ANAM CARA SOMATICS
Somatic attachment-based therapy brings awareness to your body, helps regulate your nervous system, builds a felt sense of inner resource, deepens the relationship to your container and leads to an experience of healthy individuation that allows more consciousness in relating to yourself and others.
We are all born into the human experience through a lineage, and into a collective consciousness. All of this imprints into your embodiment journey, most of which is pre-verbal, or before cognitive memory is formed. Some imprints enhance your connection to vitality and life force energy (your blueprint), and some inhibit that connection. When you're dependent on another, i.e. a parental relationship, you adapt to survive in the family system. These adaptations saved you! They were your friends and allies; although later in life, the same adaptations may lead to difficulties in how you relate to yourself and others.
Through an approach that supports a connection to a personal sense of resource, you will be guided into your body and sensations, with the intention to gently meet whatever arises. When you are supported, held and attuned to in a relational way, this allows space to feel, acknowledge and shift blocks that may have been created from past relational experiences, conscious or otherwise.
"Anam cara is a Celtic term meaning 'soul friend'. With the anam cara you could share your inner-most self, your mind and your heart. This friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an anam cara, your friendship cut across all convention, morality, and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the 'friend of your soul.'
The Celtic understanding did not set limitations of space or time on the soul. There is no cage for the soul. The soul is a divine light that flows into you and into your Other. This art of belonging awakened and fostered a deep and special companionship."
~ John O'Donohue
ABOUT DEIRDRE
I am deeply committed to my own healing journey and bring to my offerings a heartload of compassion, along with the embodied experience through years of facilitating people in all kinds of relational challenge.
I hold a profound, personal and professional understanding of imprints that happen as we embody, and how these can either reinforce our connection to life force energy, or inhibit it.
Journeying together with support and resource, we intentionally open to the expression of life force energy. As any imprints arise that interrupt this flow, we slow down, acknowledge their impact and gently move toward re-patterning them.
I have a beautiful capacity to meet you and find space in the sticky, tricky, murky places ~ to hold you there, and to bring love and compassion to all parts of you.
I am deeply grateful for, and continually humbled by, the potency and gift of this relational work.
I am on this human journey WITH you!
"Deirdre is a gifted healer. Her professional and life experience give her the rare ability to meet her clients on whichever level is required in each moment - be it intellectual, physical, emotional or energetic - and her commitment to integration facilitates the same movement in those who are willing to move beyond their old patterns. All her sessions occur in the presence of a deeply intimate loving connection that provides a space for that which has felt abandoned to become whole."
~ Joe T., Nelson BC
