Hi, I’m Alexandria, a recovering over-achiever and emotional suppresionist

From a young age I was encouraged to “suck it up and keep going.” As a former gymnast, dancer, and cheerleader, I thrived on the rigor of discipline and held pride in my ability to bypass my body’s feelings.

I thought emotions were a sign of weakness and the only thing that mattered was achieving at all costs.

In my early twenties I was diagnosed with the autoimmune dis-ease Epstein-Barr and treated for OCD. The onset of a life-altering panic attack got me in to see a somatic therapist and start my journey of mind-body healing.

Over the past decade, I’ve been unpacking those patterns of hyper-independence, emotional bypassing, care-givers trauma, and generational trauma. What I’ve learned is I can’t think my way through a healing. I can’t think myself to feeling safe. Safety lives on a biological level, and I realized my over-achieving tendencies had their roots in unworthiness. To do, I thought, was to prove that I too belonged here and that I too deserved to be loved. When I began the work of slowing down and addressing these old, adopted patterns, I was scared. Slowing down triggered my nervous system’s flight response and said, “what are you doing? you’re going the wrong way! you haven’t done enough to prove yourself!”

I fought myself until I was done fighting myself, until I built a relationship with the intelligence of my body and learned to listen instead of control. The greatest reward that no amount of ‘doing’ can achieve, is the embodied sense of fulfillment, contentment, and inner peace.

I thus offer to those who also struggle with perfectionism, over-achievement, care-givers burnout, and overwhelm in this information age my services as a soothing healing space to reset your nervous system and rest.