Supported… yet sweetly released, freed from doing and all the shoulds that make up my life.
