Frequently Asked Questions

This work is for the woman who has already been trying. Who has moved through something significant, and kept going in the ways she knew how, yet still feels something within her is unresolved.

It may show up as anxiety, overthinking, grief that lingers without a clear story, a nervous system that stays quietly activated, or patterns that keep repeating even after other approaches such as therapy, coaching, or spiritual practice, — haven’t fully reached it.

On the outside, life may look fine, even settled or successful, but on the inside, something still feels unfinished, held beneath the surface in the body.

She is not looking to be fixed, pushed, or given another framework. She is looking for a space slow enough and safe enough to finally hear what her body has been holding.

Somatic release is a body-based approach to healing and emotional wellbeing.

Rather than focusing only on thoughts, it invites you to gently turn toward what is happening in your body, the sensations, emotional patterns, and nervous system responses that often hold what hasn’t fully processed.

Through this awareness, the body is given space to release, regulate, and settle in its own timing, supporting emotional processing and a deeper sense of connection within.

Every session is different, simply because every woman who arrives is different, and every body is carrying something unique.

There is no fixed structure, no agenda you need to prepare for, and no version of yourself you need to bring. We begin where you are. From there, the session is guided entirely by what your body is ready for. Through somatic awareness, gentle inquiry, and where appropriate, myofascial release.

Some sessions move through something specific. Others are quieter — a gentle settling, a softening that is hard to name but easy to feel. Both are the work. The body knows what it needs.

Choose a quiet, comfortable space where you feel at ease and won’t be interrupted.

Wearing something comfortable and allowing a few moments before the session to arrive and ground into your body can also be supportive.

None at all.

In fact, many of the women who find their way to Sacred Haven have never worked somatically before. They have done other things like journaling, therapy, spiritual practice, and something is still present that those approaches haven't been able to reach.

No prior experience is needed. No particular language or framework. The body does not require preparation, only presence and a willingness to slow down enough to listen.

If this is your first time working in this way, a Soma Session is a gentle place to begin. A single session that lets you experience the work before committing to anything more.

Somatic release can support a wide range of experiences where the body is holding more than it has been able to process.

This can include feeling overwhelmed, anxious, disconnected, or emotionally “stuck,” as well as navigating stress, burnout, life transitions, grief, or past experiences that still feel present in the body.

It can also support those moments when something feels off or heavy, but hard to put into words — when your system feels tense, shut down, reactive, or unable to fully settle.

Rather than focusing on fixing or analyzing, somatic release works with what is happening in the body in real time — supporting regulation, emotional processing, and a greater sense of ease and connection within yourself.

That uncertainty is completely understandable, and honestly, it makes a lot of sense.

When you find yourself asking is this right for me, is this safe, is this actually going to help — that is not hesitation to push through. That is your nervous system doing exactly what it is designed to do. Asking the questions it needs to ask before it feels safe enough to proceed. Those questions are valid. They deserve to be honored, not bypassed.

You do not need to know if this is right for you before you begin.

What I would suggest is starting with a single Soma Session, not as a commitment to anything more, but simply as an opportunity to feel whether this work resonates in your body. Not in your mind. Not as a concept. But as something your nervous system can actually sense and respond to.

If it feels safe enough to continue, Nourished offers a longer container for that work to deepen. If it doesn't, that is information too — and it will be honored.

You are not being asked to decide anything right now.
You are only being invited to take one small step and let your body tell you what it knows.

This work is not for you if you are currently in acute crisis or seeking clinical diagnosis or treatment. In those moments, a licensed mental health professional or medical provider is best placed to support you — and I would gently encourage you to reach out for care.

It also may not feel like the right time if you are still in the place of needing to figure it out with the mind before allowing the body to speak.

This is not a criticism. It is simply an honest reflection of what this work is and what it is not.

The mind’s need to understand is real, and it is welcome here. And yet this work asks something different — a soft willingness, however tentative, to turn toward the body and trust that it may be holding something the mind cannot reach alone.

If that doesn’t feel accessible right now, that’s okay.

The door remains open for you whenever you are ready.

Sessions are currently offered virtually, with in-person sessions coming soon in Phoenix, AZ

Many clients are surprised to find that somatic work often translates exceptionally well online, sometimes even more effectively. Being in your own space can support a greater sense of safety, allowing the body to soften, open, and respond more naturally to the work.

Traditional therapy most often works through the mind — exploring thoughts, patterns, and history through conversation and analysis. This can be enormously valuable. But for many women, there comes a point where understanding alone stops being enough. Where the mind knows what happened, and the body is still holding it.

Somatic release works differently. Rather than processing experience through thought, it works directly with the body — with sensation, tension, nervous system activation, and the places where unresolved experience is physically stored. Instead of talking about what happened, we create the conditions for the body to complete what it was never able to finish.

At Sacred Haven, somatic support is trauma-informed and body-led — meaning the body sets the pace, the depth, and the direction. Nothing is forced. Nothing is rushed. The work unfolds at the speed of genuine safety.

This is one of the most common reasons women find their way to Sacred Haven.

Talk therapy works primarily through the mind — and for many experiences, that is exactly what is needed. But trauma, grief, burnout, and chronic nervous system activation are not stored in the mind alone. They live in the body. In the nervous system. In the fascia and the tissue and the places where the body learned to brace, protect, and hold.

When the mind has done all it can and something is still present — that is often the body asking for a different kind of support. Not better thinking. Not deeper analysis. But genuine, body-based contact with what has been held.

Somatic release is for women who feel stuck despite years of talk therapy is not uncommon. The body simply needs a different kind of language — and this work speaks it.

If you are carrying a persistent sense of anxiety that has no clear current cause — a nervous system that won't fully settle, a body that stays braced even when life is quiet — somatic work may be exactly what is needed.

Anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout are not simply mental or emotional experiences. They live in the body. In the breath. In the muscles. In a nervous system that learned to stay alert and never quite received the signal that it was safe to rest.

Nervous system healing through somatic support works directly with these patterns — not by managing symptoms or finding coping strategies, but by creating the conditions for the body to genuinely regulate. To exhale. To finally trust that the danger has passed.

This is not a quick fix. It is a slow, body-led process of returning to safety from the inside out. But for women who have tried everything else and still feel stuck, it is often the thing that reaches what nothing else could.