Hello!
My name is Caitlin, Founder of Ladybird Soma, and I am so glad you are here.
You may be in a season of desperation…grasping for something (anything) that will move you out of a constant state of threat. Or, you may be entering another layer of your healing and are inspired by the idea that your body is your guide. Wherever you find yourself today, I acknowledge the courage it takes to listen to the part of you that wonders if there is another way.
TRAINING
Internal Family Systems Level 3 Certification
Integrative Trauma Therapy Certification
Spinal Energetics Level 1 Certification
Revelation Breathwork Certification
Masters in Community Mental Health
Wild Love Women’s Embodiment
My Journey.
TEACHERS
Francis Booth, LCSW
The Incredible Faculty at The Embody Lab
Dr. Sarahjane Perri (Chiro)
Dr. Maura Moynihan and Jason Amoroso
Kimberly Ann Johnson
Madelyn Moon
Kiana Reeves/Sarah Entrup/Cassie Schemper
My Story.
For most of my life, everything was intensely overwhelming. The dials were always turned all the way up, and I did not have the skills or capacity to respond to all the ways my worlds were stimulating my system.
My body learned early on that I could find (illusive) relief by tending to everyone else’s needs as an attempt at meeting my own. Unfortunately, this only drove me further into my suffering as I continued to override my systems’ desperate cries to come back into my own listening room. I felt betrayed by my own body’s way of relating to the world. I was far from my center—and deeply out of touch with my own sovereignty.
Thankfully, life has generously given me many experiences that ushered me into to the depths of my despair (an exquisitely painful, yet fertile place to be).
As both a student and seasoned practitioner of this work, I have come to understand that we cannot ‘will’ ourselves to heal. While bringing awareness to our process is helpful, it often only nourishes our inner critic—giving it more fuel for shaming the parts of us that ‘know better’ while we find ourselves churning in the same behaviors/patterns.
While good intentioned, there is really no combination of mindset shifts, or ‘hacks’ that will support (any) system in loosening the grip on what it protects.
Rather, it is when we can let ourselves turn towards our own protection and let it tell it’s story that our body begins to find a different shape. A shape that eventually signals enough safety in the body to trust a new orientation to our life.
And so, when we access this resonance and connection to our body, we realize that our sensitivity is the brilliance that pulses through us—the thread that allows us to truly experience the range of our FULL humanness.
This work is the work of my heart.
To return daily to the swell of my longings and my aches, and to invite you to do the same.
It is an honor to be with you on this beautiful journey together.
Lastly, I want to acknowledge and give thanks for all the teachers in my life—the ones who I have chosen and the ones who have chosen me.
So much love.