Hey, I’m Rachel
Somatic Breathwork Facilitator, community Herbalist, Mother, Wife, & Business Owner
My work sits at the intersection of nervous system capacity, ancestral grief, and embodied truth. The place where healing stops being an escape and starts becoming a way of living.
I haven’t followed a linear or conventional path. I’ve learned through experience. Sometimes gently, sometimes by being brought to my knees (like what happens when we live disconnected from our bodies, our intuition, and the land beneath us). I’ve also learned what becomes possible when we return.
I’m dedicated to living a life that feels rooted, purposeful, and alive, while enjoying it too.
I believe healing isn’t just supposed to end with you.
Our world needs healing and change. Each of us
has a role to play in creating a new world.
Years ago, I had the kind of transformation that sticks with you for life.
In my early twenties, I began confronting the ways I had learned to override myself: suppressing emotion, chasing validation, staying busy, staying “fine.” On the outside, life was functional. On the inside, my nervous system was braced and my heart deeply guarded.
In 2017, I experienced somatic breathwork for the first time. What emerged wasn’t a story I needed to analyze from the mind but rather sensations, emotions, and memories, held in the body itself wanting to be expressed. Long-held childhood wounds surfaced and softened. Something in me opened that had been tightly protected for years.
That experience changed the way I understood healing.
I realized I couldn’t think my way out of what I felt. I couldn’t distract myself into wholeness. My body was holding what my mind had learned to survive around and it needed space, safety, and expression to let go.
Breathwork showed me how to meet myself without bypassing, numbing, or outsourcing my authority.
Breathwork has allowed me to push the boundaries of what’s possible for me
As I continued this work, my life began to reorganize itself.
I stopped making decisions based on who I needed to be for others and started listening to what my body could actually sustain. Relationships, jobs, identities, and beliefs that were built on approval or fear fell away. What remained was simpler and truer.
By 2018, I had left my previous life behind and began again from the ground up. Not impulsively, but intentionally. Rooted in self-trust. Willing to be misunderstood. Willing to live unconventionally in service of integrity.
Birthing my first child in 2021 further initiated me into this work, sharpening my intuition, challenging my capacity, and anchoring me more deeply in my body and the present moment.
Today, I live a life I deeply love, not because it’s perfect, but because it’s my truth.
Now, I work with people who are resourced enough to choose healing and brave enough to let that healing change how they live.
People who are not trying to escape the world, but to meet it with more capacity, clarity, and responsibility.
I believe healing is not about constant self-improvement or endless catharsis. It’s about building a nervous system that can hold joy and grief, pleasure and anger, peace and engagement, without collapsing or hardening.
I also believe this moment in history is asking something specific of us:
to come back into relationship with our bodies, our ancestors, and the earth, and to live from that place with integrity.
I carry ancestral roots from England, Scotland, Norway, Ireland, and Wales - lands shaped by Celtic, Norse, and folk traditions. I name this to honor the roots of my practices within my own container. I am always learning from my ancestry, the strengths and the struggles, and choose to heal the struggles passed on as well carry forward only the good: the wisdom of ancient matriarchs, the resilience of healed ancestors, and the teachings that continue to guide me.
I am trained and certified in Somatic Breathwork through David Elliott, and hold certifications in Reiki (Master), Sound Healing, and Herbalism. I am always continuing my studies in herbalism. My approach is integrative, trauma-aware, and grounded in lived experience rather than ideology.
If you’re feeling the call to live more truthfully,
to build capacity rather than bypass,
to listen to your body instead of overriding it,
to heal in a way that ripples outward into how you relate, choose, and speak,
this work may be for you.
You don’t need to rush.
You don’t need to perform healing.
You don’t need to abandon joy or peace.
You only need a willingness to be in relationship with yourself honestly, steadily, and with care.
