Becoming the Safe Space I Needed
Photo Credit Wave+Wonder Photography
Being featured in Voyage Utah gave me an opportunity to do something I don’t always slow down enough to do — reflect.
Not just on what I do, but why I do it.
If you read the interview, you’ll see pieces of my story, my path, and how Spiral Quest Healing came to be. But what doesn’t always fit neatly into an interview is the deeper truth underneath it all.
I didn’t come from a safe space. I don’t say that for sympathy. I say it because it shaped everything. It shaped how my nervous system learned to operate. It shaped how I moved through the world, how I held tension, how I processed emotions, how I related to others. For a long time, my body didn’t feel like somewhere I could fully land. It felt like something I had to manage, push through, or disconnect from just to get by.
So I started doing the work.
Not because it was trendy or aesthetic, but because I needed it. I needed to understand why my body held onto things so tightly. I needed to learn how to feel without becoming overwhelmed. I needed to experience what it actually felt like to be safe — not just mentally, but physically, in my body.
Photo Credit Wave + Wonder Photography
And over time, through massage, somatic work, energy healing, and sound, something shifted.
I realized that healing isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about creating the conditions where your body no longer has to stay in survival.
That’s where Spiral Quest Healing was born. Not as a business idea, but as an extension of that journey.
Every session I offer is rooted in that understanding — that the body already knows how to heal when it feels safe enough to do so. My role isn’t to force that process. It’s to support it. To listen. To create an environment where your system can soften, unwind, and come back into balance in its own way and its own time.
This work is personal for me because I know what it feels like to carry things that were never meant to be carried alone. I know what it feels like to live in a state of tension that becomes so normal you don’t even question it anymore.
Photo Credit Wave + Wonder Photography
And I also know what it feels like when that starts to release.
When your shoulders drop without you trying.
When your breath deepens naturally.
When your body realizes, maybe for the first time in a long time, that it doesn’t have to be on guard.
That’s the space I hold. Not a perfect space. Not a space that promises instant transformation.
But a real one. A grounded, intentional, non-judgmental space where you can show up exactly as you are and not have to perform, explain, or hold it all together.
Being featured in Voyage Utah reminded me that this work reaches people in ways I may not always see. And that sharing my story — even the parts that feel vulnerable — matters.
Because someone out there is still in that place I once was and maybe they don’t need to hear that everything gets better overnight. Maybe they just need to know that safe spaces can be built. That healing can be learned. That their body isn’t broken, it’s responding exactly the way it was taught to. It can learn something new.
Photo Credit Wave + Wonder Photography
I didn’t come from a safe space. So I became one. And now, I hold that space for others every single day.
