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To women who have felt unheard and left out:
Own your story, connect to your body, and find belonging with other women.
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To women who have felt unheard and left out:
Own your story, connect to your body,
and find belonging with other women.
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Our Work
We facilitate healing spaces where women can experience belonging and boldly share their untold stories. We use somatic and creative practices to explore our complexity, embrace our unique narratives, and be who we really are. From this foundation of creative flow and connection, we then explore how sharing our stories can inform, influence and inspire collective action.
Our Why
Why Stories?
Stories are powerful. They reveal the truth for each one of us, show us what is possible, and give us strength and courage—especially when the stories are our own. Stories impact others. They offer resonance so that those who have also been marginalized know they’re not alone, and they offer a deeper understanding of systemic oppression to those less familiar with marginalization. We believe the stories of marginalized women are critical to inspiring the social and planetary changes humanity is being called to steward.
Why Somatics?
Our bodies are the foundation of who we all are. They hold our stories and the keys to healing. The more aware we are of our bodies, the easier it is to access our stories and to liberate our essential selves.
Why Us?
We are two multiracial women, coaches, and healers. We met a couple years ago, saw that we had similar philosophies, and decided to explore working together.
We learned that we have different backgrounds but key similarities—including the experience of not belonging and how this disconnected us from ourselves and others. We decided to embark on a creative journey of storytelling and somatic practices to help us find wholeness together.
We have spent the last year supporting each other in deep healing by breathing, moving, feeling, writing and sharing. We are turning our writing into a book about our experiences living between worlds and the strategies we have used—and continue to use—to empower ourselves.
As coaches and healers committed to creating a world where everyone can thrive, we are honored to share these resources with you.
About Us
Jamie Frank
I'm a Black/White/Filipina cis woman, a lawyer, and a personal and professional development coach. I grew up low-income in a predominantly white community in Idaho. The empathy I developed from being different and having less called me to a career of helping others. I've been doing social change work for a decade and coaching movement leaders since 2020.
Writing is essential to me. When I was a kid, it saved my life. It helped me survive isolation, depression, and cancer. In college, I was fortunate to study with award-winning novelist and poet Bill Carpenter. My studies culminated in a dystopian novel inquiring into the malleability and durability of identity. Right now, I'm working on a book of poetry dealing with belonging and purpose.
For me, the magic of writing is in the process, not the product. I see it as a portal to deeper connection with the world around me—both seen and unseen—and myself. I am honored to share this healing practice with you.
Lena Hyde Nuñez
My biracial and multicultural identity has been both a blessing and a struggle. A blessing in that I have creativity and diversity flowing through my veins, which allows me to travel in and out of many worlds. A struggle in that sometimes these worlds, and their corresponding parts within me, have been fragmented. This means I’ve had to relearn how to live connected to an inherent sense of belonging and worthiness. This is the blessing within the struggle—a journey which instills in me a commitment to help others reconnect to this birthright of knowing we belong.
Born on an island off the coast of Honduras and raised by my Cuban grandparents, I first learned healing from my grandmother. Later, I learned a Western approach to healing by studying psychology and working in community mental health for over a decade.
I then found a bridge between these often polarized systems of healing that brought me back home to my body. Since my introduction to Somatic Meditation, Feldenkrais, and Body-Mind Centering, I've spent almost twenty years studying and practicing a wide range of somatic therapies and/or working as a somatic educator and coach. I bring with me both traditional and academic approaches to somatics, mindfulness, storytelling and collaborative leadership.
Blog
Post-Election Breath Space
Remember all emotions are natural, so let's feel what we feel. ...more
Stories
November 11, 2024•3 min read
Breath Rider
The way I feel reflects the way I breathe. Changing one has the power to change the other. ...more
Stories
September 27, 2024•6 min read
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