
I choose to look to Nature, and the joys of Love to keep me going.
― Malebo Sephodi
Just like the lotus flower — we all have the ability to emerge from the shadows of the muddy waters, using the darkness as our anchor to bloom into our most beautiful selves.
Welcome Home Friends.
The Emotional Recovery Program takes a restorative approach to providing healing interventions that helps restore peace and wellbeing during times of transition, loss, disasters, conflict, & other intense experiences.
This healing praxis is self-affirming and empowers us to actively engage with our internal and external environments, developing social-emotional learning actions, and asking the trauma-informed questions as we navigate the root causes of stress, anxiety, and trauma in healthier, balanced, & calm ways.
These individuals and collective healing circles are not new to the lands of southern Louisiana's bayou region. This ecological way of connecting has helped native & indigenous communities cultivate an interconnected web of mental & emotional support, and group psychological safety & trust for thousands of years on this land. Chitimacha & Houma tribes were some of the original stewards of this land who engaged in healing modalities that helped communities go beyond the blueprint of trauma to help us move towards the restorative and regenerative community culture that is truly desired. As such, the Emotional Recovery program is founded from those same healing practices that are inspired by Nature, backed by Science, rooted in Ancestral wisdom, and accessible to All. Interweaving the wisdom of the past & present, together we can soothe our nervous systems while we repair the stories of individual, familial, and societal overwhelm.
Through these culturally-affirming, communal convenings, together we can mitigate the negative impacts of trauma on our physical, emotional, & mental health across generations mind, body, & spirit.
Heart & Mind
“Being wise with feelings” helps individuals effectively communicate what is truly needed for them to thrive in personal & professional partnerships, as well as in our communities. I offer individual coaching, organizational consulting and community wellness training and events in emotional intelligence practice.
Body
Integration of trauma requires more than adopting the traditional individualistic therapeutic skills. Studying trauma asks us to examine the suffering bound up in larger systems of oppression for us all and how that is currently affecting our mind, body, & our individual & collective behavioral patterns.
Spirit
These sessions of re-membering are a spiritual reclamation practice that guides clients to look within for the ancestral wisdom to provide guidance for their healing. Clients and I co-design methods that will help bring awareness to limiting mind patterns, belief systems, as well as suppressed emotions that may be blocking them from full expression of life in this moment.