There’s a kind of relationship I see all the time in my work and personal life that almost never gets talked about. It’s not toxic or explosive. No one’s cheating or beating. On paper, it actually looks solid. But when I ask someone how it feels to be in it, there’s usually a pause.

As a healer, your energy is your most important tool. You hold space for others with compassion, intuition, and care. In order to do that well, you also need to create sacred space for yourself.

Greetings and Salutations, Whether it is a big T or a little t, your brain is hardwired to respond to trauma in protective ways. Protective behaviors serve the purpose of protecting our physical, mental, and emotional systems in those moments. But what happens when the moment or event has passed, and we continue to respond to future events in the same way? When we re-experience traumatic events or events that seem similar, our sympathetic nervous systems kick in and triggers