ReCONNECT GROUPS We make the world a sweeter place for all when we share, laugh, & learn to hold each other in care & kindness

OFFERS EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATION & MINDFULNESS BASED PRACTICES 

For over a decade I've had the privilege of supporting hundreds of people with their mental health and addictions through personal support and group facilitation.  Personally, I have found group work to be deeply transformative particularly in overcoming long-term trust issues.  Repeated exposure to sharing with others in a safe space has truly helped me let down some very big walls. This, coupled with the awareness that if I truly wanted to live from a place of well-being, I would have to take radical responsibility for how I was showing up in life. 

As a result of these decades of self-development, studies and experience, I’d love nothing better than for you to benefit from the transformative gems I have learned; the one’s I wish I would have had earlier on my path.   

As a trauma-informed meditation and mindfulness coach with practices in eco-psychology, I support you to develop presence and awareness, to build a healthier relationship with your thoughts and emotions, and to clarify your values and gain meaningful insight into what truly matters to you. 

Through the use of evidence-based tools and practices, I will help you develop the necessary skills to make the changes you want so that you can be the person you want to be and start directing your life in ways that create a healthier, richer and more meaningful existence with yourself and others.

If you’d like to go deeper into this work please find me at practicingmindfulness.ca

OFFERS NERVOUS SYSTEM RECOVERY ROOTED IN BODY-BASED WISDOM

I left home at 13 after living under threat for long enough - 

It wasn’t easy & my body remembers.  After years of survival mode, I found my way to the gentle guidance of support groups & the patient self-study of my body’s way of ‘doing’ overwhelm. In time, I found ways to understand, give voice to, & relieve my long term 'survival mode' tensions & numbness that kept me disconnected, lonely & stuck. 

At 20, I decided it was important to pay forward all the support I had gratefully received along the way.  I devoted decades to youth, mental health & addiction treatment services & discovered many others like me who suffered in silence.  I draw on my Irish Grandmothers legacy of nurturing the human spirit to bring focus to the unique qualities we each hold within, to invite more ease & grace into the heartache & triumph of everyday living.

My coaching programs distill all I have witnessed & learned from both mentors & clients over my 12 years of professional somatic training, my decade of private coaching, & in my role as recovery coach for a trauma & addiction center. 

For years these trauma-informed methods & coaching props have helped people relieve physical symptoms of overwhelm & embody more freedom from anxiety, disconnect & self-defeating habits.

I gives me such joy to bring the foundations of these body-centered tools into ReConnect Groups as a legacy project with fellow co-founder. colleague & dear friend, Tara Alain.

If you sense there could be something here for you, explore A Nurtured Life Recovery programs here.