Maybe you didn't lose yourself. Maybe you went quiet.
Life gets full. People need things from you. There’s work, family, relationships, responsibilities, all the things that need tending to. Somewhere in the middle of all of it, it can become really easy to stop noticing what you need.
You keep going. You take care of things. And from the outside, everything might look completely fine. But underneath it all, there can be this quiet feeling that you haven’t really felt like yourself in a while.
That’s the space I’m interested in.
Not because I think there’s something about you that needs fixing. I don’t. I want to create a space where you can slow down, come back into your body, and get quiet enough to hear yourself again.
No pressure to become someone else. Just space to come back to you.
Maybe coming home to yourself isn’t only about remembering who you are.
Sometimes we know exactly what we want help with. A fear that’s getting in the way, a pattern we keep repeating, anxiety that won’t seem to let go, or beliefs about ourselves that we know aren’t serving us anymore. Other times, it’s harder to name. We just know we don’t feel quite like ourselves.
Embodied & Unbound is a space for both. A place to work with what’s getting in the way, heal what you’ve been carrying, reconnect with yourself, and create space for something different.
You don’t have to arrive knowing exactly what you need or which way of working together is right for you. You can come as you are, with whatever is here, and we can start there.
I knew who I was. Until I didn’t.
For most of my life, I knew what I wanted and I went after it. Somewhere along the way, though, I lost sight of myself. I was living a life I had chosen, but I wasn’t happy. My marriage ended, and as painful as that was, what came after was a fierce rediscovery of who I was.
I later met and married the love of my life. We now have two beautiful children. Motherhood, it changed everything for me as a person, as a soul.
I was a first-time mother, completely in love with my daughter, but we lived away from family and my husband wasn’t able to take much time away from work. Most days, it was just me figuring out how to be a mother as I went. I was in the bliss of it, and at the same time, I had never felt so disconnected from myself.
Fourteen days after my daughter was born, my father, one of my best friends in the world, passed away.
Suddenly I was learning how to be a mother while grieving one of the greatest losses of my life. My milk supply disappeared. I was exhausted, overwhelmed and carrying a kind of grief I didn’t know what to do with. Eventually, I hit a place I can only describe as rock bottom.
Finding my way back from there wasn’t about becoming the person I had been before. It became about learning how to come home to myself and call my spirit back, in a completely different way.
I didn’t find my way back all at once.
It took time and happened slowly. Through learning to listen to my body again. With breath. Developing a creative practice. Meditation. The subconscious. Allowing myself to feel what I had spent so much time pushing through.
Somewhere in all of that, I realized that I wasn’t trying to become who I was before. I was meeting myself differently. That changed everything.
Somewhere along the way, this became my work.
I wanted to understand more about what had helped me, so I started learning. I trained in breathwork, meditation and different ways of working with the subconscious and the body. Creativity became a large part of it too. Over time, I started bringing those things together.
The work I do now is really an extension of what I learned through my own experience. There isn’t one thing that works for everyone. Sometimes we need to talk. Sometimes we need to get out of our heads completely. Sometimes the body knows something before we do. I want people to have a place where they can explore all of that.
That place is here, at Embodied & Unbound.
Who am I now?
These days, I’m a wife and a mom to two very energetic toddlers. I’m an artist. I love being outside, moving my body, learning new things and following whatever I’m curious about at the time.
I’m still figuring things out. Motherhood is still changing me. Every day there’s something new. To be honest, I think life will always be changing me. There are times I feel completely connected to myself and times I realize I’ve drifted away again. I think the difference now is that I notice.
I know how to listen to myself again. I’ve also learned that finding your way back isn’t something you only have to do once.
