The Radiant Heart

Reclaiming your Essential Self

Our physical bodies are reservoirs for memories and emotions. When those inner places are disregarded, they can be expressed as pain, both physical and emotional. Radiant Heart Somatics integrates these realms so we can move through the world with more self awareness, confidence, and emotional intelligence.

Through 1-on-1 sessions, we will explore your life desires and discover what is limiting you so that you may break through into more embodied knowing. This includes the awareness of both the heart and gut, and moves us beyond simply relying on the mind.

Benefits of this work:

  • Pain Reduction
  • Enhanced Immune Functions
  • Emotional Well Being
  • Nervous System Regulation
  • Stress Reduction
  • Secure Functioning Relationships
  • Higher Self Esteem & Confidence
  • More Capacity for Flow State
  • Greater Sense of Trust & Ease
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Introduction to Radiant Heart Somatic Sessions:

In Radiant Heart somatic sessions, the focus involves integrating early developmental experiences. These sessions are designed to address the deep imprints of early life while fostering emotional and physical well-being. I integrate Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Attachment Repair with the Perinatal Somatic model to provide a comprehensive and holistic experience. You can read descriptions of each component below: 

Attachment Repair – Attachment repair is a therapeutic process aimed at healing disruptions or traumas in the early attachment bonds formed between a child and their primary caregivers. These early relationships significantly influence an individual’s emotional and relational development, creating their security system and affecting how they relate to others throughout their life. The therapeutic model itself fosters building secure attachment in session which then translates into our relationships.

Perinatal Somatics – Perinatal somatics is a therapeutic approach focused on addressing and healing the imprints of early life experiences. This modality integrates the tools shared on this page and provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and transforming early developmental trauma.

BCST The practitioner “listens” with their hands to the craniosacral rhythm, observing how it expresses throughout the body. They identify areas of restriction or imbalance and use a very gentle touch to facilitate release and restore balance as well as help regulate the nervous system.

IFS – IFS is a psychotherapeutic process developed in the 1980s. It helps to identify the multiplicity of parts within us, each having particular roles that they’ve been playing out unconsciously. This work helps people harmonize their internal world, navigate integrating wounded aspects, and redefine how each part performs in relation to the whole system.

ABOUT ME

Like most things in life, necessity is the mother of this offering. 

It is my own life journey and integration process that I chose to learn how to be available for my feelings, explore where they were coming from, (and why they are here) and provide the parenting I always needed to and for myself (and didn’t adequately receive when I was a child).

My own anxious attachment created the inaccurate perception that I could only access my value from the outer world. This incorrect assumption has been the wound that I’ve been uncovering and letting go of in my life. It impacted my identity, my focus, my drive, and my relationships.

I will admit I did have resistance to doing the work, until I had enough connection to my essential nature in order to lean in fully. The integration/embodiment process showed me my great capacity to be present with and for other people in their own reclamation process.

As I have addressed my wounds, I have found that my essential core nature is my beautiful heart centered capacity in alignment with my intuition. It’s been a love affair of returning into a sense of wholeness, where my heart gets to lead more instead of being at the effect of my mind. My sensitivity allows me certain superpower skills to see and feel the places that people are learning to recover within themselves. 

It is an honor and a privilege to offer a model of secure functioning attachment and relational awareness to assist people in returning home to themselves. It might look different depending on who you are, but the tools and the skills of attention are rooted in the relational models which helped me.

To learn more about me and my work, visit my about page.

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Are you ready to discover your heart’s desire?

Usually sessions are 90 mins. I tend to write notes in the sessions so that you can come back to what was shared, and there’s generally practical homework/exercises to keep yourself in connection with the work between sessions. Sessions are either in person or on zoom. In person allows for direct touch on the table / bodywork, however, zoom is also good for the somatic sections of the session. In person sessions are done at my office in Oakland, CA.

The introductory call involves an overview of how a session is generally formatted so that you understand what the work looks like. Please bring your questions and curiosities and we can check in on how this work might speak to you. 

This work builds upon itself. Over time, the momentum will gather. As we build trust and safety together, a clear direction will be revealed and your deeper desires will take us to the heart of the matter. I’m so excited to support your blossoming with whatever pacing you need.

Please book a 30 min zoom call to learn more.