The Deep Work for Women – Somatic Integration – Opening to Your Body’s Brilliance – Moving Out of Survival Defenses into More Ease & Flow – Body Whispering, Somatic Healing & Emotional Alchemy – Softening the Body Patterns of Anxiety, Illness, Stuckness & Fear.
“Ask yourself how you can go gentler with this next path. Sometimes you have to learn that you don’t need to be so sharply stung before you feel the flowers.” ~ Victoria Erickson
Your body is calling.
This is an invitation to take up space in your life, reclaim your voice, step in to your inner river and flow.
Somatic Healing means letting your body finally feel what your childhood never allowed – with gentle support, compassion and kindness.
I feel privileged to support many women. Most of them have one thing in common – they are struggling with the effects of early developmental trauma, that is often hidden and unknown to them – along with unconscious conditioned patterns, relationship struggles, health concerns and nervous system responses that don’t seem to improve, no matter how much they understand them or manage their relationships, work, diet, nutrition and supplements.
Healing early developmental, hidden trauma is a complex process, and once you begin to process it and unwind it – within your physical, emotional and spiritual bodies – your life can feel easier. Your opportunities, choices, responses to your environment and the ability to create the transformation you hope for in your relationships, work, health, and life – can transform.
Many women want to begin to prioritize their own energy, needs and desires – and there is a lot of physical, emotional and spiritual baggage that is getting in the way of doing so.
You are not who you think you are – you can break the habit of being yourself.
You are not who your hidden trauma taught you to be – those are your conditioned patterns.
Those internalized messages and beliefs are keeping you feeling small and stuck.
How you feel in your life right now is a reflection of who you believe you are.
You learned who you are from all the external and internal messages that you’ve received through your nervous system since before you were born, through the generations, and every day since the day you were born. It is fascinating to understand, and even more amazing to begin to build capacity to create the changes in our lives that we always dreamed of – and we can begin now.
As a somatic practitioner who offers The Deep Work for Women – a Somatic Healing & Integration Process – I’m a somatic energy practitioner, inherited family trauma specialist, and depth psychotherapist.
I offer space for support and healing for hidden early developmental trauma – providing the conditions for more ease, understanding and softening within your body and nervous system, so that you can complete self-protective, defensive responses and retained reflexes that you may be holding within you.
Unwinding conditioned unconscious patterns and responses, mother and father wounding, patriarchal conditioning, lack of attunement in childhood, survival strategies, chronic stress and hypervigilance – and allowing space for warmth, compassion and new understanding – that will create openings for healing, compassion and support, that may not have existed earlier in your life.
I offer a soft and sensitive space for you to discover the deepest parts of yourself, so you can feel safer being yourself – who you are actually are – guiding towards deeper trust, safety and confidence in yourself and your decisions and direction in your life. Guiding you towards more lasting feelings of safety and ease within yourself.
We can do all the practices in the world and still stay disconnected from ourselves. It’s not the practices alone, it’s how you meet what it feels like inside of your body and what that reveals to you, that creates real transformation. The real inner work is meeting parts of yourself that you were taught to disconnect from or shame, with grace and compassion. Allowing space for grieving what you were never allowed to feel. Allowing anger to be expressed, instead of suppressing it. Facing the pain and shame that keeps your heart guarded.
It’s noticing how your nervous system responds when silence feels threatening, when receiving feels like a threat to your survival. It’s catching yourself in old patterns – people-pleasing, overgiving, silencing yourself, disconnecting from yourself and others, and choosing to do something different, even when it feels scary and unfamiliar.
It’s not bypassing the anger, numbing the sadness or trying to fix the discomfort, but by staying with it long enough to finally hear what it’s been trying to say. It’s connecting with your younger parts in a way that rebuilds feelings of safety in your body, so you no longer abandon yourself when life feels hard.
It’s learning to hold your truth, your boundaries and your needs, with clarity and compassion, because you are unwilling to betray yourself to be loved. The real inner work is not glamorous – it’s sacred, it’s raw, it’s life-changing, it’s uncomfortable – it’s the path to embodied wholeness and unshakeable self-worth.
This is the sacred return to your body, to your truth, to the woman you were always meant to be. If you are ready to go deeper in your healing journey, come walk the path of embodied wholeness with me.
I trust that when I slow down long enough, I can hear the whispers within that guide me toward my truest self.
Slowing down is a way of surrendering not to hustle, or pressure, or outside expectation, but to something wiser, quieter, and infinitely more peaceful.
It’s a sacred invitation to come home.
To slow down.
To listen.
To trust in Nature and it’s innate wisdom.
To trust in the Universe that is within you.
Be still and know.
You are allowed to make changes in the way that you are living.
You are allowed to look after yourself.
You are allowed to decide what is important to you.
You are allowed to create a life with those things at the centre.
It’s okay to go slowly.
It’s okay to say no.
It’s okay to be different.
When we reclaim our voice, agency and sense of self – we begin to sense our true, authentic life. When we stop pouring all of our energy into stabilizing and parenting other adults to have ‘connection’ with them. Learning to know ourselves and make ourselves important in our lives, is the biggest thing that sets us up to live our true lives.
I want to offer you support as you walk this truth of unfolding your true life.
When you feel unsafe or threatened, your nervous system acts on instinct to protect you through what’s commonly called the “fight, flight, or freeze” response.
During this dysregulated state, the body is flooded with adrenaline, cortisol, and other survival energies that—when left unresolved—can lead to the many symptoms we associate with trauma, including anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, lethargy, irritability, frustration, or any number of debilitating challenges caused by residual trauma trapped in the body.
I want to help you work with your body and befriend your nervous system to free yourself from the lingering impacts of trauma.
“Trauma happens when the energy that we mobilize to defend and protect ourselves doesn’t get used up or completed,” explains Dr. Levine. “So if we wanted to run and couldn’t, if we wanted to fight and couldn’t, that energy got stuck inside of us. This activation can stay on (inside of your body) for years.”
“It doesn’t really matter what caused the trauma. What’s most important is the completion of that response so that our nervous system is free to go back into a relaxed, alert equilibrium.”
The Deep for Women supports you to reclaim your well-being and wholeness.
This work is support for 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 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 INTENSIVE SESSIONS – Heart Healing Somatic Intensive sessions are all about you, your path and healing. These are extended sessions are 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 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.
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
“I want to thank you – I am not feeling as chaotic and disconnected from the inside – and I am beginning to have the nervous system capacity to be more of myself in my relationships; I feel so much better.”
“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.”
“The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
