16/07/2026
I wanted something more embodied. Deeper into the felt sense of being human.
I didn't know exactly what it was yet.
After the birth of my second child, having immersed myself in motherhood for a period of time, we were in covid lock downs, and I felt the call deep within me. The spark of life that drives me forth, and it was something somatic.
I searched online and eventually found Somatic Experiencing. I didn't know what it was, but it was what I was searching for. I had a phone call with the organiser, I was eligible for the training, I applied and was accepted.
I had to wait 2 years for the training to start. I studied the Biology of Trauma for those 2 years. I moved from Adelaide to Canberra, and finally I began the Somatic Experiencing Practitioner professional training in Sydney.
I met lots if new people, a cohort of 60 psychotherapists, psychologists, body workers and 3 Naturopaths (including me).
We learnt and experienced the threat response cycle, the physiology of trauma and what it needs to process traumatic events rather than holding them deep inside.
How our bodies can hold tension, stress, trauma in bracing patterns, breath, shut-down, cycling between fight or flight and shutting down, the freeze response, collapse in the nervous system and body, all that can be underlying our experience of ourselves and completely overlooked.. until we learn to see.. and then things can begin change.
Trauma often occurs in the absence of an empathic other. Healing happens in relationship.
A way of being. A presence. Slowly, gently, even when it's fast, safely being seen and felt and the nervous system can reorganise. You can feel it.
It's a process, a human journey that accepts all of you just as you are. You are not broken, you don't need to be fixed. The body knows how to live, and we know this when we work together.
And now, here I am all these years later, I have officially completed the 3- year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) professional training.
As I work in this way, I am continuing to further my training. I have embraced this lifelong journey 🩵 and what it is to be a human, and to walk alongside you ✨️🩷💫
