Why I love this work — Sacred Reset

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Why I love this work

Sacred Reset

Why I love this work

Why I love this work

What remains outside of relationship continues to fragment the whole.-Holly Woods

WHY I LOVE THIS WORK

Because I believe healing and wholeness change not only individual lives, but what becomes possible for our relationships and our world.

For as long as I can remember, I carried a deep longing to make a meaningful difference in this world.

And yet, despite years of spiritual practice, study, personal growth and professional training, I often found myself held back by trauma, self-doubt and parts of myself that did not feel fully welcome, integrated or allowed to exist.

I grew up with a strong orientation toward transcendence — the belief that through awareness, discipline, spirituality and connection to the deeper Self, we could rise above suffering and limitation.

And while there is truth and beauty in that path, something in me remained unresolved.

As someone deeply sensitive and relationally attuned, I could not simply transcend the wounded, frightened, grieving or fragmented parts of myself. They continued asking to be included.

For decades I immersed myself in contemplative practice, somatic healing, meditation, mantra, monastic life and transformational work, studying with pioneers in both spiritual and psychological traditions. Yet what ultimately transformed my understanding was discovering approaches that did not ask parts of us to disappear, but helped them return into relationship with compassion, safety and Self-leadership.

Internal Family Systems profoundly shifted my understanding of healing by restoring relationship between our wounded and protective parts and the deeper Self — the part of us capable of compassion, courage, clarity, connection and healing.

Combined with EMDR, nervous system healing, polyvagal-informed approaches and contemplative spirituality, something finally began integrating at a deeper level.

Not perfection.
Not transcendence of our humanity.
But wholeness.

Today, I feel deeply honored to support individuals and couples who are exhausted from trying to think, achieve, perform or spiritually transcend their way out of suffering.

I believe healing happens when more of us is welcomed into relationship.

When hidden parts no longer have to carry everything alone.

When spirituality becomes embodied.

When nervous systems experience enough safety to soften.

When insight becomes lived transformation.

And when relationships themselves become places where vulnerability, compassion, honesty and authentic connection can emerge.

My hope is to support you in reaching a state where more of you is in right relationship with yourself — and, when desired, more capable of right relationship with others and with life itself.

Perhaps true healing is ultimately the restoration of loving relationship within ourselves, with each other, with the world and with Source, from Source.