"Kindred Healing Justice"
I'm an Embodiment Coach and Artist. You will find me in my community centered on Cara Page's concept of "Kindred Healing Justice" and David Bedrick's Unshaming. Deep Spirit Healing happens in the body & present moment relationship.
Lineage and Resources
Lineage refers to the wise guides who have shaped my journey. For me, this comes with reverent honor and deepest soul-gratitude, a bow of respect. Resources are tools that I have been guided to that have also shaped my healing.
Paula Peterson
Paula Peterson is my therapist and is currently serving people on Better Help's platform. Without her commitment to soulful, radical attachment work, I would not be here. I am proud and delighted that she is the foremost guide in my lineage.
Brainspotting & Self-Brainspotting
I can show you how to self brainspot, and we can utilize the wisdom of brainspotting anytime we are working together. This knowledge of the eye's gaze, holding body sensations until they fully express themselves, being seen and held in relationship with all your feelings, and deep brain healing may be just the transformational experience you are looking for.
Nervous System Science
A lot of therapy can be deeply re-traumatizing because it is not aware of the science behind the body, nervous system, and trauma. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a book chalk full of science that just may change your life. I've voraciously consumed nervous system trauma education ever since. The body never lies. That's science.
Embodiment, Yoga, and Mindfulness
Yoga has been at the center of my nervous system healing journey. Through yoga, dance, embodiment exercises, somatics and bodywork, I can gain a dynamic relationship with the ever-changing waves of ventral vagal, dorsal vagal, and sympathetic nervous system states. This work, paired with IFS, Unshaming, Attachment Work, Zen practice, and scientific understanding brings me into a state of unity with my body, mind, and spirit...which is the heart of yoga.
Influential People in my Lineage & Toolkit
Paula Peterson
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Check out his accessible monthly gathering of Unshaming.
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Has taught me about love and care for my body and what it means to compassionately unravel religious trauma.
Ruthie offers extremely accessible monthly virtual online meetups. I've only had the pleasure of being in one free meetup where her love and inner child parts meditations brought me so deeply back into myself and my divine nature that it changed my life. She embodies love.
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Bonnie Badenoch, Adrienne Maree Brown, Audre Lorde, Gabrielle Roth
Teaching me a radical new way for being in relationships, feeling pleasure, and walking earth as a Healer & Feeler
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I don't always agree with her, which is the point. She has taught me what it means to be radically embodied. Living out-loud. Allowing the extremely messy. EMBODYING IT ALL. Forever changed by her work and rebellion.
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Her book on the resonant self is the singular guide back into my energy, body, and brain-healing-powers. She married the science with the spiritual, and her practices changed my life and forever altered my relationship to pain, intuition, spirit, and inner knowings.
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Kat's Embodied Energy Healing was a deep, deep soul healing experience. Her extremely accessible monthly movement medicine is a key part of my embodiment healing journey. SO GOOD!
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has taught me easily digestible information about the nervous system and healing
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has radically shifted my idea of bodies and self liberation through art. Will challenge every fiber of your being. offers accessible monthly meetings for full bodied liberation and expression.
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Books in my Lineage & Toolkit
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
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The Gift of Therapy by Irvin D. Yalom, Nicola Ferguson
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
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Feel To Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice by Giten Tonkov, Kristin Donnan
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Peter Walker
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Your Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain's Capacity for Healing by Sarah Peyton and Bonnie Badenoch (Foreword)
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The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships by Bonnie Badenoch, Stephen W. Porges (Forerwword)
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Healing with Cannabis: The Evolution of the Endocannabinoid System and How Cannabinoids Help Relieve PTSD, Pain, MS, Anxiety, and More by Cheryl Pellerin
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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Yourself by Nicole LePera
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
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Waking the Tiber: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
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The Language Your Body Speaks: Self-healing with Energy Medicine
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Touching Light: How to Free Your Fiber-Optic Fascia by Ronelle Wood, Gay Hendricks
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Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma by Galit Atlas
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The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight by Kris Franken
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith
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The Listening Path: The Creative Art of Attention by Julia Cameron
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Her Blood Is Gold: Celebrating the Power of Menstruation by Lara Owen
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The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
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Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr.
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Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries by Alice Miller
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Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth by Alice Miller
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The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame by Peter Walker
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Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence by Ruth Zaporah
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The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
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Sweat Your Prayers by Gabrielle Roth
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When Nietzche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
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I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jenette McCurdy
Unshaming by David Bedrick
Unshaming just may be the most radical, life-giving, freedom-finding tool I've ever had the privilege to work with. David Bedrick is a wise guide in my lineage, and Unshaming is my life's way of being. I am currently part of David's Unshaming monthly community and have experienced Unshaming work with him firsthand.
Energy and Spirit Work
Energy and Spirit work differs for everyone. I work within the range of consent of your own spiritual experience. I believe in the Sovereign Self, and work in a way that guides you back to your inherent wisdom and body-knowing. All spirit work and energy work remains rooted in and curious about the body and present moment. Resonance meditations, spirit place prayers, Time/Space Alchemy, Higher Power healing, and deep gut intuitive knowings have been at the forefront of full bodied healing for me.
