Hill's Healing Space

Hill's Healing Space Trauma-informed therapy & Chinese Medicine for nervous system regulation, emotional healing, & resilience

Talk therapy helps you understand your story — the why behind how you feel. It's powerful, and it does something nothing...
09/19/2026

Talk therapy helps you understand your story — the why behind how you feel. It's powerful, and it does something nothing else can.

But your body doesn't always get the memo the moment your mind understands. Insight doesn't automatically release the tension you've been holding, the bracing that's become second nature, the weight that's been sitting in your shoulders for years.

That's where Qigong comes in. It works with what talk alone sometimes can't reach — helping your body finally catch up to what your mind has already figured out.

You don't have to choose one over the other. As a licensed psychotherapist who also teaches qigong, I've seen how much further healing can go when both are part of the picture.

→ Curious how they might work together for you? Let's talk.

Here is one way you can practice at home:Stand comfortably, feet about shoulder-width apart, and let your knees soften.A...
09/18/2026

Here is one way you can practice at home:

Stand comfortably, feet about shoulder-width apart, and let your knees soften.

As you inhale, slowly raise your hands in front of you as though you're gently gathering energy from the air itself.

As you exhale, let your hands lower slowly toward your belly, releasing as they settle.

Repeat for 5–10 slow breaths. Keep your shoulders relaxed, your movements unhurried, and let this be as comfortable and easy as it wants to be.

If you’d like to explore this further, please send me a dm.

So much of your day asks you to move fast, think ahead and hold it together. This is an invitation to do the opposite, e...
09/17/2026

So much of your day asks you to move fast, think ahead and hold it together. This is an invitation to do the opposite, even if just for a few minutes.

Qigong isn't about doing more. It's about softening enough to let your mind, body, and nervous system come back into rhythm together. No goal to hit. No pace to keep. Just breath, movement, and permission to be exactly where you are.

If today has felt like too much, this is your reminder: you're allowed to slow down.

→ Save this for a moment you need to exhale.

EMDR isn't hypnosis. You are fully awake, fully aware, and fully yourself the entire time. You're not put into a trance,...
09/16/2026

EMDR isn't hypnosis. You are fully awake, fully aware, and fully yourself the entire time. You're not put into a trance, and you're never "under" anything. You hear everything, you notice everything, and you remain the one steering the process from start to finish.

If something feels like too much, you can say so, and we pause. If you want to slow down, we slow down. If you need to stop altogether, we stop — no explanation required. Nothing happens to you in this room. Everything happens with you, and only at the pace that feels right for you.

Control isn't something you hand over here. It's something we protect, together, the whole way through.

→ If this fear has been holding you back, I hope this eases it a little. Questions are always welcome — DM me anytime.

In EMDR therapy, we begin by gently identifying experiences that still feel distressing or "stuck"; memories that, even ...
09/15/2026

In EMDR therapy, we begin by gently identifying experiences that still feel distressing or "stuck"; memories that, even now, carry more weight than you'd expect for something that already happened. Together, we take the time to understand what those experiences are and how they're still showing up for you today.

With your therapist's guidance, you'll bring one of these memories briefly to mind — only as much as feels manageable, never more. While you hold it lightly in your awareness, you'll experience gentle bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or light tapping. This simple, rhythmic input is what allows the real work to happen: it helps engage both sides of the brain in a way that supports natural processing and can often be less activating than talk therapy.

If this something that feels good for you, please reach out so we can have a conversation!

As the air turns colder, your body’s defenses matter more than ever.In Chinese medicine, the Lungs house Wei Qi — your d...
09/12/2026

As the air turns colder, your body’s defenses matter more than ever.

In Chinese medicine, the Lungs house Wei Qi — your defensive energy, circulating just beneath the skin. It’s what stands between you and every sniffle going around this time of year. Deep breathing strengthens it, qigong moves it, and a little extra rest goes further than you’d think.

A movement for this season, for whenever your chest feels tight and your breath feels shallow.Stand tall, knees soft. In...
09/11/2026

A movement for this season, for whenever your chest feels tight and your breath feels shallow.

Stand tall, knees soft. Inhale, sweeping both arms out wide, chest opening fully and pause, feel that fullness in your lungs and ribs.

Exhale slowly, crossing your arms in toward opposite shoulders, like a gentle embrace. Repeat 8–10 times, slower with every round.

Open. Hold. Release. Repeat.

Save this for a heavy day.

Autumn belongs to the Lungs, the organ of grief and of breath.As the trees release what they no longer need, this season...
09/10/2026

Autumn belongs to the Lungs, the organ of grief and of breath.
As the trees release what they no longer need, this season quietly gives us permission to do the same. Whatever you’ve been holding; an old sadness, a tension, a year that was heavier than you let on — you’re allowed to set it down here.

People often ask me what EMDR actually feels like; not the clinical explanation, the real, in-your-body experience. So l...
09/09/2026

People often ask me what EMDR actually feels like; not the clinical explanation, the real, in-your-body experience. So let me try to describe it honestly.

It doesn’t feel like reliving the memory. Most people describe it more like watching it from a slight distance present enough to feel it, far enough that it doesn’t overwhelm you the way it used to. Your eyes move gently, following the guided movement, and your breath tends to slow almost on its own, even when you’re not trying to relax it.

Emotion often comes in waves — it rises, sometimes unexpectedly, and then it eases. That’s not something going wrong. That’s the processing happening, exactly as it’s meant to. Some people cry. Some feel a wash of relief. Some feel both, back to back, in the same session. All of it is normal. None of it is too much for the room.

After a session, many people describe a lightness like something that had been sitting heavy simply isn’t sitting there anymore.

You’re never rushed through any of it, and you’re never alone in it. Whatever comes up for you is welcome here.

→ If you’ve been curious what this might feel like for you, I’d love to talk it through. DM me or book a consult at the link in my bio.

Maybe you carry a memory that still feels too raw, even though it happened long ago. Maybe you’ve done talk therapy, and...
09/08/2026

Maybe you carry a memory that still feels too raw, even though it happened long ago. Maybe you’ve done talk therapy, and gotten so much from it, but there’s still a layer underneath that words haven’t quite reached. Maybe your body reacts — flinching, panic, shutting down to things that logically shouldn’t feel dangerous anymore. Or maybe you’re a trauma survivor simply looking for a different way through.

EMDR was built for exactly this. It doesn’t ask you to talk your way to healing. It works with how your brain actually processes experience, so the past can finally feel like the past.

Wherever you see yourself in this, you’re welcome here….all of you.

→ DM me or book a consult at the link in my bio.

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