Renaissance Healing, PLLC

Renaissance Healing, PLLC šŸ¤ therapy for deep thinkers & big feelers
šŸ‘ļø mind-body healing + parts work + relational
šŸŽŸļø come as you are
šŸ“licensed in Arizona & Virginia

06/08/2026

Me listening to my client tell a hilarious story for 15 minutes:

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Me when the story slowly turns into:

ā€œI mean, it didnā€™t really bother me.ā€
ā€œI just moved on.ā€
ā€œIt is what it is.ā€
ā€œI donā€™t really get angry.ā€

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Sometimes the most emotionally avoidant parts donā€™t show up as shutting down. They show up as staying positive, staying busy, staying funny, and staying disconnected from what actually hurt.

The plot twist? Anger isnā€™t always explosive. Sometimes itā€™s the emotion thatā€™s been working unpaid overtime behind people pleasing, over-functioning, and ā€œbeing the bigger person.ā€

From a somatic experiencing lens, change doesnā€™t start with pushing ourselves into something different. It starts with s...
06/08/2026

From a somatic experiencing lens, change doesnā€™t start with pushing ourselves into something different. It starts with slowing down enough to notice what the body has already been signaling.

Often, what we call ā€˜stuckā€™ is actually a system that has adapted and is still operating from protection. When we can stay with the felt sense of what isnā€™t working without immediately fixing, escaping, or overriding it thereā€™s more space for the nervous system to organize around new information.

Change becomes less about force and more about allowing whatā€™s true in the present moment to be fully felt, tracked, and gently updated from within.

Writing again.I think a lot of healing quietly asks us to grieve the lives, identities, relationships, timelines, and ve...
05/28/2026

Writing again.

I think a lot of healing quietly asks us to grieve the lives, identities, relationships, timelines, and versions of ourselves we thought would feel certain by now.

Sometimes growth looks less like clarity and more like learning how to hold contradiction with tenderness:ā€Øloving your life while mourning parts youā€™ll never live,ā€Øfeeling genuinely happy for others while still aching,ā€Ørealizing you belong to yourself even when it feels different than what you once imagined.

If youā€™ve been sitting in that in-between space lately,ā€ØI see you.

I also want to make more room on this page for poetry, storytelling, and authentic writing because creative expression has always felt deeply connected to healing for me. Sometimes art says the things insight alone cannot.

05/27/2026

Who has a session today!?!?

05/21/2026

Some people read tarot.
I read the micro-pause before you answer, the stress burp, the shoulder brace, and the ā€œI donā€™t know what I feelā€ followed immediately by a 14 minute TED Talk.

If you work with me, Iā€™m probably gonna help your intellectualizing brain realize your body has been sending emails this whole time. āœØ

05/20/2026

Somewhere along the way, a lot of us in this work learned to track everyone else before we learned to notice ourselves.

To feel the shift in someoneā€™s breath.
The tightening in their jaw.
The collapse.
The activation.
The nervous system in the room.

And the hard part isā€¦ when this work slowly stops becoming a skill we practice and starts becoming our entire identity.

Because thatā€™s where burnout lives.

When every interaction feels like something to track.
When you canā€™t stop holding.
When rest starts feeling ā€œunproductive.ā€
When you feel guilty for not being regulated, available, insightful, or compassionate all the time.

Therapy is a skill set.
Attunement is a skill set.
Holding space is a skill set.

Beautiful ones. Meaningful ones.

But you are still a human underneath all of it.
A person with needs, limits, desire, grief, exhaustion, humor, avoidance, tenderness, and a nervous system that deserves care too.

You do not have to become the container in every room you enter.

05/14/2026

Anxious attachment doesnā€™t always look clingy.
Sometimes it looks like lowkey parenting your partner. šŸ˜­

Micromanaging. Overhelping. Monitoring moods. Reminding, fixing, anticipating, emotionally supervising, trying to prevent every possible rupture before it happens.

Not because youā€™re evil or controlling in some mastermind way, but because your nervous system learned:
ā€˜If I stay hyperaware and overfunction, I can keep the connection safe.ā€™

So healthy relationships can feel strangely uncomfortable at first because nobody needs to be managed. Nobody needs a behavioral improvement plan. Nobody is making you earn stability through constant emotional labor.

And suddenly youā€™re just sitting there like:
ā€¦so Iā€™m supposed to date them, not raise them?

05/06/2026

okay wait šŸ„¹
I made stickers!!
likeā€¦ actual Renaissance Healing stickers you can hold in your hand
and Iā€™m giving some away
if you want one, Iā€™m doing the giveaway RIGHT NOW through my email list (link in bio)
thatā€™s where Iā€™ll be sending everything first šŸ‘€
theyā€™re simple. no quotes. no ā€œyou got this!!ā€ energy.ļæ½just a little representation of the work
come join us šŸ’Œ
youā€™ve got till Monday!!

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Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
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