WHO AM I?

A specialist in guiding people into their bodies and back to their true self through breathwork and somatics. An award-winning Canadian technology entrepreneur. An ex-Fortune 500 business consultant. A playful determined deep soul described as a “lioness of love”. Oh, and also a banging DJ. I bring it all to my practice, holding space for the multiple parts within us all.

My story is of an unravelling towards truth and back into connection with my body (aka myself!). For a long time I was so busy “doing” in order to run away from what was inside me. Deluded and in denial, I had no idea what my life had actually been like. But I had signs; a knocking on the door that kept getting louder. The knocking started with getting sick often and a poor immune system. Pushing on through I would continually swing between complete overwhelm and suppressive shutdown. That suppressed energy led to auto-immune disorders and also created chronic disassociation from my body. All this resulted in unhealthy and distorted beliefs about myself and others that got me into very dangerous situations. My body kept the score and eventually I couldn’t move. The knocking broke the door down and I chose to change my entire life.

Unravelling everything at once and healing the then acute PTSD symptoms was confusingly terrifying at first, but then my heart opened. Deep compassion and understanding of myself and others poured in as I saw the harsh truth of my experiences. I clearly understood the different ways our mind and body cope when life gives us something thats too much, too soon, too fast. How our nervous system and brain changes, and how we carry those burdens - shockingly often for decades. I had to go to the root and work with the pre-verbal and developmental trauma I had uncovered. As with many of my clients, I was shocked when I started to connect with my entire somatic experience. Alongside many therapists and practitioners in different modalities I liberated my mind and body from a lot of what I’d been carrying. Over time the stuck energy and emotion released and I found a beautiful space within. Talk therapy alone would have not got me where I am today; Breathwork & Somatic Therapy is a major reason I’m alive today.

Being black dual heritage added another generational dimension to my unravelling. The lack of available support for POCs to work through racialised trauma in the body drives a large focus of my practice. As Resmaa Menakem said, “Trauma decontextualised in an individual can look like personality. Trauma decontextualised in a family, can become family traits. Trauma decontextualised in a people, becomes culture.”

Your connection to your body mirrors your relationship to yourself and others. I know first hand how deluded we can be when disembodied with no tools for inner inquiry. How conditioning can keep us stuck in reactive survival responses, unconsciously creating further pain and suffering. We often don’t know what we’ve been carrying until we let it go. I’ve walked this path of reconnection and now offer to hold your hand through yours. Let’s talk. Connect with me here.