What Recovery Looks Like After a Coaching Intensive
Many people expect to feel instantly better after a coaching intensive, but deep emotional work often creates shifts that unfold over time. In this reflection, I explore what to expect after a coaching intensive, including the emotional, physical, and nervous system responses that can arise as the body integrates meaningful change. Understanding coaching intensive recovery and integration after coaching therapy can help you approach the days that follow with more gentleness and support.
Productivity Guilt and the Nervous System
Productivity guilt often appears during grief, burnout, and major life transitions—especially for those who have spent years being the strong one for others. In this reflective piece, I explore how the nervous system can make rest feel unsafe and why productivity becomes tied to self-worth. Through story and somatic insight, we gently explore how nervous system regulation and compassionate grief support can help the body rediscover safety in rest.
Registration Is Now Open
This spring, two new classes at Portland Community College bring together the heart of my work: gardening as a pathway to presence and memoir writing as a form of meaning-making. Rooted in somatic awareness and grief education, these courses offer gentle, accessible spaces to cultivate resilience, reflection, and renewal. Whether tending soil or story, each class invites you back to yourself.
Two Classrooms I Didn’t Know I Was Growing
This spring, I’m offering two new classes through Portland Community College rooted in the practices that steadied me during grief: gardening and reflective writing. Both courses weave somatic awareness, mindfulness, and storytelling to support resilience, presence, and healing. These classrooms were grown from lived experience — and are designed as gentle spaces for tending both garden and self.