The Common Denominator:

Pain, Change, and the Path to Healing.

Welcome to my corner of the internet. Whether you found your way here intentionally or stumbled upon this space in search of something like answers, comfort, and/or inspiration. I'm glad you're here.

My name is Amy, and this blog is an extension of my work, my passion, and my commitment to helping people navigate the often complex landscape of personal transformation. I specialize in holistic wellness, birth and postpartum care, somatic bodywork, herbs and plants and how all of this comes together in a beautiful cycle of health, but at the heart of what I do is this: I help people make sense of their pain, so they can find their way back to themselves.

Over the years, working with individuals from all walks of life, I’ve noticed a powerful through line: pain. It’s the one experience that unites us all. Not always the kind that’s loud and immediate (like heartbreak or acute injury), but sometimes the quiet, chronic kind. Death by a thousand paper cuts. A dull ache. A persistent fatigue. A vague but constant sense that something isn’t quite right.

Pain, as difficult as it is, is often the first true signal that change is necessary. It asks us to listen. It invites us inward. It forces us to look at the places we've been avoiding.

And that’s where things get interesting.

Because if pain is the great motivator, avoidance is its equal and opposite force.

We will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid pain physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, familially, economically . We tighten muscles that don’t need to be tight. We brace against the invisible. We hold our breath. We distract ourselves with busyness or numbing. We build identities around coping mechanisms that once protected us, but now confine us. We may even convince ourselves that everything is fine, so long as we don’t feel too much.

But the truth is: what we avoid doesn’t disappear. It finds another way to speak.

In the body, avoidance shows up as compensation (one area overworking to make up for another that’s been shut down). This might look like chronic tension, fatigue, or strange imbalances that don’t respond to surface-level fixes.

In the mind, it shows up as resistance, reactivity, anxiety, or overthinking. We build internal structures to protect ourselves from discomfort, but often, those same structures keep us stuck.

Ironically, it’s often our very effort to avoid pain that prolongs it. The healing, the relief, the freedom we’re craving lives on the other side of turning toward what we’ve been running from.

This blog will be a space to explore all of this. The patterns, the protective mechanisms, the brilliance of our bodies and minds, and the possibility of change. I’ll be sharing tools, insights, and reflections to help you make contact with your own truth, gently and honestly. While I also provide herbal knowledge, somatic education, and physiological information for all seasons of the body.

Here, we honor both the struggle and the strength. The pain and the potential. The real, raw, nonlinear process of becoming more fully yourself.

If you’re here, you’re already on the path. You don’t have to do it perfectly. You just have to stay open.

Here's your question: Where are you feeling some kind of pain? What is it attached to? How does it need you to listen?

Thank you for being here.

AMY