Elsewhere grew out of all of this. Out of my own experience of hitting ceilings, finding new maps, and learning that the body is not a problem to be managed — it's the place where healing actually happens. I bring somatic practices, psychedelic preparation and integration, trauma-informed frameworks, and tools like astrology and tarot not as decoration, but as different languages for finding the way back home to yourself.
"But at some point the language stopped being enough. "
I got more from one somatic session than I had from an entire year of talk therapy. Not because talk therapy was wrong for me, but because I had been living almost entirely from the neck up. Getting into my body was a revelation. Slowly, I started to feel more settled, more clear, more like myself.
everything I had lived and learned and use it to help other people find what I had found. I enrolled in a master's program in therapy — not to join the existing system, but to understand it well enough to change it from the inside.
Because the systems we inherited — in therapy, in medicine, in the way we talk about mental health — were not built for all of us. And I believe that needs to change.
I had two young kids and I was determined to show up for them differently than I had been shown up for. I was doing the work — mentally, emotionally, relationally. I could figure things out. And yet my body kept getting more tired, more stuck. I had hit a ceiling I couldn't think my way through.
That's when I found somatic work — and everything changed.
I understood for the first time how long I had been masking — performing normalcy (and not very well) in a world that has never gotten me. The diagnosis created a lens I could finally see through. That's when it all made sense. Nothing was wrong with me. And that is when compassion and self-love came in, like nothing I had ever experienced before.
I had spent 17 years working in television. I loved stories — I still do. But I knew I couldn't go back. I wanted to take
"My work is for people who never fit the template. For people whose nervous systems were shaped by a world that wasn't built for them — and who are ready to stop translating themselves for everyone else and start listening to themselves instead."
Not broken exactly, just somehow off the map everyone else seemed to be following. I was the late bloomer, the outlier, the one who took the longer road to almost everything. I went to therapy earlier than most people I knew, and I kept going back. Not because it wasn't working, I loved the self-reflection and the opportunity to peel back more layers. I could always get something out of a session. I'm a person who wants to understand herself, and talk therapy gave me language for my life.
I spent most of my life
convinced I was doing it wrong.
"Then I was diagnosed with ADHD — and my whole life rearranged itself into something that finally made sense."
