Hello,

Lately I’ve been thinking about why I feel so passionate about showing up every day in support of the self-healers, change-makers, and cycle-breakers like you. It’s because I struggled with feeling disempowered and disconnected from myself and my body for so long. 

I really struggled to find healing support and self-care that worked for me which left me stuck in a loop of never-ending searching, seeking, and exhausting my personal resources (time, energy, money) trying out all the things. 

I was driven, like you, to heal and to create a better version of myself and my life. I was driven, like you, to experience joy, connection, safety, and something better than what I was used to. I knew, like you, that there had to be something better out there for me and a part of me thought I deserved better…and part of me thought I didn’t. 

I reached a point in my self-healing journey that I refused to accept that it had to take so long, be so hard, and never get lasting results. I’m stubborn that way, it took a long time to reach that point but I eventually arrived at ‘I don’t accept’ the way things are. I was sick and tired of every form of self-care, healing practice, and therapy I tried being a temporary fix. I was sick and tired of upholding all the burden of research, learning, and doing all the things on my own. I was ready for lasting relief and change and healing…and I stubbornly discovered it. 

I had already completed hundreds of hours of training and certifications in a variety of healing modalities. I was already practicing healing and self-care with clients and in my personal life at this point of stubborn non-acceptance. I had already researched, learned, mastered, filtered through, and practiced so many things…and I *still* felt like my healing and self-care goals were just out of reach and unsustainable. I was stuck and it really pissed me off!

I was driven, like you, to heal and to create a better version of myself and my life. I was driven, like you, to experience joy, connection, safety, and something better than what I was used to. I knew, like you, that there had to be something better out there for me and a part of me thought I deserved better…and part of me thought I didn’t. 

I reached a point in my self-healing journey that I refused to accept that it had to take so long, be so hard, and never get lasting results. I’m stubborn that way, it took a long time to reach that point but I eventually arrived at ‘I don’t accept’ the way things are. I was sick and tired of every form of self-care, healing practice, and therapy I tried being a temporary fix. I was sick and tired of upholding all the burden of research, learning, and doing all the things on my own. I was ready for lasting relief and change and healing…and I stubbornly discovered it. 

 I had already completed hundreds of hours of training and certifications in a variety of healing modalities. I was already practicing healing and self-care with clients and in my personal life at this point of stubborn non-acceptance. I had already researched, learned, mastered, filtered through, and practiced so many things…and I *still* felt like my healing and self-care goals were just out of reach and unsustainable. I was stuck and it really pissed me off!

Remember that drive to create more of what you want, more healing, and more comfort I mentioned above? That drive is what makes self-healers so unique. We are willing to do just about anything to create the change we seek. But we need each other, we need a support system and a community so we can sustain that drive until we achieve our goals. 

It was when I found a support system that the struggle ended and I began to make lasting progress. You can too. 

This is about community care being essential to self-care and self-healing. But it’s more than that, too. It’s about seeing ourselves in each other to gain insight and inspiration that puts wind in our sails. It’s about mirroring one another for glimpses deeper into our subconscious patterns than we can see on our own. It’s about shifting our approach to one aligned with thriving, instead of continuing to approach things in the automatic ways we were conditioned to cope and survive in the past. The old ways aligned with coping and surviving once served us but they won’t carry us into the outcomes we desire, they can’t get us where we want to be in our journey. 

With a support system, we connect with the resources, guidance, and tools we need to clarify, get focused, take action, and make adjustments along the way to the healing, growth, and improvements we desire. 

To revisit why I do what I do and show up every day to support the healing, self-care, and self-improvement efforts of self-healers…I do it because I want you to succeed, I celebrate your effort, and I refuse to sit idly by while others struggle to get lasting results or achieve their goals. I want you to see what I see in you. I see your drive, your passion, and your inner light that wants to shine brightly. I want you to see it too, and more than that, I want you to experience and embody it. 

I’m here for you. To answer your questions, to offer guidance, to support your effort, to map out your plan of action, to reassure your nervous system, to teach you how to reconnect with your body to foster safety & regulation, and to celebrate and witness your progress every step of the way.

XO, Michelle