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Emotional Release Therapy and Somatic Breathwork

There is a part of you that has been waiting for permission to let go.

Emotional Release Therapy with a certified practitioner: hands-on bodywork and inner child work, together, for what your body has been holding since you were little.

This is different

You are not broken.
You are carrying too much alone.

Maybe you have done the work: the therapy, the books, the meditation. You understand your story better than anyone. And your body is still holding it. You cannot think your way out of something your body is holding. You have to feel it to heal it.

I know this because I came to this work through my own body. I know what it is like to understand everything and still carry it. Today I am a certified Emotional Release Therapy practitioner, trained by Pat Jackman, and this is the work I do.

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You might recognize her

The strong one. The one who holds everything.

She rarely calls what she carries by any name. She just recognizes the way it lives in her days:

  • You are the one everyone calls when something breaks, and nobody thinks to ask how you are.
  • You cannot remember the last time you rested without feeling guilty about it.
  • You read every room you walk into. You feel everyone's mood before a word is spoken.
  • You say “it’s fine” by reflex. It is rarely fine.
  • The big crises you handle impeccably. Then a small thing floods you out of nowhere.
  • Your jaw, your shoulders, your stomach, always slightly braced, as if something is about to happen.
  • You are tired in a way sleep does not repair.
  • You can feel alone in the middle of your closest relationships.
  • If you cry at all, you cry alone: in the car, in the shower, quickly.
  • You have done the therapy, read the books, understood your story. Your body did not get the memo.

If you counted yourself in more than a few of these: nothing is wrong with you. This is what a nervous system that learned to survive looks like, and it can learn something else.

When your body begins to feel safe, healing can begin.

I place my hands where the feeling got stuck. You breathe. And what never got to finish finally does.

What Happens in a Session
In their words

These are words women have shared with me after private sessions, as they reconnect with themselves and release what they have carried for years.

Yesterday changed my life. In two hours, I recovered what I had held deep down and released it. I began to face emotions I had been terrified to approach.
Bella · Private Client
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The Guide

I had to meet my own little girl first.
Then I learned to hold the work.

I am a certified Emotional Release Therapy practitioner, trained by Pat Jackman, who developed the method and has guided it for more than thirty years. I am also a breathwork facilitator and a coach.

I know what you are carrying because I carried it too, for decades, behind a life that looked composed and successful on the outside.

You don’t have to tell me the whole story. You don’t even have to remember it. Your body and your voice will do it for you.

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Send me a message

We’ll begin with a simple conversation.

You do not need the right words, or to know which session fits. Tell me a little about what is happening, and we will set up a free 30-minute video call on Zoom to meet before you decide anything.

I answer every message myself, usually the same day.

I answer every message myself, usually the same day.

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If something in you felt seen

That’s her. The little one who’s been waiting.

You don’t have to hold this alone anymore. Send me a message, and we’ll meet her together.

Private, one-to-one sessions in Franklin, Tennessee and Tulum, Mexico, in English and Spanish.

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