We each live with different forms and variants of trauma. How we react to the experiences we have been through is what makes or stifles our healing and integration. The coping mechanisms and survival strategies that we have used to create walls around our minds and hearts throughout our lifetime in order to protect ourselves, we find are no longer protecting us but blinding us and separating us from what it is we truly desire. Connection, love, safety, stability, and trust.
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On this journey, we travel deeply inwards to meet our shadow selves. At the core wounding, we dig at our roots, to tear up any loose foundation that is shaky, unstable, and unsettling for our mental health, and physical.
This program is for those who are ready to do the hard work that comes from healing and integrating their known and unknown traumas. The human experience in itself is a challenging one. Uncertainty, loss, fear, rejection, and existential angst are all elements that can leave us feeling lost at sea, alone, and left behind. |
When we have been neurologically patterned to see the world from a certain disorganized/imbalanced lens of reality, it can make it nearly impossible to feel safe in the world. And this means it makes it incredibly difficult to feel safe in a relationship to another. Even more, so many of us that live with trauma may feel incredibly unsafe and dissociated in our own bodies. We may have a difficult time accessing true needs, boundaries, fears, and desires.
On this journey, we learn ways in which to transform our burdens into the building blocks of personal growth, transformation, resiliency, and relational evolution. We learn to empower ourselves, to put ourselves first, to release shame and repression, to find peace with pleasure, and to come home fully to our bodies. And to outwardly find safety, pleasure, and confidence in connecting to others in healthy sovereign relationships where we do not fall victim to co-dependency, trauma bonds, or toxic patterns of relational dependency.
On this journey, we learn ways in which to transform our burdens into the building blocks of personal growth, transformation, resiliency, and relational evolution. We learn to empower ourselves, to put ourselves first, to release shame and repression, to find peace with pleasure, and to come home fully to our bodies. And to outwardly find safety, pleasure, and confidence in connecting to others in healthy sovereign relationships where we do not fall victim to co-dependency, trauma bonds, or toxic patterns of relational dependency.
Moving from the healing of trauma to presence and deeper self-expression is a long road for many. Especially in cases of physical or sexual abuse. If your body has been a point of contention and a battlefield for your experiences, it may take time to come back into associating it with safety. But it is possible. So many individuals who have suffered trauma have had difficulty in sexual expression, and sovereignty due to a lack of a safe container to allow themselves to surrender and trust.
If you are reading this, you are already deeply on your journey. You wouldn’t have found this if you weren’t. So the first invitation is to give gratitude to yourself, for you are curious, open, and exploring the world and your relationship to it. This is a brave space for you to dive deeper than you have before. Into the shadows we go to find the gold, the light, the left behind. We embrace instead of turn away. We face instead of avoid. And we find another way, a healthier way to live our one unique life in these human bodies we've been granted. We can learn to love them, to enjoy them, to find pleasure in them, and to trust them.
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“The shadow is needed now more than ever. We heal the world when we heal ourselves, and hope shines brightest when it illuminates the dark.”
--Sasha Graham
In all my years of breathing into this human experience, I was never taught how to love, and to be loved, how to say no, and how to know my full fuck yes….yes. In all my years no one told me to put myself first, or what it meant to self love, to please, and to even like myself. In all those years no one told me or showed me what unconditional love really looked like. In all those years I suffered immensely. I wore the victim role with great belief that that was all that I truly was. I was surviving for many decades, but I was not fully living. The tools, processes, stories, and pathways presented in this course have been inspired by every teacher, lover, and combatant in my life. For every one that stayed when I ran, for everyone that ran when I stayed, for every therapist, for every medicine that shed light on my shadow…I deeply bow to you for your part on my path. It is because of your efforts or lack thereof that I have put this program together. For us, for all of us. Because we deserve better.