Your Body is a Person
The Simple Shift that Holds the Key to Personal Healing and Collective Justice
This course will not “fix” you because you are NOT broken.
So instead of “solving your problems” or making over-hyped promises, I want to invite you into a journey of reconnection.
Because when you reconnect to your body and yourself, you can stand firm in the awareness that you are loved, accepted, and whole just as you are.
No person or therapist or guru can make you whole. Only YOUR body can guide you through the darkness of pain, anxiety, loneliness, and confusion... into wholeness, aliveness, and embodiment.
The truth is that most facilitators and practices treat your body as an “it.” There’s an assumption that your body is a kind of glorified machine that “you” live inside.
It cuts you off from a crucial source of information for your healing. Your body knows how to heal. Your body knows what you need to feel balanced, grounded, healthy, and whole.
But if you cannot hear what they’re telling you…
You end up searching for other people’s ideas about what your body needs. (And this rarely works as well as we want it to).
Relating to your body as a living, breathing, intelligent being transforms the way you experience the world.
This is the culmination of my entire life’s work. Conversations with more than 400 brave individuals confronting their own trauma.
6000+ hours of 1:1 client work and years of personal work.
I promise you, if you honestly explore this perspective you will find you already know this. You already know this deep in your bones. You’ve just been conditioned out of it.
The solution isn't "fixing" something. It's reconnecting with someone.
It’s learning how to listen and commune with your body through
the process I call "Personified Embodiment"... the very conversation
I've been having with my own body for years.
The structure of this course is intentional. Each module slowly builds on the one before.
This gradually develops a language and a skillset for you to relearn how to connect to your body in a healthy, compassionate, relational way.
I promise, once we get the conversation started, you two will have a lot to talk about. 😉
With any journey, it’s helpful to know where you’re starting. In this first module we start with right where you are.
-How to show up for yourself and get the most from this course, even if you feel overwhelmed, confused, or uncertain.
-Why an honest look at your “relationship history” with your body is the first, most important step of this process.
-Feeling triggered? You’ll get a special grounding and centering exercise to help you stay present and calm through emotionally challenging conversations and exercises.
Now we move from personal history to the wider cultural context of trauma. We will explore direct and systemic trauma, and the intersecting oppressive systems that create them both: capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, authoritarian religion, ableism, and fatphobic diet culture.
-How the unspoken connections between personal and systematic trauma perpetuate violence and how you can break this cycle.
-The truth about where body disconnection, dissociation, hostility and neglect originates.
-Why embodiment work is just as much about personal healing as it is about collective justice.
-How these systems have taught us to hate, neglect, and disconnect from our bodies and how we project this onto other people's bodies, too.
Once we understand the context of our trauma, we can begin to unravel and release it through a profound paradigm shift in the way we relate to our bodies.
-How and why Personified Embodiment transforms the way you relate to sex, intimacy, health, and life.
-The 4 foundations of Personified Embodiment: Self-compassion, self-curiosity, self-communication, and self-connection.
-What this path of Personified Embodiment looks like in real-life practice.
-Discover what’s possible for you through my personal and professional stories of transformation and healing.
The first foundation is self-compassion because the shame and judgement we put on ourselves keep us stuck. Releasing them and softening through compassion opens us to new possibilities for healing and true growth.
-What shame is, where is comes from, and how it poisons our relationship with our body.
-An invitation into a new way of understanding your behavior that can rebuild trust and safety with your body.
-Grieving for Your Inner Child: a powerful visualization to heal and re-pattern your relationship to your inner child.
-Houseguests vs. Roommates: An empowering shift in the way you relate to all of your emotions.
Curiosity is the key to living this work of Personified Embodiment. In this module, your curiosity will guide you to rediscover just how much information your body communicates to you in every moment.
-Re-learning the language of your body: what your sensations, emotions, pains, imbalances, signals, and cravings are really saying.
-A Personified Embodiment-based approach to navigating the medical and mental health system from an empowered, trauma-informed place of body advocacy.
-How to get unstuck and learn to relate to the emotions you won’t allow yourself to feel (hint: it’s about curiosity).
The foundation of every relationship is communication –– and it is no different for your relationship with your body.
-Creating your Therapeutic Third Place: how interactions with our bodies look VASTLY different when we regard them as people instead of objects.
-Communication From Your Body: how to engage in active listening with your body to understand what they want you to know.
-Communication From You: the 7 types of direct and indirect communication we can engage in with our bodies that nurture your relationship (bonus: this also applies to your relationships with other humans).
-The single most intense and transformational meditation tool I use with my clients (you might want to keep some tissues nearby).
This final module isn’t the "end”, but rather the beginning of a journey of discovery and relationship that will last a lifetime.
- Why a “project” mentality towards your body can make things worse.
-The joy of embodiment: the importance of pleasure, delight, rest, sex, food, frivolity and play with your body.
-Trigger Response Exercise: How to successfully de-escalate when you experience inevitable triggers in your life-long journey of healing your body.
-My final thoughts, notes, and wishes for you on your continued journey towards wholeness and embodiment.
74 page beautifully illustrated physical workbook mailed to your door! This is not some cheap pdf. This is a thoughtfully designed support for your process with journaling pages, writing prompts and exercises to deepen your connection to your body.
30 lessons paced out over 14 weeks. You get 15 hours of transformational content distilled from my 1:1 coaching sessions. This is the same amount of “content” my personal coaching clients get.
Practical tools, meditations, visualizations and exercises. Personified Embodiment isn’t just something abstract that stays in your inner world, it is incredibly practical for everyday life. In addition to the course content you also get 10 of the most useful practices and tools for navigating triggering situations, moving through emotions, and connecting to your body
An ebook copy of my book, You Are Your Own. In many ways, this course is “part 2” of the book. So I want to give you “part 1” as a gift :)
1 Month free membership to my membership space, The Coven. This is a safe space for you to connect with others and work through your process. The feeling of “being alone” is one of the most tragic consequences of trauma.
Before we get into the details of the course, I want to share a little context into
how this offering came to be and how it fits within the evolution of my work.
My availability for 1:1 coaching is intentionally limited. I work with only a handful of clients
each year, and that work involves a financial investment of over $4000.
I created this course as a way to offer the same foundational framework
I use with my private clients at a much more accessible entry point.
In many ways, this course picks up where my book You Are Your Own left off.
It's a more interactive, embodied way to begin exploring the core questions
I've carried through my work for years.
While my current practice continues to shift towards more hands-on, in-depth,
and often in-person experiences, this course remains one of the most grounded and comprehensive ways to begin.
It's a starting point -- a self-paced resource that invites you into learning
Personified Embodiment on your own terms, in your own time.
To reflect that clarity, I've moved to a single flat-rate price:
no tiers, no urgency, no pressure.
My hope is that this simplifies access for those who want to engage deeply
with their body's voice without needing to commit to high-cost 1:1 work right away.
I poured my heart and soul into this course.
If your body is asking for a different way to be known,
I hope this becomes a resource you can return to again and again.
Why this price?
It’s one thing to think about this work intellectually and how it might apply to your life…
...but it’s a totally different experience to hear real humans share about how their lives changed. So I invited some of my previous clients to share about their process.
Some of them are a little long, but they are 100% sincere so I didn’t edit their words.
"I grew up Evangelical Christian, specifically Charismatic Pentecostal. I was deeply indoctrinated and extremely invested in the church and that lifestyle. Even though I left the church, some of its ideas still lived inside me. Things like purity culture, rejection of “the flesh” and not trusting my own body, and being terrified of making the wrong decision lest I completely ruin “God’s perfect plan for my life.”
I tended to live in my head and was disconnected from my body, my emotions, or my surroundings. It often took me several days to weeks to figure out how I felt about something! I was timid and afraid to take up space.
But after working with Jamie everything is so different.
Now I know my body loves me. She and I are friends. That is such a simple statement, but I cannot describe the impact this has made. For the first time in my life, I feel connected to my body. I am genuinely excited to live my life with her and get to know her during the time we have together.
From my heart, I want you to know this work is totally worth the time, money, and effort. You are fully informed and asked for consent during the entire process, so you won’t be getting into anything unprepared, and you can opt out if this doesn’t feel like a good fit for you. Jamie is trauma informed and very good at coaching you through what can sometimes be a difficult process. This work has been life changing for me, and I encourage you to consider it."
Sarah A
Oklahoma
My life was unraveling the season before I worked with Jamie. I spent my formative years in a religious community where I related to God as a heavy, obligating force. I felt compelled to surrender my body, desires, and even my sense of self to this Obligation or else face intense shame.
After a period of exploring hard questions about faith, the narratives and belief structures I was raised with felt like they started crumbling overhead. Anxiety and depression billowed up out of that ruin and threatened to suffocate me daily. I had little clue where to go from there or what new foundation I should build my life upon. I just wanted to live and enjoy life, but I was so severed from my own body that the ability to desire itself felt out of reach.
I was so unmoored from my own body and swept away by anxiety and despair to the point where I felt like I was losing control. That frightened me to the core. It seemed like Jamie could understand my background and struggles, so I started working with her.
At one point, I noticed a part of me was very resistant to Jamie’s work. It felt like a pulling and gnawing at my mind, disorienting me and trying to convince me that none of this help was real. Instead of resisting back, I empathized with this part of my body and realized that he was just trying to keep me safe from this new and unfamiliar teaching in his own way. We were on the same team all along, he just didn’t want me to get hurt again! In my journal I wrote:
“After I recognized that, I felt something amazing. I became whole again. Everything was clearer. I felt alive. And what’s more, I felt a little sprout of a self in me. I didn’t feel empty inside anymore.”
Now that Jamie helped introduce me to my body and coached us through reconciling practices, life feels so much better! I feel at home in my body now and can look to him for security when difficult situations and emotions come my way. I feel like I’ve made a comeback and now have an emotionally sustainable way of life.
To anyone considering working with Jamie, Do it! Since our work together I’ve discovered so many applications for embodiment. Not only did it form a secure and tested ground for moving through life, but also it sharpened my awareness and sensibility during all kinds of activities—from athletics and mountaineering to being a better friend and partner. I truly think anyone can benefit in some way through this work!”
Zach
Denver, Colorado
"I grew up in the evangelical Christian world which meant that I learned to disregard my body at best and hate her at worst. I also started questioning my sexuality in college, but had to completely shut off that part of me to feel safe in my Christian context.
Over the years, the distance between me and my body continued to grow because I thought I needed to ignore all of her feelings and needs in order to survive. Eventually, once I started therapy, I realized that I couldn't identify anything that was going on in my body or even in my emotions. My therapist would ask "what do you feel in your body right now?" and I would be completely blank.
Even though I'd come out as queer, I had no idea how to recover from purity culture or how to allow myself to be a sexually embodied person.
So when Jamie had some openings in her very long wait list, I jumped at the chance to work with her! Jamie helped me to uncover points in my life when my body tried to tell me something and I didn't listen and she showed me how to maintain that communication going forward. She also helped me to understand the stories my body believed over the years and how those could be impacting my life today.
Based on the conversations I had with Jamie, I was able to realize that my body associated sexuality not only with shame but with loss. This realization was life changing! Jamie helped me see that the shame I carried was unwarranted and that the story my body believed was false. Just knowing these things allowed me to feel free in my sexuality for the first time in my life!
I try to share what I've learned with anyone who will listen, but there's no substitute for the real thing. It was 100% worth all the time and money in the world to better understand myself and to repair my relationship with my body. "
Michelle
Albuquerque, NM
This course is now fully self-guided.
In the past, I offered a group coaching experience alongside the course, and I truly loved getting to connect with participants in that format. But as my work has shifted toward more hands-on and in-person support, I’m no longer facilitating a group path through this course.
What remains is the straightforward, foundational heart of my work: the full course, in its complete form, available for you to move through on your own time, in your own way. No timelines, no pressure – just an open invitation to return to your body whenever you're ready.
Nope! Everything has been pre-recorded so no need to stress about scheduling around a specific class schedule. If you choose the group coaching path, however, there will be biweekly live calls that you can plan to participate in. But no sweat if you can’t make it -- you’ll get the recording to watch at your convenience
Nope! I have intentionally designed this course to take time so that you can integrate all of the information thoroughly. What that means is that a new module will be unlocked every two weeks, allowing you to engage with the course at a pace that feels best to you.
Forever! And you get to keep the workbook too! ;)
Nope! Just like my 1:1 client work, this course is for anyBODY who has a body and wants to get to know them better and love them more
All sales are final, as this self-facilitated course provides immediate access to all materials upon purchase—no refunds will be issued for any reason.