Sarah Kendrick (she/her/hers)

Years of grappling with trauma has shown me something beautiful. Yes, we inherit post-traumatic stress. But we inherit post-traumatic growth too! We can rewire the ways our wise adaptive minds read information. Soothe the fear. Reeducate the vigilance. Keep potential trauma from becoming embedded. Trauma comes to our bodies through relationship, but healing does too. When we reshape how we safely show up in world, we heal & reveal our full Selves & pave the way for healthy whole-hearted children

When I first saw postpartum depression, I didn’t know it. I had been all about resilience beginning in the womb until I saw her ashamed, sobbing on a pile of 5-steps-to-perfect-mothering books. I hid her books & held her & the baby. It was all I knew to do. I became certified in treating prenatal & postpartum mood disorders because I realized people can't grow resilient babies without support for their own flourishing. I now help people become safe, seen, & supported in birth & beyond.

Yes- hormones & unbalanced neurotransmitters wreak havoc in pregnancy, postpartum, & parenting. Yet depression is also oppression. The expectation to get it all right denies the natural shadow parts of parenting like worry, sadness, anger, ache, & weariness. The protective body-mind responds to that pressure with panic or shuts down because it seeks safety & connection— not perfection. Folx have an inherent capacity for a safer & more authentic way to show up. I help them find it.

After years trying to uncover & undo the effects of trauma, I turned to the science of well-being. I quickly learned that like trauma, flourishing need not occur through profound significant events, but through the tiniest equally profound changes in how a body takes in information. I became a positive psychology practitioner & mindfulness & meditation teacher to help you and I rewire for flourishing. I move fluidly between diagnosing trauma & prescribing birth meditations or a dance party.

After years in the trauma field, I found the science of well-being. Like trauma, flourishing doesn’t come through significant events. It’s shaped through tiny profound changes in our embodied sensing of information from moment to moment. I became a positive psychology practitioner & mindfulness teacher to help us both pay attention to those moments & consistently rewire ourselves for well-being. I will diagnose PTSD when needed. I’m just as likely to prescribe birth meditations or dance parties

After years in the trauma field, I found the science of well-being. Like trauma, flourishing isn’t about significant events. It’s shaped through tiny profound changes in our felt sense of taking in information from moment to moment. I became a positive psychology practitioner & mindfulness teacher to help us both pay attention to those moments & consistently rewire ourselves for well-being. I will diagnose PTSD when needed & I’m just as likely to prescribe birth meditations or dance parties.

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that felt senses mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

Once complicated feminine experience came to light, terms like ‘objective’ began to define what experience was real & good. Well-being was about some kind of transcendence only available to those who already had safety & freedom. Too many folx have neither. They reach their potential here in the muck of daily life & would flourish in the absence of oppression. My humanistic lens finds the truth of subjective experience for Whole-people-in-context that are unique, inherently good, & autonomous.

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that the body mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that the body mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom