You deserve joy and ease.
We are not built for the extraction of our body’s resources, the quiet depletion of our energy for endless demands. We are meant to share freely from the reservoir of our abundant energy, creativity and wholeness.
Hi, I’m Andrea Sorum, a Life Coach supporting clients who bravely listen to the inner wisdom that is looking for a different way.
My approach to ME/CFS recovery is a holistic, all-of-the-above approach, but my work as a coach is to specifically help you support your nervous system and establish a baseline to safely grow your capacity over time.
As a somatic healing coach, I can support you to stabilize, soothe, heal, and revitalize your nervous system’s natural resiliency. Every step of this process - stabilize, soothe, heal, integrate and build resilience - is present in every part of the journey. Like layers of an onion there is always more to discover.
To stabilize, we find your baseline or current capacity and create an individualized plan for your days. With stronger boundaries and a clear sense of what is and isn’t right for you, body wisdom begins to grow and your symptoms begin to ease.
We soothe the nervous system through daily rituals, vagus nerve toning, somatic inner work and mind-body practices.
To heal, we visit the internalized survival stories and strategies that no longer serve you. We look at shadow parts that have been hiding under layers of shame. We explore emotions and express them. And we show compassion for all of it - the shame, the fear, the anger, the guilt, the selfishness and pride. We befriend and hold space for all those pieces that were hiding, that were hurting, and integrate them through somatic healing techniques.
When those parts of ourselves that were hiding are out in the open and seen and heard they naturally have less hold on our unconscious reactive patterns that have made our nervous system decide it is not safe. We can love all those parts of ourselves and learn they are not threats but powerful aspects of our inner world. We become less sensitive to triggers, to stress alarms, when we see them as allies who only want the best for us.
With that new relationship with ourselves, we choose the energetics we want to embody. We choose new beliefs and behaviors that are aligned with our truest deeper wisdom.
To build resilience, you learn to trust your capacity to stretch. When you have maintained a stable baseline for a couple of weeks, you try something new - something that brings you joy. A hermetic stress, a new activity, a sensory experience. You stretch in small ways at first, then bigger ways as your capacity grows. You learn to stay calm and show yourself compassion through set-backs and dips.
Then, when we have stretched in small ways over and over, we reintegrate into life with bigger steps. All the work you’ve done healing your whole self will arrive back into the world a transformed person - a person your nervous system feels safe to be.
Art: ©Yelyzaveta Mahda
Coaching can support you to..
Befriend and transform the fear and survival patterns that keep getting in your way.
Trust your intuition implicitly.
Cultivate boundaries that both create space for the life you desire and are loving and empowering for others.
Wire your brain to be on your side and creatively work through challenges.
Nourish and stabilize your body, mind and spirit. Reset your nervous system.
Design a life that prioritizes your values, what brings you joy and meaning.
Choose what’s right for you.
Individual Sessions
or
A Package of 10 or 20 sessions
During one coaching session it is possible to:
Receive support and guidance for an issue or decision you feel challenged by
Tune in to your inner wisdom and grow awareness
Learn inner and outer strategies to help you take the next right step
Over 10 sessions together it is possible to:
Do deep inner work to understand and heal root issues
Activate your intuition and make decisions grounded in your truth and your values
Find more stability and calm, free up energy and time, and feel more agency in your life
Cultivate the mindset and energetic states you desire
Notice your relationships shift as you develop a more loving relationship with yourself
Over 20 sessions it is possible to:
Confidently make decisions as you build self-trust
More easily access the mindset and energetic states you desire
Get clear on your values, vision and sacred purpose
Build out your strategy and life design blueprint
Naturally integrate coaching strategies for resilience, self-compassion and confidence in your daily life
Notice physical manifestations of a chronic stress response start to disappear
Beyond 20 sessions it is possible to:
Feel like your life has transformed and you are a more confident, healthy, loving version of yourself
Put the mindset and energetic states you desire into “auto” mode
Notice yourself feeling less triggered by others and able to stay present
Make your vision reality and watch the Universe support you
Reclaim your..
Body Wisdom
Our body’s communication systems - the sensitivity, symptoms, intuition, tension, and activation we experience - carry vital information.
Your experience says you cannot push through, optimize, protocol or positive think your way through this. It’s time to try something different. In the midst of the demands of your life, learning to listen to your body’s wisdom is the first act of liberation.
Creativity
Your authentic voice, your creative expression, is vital not just for your own healing, but the time and place you belong to.
As we break free from the knots of “should” and relationship patterns that drain us, we have more energy for imagination - for drawing connections, for leadership, for inspiring others.
What is possible for our world needs each of us - our unique spark - to come alive with creativity.
Agency
When we feel stuck, hemmed in by life circumstances, or burned out, it is hard to imagine or hope for something to change. But there are always choices available to us, even in the most difficult situations. In fact, losing all ability to control life is a part of the initiation into the strength of your own fire.
Your nervous system was built to keep you alive - to survive - and will gravitate towards those familiar survival patterns. But you can learn new patterns, claim your sovereignty, maintain compassionate boundaries and find freedom and choice.
My promise to you
Integrity
I value honesty, equality and collaboration. I am a co-creator with you and will honor your values, intuition and needs as a coach should. I am not a licensed mental health professional and will let you know if anything is outside the scope of my training.
I celebrate the diversity of gender expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, brains, cultures, ethnicities, heritages, skin pigments, religions, spiritual practices and all forms of expression that inform our humanity.
I honor and pay my respect to the Indigenous elders past and present and their wisdom that has cared for and preserved the land I live and work on (non-ceded treaty Dakota land).
Compassion
The investment of your time, your resources, your intention and your willingness to be seen, heard and loved is something I feel honored to hold and nurture. My training is trauma-informed and sensitive to all the ways human beings suffer. I am committed to creating safe containers that are healing and nurturing.
Instead of staying in shame, we can cultivate a willingness to acknowledge our growth areas and forgive ourselves. We can begin to recognize how others’ expectations for us keep us second-guessing ourselves and buried in doubt. We can move through shame with abundant grace.
Instead of staying paralyzed by fear, we can love those patterns that have worked so hard to keep us safe, while ultimately deciding when it feels right to move forwards.
Instead of feeling like a victim, we can cultivate and receive self-compassion for ourselves.
The only way forward, truly, is through compassion and love.
Value
It takes a lot of courage to do this work, and it takes a commitment. My promise to you is to offer individualized, high-quality coaching that integrates all levels of knowing - somatic, cognitive, spiritual and emotional - so you not only have the information and tools you need, you also can embody and default to the new patterns and energetics you choose for yourself.
When you invest in yourself this way you change your life in a way that goes beyond yourself or your lifetime.
When you answer the call of liberation for yourself you answer the call of liberation for others as well. You become an inspiration and leader
It is time to listen.
It is time
to set stone on stone -
one cairn at a time -
to mark the path.
It is time to honor
what you need
to be;
Who the world
needs you to be.
It is time to come home
to yourself.
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