You Are So Welcome Here

I was born walking the middle. Biracial. Raised by my mum alone in the '70s in a white family, school and town. I grew up knowing what it meant to not belong, to be between worlds, never quite fitting into either one. My existence raised questions I didn't have answers for.

But that taught me everything. It made me listen. It made me an Edge Walker. Someone who gets the spaces in between. I have come to learn that is the space where most of us actually live, even if we don't say it.

A severe injury nearly took me years ago. I spent years learning my body from the ground up. Learning what trauma does. How it lives in your cells. How it changes what you believe about yourself.

That healing, slow, painful, miraculous, changed everything about how I work. As a bodyworker, as a therapist studying somatics. The body never lies. Grief opens doors. The heart speaks in a language we all forgot.

And so I listened. I learned the mind. The nervous system. Where we separate and how we hold each other and importantly, how we heal together.

Now I'm in my '50s, moving through menopause. I feel this is a time when everything has come together. All the years of walking through fire. All the ways I've learned to love fiercely, myself, others, this messy beautiful world. I bring it all to the work: body wisdom, the language of the heart, the knowing that we don't heal alone.

Over the years I've walked alongside people as they remember themselves. As they heal what's wounded and discover they don't have to choose between taking care of their own hearts and showing up for the world. Both are possible. Both matter.

The spaces I hold are for that. One-on-one or in group. Places to exhale. To reconnect. To remember who you are beneath the stories you've been told.

I move as a trauma-informed Facilitator because I understand how trauma shapes us. How it impacts whether we feel safe. Whether we can belong. And I know healing isn't linear. It's messy. It's real. It's possible.

You belong here. Exactly as you are and with whatever you're carrying. 

We don't have to do this alone. Together we can create a space where deep healing happens. Where connection is real. Where love, for ourselves, for each other, for what we're building, becomes the ground we walk on.

Thank you for being here. 

Tanya x