22/07/2026
Vancouver Island somatic healing retreat with 🇨🇦✨
I’m full of love from being on the brilliant support team again at this special experience, and all the gorgeous people I connected and reunited with.
People’s courage blew me away. Carrying around difficult life experiences can create such shame.
It takes a safe space, and compassionate support, to finally address that pain and release what holds us back.
Not just by using our voice (that is important too, and telling our story also helps others feel seen).
But also by going deeper. Moving through the emotions held somatically in the body; *feeling* them, beyond intellectualising.
Emotional processing work isn’t just catharsis. Somatic healing helps us choose new beliefs beyond mindset work alone, and move forward less weighed down by the past.
We find new inner wisdom when we bring our hidden parts into the light; into our felt experience. Rather than being stuck in the same stories in our mind.
We move through the world differently when we bring conscious awareness to what limits us. We feel lighter; realise we’re not alone and our ‘mess’ isn’t too much.
I was moved to see people choose a new way of life, of loving themselves, and keep showing up until the very last day. Even while dealing with trauma no person should ever have to go through.
And also, experiences that may sound less traumatic but still have a huge impact - trauma isn’t what happens to us, it’s what happens inside of us in the absence of an empathetic witness (Peter Levine).
People turned up terrified, full of self-doubt and unsureness about the process, yet stayed the distance anyway.
One person said she only got in the car on day one because she told herself she wouldn’t let anxiety win, but she’d be back home by 10am…that really moved me.
I know how it feels for fear to get in the way and run the show.
I also know that determination not to let a mind full of worry stop us from doing what we need to do.
And I’m so glad I did this.
The more we do things scared and ready, the more deeply we trust ourselves.
4th international retreat with - always powerful, always life-changing 🫶
