Unwinding, Unfolding, Blossoming – Heal Unresolved, Stored Survival Stress, Hypervigilance, Chronic Anxiety, Pain & Overwhelm Patterns Held in the Body – Restore the Experience of Safety in Your Nervous System – Ease Your Nervous System Dysregulation Loop – Allow in Softness, Gentleness, Wholeness & Somatic Healing.

March 21, 2023

“If you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safer.” ~ Dr. Stephen Porges

This is an invitation to allow space for unwinding, unfolding and blossoming – spring is here. An opportunity to heal deeply held, unresolved survival energy and chronic stress – through a supportive body exploration process.

Every repeated experience matters. Whichever experiences we choose to repeat—either consciously or unconsciously—are changing our mind-body system. The more often we receive support, move towards softness, rest and somatic healing, the more we can release what we are holding and restore what is missing.

I am so grateful that I get to work with so many beautiful souls – and what they have in common is that they are deeply committed to their healing. We have all experienced trauma and we are holding the residue of those experiences in our body, nervous system and brain.

My offerings in Somatic Healing and Somatic Exploration include: receiving supportive transforming bodywork and touch, healing our nervous system responses, working with the alarm response in the body, relational / mother & father wounding, healing our younger part, allowing in deep self-compassion, somatic flowing movement processes to ease chronic, deeply held body responses and our freeze response, breathwork to ease anxious patterns in the body, integrating reflexes, ancestral healing and birth & pre / peri natal trauma healing, and sound and gentle supportive practices in-between sessions.

This is healing at the roots – bringing presence to the times and places in your life when you abandon yourself – the times when you need your love and care the most – allowing yourself to have unlimited opportunities to experience softness in your body and mind, warm compassion in your body and heart and care for your whole being.

Without awareness, we can suppress and habitually disconnect from our bodies, heart and spirit. We will process and explores practices that reawaken our senses and open us to the blessings of sacred presence in the present moment.

Is your nervous system dysregulated?
The answer is yes – we all are at different times.
When it becomes chronic dysregulation – we are more likely to develop chronic emotional and/or physical health symptoms.

What we want to cultivate within our system is more capacity to feel difficult emotions and feelings, and to move back into nervous system regulation again. When we continue to develop this capacity, our nervous systems and bodies’ become more resilient and we are able to step away from our dysregulation loop.

This is a somatic healing practice and process for stepping away from your dysregulation loop – be with your abandonment of self loop – and do the work that will make everything feel different in your life.

Opportunities for nervous system healing and regulation – feeling safe in your body, mind and heart – allowing yourself opportunities for the parasympathetic part of your nervous system to be dominant.

A Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma & Transforming Touch (TEB) Practitioner, I create space for a state of open awareness and compassionate connection, combining sensitive, light touch with perceptual skills to support awareness of the rhythmic generative ordering movements of life.
 
Denial of our authentic self allows trauma to be stored in the body. When we must suppress our authentic selves to survive, our bodies carry the pain.

Is it ok to cry? Is it ok to have needs?
Who will be there for me when I speak them?
 
The environment answers the questions again and again – intuitively we begin to understand what will keep us safe and accepted.
 
We need to slowly bring ourselves to look within and be with the feelings that we are holding inside, bring forward those tender authentic parts of yourself that are there – all the moments you gritted your teeth and pushed through.
 
Together, let’s begin to invite change.

Being present with the wholeness and flowing energy of life, we can begin to recognize the different expressions of conditioned experience. We can learn to respond to the habitual patterns that arise, and support our whole being to reorganize and resolve trauma patterns deeply held in our body and mind.

Trauma keeps us stuck in the past. We can go back and rescue those parts of ourselves that are stuck back there and begin to notice the safety of the present moment. Freeing yourself from past programming allows you to show up more fully, vibrantly and alive right now.

I will support your body, heart and mind to complete deeply held trauma responses held in the body.

When our biology runs amok, the other parts of our beingness don’t well either.

It is tough to create good self care when our survival physiology (biology) is having none of it, and just wants to hide inside and be away from the world (or fight to its death).

We have to improve our biological responses first, our connection to our internal world, our sensations, our stress responses, or intense sense of unsafety.

We must lessen our biological fear responses so we can muster the energy to consider stepping outside into the quantum/electrical/soul/spiritual world.

When we restore our biology—that survival chemistry—to be in less fear-based and/or frozen states, and more in a regulated and ‘in flow’ state, we start to organically connect to the pure, earthly fact that we are nature.

Time doesn’t heal the wounds of unresolved trauma (aka: stored survival stress), YOU do.

Yes, it does take time to heal trauma, and we have to participate.

And that healing, in my professional and personal experience, starts with learning, plus a desire to take charge and make real changes.

Those changes don’t need to be big. They can be tiny to start, and then, they grow. They grow into healing, they grow into nervous system regulation. You grow.

All chronic health conditions are driven by the nervous system. The nervous system is in contact with every cell in the body; it’s part of the control and signaling mechanisms for every other organ and system.

Here are five areas of the body that are impacted by stored trauma:

  1. The Brain (brain fog, anxiety, depression)
  2. The Immune System (autoimmune conditions)
  3. The Gut & Digestion (leaky gut, pain, acid reflux, IBS)
  4. Hormones (imbalances, headaches)
  5. Energy Levels (fatigue)

In simple terms, if the nervous system is unbalanced, other areas of the body become unbalanced, too. This is why it is so important to learn how to regulate our nervous system.

By paying attention to our body’s nervous system, we can help our body heal and become more resilient.

Does any of this sound familiar:

  • You struggle with “mysterious” ailments (things like anxiety, depression, toxic relationships, autoimmune conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, etc.), but nobody can figure out why.

  • You’ve been to the doctor and have been told there isn’t anything wrong,  but you know something’s off. You’re starting to think something must be wrong with you. (Or maybe you have a diagnosis but feel this sneaking suspicion that you’re missing the key to true healing.)

  • You now know that the probable cause of your present-day struggles is early childhood traumatic stress, but you’re confused because you had a pretty good childhood.

If this resonates, know that you’re not alone. I hear some version of this story daily from my current clients and those who inquire about working with me.

There are so many people living in states of chronic dysregulation (and they don’t even know it) due to early traumas they either don’t remember or have written off as insignificant.

You don’t need to have experienced a big blow-up event (like a massive car accident, torturous abuse, war, etc.) to be traumatized. Your system can still be living in a state of total chaos and dysregulation, even with no memory of any bad, scary things happening to you.

Tap into Your Flowing Energy and Aliveness

Magnify your inner potential and purpose and watch your well-being, relationships, career, and entire life evolve in ways you’ve never imagined. Celebrate with excitement how your life is now unfolding. Live your life filled with confidence, inner trust and purpose, and feel fully rooted in your centre with deep resilience and strength.

Heal the long-held relational and somatic patterns held in your body so you can feel calm and more confident, no matter what’s happening around you. Come home to yourself and shed the layers of conditioning that kept you from seeing the magic you have within yourself.

What You’ll Develop and Improve:

  • Nervous system regulation
  • Emotional resilience
  • Interoceptive awareness – interpreting sensations in the body
  • Understanding of self & sense of identity
  • Mindful awareness
  • Body awareness
  • Feminine embodiment
  • Self love & compassion
  • Inherited family trauma & early developmental trauma healing
  • Healthy boundaries
  • Intuition & inner knowing
  • Awakening to your inner power
How You’ll Benefit:

  • Greater energy & mental clarity
  • Softening of physical conditions & symptoms
  • Improved health and decreased pain in your body
  • Higher self-esteem & self-worth
  • More stable mood
  • Less toxic stress and more inner resilience, no matter what’s happening around you
  • Self-trust that you have the answers within you
  • Healthier, richer relationships with yourself & everyone around you
  • Feelings of self-empowerment, confidence, freedom, joy, fulfillment, purpose, and greater ease in life
  • New perspectives that will change everything, in magnificent ways

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.

Therapeutic Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma is a gentle, backed-by-science method that enables qualified practitioners to work safely and ethically with the emotions stored in the tissues and organs of the body. It works to unlock and release emotional pain buried in the body, sometimes since before we born, in-utero, our early childhood and all way up to present day adult experience.

Using touch, we reset complex physiological systems and help harmonize energy flow in a person’s body. Often, we restore what was missing in the early years. Touch can give a client greater awareness of their body’s sensations and the ability to get to know themselves better from the inside out.

Bringing a compassionate presence to the body is another essential part of healing. It helps address the neural numbing, muscular bracing, and autonomic disorganization that are physiological by-products of grief, shame, anger, and fear.

Therapeutic touch works to heal the nervous system by providing an avenue for the body to process deep-rooted trauma and facilitate self-actualization. Through gentle, attuned touch, we can help to rebuild an underdeveloped nervous system that has been negatively impacted by early trauma.

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.

Somatic Approaches You’ll Experience:

  • A blend of scientific, research-based perspectives along with eastern-focused philosophies & approaches, such as Buddhist principles and perspectives from Somatic Experiencing (SE), Craniosacral Therapy, Feldenkrais, Breathwork, Clinical Somatics Movement Therapy, Body-Mind Centering
  • Co-Regulating Touch Bodywork for Trauma
  • Transforming Touch (TEB) Practice
  • Somatic Resilience & Regulation
  • Primitive Reflex Integration
  • Inner child healing & compassionate inner re-parenting
  • Shadow integration
  • Intuition growth & development
  • Breathwork for somatic & subconscious rewiring
  • Dietary strategies to improve efficacy of the above approaches

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.

Our early developmental and attachment wounding is a wound with life itself. To an infant, our attachment with our mother is everything – our very experience of ourselves and of the world was filtered through the body and psyche of our mother.

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.

I hold you with kindness, deep respect and space to be with you as you are. This deep presence will shift our felt sense experience of whole body mental and physical health care. My approach is open, spacious and flexible. I look forward to inviting you in to my space.

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.

all my love ~ Kim xoxoxo
[email protected] / www.s3p.d51.myftpupload.com

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.

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. The Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)+ Co-Regulating Touch Trauma Resolution Bodywork = Somatic Healing

FEMININE EMBODIMENT – get in touch with your feminine energetic dynamics, internal felt sense, your deepest heart, masculine and feminine energies, layers of dissociation, practice pleasure practices that can help you unravel pleasure and sensuality, 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 on the table, in-person and online via Zoom. Let’s explore together – [email protected]

HEART HEALING INTENSIVE SESSIONS – Heart healing sessions are all about you, your path and healing. These can be monthly sessions or 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 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.

The Heart Healing Sessions are held in my office in Markham. You can schedule between several 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

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]

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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

Feedback from a recent client:
I want to thank you for your knowledge and expertise with somatic therapy…its really helping me a lot! (March 2023)

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Testimonial 1

When I came to you I felt confused, disconnected and broken. Now, I'm on my way to feeling whole. Thank you.
Kim Cochrane
2016-10-06T10:59:12-04:00
When I came to you I felt confused, disconnected and broken. Now, I'm on my way to feeling whole. Thank you.

Testimonial 2

I’m so glad I’m giving myself space to explore what’s happening in my life and to understand my feelings.
Kim Cochrane
2016-10-06T10:59:51-04:00
I’m so glad I’m giving myself space to explore what’s happening in my life and to understand my feelings.

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I've wanted to do this for a while and I'm so glad I did - I trust myself more now, I feel more calm and open - working together has changed the course of my life.

Kim Cochrane
2016-10-06T11:00:16-04:00
I've wanted to do this for a while and I'm so glad I did - I trust myself more now, I feel more calm and open - working together has changed the course of my life.
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