The Soul Work Space Blog
The Quiet Medicine: When Gentle Touch Awakens the Body’s Wild Intelligence
In a world yelling “harder, faster, now,” craniosacral therapy offers the quiet medicine your nervous system craves. Discover how gentle touch helps your body remember how to heal.
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.
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.
From Survival to Soul-Led: Why I Created The Soul Work Space (A Founder’s Story)
I wasn’t broken—I was brilliantly protected. This founder’s story traces my fall into numbness, the village that held me, and why I created The Soul Work Space to bring mind, body, and soul back together so aliveness—and truth—could return.
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.
You’re Not Breaking Down — You’re Breaking Open: Why Breathwork Makes You Cry
Ever wondered why you cry during breathwork? Discover the powerful connection between the breath, the body, and the nervous system — and how somatic breathwork helps release stored emotions, trauma, and energy to support deep healing.
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.
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.