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Are you at a crossroads, navigating change? Ready to embrace transformation? Or do you find yourself navigating an unwanted change life has brought your way?
Are you feeling disconnected from your authentic self or expression?
Is past trauma or high sensitivity holding you back from reaching your goals or impacting the quality of your relationships?
Are you navigating intense emotions such as anger, grief, guilt or shame and looking for ways to hold them, move through them, embrace them, release or transform them?
The answers already lie within you. I’m here to help build a road map to find them.
The way out, is in.
Deep healing is a whole-body-mind-spirit experience. It can be an exciting time and also uncomfortable, challenging, disorienting, painful or downright scary. And for those of us called to inner healing and growth, it’s a necessary passage.
In order to truly change, to experience deep, lasting transformation, we need to process our experience. This means feeling what we’re healing.
When it comes to healing (feeling, processing and integrating/transforming), it’s easy to become overwhelmed. Often, our loved ones often don’t know how to best support us. Sometimes they want to advise us, to hurry us past our pain or aren’t comfortable with emotions or uncertainty.
Trauma (and everyone has trauma on some level whether personal and/or collective from living in a patriarchal, colonized culture which is, by nature, traumatic) impacts the healing process because it wires patterns into our nervous system that protect us and that make it harder to regulate our emotions and choose our behaviour. If we work with healers who don’t understand this, it’s easy to get stuck or feel shamed or blamed for our struggles.
Having the right support, at the right time, has been essential for me to find the strength, compassion and capacity necessary to do my own healing and truly transform how I feel and experience life.
How do you know you’ve found the right support? It’s important to find someone you can build a foundation of trust with, who listens to understand, who takes time to explain the process of their modality clearly (so you understand), and who uses a modality that resonates with your values and supports your choice and safety. It’s important to interview potential healers/guides/practitioners.
From my own lived experience, I know it’s not only possible to heal and change, it’s possible to live with ease, compassion, joy, love, freedom, and confidence.
With your invitation and permission, I’ll pack some supplies (trauma-informed coaching, somatic embodiment and other healing tools) and together, we will share the journey from where you are to where you want to be.
If you are facing a change, challenge or loss, somatic embodiment can help you find the ground and navigate it with more authenticity, patience, compassion and ease.
If you want to transform the quality of your relationships with yourself and others, to embrace habits that support your goals and values, improve your overall wellbeing, and the way you feel and experience life, somatic embodiment can hold the key to unlocking your potential.
Welcome Home, To You
WENDY MACPHERSON
Trauma-Informed Somatic Coach and Ceremonial Circle Facilitator
Hi, I’m Wendy.
I’m passionate about creating experiences for women to discover a true sense of who they are inside, to find compassion, purpose and belonging, to feel empowered, vital and radiant.
Growing up, I learned to shove my emotions down and hide them. I felt guilty and anxious when I wasn’t working hard or taking care of others. I ignored my own needs, exhaustion and feelings and instead, worked hard to please, appease and gain the approval of others.
I completely shut down my anger (aka boundaries) and hid my pain. This numbing of painful emotions also numbed me to joy and pleasure. Life felt flat, robotic, like I was, in many ways, being the person I was supposed to be rather than my true self. I didn’t know how to relax and recharge, or even know what I would enjoy doing even if I could.
I hid parts of myself so well, I had a hard time knowing what I needed or wanted. I’d become disconnected from myself, my coping ability, my passion for life, my purpose and life force. I became chronically anxious and eventually developed insomnia, endocrine issues, migraines and IBS.
For years, I chased treatment solutions, trying desperately to find one that would “fix” me. I read every self-help or healing book I could get my hands on, I tried special diets, cleanses, supplements, natural and allopathic medicine. I tried talk therapy, body work, chiropractic care, meditation, manifesting, NLP, past life regression, soul retrieval, prayer, energy work, and more. I studied many forms of healing, took courses and workshops including Eastern Medicine, mindfulness and meditation, bodywork, sound healing and esoteric practices. Some of these therapies can be credited with helping me survive my health crisis, and I still value them today, but nothing created lasting change - at least not until I started somatic practice. Somatic practices helped me start to feel trust and vitality in my body and a sense of worth and trust in my inner being. When I found somatics and learned how to regulate my nervous system, to reconnect with my senses and emotions, everything changed.
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Somatic Coaching Sessions
Explore and release what holds you back. Restore wellness, capacity and choice.
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New Moon Circles
Sisterhood, ritual connection, deep feminine wisdom, wicked humor. Shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, heart to heart.
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Full Moon Embodied Dance Temple
Gather near the Full Moon to let your heart and soul dance in intentional community. Express and relase!
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Wild Rhythms Movement Circles
Community offerings to connect, nourish, explore, restore through somatic practice, sisterhood and free movement/dance
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Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you — all of the expectations, all of the beliefs — and becoming who you are.
- DR. RACHEL NAOMI REMEN
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