OUR GOAL & INVITATION
Join us on a courageous journey toward wholeness and healing through holistic, contemplative, narrative, and mindful practices that gently engage spirit, mind, heart, and body.
YOUR STORY IS SACRED
There are tragedies and wonders embedded into our stories. Sometimes the tragedies leave a deep imprint on our minds, hearts, and bodies that may leave parts of us stuck in pain, fear, numbness, disconnection, or denial. This is trauma. There are traumatic events and there is embedded trauma. There is also generational trauma that is passed down through the generations. All trauma offers an invitation to enter into the sacred work of examining our stories in safety, compassion, and free from judgement so we can transcend our tragedies, reclaim parts of us we may have lost, and reconnect to peace, joy, wholeness, and flourishing within ourselves.
As we invest time, effort and resources into our wellbeing, our intrinsic worth and value as humans starts to become more evident in our own eyes, and the way we move in the world begins to reflect that truth.
It is my sacred honor to walk with you as a companion in your journey, fully beside you as a coach, guide, and fellow traveler and help you explore your story so that you may transcend your tragedies, reclaim your heart, and reconnect to your hopes, dreams, and purpose.
TURNING TRAUMA INTO A CATALYST FOR TRANSFORMATION
There are times our trauma responses go dormant for a season and we naturally assume all is well. But unresolved trauma sometimes emerges unexpectedly. Loved ones, friends, or people in our communities may not know what is needed or how to respond with care and presence, unintentionally compounding trauma upon trauma. However, trauma invites us into a deeper journey of discovery, and in this journey, along with a safe guide, the traumatic imprints can be explored, named, held, and brought forth. When we experience harm and heartache, a beautifully complex set of protective systems in our biology come into play. Our system fragments so we can survive whatever is overwhelming our system. The breath becomes shallow, fight, flight, or freeze responses might take over, or we might collapse inside.
While these trauma responses are meant to help us survive shattering moments, they are meant to take over only temporarily, until we can process with someone safe, skilled in trauma care, and compassionate. Often though, we may get stuck in a trauma response for years or even decades, because we don’t know how to work through it, or due to the lack of someone safe, non-judgmental, and skilled in our lives. Symptoms from trauma are expressed in ways unique to our own individual survival system, or through ways that may have been passed on generationally. Symptoms may show up as hopelessness, depression, anxiety, dissociation, numbness, over-working, binge eating, under-eating, over-drinking, addictions, or any other habits, responses, or behaviors which might bring more harm.
Trauma is all that stays within, in the absence of an empathic presence. Therefore, at Land of the Living, we provide safe, empathic presence and coaching to assist you to breathe as you courageously explore your story. We will help you re-orient in the midst of pain, grief, betrayal, and loss. In this safe space, we will coach you on how to begin to cultivate safety, agency, peace, goodness, love, hope, self- compassion, self-forgiveness, and reconnection to self and others. In this way , our journey to healing can become a catalyst for a profound awakening and transformation to propel us forward into our authentic selves.
“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it—usually to those closest to us: our family, our neighbors, our co-workers, and, invariably, the most vulnerable, our children.”
- Richard Rohr
TOGETHER, WE CAN
Disrupt generational trauma and move toward health, void of judgment and condemnation.
Reclaim agency and connection to self and to safe others.
Confront and name the harm of the past, examine the patterns of the present, and excavate hope and purpose in healthy companionship.
Engage current issues and discover how they may connect to a larger narrative.
Create safety and stability to help you face pain from the past and grieve properly in ways that are transformative and freeing.
Discover vows and belief systems which no longer serve you.
Carefully and kindly deconstruct shame, guilt, self-judgement and the resistance to blessing, goodness, hope, and delight.
Reconstruct your life from a new and more clear narrative.
Invite reclamation and empowerment into your present.