BEing Seen
Take your Body Back | Reconnect with your Body
Your body talks. Listen and you will be able to redefine your roadmap of success for life after trauma
Domestic Violence | Sexual Abuse Survivor Empowerment
Reclaim your Body
Feed the body to fuel the body. Relearn the body and all it needs to experience functional wellness and nutrition through holistic meal planning
Reconnect with your Body
Your body has the power to do and to move. Feel what your body can do. Feel your body move. Guided embodied movement brings you back to your body as you learn to love it again.
Rewrite your Body’s Response
Sensory Somatic Practices made for you to breathe into the body to feel the body. Your senses will revisit and rewrite the body’s responses to your trauma, bringing empowered awareness to your environment.
Enjoy your Body Again
Redefining the roadmap back to your body means coming back to the place where you can enjoy it again. Sacred sexual pleasures framed and supported by guided trauma survivor partner support practices allow the body exploration to unfold with delight again
Redefining the Roadmap Back to Your Body
Before working with Vanessa:
In a country where 81% of women have reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime, there is so much still missing in the trauma survivor support system. Survivors are not supported or informed on how to take our bodies back following sexual assault.
We feel removed from our bodies, not knowing, in the future, how to be intimate again, how to have sex after trauma, or even how to enjoy sex again. Even our partners of survivors aren’t fully taught how to provide the right trauma survivor partner support.
We end up feeling lost, broken, invalidated. Without a healthy and established trauma survivor support system, how can we relearn in order to return to ourselves?
After working with Vanessa:
Vanessa’s legacy is to empower and guide survivors that are right where she once was, to learn how to engage in healthy relationships after abuse, to develop skills to better navigate your experience, to learn who you are outside of your trauma, to take back your voice, your power and your body, and learn the words to express your experience to others.
Being a trauma survivor herself, Vanessa has learned through experience what it means to heal only your mind – without healing your body of trauma,
the trauma brain will always win. Vanessa developed the techniques that helped her reclaim and reconnect to her intuition, rewrite her body’s responses, and redefine the roadmap bringing her back to her power and destiny. She is here as the trauma survivor empowerment you’ve needed to achieve all that for yourself as well.
The Elements of Trauma Survivor Empowerment Support
Holistic Diet Meal Planning
To feel your body again, and to feel good in your body again, begins with how its fed and fueled. Just as with the Embodied Nutrition in the BEing Well program, those in BEing Seen will be given and guided through holistic meal planning that include the working elements of Anti-inflammation diets Ayurvedic diets Archetype Body Type diets
Embodied Movement
Movement that heals found in the embodied movement practices suited for all bodies designed for all stories Movement & Embodiment Coaching can be found through the activating practices Kundalini Dance & Song Buti Yoga Accessible, Inclusive Fitness Self Care Body Rituals
Somatic Sensory Practice
Somatic therapy modules and sensory practice let the body talk, and be heard. Unpacking trauma can be done through the senses – your senses can help explain the trauma, but also to revisit and rewrite your body’s response. Sensory grounding exercises are given to become fully present in your physical environment – and to learn to trust it.
The Elements of Trauma Survivor Empowerment Support
Trauma Survivor Workbook
Developed after recognizing the lack of guidance and content on how to take back your power, sensually and sexually, after intimate partner violence, and rape. These are the tools Vanessa utilized to reconnect with her mind, body, and spirit. It is 10 years of professional experience with 2 years of her own healing journey, transformed into a 9-week/session workbook to start the healing process.
Trauma Survivor Partner Support
Taking their body back response from the act of processing the trauma takes effort – and that needs support. These practices help partners support trauma survivors as they begin body mapping – taking their bodies back, & feeling safe feeling seen once again.
Sacred Sexual Guidance
Exploring your senses through the somatic sensory practices gets you back to sensing your body – to feeling your body. It’s possible to feel good in your body again. This Sacred Sexual Guidance will allow you to explore your body deeper, to relearn giving yourself sexual pleasure, and even how to receive pleasure from your partner.
The “Why” to Vanessa’s legacy: BEing Seen
Vanessa was where you are – but without the guidance on how to come back to the self from someone who has been right there and been right through it to the other side.
We endure, and endure, to then come back to a body that feels caged by the trauma – it makes sense why so many survivors look at themselves thinking, “I don’t feel like this body is even my own.”
We feel foreign in our own skin, especially when forced into a traumatic experience that leaves us feeling removed from our bodies with no guidance on how to ever come back.
Vanessa has been right there, too. Her trauma kept her disconnected, disempowered, and disoriented. There was no trauma and rape survivor support system in place and accessible so she found her own way and redefined the roadmap back to self so she could guide other survivors as the Rape Survivor Empowerment coach she and all trauma survivors deserve.
Become Comfortable BEing Seen
To be successful?
You can be vulnerable and feel safe working with a woman
who has been where you are – she’s just giving you the guidance that she saw missing.
Vanessa & Other Survivors featured in “This Hits Home”
The documentary, “This Hits Home,” reveals the invisible and silent epidemic of permanent traumatic brain injury in women from domestic violence.
Sharing the stories of survivors, paired with medical evidence, this documentary provides insights into the trauma of interpersonal violence and its lasting impact on women and children.
Why BEing Seen?
Vanessa saw how much was lacking in the realm of trauma and rape survivor support and empowerment. BEing Seen was developed for those who feel removed from there own bodies, as if they dont fit in, even within themselves.
So, yes, you do fit in the program. It was made with a space for those like you who have experienced trauma and need the support that will help them back to their bodies and guide them to taking their power back.
Yes, your story will be heard and understood. Vanessa’s personal experience showed her what was needed to support and guide those that have gone through similar experiences/traumas. Her own story is what led to BEing Seen being developed and tailored specifically to those who are already on or ready to begin their healing journey.
This is different because this program isn’t confined to just a therapist’s office.
You may have already tried therapy but something brought you to this website. Vanessa offers free 30-minute consultations to ensure it’s a good fit and you’re going to receive the service from the energy you need.
This is how Vanessa is different – she doesn’t take on just any client. She selects clients to work with to ensure she is the most qualified to address your needs – this is why trauma therapy with Vanessa looks like therapy, nutrition guidance, embodiment practices, and spiritual self-care.
Send a message with the required information filled in one of the contact forms. Once received, Vanessa will reach out directly to you to schedule an intake consultation.
Diet in this sense is not diet like we see advertised to us. The holistic diet meal planning is addressing how your body is fed every day.
Research shows us how trauma deactivates the digestive system due to the fight or flight response; therefore, eating a diet that re-activates your digestive system is a key to treatment. Trauma, especially acute and long-term trauma, results in acute inflammation in the body. Some of the ways we reverse these effects are with an anti-inflammatory eating plan, supplements, and physical activity in many forms.
Yes. The meal plans crafted with and for you are all anti-inflammatory and ayurvedic inspired. Personalized holistic meal planning allows room to remove any foods or accommodate dietary restrictions.
Embodied Movement, like the holistic meal planning, is tailored to you, your needs, and your abilities. There will be movement you can do, and there will be the movement that will motivate you to expand even further into what your body can do once the trauma is lifted from holding onto your body.
No, not necessarily. We will be mostly discussing how to support partners during trauma activations. Therefore, if you don’t have a current partner, but are comfortable with sharing your experience for connection and education, then all are welcome.
There is so much research on the positive benefits of the orgasm, which is why this is an important part of the program but not mandatory.
Sacred Sexual Guidance isn’t just about sex; it’s about reconnecting with your body in a sensual way, so if or when you want to exchange your energy in that way you’re comfortable. But again, you dictate your experience; therefore, you can choose not to include this in your program.
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