Hi, I’m Caelin and I use somatic techniques proven to release trauma and heal it for good!
In 2023, I was honoured to be featured in Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex’s Netflix documentary, Heart of Invictus. This impactful documentary tells the story of six athletes, one of whom is my client, as they competed in the games while dealing with anxiety, trauma and PTSD.
Watch my GlobalTV interview to learn more.
Somewhere along the way, we learned that to release trauma we had to talk about it. And if we didn’t like talking, we just buried it deeper and deeper.
But one thing I’m willing to bet you never spent a lot of time talking about was how that trauma felt inside your body.
And after living with debilitating anxiety for nearly 25 years, I decided to take matters into my own hands and explore why my body often felt worse than the repetitive thoughts circulating in my head.
I educated myself, studied Psychology, learned from some of the most prominent trauma teachers in North America and asked questions like these:
Why, after even the best talk therapy sessions, does anxiety always come back?
Why doesn't medication help more?
Why do physical sensations occur first before our thoughts catch up?
Why…why…why…?
I’ll let you in on a secret that changed my life – talking about trauma is only one side of the healing process – the other is physical.
Our bodies carry energetic souvenirs from every event we experience – from being bullied as a child, to layoffs at work, to bad breakups or accidents.
Our bodies remember.
But here’s where it gets interesting, sometimes we don’t remember. Instead, we go through life seemingly ‘OK’ but confused about why we always feel so uneasy.
That’s because trauma stays trapped inside our bodies long after an event passes and when it’s recalled through a trigger, the first thing we feel is a physical sensation.
Maybe for you, that means tense shoulders, holding your breath, a pit in your stomach, chills or shaking your leg. But no matter what, it all means one thing – there’s unresolved trauma living inside your body!
And here’s how we’re going to fix it.
Here’s a little more about my background, just in case you’re wondering:
I majored in Psychology for my undergraduate degree.
Clinical Yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and a trauma-informed Yoga therapist (TIYT) specializing in anxiety, depression, PTSD and chronic pain
Certified member of The International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and have met the standards for practice through both rigorous training and an extensive clinical internship supervised by a registered psychologist and yoga therapist
Somatic Experiencing (SE) ™, Certified in Somatic Movement, and Overcome™ Clinical Facilitator.
Yoga Therapy Advisory Board Member in support of research for the TIYT protocol at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Yoga Therapy Advisory Board Member for Yoga Therapy Library (YTL), a new online resource.
Team member at Landing Strong, a new trauma treatment centre in Windsor, NS.
Outside of my work, you’ll find me working within collaborative practices in HRM, alongside psychologists, counselling therapists and psychiatrists.
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FUN FACTS
I delivered a lamb while visiting my husband’s family farm in Northern Ireland
I have coffee with my dog Angus every morning. I talk to him and he listens.
I had breakfast with Prince Harry and Megan Markle at the Invictus Games in the Netherlands (May 2022). I attended as the somatic support coach for a Canadian participant.
