Cultivate
A 3-month container for professional helpers, healers, and health care workers who want to redefine their work in a way that centers their own values and creativity, so they can feel a sense of vitality doing what they love without leaving any parts of themselves behind!
Hello friend.
I know without a single doubt that you bring highly valuable care to the community you serve.
You’re good at what you do, and everyone knows it.
Your schedule is likely booked with clients, workshops, and continuing education courses.
You always make time for others, but at the end of the workday, you’re exhausted.
Hear me out.
I’m wondering if you’ve started to notice your nervous system is more and more affected by the emotions and experiences of the people you serve.
Maybe you once felt like you had an endless well of wisdom to provide to your people, and lately you’ve noticed yourself coming up short with a “helpful” solution that also feels in alignment with your values.
Perhaps you’re beginning to feel like your work is taking more than it gives, and you don’t know how to change anything without compromising the integrity of your work.
When was the last time you felt aligned with your purpose?
Listen, I know how deeply we want to support our community so we can feel a sense of belonging, but we can’t leave our own vitality out of the work we do for the sake of helping.
At that point, we’ve lost the plot!
It’s time to take a sip of your own sweet medicine, start replenishing your well of resources, and reconnect to the parts you had to leave behind to be good at your job.
So you can feel a sense of aliveness in your body, remember why you chose this path, and create offerings that center your own wellbeing.
So that you can get back to doing the work you love and support the community that loves you back.
Friend, it’s time to move away from signing up for yet another class and instead start the doing, being, and receiving parts of an embodied practice.
Overextending is under feeling.
For many of us, caring for others began very early in life and continued as our role into adulthood. The tendency to look to others first left our own needs for care de-centered and neglected, which was absolutely no fault of our own.
It turns out that overextending oneself is an intelligent coping strategy for safety, access, and resource security when one's environment does not provide such basic needs.
While our orientation to our loved ones and community is very much heart-centered, it can also result in ongoing self-abandonment and inevitably burnout.
We just can’t go on like this.
Now more than ever, we need deeply resourced healers supporting our communities, so that value-driven efforts are sustained and aimed at longevity.
We need to connect to our experience to feel what hasn’t been felt, so that we can integrate the overwhelming sensations and build a wider capacity that allows us to continue on our path without losing our own vitality.
In order to get back to the good stuff, we’ve gotta move through some muddy waters.
This is where body-centered offerings, like Cultivate come into play.
We practice together.
In collaboration, we build practices that develop a deeper connection to the body and establish a stronger foundation that reminds you to center your own nervous system as a healer in the work you bring to the community.
As someone who has been in healthcare and wellness spaces my entire professional career, this is the care I take.
I work with somatic practitioners who observe and reflect on the patterns that I miss in my own system, provide compassionate feedback, and offer practices centered on choice.
This has molded me into a well-resourced practitioner who knows my needs, preferences, and boundaries, which inform how I can best show up for my clients.
Through a body-based, human-centered lens, I create offerings based on the systems, methods, and time my body has capacity for.
I no longer provide offerings that I can not show up in, without my full integrity, and I want this for you, too.
This is not only in service of your wellbeing, but also the people you provide care to as well.
Trust me, our capacity to provide our work is felt by others.
Here’s what I bring to the table.
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Grounded Support
I provide down-to-earth guidance rooted in Somatic Experiencing methods throughout all of my offerings, which is especially helpful when it comes to dipping into experiences that haven’t been felt in a while.
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Mirrored Experience
As someone who might share your experiences and values, I offer a compassionate mirror up to you, reflecting patterns and cycles you may not have previously noticed.
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Personal Practice
I prioritize helping you develop a routine that will carry you long after our work together with many tools, techniques, and resources including bodywork, therapeutic movement, and personalized rituals.
“I’ve worked with so many people over the years, and this is the first time I’ve been able to stay in the room with what I was feeling.”
private client
What’s Included.
Cultivate is a 3 month offering interwoven with many points of quality support, including:
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6 virtual meetings.
We meet twice a month in a virtual 90-minute video call format for 3 months to ensure you receive quality attention and time for integration.
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Access to a shared Voxer channel for the duration of our time together.
Have questions in between sessions? No problem, you have weekly access to me and my support, and I’m only a voice note away.
This additional support is great for continued processing in between sessions, assignment review, and on-demand support for the day-to-day queries.
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Throughout our time, you’ll receive weekly assignments aimed at getting in touch with your own creative somatic practice so we can build a personalized routine that supports you long after our time together.
Assignments are personalized, but can include journal entries, art activities, and somatic movement exploration.
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After each virtual call, you will have access to detailed notes that highlight the themes, breakthroughs, and action points of our meetings.
Investment:
$900 a month
or $450 twice a month
with a minimum commitment of 3 months
Cultivate is a highly attentive program.
This container is rooted in post traumatic growth, somatic attunement, and career support, so we will be working through the whole spectrum of a healer’s ecosystem.
Not only do we move through the foundations of a somatic practice, but you’ll have access to my inner-workings, methods, and offering creation process along the way, so you can create the work you love with support.
During our time together, you’ll receive so many tools, techniques, and resources that will continue to carry you long after completing the program.
What This Work Is
(and isn’t)
What it is:
Somatic support for healers, space-holders, and care providers navigating burnout and disconnection
A vehicle that moves you out of freeze and into action so you can create the offerings you’ve dreamed of
A practical, grounded experience of what it means to live your values without self-abandoning
A place to develop new offerings to include framework, systems, and copy that center on your needs in care settings
What it’s not:
A done-for-you experience
Therapy or crisis work
Passive “feminine energy” or new age performance
A “just sit with it” approach — there is process, depth, and movement here
A map of where we can go.
Week 1-3
RETURN TO BODY WITH RESOURCES.
We begin our work together by cultivating a source of nourishing support for the work ahead.
This is the part where we build a foundation on what lights you up as a healer!
Week 4-6
BUILD BOUNDARIES AND EVALUATE NEEDS.
From a supported place, we can move to define exactly what is needed for your nervous system to access even more ease by building structure around your integrity.
You deserve protection and preservation, friend, especially in care settings.
Week 7-9
DEVELOP DEEPER CAPACITY.
Once a sense of stability has been established, our sessions continue by integrating challenges head-on from a place of curiosity, so that you can grow larger than your patterned activations.
Enter the mud and shadow of the wounded healer archetype.
Week 10-12
REDEFINE PURPOSE AND WORK.
Moving forward, we dive even deeper by working with patterns and subtle responses in order to redefine how you show up in your purpose and community.
This is the part where we create a you-shaped container that carries you forward and creates new realities based on the offerings you’ve dreamed of.
This offering is great for people who:
are in healing professions or helping work and feel overextended, overidentified, or on the edge of burnout
are ready to start a private practice, creative project, or healing community, but need help moving out of freeze and into action
want to develop a somatics practice on a deeper level that goes beyond concepts and into lived experience
want to build greater capacity to hold space for big emotions without being mutually activated with others
have done years of therapy, and have the language to describe their emotions, sensations, and overall internal experience, but want to feel a shift in their body
want to develop the ability to find meaningful and appropriate solutions in a care setting with ease
identify as sensitive, or boundary-fatigued — and need a space that feels like home
“Rachel is an expert listener, space holder, and guide into the wonderful world of somatics. Her patience, guidance, and support are second to none. 10/10: Would highly recommend.”
-Drew D.
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