One-On-One Support Sessions
Witnessing + Guidance for Your Life’s Biggest Initiations
Photo by Brian Bradley Photography.
““The doors to the world of the wild are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
Annika and her daughter Ruby lay in bed, two days postpartum after an intense freebirth.
Difficult Birth Processing
Unfortunately, experiencing birth trauma, unwanted outcomes, and/or feelings of loss, grief, and shame around one’s birth (or even postpartum!) experience is all too common these days, even for some who birth at home or freebirth.
Often these unresolved feelings + experiences can have great effect on one’s life, including, but not limited to: depression, anxiety, PTSD, issues with breastfeeding and/or bonding with our baby, difficulty “functioning” in day-to-day life, and even (especially) interference with one’s subsequent pregnancy + birth journeys.
In our work together, we will gently and reverently walk through your story, processing on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, with the goal of leaving you feeling profoundly heard, seen, validated, and informed, with readiness to move forward in your life with a greater sense of clarity, purpose, and inner authority.
Birth Processing session packages require a minimum of two sessions, to allow for optimal processing time and integration. If you have access to the clinical records from your birth, please have those available for our time together, if possible.
Pricing: $110 per 90-minute+ session, minimum two sessions. Sliding scale and payment plans available upon request. Difficult Birth Processing (when applicable) is also included in all Pregnancy + Birth Support packages.
Growing in love: Nourishment + Body Liberation for pregnancy and beyond
In our collective culture, most people (especially those with wombs) are raised to distrust + have a fraught relationship with both food and their body. I would venture to say that nearly every single one of us has some degree of disorder + restriction around food, eating habits, and body image, even if we don’t realize it. For this reason, I cannot ethically nor effectively offer pregnancy nutrition guidance without first addressing this intersection with body relationship.
In our work together, we will dive deeply into the evolution of your relationship with food and your body throughout your life, before we ever begin to talk about the specifics of nutrition for conception + pregnancy.
These conversations are not only meant to inform your physical needs as you tune in to give your body + baby what they need, but also revolutionize your relationship with your body itself…which can, and often will, enormously affect the way you give birth and move into parenthood.
I work from an Intuitive Eating, Health At Every Size (HAES) approach, supporting you as you develop a deeper sense of trust in and respect for your body than ever before, and navigate your own unique nutritional needs.
Nourishment + Body Liberation session packages require a minimum of two sessions, preferably at least three, to allow for optimal processing time, education, and integration.
Pricing: $110 per 90-minute+ session, minimum two sessions. Sliding scale and payment plans available upon request. Nutrition and Body Lib guidance are also included in all Pregnancy + Birth Support packages.
Photo by Brian Bradley Photography.
Photo by Brian Bradley Photography.
Rising into Reckoning
Life often serves up medicine that doesn’t come with a dose of sugar…Medicine that brings us to our knees, holds our hair back, and asks us to see and move in our lives in a completely different way. A Reckoning with who we were, who we are, and who we are destined to become. A Cracking-Open.
Reckoning often comes through some type of loss—whether of a child, another person, a relationship, a job, a previous way of life, a former sense of self, or even by some type of trauma. Under all of these circumstances, the first holy duty is to grieve (as one of my teachers, Cybelle Clements, says). Grieving creates space, and allows the Things-That-Are-Stuck to move. Once things are moving, we have the freedom of energy to align with a deeper sense of our truth, and to do the dance of making our external life match and move coherently with our born anew inner life.
Sometimes there are things we need to parse out or recognize or come to terms with before we get to the point where we can engage in this holy grief and then new movement. Because of this, working with the body somatically and creating a physiologically-rooted sense of safety in the nervous system is paramount. Profound healing does not often come until we feel safe enough to be completely vulnerable and naked, if not with another, then with ourselves and Spirit (or universe, god, etc., etc.).
It is important to note that transformative healing, like birth, is not linear or outwardly sensical in its progression. Transformative healing is a spiral. We come round and round, sinking further into the soil of who we really are, shaking away anything that takes away from that. Truly, this process is never-ending, so our work is to help you find the tools within yourself, and to have a loving, reflective witness for the journey.
Due to the necessarily titrated nature of this work, a minimum of three sessions are required, and preferably more when possible.
Pricing: $110 per 90-minute+ session, minimum three sessions. Sliding scale and payment plans available upon request. We also deeply engage in this work as needed in all Pregnancy + Birth Support packages.