Feel Safe Within Your Own Skin
When I Feel Anxious My Stomach Hurts
With every presentation comes this dreadful pain in your belly.
It doesn’t feel like the normal nervous butterflies of anxiety or panic.
Doubled over in pain, you wonder, can my brain really make my body hurt?
I Keep Remembering All the Things I’ve Done Wrong
Dipping into the past, your thoughts bring up feelings of shame.
But even stranger, every time you think about the past, you get an incredibly painful migraine.
Can feeling shame make my head hurt?
The Brain Signals the Body
Yes and yes.
Feelings of anxiety and depression can cause the body pain. Our brain sends signals to our body when it feels we need protecting.
We might even need to feel protected from our emotions sometimes.
To feel protected, we clench, we stiffen, we furl, we ready ourselves for an attack.
Can’t Be Mad at Your Body for Protecting You
You have needed to feel on the defensive, but right now it’s no longer serving you.
In fact, you’re stuck in fight mode because it’s where you feel safe. But what if you could soften?
What if you could feel safe within your own skin? Could some of your bodily ailments go away?
Reconnect Your Mind and Body
If your trauma and stress are stored in your tissues, we may need to try some body work.
To take your nervous system out of hyper-flex, I can help you release bodily tension and halt those aches and pains that stem from your deepest thoughts and emotions.
Can you imagine a life without body tension? It’s SO possible!
What Is Wrong With Me??
Always angry, always ready for a fight.
You feel like you can’t live this way anymore. It’s impossible to see yourself in a good light.
Self-esteem was lost years ago. Self-respect you don’t ever remember having.
You feel lost, scared, and alone.
I Avoid Intimacy in Relationships
Whether it’s friends, family, or your partner, you can’t seem to connect emotionally.
You stop yourself right before something really good happens, for fear it’s too good to be true.
Negative thoughts spiral, and ruminating is a way of life.
Is there any hope for me? Can I ever feel close or trust someone?
Yes, Feeling Close Is Closer Than You Think
I want you to feel safe and free to tell your whole story to me without judgment.
Reframing ‘what is wrong with me’ to ‘what happened to me’ is my biggest goal.
Through teamwork, together we’ll re-create the negative views you have inherited of yourself and turn them into your greatest assets.
Through physical and emotional safety and collaboration, self-regulating will become the norm and intimacy will be the regular.
Let Your Body Put the Defenses Down
I work online across California, Oregon, and Idaho.
Tell me where it hurts, in your body or in your relationships, and we’ll figure out together where to begin.
Texting is best. Reach me at (208) 435-8760 and we’ll set up a free 20-minute consultation.
Let’s Find Out if I’m Your Person
You want this to stop hurting, and you want it to stop soon. That’s fair, and it’s a good reason to pick up the phone.
There’s a version of your life where you say the true thing on the first try, the door stays open, and your voice comes back without an apology attached to it.
We’ll find out together whether I’m the right person for this.