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The Weight We Carry: A Paramedic’s Reflection on Remembrance and Healing

There’s a sacredness in walking beside someone through their last moments — and a weight that never fully leaves you. After years as a paramedic, I found myself carrying invisible wounds of my own: PTSD, grief, and a deep disconnection from my body. This letter is my remembrance — for my EMS family, and for the long, tender journey home to myself.

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Your Body Remembers: Why Somatic Healing Is the Missing Piece in Modern Therapy

We’ve been taught to think our way through healing—to analyze, talk, and understand our pain. But what if the missing piece isn’t in your mind at all? Somatic healing invites you to reconnect with your body, where your deepest memories, emotions, and wisdom truly live. This article explores how trauma imprints in the nervous system, what science (and the Polyvagal Theory) reveals about our body’s responses to stress, and why integrating mind and body creates the wholeness that talk therapy alone often misses.

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Lonely in a Connected World: Relearning How to Belong

In a world more connected than ever, many of us still feel profoundly alone. This piece explores why true belonging requires vulnerability, consistency, and community — and how at The Soul Work Space, we’re creating sanctuaries where you can be fully yourself and be reminded of your soul’s song.

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Breathe Into Life: The Ancient Practice Transforming Modern Healing

Breathwork is more than a wellness trend—it’s an ancient practice, found across cultures and now experiencing a modern resurgence. From calming the nervous system to releasing emotions and awakening deeper awareness, breathwork reconnects us to the essence of life itself.

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Head vs. Heart? Why the Answer Is Both—And How to Live in Alignment

Here’s the truth most people miss: you don’t have to choose between head and heart.

Your mind is a brilliant tool, designed to structure, plan, analyze. But without the compass of the heart, it can overthink itself into paralysis.

Your heart is the seat of intuition, coherence, and alignment. But without the clarity of the head, it may never ground its vision into form.

When they work together, something extraordinary happens:

  • The heart whispers your true direction.

  • The head lays down the steps to get there.

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