HI, I’M EMME.

My name is pronounced “ah-me.” In the video below my image, I explain why I legally changed the name on my birth certificate and how the “eMMe” name came to be. It is an example of what I mean when using the phrase “to intentionally evolve.”

AT ITS OPTIMUM, I BELIEVE LIFE IS AN ONGOING, INTENTIONALLY EVOLVING PROCESS—NOT SIMPLY AN ENDURANCE TEST. I CONSIDER THIS CONCEPT OF PRIMARY, ALL-LIFE-SURVIVAL IMPORTANCE, WITH THE HEALTH OF THE PLANET AND FUTURE GENERATIONS DEPENDENT UPON PEOPLE TURNING ENDURANCE LIVES INTO LIVING LIVES.

I approach this work with embodiment-evolving, focused intention, offering clients bodywork and coaching sessions to help them feel more deeply into their experience.

Frequently, I use “evolving” in place of “healing” because I believe we are organisms in an ongoing state of evolution, and the word “healing” can often have an end result attached to it. Similar to other relationships, our relationship with our physical experience is continually changing. Whether it be how we cope with chronic issues, like aging and pain from scar tissue, or the way our image reflects back to us in the mirror. I have come to realize that having a connection with the entire “self” is a sacred practice whose importance can get lost in the hoo-ha of daily life. For me, regaining and deepening this internal relationship is a primary component of my individual evolution.

During twenty-plus years of practice and through my personal discovery process, I have noted the effort and cost of being disconnected from our bodies and our lives. Dissociation is when a person views life from the outside while wearing a space suit, feeling and not feeling, and experiencing distance from other people and events as they occur. A dissociative state can also cause a disconnect with our bodies.

THINKING AND FEELING SEPARATE FROM THE PHYSICAL SELF, IMPACTS MENTAL HEALTH, THE QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS, AND DIMINISHES THE ABILITY FOR LIFE TO FEEL “JUICED.”

Much has been written about the “body, mind, and spirit” as though these aspects of us are separated by commas—they aren’t. Every cell in a person’s body is nearly the same. The only difference depends on what the designated job of the cell is. I suggest that our individual cells are connected to our consciousness. Taking this further, every thought runs through every cell in our body. What we see, feel, and believe could then be transposed to the cells of the elbow, or a vital organ, like the heart.

The immense significance of intimately understanding what my current physical condition was shoved into my awareness when I learned that my ovaries had grown lemon-sized masses. In general terms, I had mild symptoms that could easily be overlooked. There was very little reason to insist on an ultrasound. Yet, I did. Why? What caused me to risk the insurance carrier refusing to pay for the test?

I SENSED SOMETHING WAS WRONG.

There had been a series of chiropractic adjustments that didn’t last, an off-and-on and inexplicable ache in my hip, brief and random blips of nausea, and a reoccurrence of post-menopausal hot flashes. These symptoms didn’t come all at once or increase in severity. They disappeared for days and sometimes weeks. The only consistent factor was an uneasiness I couldn’t place. In the end, with the ultrasound, the issue was caught early. I prepared for surgery the same way I detected something was wrong—I deepened the relationship with my body and took care of it in a manner that felt witnessed and nourishing.

During that timeline, I often thought of people without an embodiment practice and how a lack of relationship with the whole self can create additional anxieties and diminish the awareness of what might be going on beneath the surface. That experience intensified my commitment to honoring this beautiful and rugged life by sharing an intentionally-evolving way of living with others.

With this work, clients and I explore levels of and potential reasons for disconnect. We outline approaches for self and life reconnection in a process I created from an eclectic assortment of methods and during sessions with hundreds of clients. For additional information on my training, links are provided below my image on the left side of this page.

Additionally, having noted a vast separation between me and my own body, I researched practices and people committed to bringing a more peaceful existence to individuals and the communal life experience. Their names and the other information are on the Resource Page.

I invite you to explore the material to see if something resonates with the development of a personalized approach to improving a you-to-you connection.

Becoming a Bodyworker, a CranioSacral Therapist, and an Embodiment Coach, and working alongside people bringing into sessions what they have been struggling with, is my sacred privilege. Every aspect of my life has evolved through this twenty-plus year professional “experiment”—because that’s all it was initially—an experiment.

And, that’s a wild story I’ll share in person.

I HOLD SPACE FOR THE ERADICATION OF WILLFUL HARM AND SEPARATED DESPAIR, WITH THE INTENTION THAT OUR COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE HUMANELY EVOLVES AS WE MINGLE BENEATH THE SAME BEAUTIFUL SKY, OVER WHAT IS EFFECTIVELY A SMALL ROCK FLOATING IN THE MIDDLE OF SPACE.

~eMMe