Somatic Mentorship in Lafayette, CO
A Nervous System Reset and Somatic Self-Leadership Program For Women
“The body tells the truth even when the mind is trying to play along.””
16-Week Nervous System Reset
Anxiety and Overthinking
Insomnia
Migraines and Headaches
Chronic Pain
Anger and Rage
Emotional Overwhelm
Chronic Stress
Executive Dysfunction
Irritability and Impatience
Lack of Focus
Feeling Shut Down or Depressed
Exhaustion and Burnout
When your nervous system is stuck in survival mode, intellectualizing your symptoms isn't enough. Working directly with the body and the nervous system can bring relief in a way other things you may have tried simply cannot. My 16-week Nervous System Reset was designed to help you address your symptoms, assist you in dropping the heavy armor of high-functioning burnout, and learn to use trauma-informed somatic practices to expand your emotional capacity and cultivate an internal sense of safety so you can finally put your own well-being first and thrive.
Transform Your Pain Into Embodied Wisdom
“The body has been designed to renew itself through continuous self-correction. These same principles also apply to the healing of psyche, spirit, and soul.”
Dr. Peter Levine
The relationship with yourself is the foundation for all of your other relationships…
And for your ability to thrive.
When you have lived in survival mode for a long time, that relationship gets turned upside down.
It demands that we relate to ourselves and life differently…
It demands that we slow down and prioritize ourselves.
You are ready to come home to a deep, embodied connection to yourself.
You are ready to put your needs and your own well-being first.
You are ready to honor your voice and express yourself authentically without fear.
You are willing to face unresolved pain and grief to liberate yourself from the past.
You want to gain more emotional and nervous system capacity, so you can feel more joy and more pleasure.
You know that pain is a part of life, and you want to expand your capacity to deal with your pain without feeling overwhelmed by it.
You are burned out from pushing yourself too hard.
You are exhausted from overworking and overcaretaking others and want to cultivate more balance in your life.
You are ready to do the work to create and maintain healthy boundaries with yourself and others.
Does Any of This Sound Like You?
You feel drained, exhausted, and burned out
You feel disconnected from the creativity and inspiration you used to have
You’ve lost your sense of direction and motivation
You struggle with insomnia
You suffer from chronic pain
Your anxiety is off the charts
You overthink everything and don’t trust yourself to make decisions
You stifle your voice and shrink your needs to please others
You are chronically stressed and can’t relax easily
You feel overwhelmed by your high sensitivity and deep emotions
You don’t feel connected to your body: you live in your head
You feel regret over choices you have made in your life
Your anger and rage feel uncontrollable at times
You fawn, people-please, and engage in codependent patterns with others
You have trouble saying no and honoring your own boundaries
You are tired of trying to “hold it all together” for everyone
You push yourself to be perfect or to “have it all figured out”
You have very little work/life balance and are chronically overwhelmed
I Totally Get It
For me, my menopausal transition was my wake-up call and the deepest time of healing in my life. My perimenopausal years were full of emotional and relational upheaval, radical ups and downs, insecurity and fear, and things only became more severe when I officially entered menopause in 2020, right at the beginning of COVID. At the same time, I got sober, was living in a new place that didn’t feel like home to me, I was in a new marriage, and in many ways, I felt like everything I believed and thought to be true was falling away, all at once. It was terrifying, and I didn’t have adequate support. I was filled with regret; I couldn’t sleep; I had a constant undercurrent of panic and fear. I lost hope; I was deeply enraged, my identity crumbled, and my entire spiritual belief system fell away all at once. I had what can only be described as an emotional breakdown, which ultimately led me to a massive spiritual awakening and rebirth.
When things were at their worst, I realized that the hormonal and life changes had triggered old, unhealed trauma and grief deep within me. I knew it was crucial to deepen my healing process and my understanding of trauma…it felt like the missing piece. I did the necessary work to face my own deeper layers of unhealed trauma and untended grief. For me, this work was the missing piece of the puzzle. In many ways, it was the hardest AND the most crucial healing work I have ever done. I finally stopped running from my pain and fear and learned to embrace them.
My willingness to fully face my deep-seated pain and grief changed everything for me. It fundamentally healed my relationship with myself, helping me fully claim my power deeply - create boundaries, hear my inner voice, and put myself first, above all else. Now I help other women reach the healing I found within myself and step into grounded self-connection, internal safety, wholeness, healthy boundaries, authenticity, resilience, and courage.
“This revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the adverse messages of a lifetime.”
Tara Brach
VISION A NEW WAY OF BEING
You feel deeply connected to and in tune with yourself.
You feel safe, grounded, and able to live honestly and authentically.
You have more emotional capacity and can manage the ups and downs of life with greater ease.
You can be in relationship with others without feeling overly responsible for their pain.
You know that your relationship with yourself is the key to your happiness, and you put your needs first without guilt or fear.
You no longer feel the need to “fix” or “save” other people.
You honor your boundaries easily and without apology.
You are deeply connected to your body and attuned to its subtle messages and cues.
You listen to and trust your intuition, allowing it to guide you in all you do.
You feel resilient, courageous, and confident in who you are.
You can enjoy the gifts of your sensitivity without being overwhelmed by them.
You are deeply connected to your emotions and physical sensations without being overwhelmed.
You feel a sense of wholeness, vitality, and resilience.
You are aligned with the highest expression of who you are, and that manifests in all areas of your life.
You feel capable and confident, able to fulfill the dreams and visions you have for your life.
You enjoy your life and make time for rest and play.
You do the things that make you feel most alive and vibrant.
You raise your standards - you only allow people and situations into your life that feel aligned with who you are.
CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
“I consider Kara to be one of the most transformative healers I have ever worked with. Her broad range of skills and many years of experience in addressing the mental, physical, and energetic bodies of her clients give her a level of pragmatism and flexibility that is rare in the healing community and highly effective at treating the individual on a holistic level. My work with Kara has helped me to recover from years of abuse and emotional imbalance. The road to recovery is winding and sometimes challenging, but Kara is always able to meet me wherever I am and provide the help and healing that I most need. She has helped me change my life in an empowering and compassionate way. I am truly grateful to have worked with her.”
Denise Colby, CHT, Ph.D.
Somatic Mentorship Offers a Path of Slow, Sustainable Growth
The relationship between practitioner and client is a powerful one that offers a space of co-regulation and safety, which is vital on the healing path. In addition, there is a sense that we are a team, working together to help you heal and grow. Working together in a focused way over time provides a sense of safety and containment that is necessary for healing to occur. The nervous system is sensitive and easily overwhelmed, so we move slowly to achieve lasting results and permanent transformation. There truly is no quick fix to healing and overcoming the habitual patterns and coping mechanisms that you may be struggling with in your life and work.
This work is about healing your relationship with yourself and your life. For so many of us, our ways of being have been to run from challenging emotions, sensations, and situations, push ourselves too hard, and rush through things, all of which only further cement feelings of unsafety and fear, keeping us stuck and bound to past fears and limiting patterns.
As we work together, you begin to feel a deep connection with yourself and your power, reclaiming your agency and vital life force. This does not mean that your life is free from struggle. It means that when life brings big waves your way, you become more adept at riding the waves instead of being overwhelmed by them. As you reclaim your resilience, you may even find that you view challenges as opportunities for growth and expansion that are here to assist you in growing in the ways you need to grow.
What our work together looks like:
Assessing your desires, intentions, and focus for our work together.
Building attunement, connection, rapport, and trust between us to ensure that you feel safe, seen, and supported.
Understanding the role of personal responsibility in your own healing process so you can get the most out of our work together.
Learning the language of your nervous system. Cultivating a deeper relationship with your emotions, sensations, body, and expression.
Creating a foundation of spiritual awareness that will allow you to expand on all levels of your being.
Building a relationship with your inner wisdom that supports your growth.
Taking action in small, digestible steps that create sustainable growth each day.
Working with your unique nervous system creates more capacity, awareness, flexibility, and resilience to move out of survival responses into a space where you can thrive in your relationships and life.
Expanding your capacity to feel, be present with what is, tolerate challenging emotions and sensations, and build a deeper connection to your inner world.
Working with boundaries somatically so you feel able to remain grounded in your own being and in your personal power.
Cultivating a sense of internal safety that helps you to create and honor your boundaries with others.
The Big Picture of Our Work Together…
In our work together, we will move through three primary phases…
Building A New Foundation
creating an inner sense of safety, self-attunement, capacity, tolerance for intense emotions and physical sensations, stability (grounding), spaciousness - the space to feel, space to be exactly where you are that allows you to meet life exactly as it is in each moment without becoming overwhelmed
Healing and Integration
being compassionately witnessed and supported, grieving, remembering, feeling the feelings that were not safe to be felt before now, healing thwarted survival impulses that were blocked, replacing maladaptive coping mechanisms with healthy ones, retrieving disconnected and burdened parts of the self, cultivating a loving relationship with yourself
Rebirth and Self-Leadership
Continuing integration, authenticity, agency, aliveness, expansion, inner union, embodiment, creativity, healthy relationships, belonging, purpose, fulfillment, embodiment of the true self and inner wisdom. Utilizing nervous system tools to continue to self-regulate and maintain the work we did in our work together. Sustainable growth and embodiment.
ARE YOU READY TO DEEPEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOURSELF?
WORKING TOGETHER
Three Somatic Bodywork sessions per month (90 minutes each)
Custom practices to deepen your healing between sessions
WhatsApp check-ins (Tuesday - Friday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Sessions are conducted in my signature Somatic Embodywork™ format and include: Somatic Experiencing™, trauma-informed coaching, CranioSacral Therapy, energy medicine, shamanic healing, inner child healing and parts work, guided meditation/visualization, mindfulness practices, and integrative massage as needed
All sessions are intuitively guided and tailored to your needs each time we meet