The Sacred and the Soul live in the light, and also in the dark. When we honor and learn how to navigate the darkness, we rediscover deep Wisdoms.
I help people meet, acknowledge the presence of, and integrate the parts of themselves that have been repressed, left behind, or fallen into shadow because of fear, shame or trauma.
We do this healing for the purpose of living more authentic, creative, expressed, embodied, and soul-filled lives.
You might think of this as soul retrieval.
Or, as a reclamation of the Wild Woman / Man / Being Archetype.
My speciality is working with those who desire healing and to expand, embody and express themselves more fully. Most of the people I work with desire deeper intimacy and truth in their partnership, or they crave a deeper sense of connection to themselves, their intuition, Spirit, or their creative expression. Many are at what I would call at a threshold. Or an initiation. Or a crossroads. They know that who they are, or the relationship that they have been in, or the career they are dedicated to, or the roles that they play and life they inhabit is not a “big enough container” for who they are becoming. I support them in integrating the deeper, repressed, and sometimes wounded aspects of themselves as a way to cross the threshold and step into their next phase of being.
This re-membering of under-nourished, repressed parts is what I call the Re-wilding Process. We peel away the beliefs, armor, and skins that may have once protected and supported us, but are now suffocating the Truth of who we are. This is a process of re-memering dismembered parts. Of landing more at home in yourself, as more of your pure, true, potent, essence…wild self.
I am not really going to help you fix or change anything. My medicine supports you in becoming more mindful. More aware. More present. More integrated and whole.
I want to help you remember who you truly are.
Before you got scared, hurt, or busy. Before you forgot.
Before shame grabbed ahold of you.
This work is about you being the Wild Essence that is expressed as you.
About
Angela is a licensed therapist, EMDR practitioner and yoga instructor.
(and lover of creatures domesticated and wild, but mostly wild)
PHilosophy
“Too much safety makes one feel unsafe. It it doesn’t, perhaps it should.”
- David Cooper
We unconsciously create a world of suffering through obsessive avoiding or clinging because we are afraid of what is in the shadows of our past, our shame, our bodies, etc.
This avoidance and clinging can manifest in many ways: trauma responses, eating disorders, loss of creativity, feeling down or depressed, feeling restless or anxious, confusion, lack of sense of self or connection with one’s intuition or body, etc.
Safety is not about eliminating what we fear, but learning to lovingly and creatively interact with our shadows.