If you’ve been told your gender is too confusing, your emotions too big, your needs too specific, consider a reframe: you are detailed, and detailed people require detailed care. Body trust does not erase the realities of dysphoria, safety threats, or limited access to affirming care—but it can soften the isolation of navigating those realities alone.

Gender euphoria is not always cinematic. Sometimes it’s laughing with a friend over how right your new shoes feel, or realizing you didn’t think about your chest for a whole hour. Sometimes it’s the very queer joy of realizing your gender is less “man” or “woman” and more “crow in a hoodie” or “sprite in sweatpants,” and that’s allowed. Humor, play, and experimentation are not distractions from healing—they are part of how queer and trans communities have survived.

If you’re tired of wellness that feels like another performance review, Soma Roots Therapy offers a space to remember that you are not a project; you are a person in process, already worthy, already whole. Decolonizing healing does not mean rejecting all tools or practices; it means reclaiming your right to define what healing looks and feels like on your own terms, in your own body, in connection with the people and places that make you feel most alive. That’s the work here: less renovation, more reclamation.

Here’s the thing: what gets labeled as “too much” is often a nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do—notice more, feel more, process more. Research on sensitivity and neurodivergence shows that some brains take in more sensory and emotional data, process it more deeply, and stay activated for longer, which can lead to overwhelm and shutdown in environments that move fast and expect people to “just push through.” The traits that get you side-eyed in a staff meeting are the same traits that make you perceptive, empathetic, and able to spot patterns others miss.

Rest as resistance will never look perfect. Some weeks it might be a full day off; other weeks it might be three extra breaths in the car before going inside. Sometimes it looks like saying no; sometimes it looks like letting someone help you carry the load. It’s okay if part of you still panics when you slow down. That’s what happens when a system trains you to equate stillness with danger or failure.

If Soma Roots Therapy were a sandwich, “Body Trust” would be the artisanal bread—chewy, nourishing, and maybe a little bit wild around the edges. (Gluten-free metaphors available upon request.)

After eight years entwined in and supported by the beautiful chaos of an ever-expanding group practice, I’m thrilled (and, let’s be honest, slightly terrified in a good way) to announce a leap into the unknown: the birth of my own practice, Soma Roots Therapy.