Coming Home to Your Body (And Why I Built Elemental Flow)
For a long time, I tried to “fix” myself with mindset alone.
I read the books, listened to the podcasts, set the intentions, wrote the affirmations. On paper, I was doing everything “right.” But my body told a different story: tight jaw, knotted stomach, shallow breath, a nervous system that lived on high alert even when nothing was actually wrong.
If you’ve ever felt like you understand what you’re supposed to do but can’t get your system to follow…this is for you.
Your body is not the problem
Most of us were taught to override our bodies in the name of success, productivity, or being “easy to be around.” Push through. Be grateful. Don’t be so sensitive.
The thing is, your body has been keeping score the whole time.
Every time you hustled past your limits.
Every time you swallowed the hard conversation.
Every time you stayed small to keep the peace.
Your nervous system adapted to help you survive those moments. It did its job. The symptoms you might feel now—anxiety, numbness, burnout, tension, disconnection—aren’t signs that you’re broken. They’re signs that your body is still trying to keep you safe using old strategies.
Somatic work is the process of teaching your body that it’s allowed to choose something new.
Why the elements?
Elemental Flow was born from two places: my love for the ocean, and my fascination with the way our bodies mirror the natural world.
Water reminds us how to move with change instead of bracing against it.
Earth gives us ground when everything feels like it’s shifting.
Air invites breath back into the places that have gone stale or stuck.
Fire is the part of us that still wants, that still cares, that still burns for a life that feels like ours.
When we work together—through somatic coaching, strength training, nervous system support, bodywork, or surf—we’re not trying to become a different person. We’re learning how to move with your own inner weather instead of fighting it.
What this space is (and isn’t)
This is not a space where you have to perform being “healed,” “high vibe,” or endlessly positive.
It is a space where:
Your sensitivity is treated as intelligence, not an inconvenience.
Your body gets a vote in the decisions you make.
Strength includes rest, boundaries, softness, and saying no.
Sometimes that looks like lifting weights in a way that feels safe and doable. Sometimes it looks like lying on a massage table and letting your system finally exhale. Sometimes it looks like sitting on a surfboard in the lineup, feeling your heart race as a set rolls in, and choosing to stay with yourself instead of abandoning ship.
An invitation
If any part of you is tired of white‑knuckling your way through change, this work is for you.
You don’t have to have the “right” words. You don’t have to be in the perfect place in your journey. You just have to be willing to be honest about where you are now—and curious about what might be possible if your body, your strength, and your nervous system were all on the same team.
In future posts, I’ll be sharing simple nervous system tools, strength and movement practices, and reflections from the ocean and everyday life. My hope is that each one gives you at least one small, concrete way to feel a little more at home in yourself.
For now, I’ll leave you with a question:
What would change if your body wasn’t something to manage or fix—but a place you were learning to come home to?
If you want support in exploring that, you can always reach out or peek at the offerings page and see what pulls you.
