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Intimacy trauma is not a relationship problem.
It is a 
capacity one.

EmbodiedLife Wellness Institute offers psychosomatic, trauma-informed evidence based pathways to restore intimacy capacity, through the SOFTEN Method™, retreats, and workshop intensives.
Founder, Yolanda Lewis is an Intimacy Trauma Researcher, Psychosomatic Educator, TedX Speaker and Author of, Let Me In

What Can Intimacy Trauma Look Like?

It does not always look as obvious as you might think

Overextended

You are the one who holds everyone else together but cannot remember the last time you felt truly held.

Guarded

You are accomplished, capable, admired and profoundly lonely in ways you cannot always explain.

Stuck

You love deeply and find yourself repeating relational patterns you promised yourself you would never repeat.

Disconnected

You feel disconnected from your own body, your own desire, and your own sense of self, feeling like the most important part of you is just out of reach.

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Intimacy embodied is making room for what was disrupted to surface, and for freedom to follow.

Yolanda Lewis is an intimacy trauma researcher, psychosomatic educator and creator of the SOFTEN Method™. As Founder of Embodiedlife Wellness...  

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Let Me In

New Release Coming Soon!

For millions of women, intimacy feels impossible. Along the way that woman who has tried to connect deeply is rehersing what her body learned; closeness is dangerous. Inherited and solidified by her own experiences, the butterfly she is; passionate, free, and beautiful is held back from truly connecting to love, life, and freedom.

 

As a dual-text for women, clinicians, and scholars Let Me In takes you on a journey of what it actually takes to stop protecting yourself from connection. Written for the woman who is done performing wholeness, and for the rigor of clinicians and scholars, readers will learn what that journey to reclaiming capacity for intimacy requires.

Reclaiming capcity for intimacy is not only possible, it is the most profound act of love you will ever gift to yourself and every generation that follows you.

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The EmbodiedLife
Reset Experience™

A psychosomatic experience for women ready to learn, practice and embody capacity

The Reset Experience is an immersive, somatic encounter with your own capacity. A deliberately structured environment where the nervous system has room to do what it has been waiting to do.

 

This space is designed specifically for the body to arrive, for what has been disrupted to surface, and for restoration to begin at the level where the disruption actually lives.

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Listen To The Podcast

01

Protecting your Peace

Learn how to avoid hurtful words in relationships.

02

Breaking the Cycles of Generational Trauma

Learn how to stop repeating chaos.

03

Overcoming the Hurt of Betrayal

Learn strategies for recovering broken trust.

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From Those Who Have done the work

Ellie

Your session was very powerful...I know already that healing is constant. However, I knew there was a part of myself that needed inner healing...there were things inside that I wasn't fully aware of. And through your (retreat) session, I was able to discover what was living inside...holding me down that needed to be released. You confirmed I am on the right path of healing. 
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Practice Calm
...in just 5 Minutes

Before the work begins, the body needs space to arrive. This practice meditation is designed to encourage creation of a space where you can pause, breathe, and reconnect with the light of your inner wisdom, no matter how busy your life gets.

 

Sign up with your email below to access this moment to tune in and create space for deeper connection, clarity, and peace.

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Are You Ready to Expand Your Capacity and Find Freedom?

For the woman ready to restore. The clinician ready to train. The organization ready to transform. You're in the right place.

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