Emotional Wellness
What is Emotional Wellness?
In my own words, it’s learning how to bring awareness to, acknowledge, honor, and welcome emotions as a natural part of being human.
Emotional wellness can mean learning to be in this human experience and welcoming sensations as they come—not judging them, placing value on them, or pushing them away, but instead being curious and willing to engage with them, knowing that perfection isn’t the goal; simply trying is.
How would it feel if you allowed yourself to be grounded in an unshakeable sense of you, while also welcoming that so much of you is unknown, forming as we speak, and falling away, rebirthing? Being in this human experience and allowing yourself to flow with life requires going inward to uncover caves that have yet to be explored and approaching walls that have taken immense energy to protect. Sometimes you are asked to trust and release control to gain freedom in the stillness that dances with the movement of all that is.
Emotional wellness is a process, not a state of completion. It supports stability as you open to the flow of sensation. It can be easy to repress sensations, shut off or run from our ability to feel, or cling to the stories interwoven with a feeling and hesitate to let go. With our pulling and pushing, a common thread often lies beneath—needs that are desperately trying to be seen, a void seeking to be filled. In considering wellness, being in relationship with our emotions requires courage. It requires us to feel. What our emotions invite us into is learning a skillfulness in opening up and engaging with pieces of ourselves that inevitably deepen our interactions and relationship with the world around us.
We are beings of story, and emotions can be primary story-holders. We can learn to listen to these stories without believing them and instead discover the wisdom they offer. Learning to witness ourselves as a tapestry of many pieces, an intersection of many patterns, and where these all meet, gets to be told to the world through our bodies, our unique individual experiences amongst a larger interconnectedness.
GET TO KNOW YOUR OPTIONS
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1:1 Support
Dive into 1:1 emotional support via phone or video call, where the container we co-create will have the right recipe of resources to hold and witness you. We can use different techniques to uniquely support what’s most alive in your system.
I do encourage folks to allow time and space for these sessions to integrate.
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3 session package for 1:1 support
I do encourage folks to allow time and space for these sessions to integrate, along with knowing that what comes forward to be worked with might need more consistent attention. I noticed throughout my work that when meeting with clients more then once for a specific area of support they found greater comfort and ease within the process of engaging and turning towards hard things.
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Youtube Videos
These are free resources i’ve created to allow engagement of sensations in dynamic ways, ways that can allow your mind to be acknowledged but gently set aside so larger parts of you can interact, play, and take the lead.
Booking a session
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Session Details
All sessions are held via video or phone call. Details/preferences are discussed before the session day and time via email.
Sliding scale pricing available, no questions asked
What To Expect
Sessions are all based and founded in trauma-informed care, somatics, and centering your inner wisdom.
We share in conversation first to see what’s most alive before sinking into a co-created energetic container.
During the session, feel free to pick a comfortable spot to lie down or sit and be in an area where you feel comfortable taking up space.
In these sessions, clients may:
-Name and identify the sensations they are experiencing.
-Learn tools to work with emotions in safe, productive ways.
-Bring awareness to judgments and stories they hold about themselves or the world.
-Rebuild relationships with parts of themselves that have been pushed away.
-Engage with life in a more embodied, present, and authentic ways.
At its core, emotional wellness is about learning to be with the full range of human experience—welcoming emotions as they arise, without judgment or resistance. It’s not about perfection, but about building the capacity to engage with emotions in a way that fosters resilience, self-trust, and inner harmony.
Wellness as wholeness
I am a person who has always felt big emotions. Highly sensitive to the world around me, every sensation was a grand play of experience and story. I was, and sometimes still am, really good at believing the stories I spin about the world and about myself—stories rooted in unprocessed, emotional pain. For years, I would talk about my emotions in therapy, but afterward, I often felt heavy and exhausted. The pain still felt raw, without much dissipation, leaving me with a sense of dread at having to confront it all again. It took me time to realize that I lacked the capacity to see underneath those emotions: that they had meaning, that they were a song being sung.
When I started using different techniques to bring space to my emotions and soften their intensity, I began to see the stories, beliefs, and resistances that clung to them, keeping them in place. By bringing more space and resources to these places, I could begin to ask them what they needed, and a shift in my relationship with them began. Nourishing them from this place, I could access what the needs were underneath. I could see emotion as a sensation, a protection, a response. These core places of pain got to be held in a space of compassion, without judgment. This was the first time I felt I could weave myself back into shape, building a relationship with parts of me I ran from, listening to what they were sharing, and knowing that my emotions aren’t “me” but hold meaning and wisdom that I’m invited to dance with.
I had scripts about what I should be doing, how I should be feeling, what certain emotions meant, and if they were “good” or “bad”—a streaming script of narratives, roles, contradictions, and sharp edges buried deeper by the shame of their existence. I was never told that these layers are existence itself; they’re the fabric of being human, of being an individual woven into the larger tapestry of humanity. Emotions don’t make us outsiders; they make us commoners. They bridge us to this experience as humans, each of us with different stories, identities, lenses, dynamics, and reactions that lead us to where we are today. Emotions aren’t meant to be pushed aside and forgotten; they will continue to flow even when things are joyful. Emotions aren’t a punishment; they are a facet of complexity that we get the opportunity to engage with. Embracing them is embracing the human experience, welcoming all the twists and turns, and learning to be more authentic in the process.
Style and Teachers
The foundational templates that I weave into each session are birthed from my own lived experience and work with emotions, Transformative Energy Work, along with somatic interventions learned from studying with Irene Lyon. With my work background and the areas of life I have been drawn to, the combination of what I bring comes from a wisdom that’s larger than myself—a wisdom that has been graciously woven into offerings that I’ve been blessed to receive.
“while emotions may seem solid, they are not, and that recognizing this can help one move through them without getting caught up in their intensity. Remember we are fluid beings”