Embodied Resiliency Coaching

Embodied Resiliency Coaching helps you live the life you most deeply want by supporting healing, change, and wellness through reestablishing biological synchrony, your birthright of resiliency and empowerment. 

My work in coming alongside you is to invite your attention to the innate messages of intelligence and resilience naturally arising in you, amplifying their potency and healing power in order for growth and further integration to happen naturally. This process increases your capacity to be with life as it is and grows your bandwidth for increasing embodiment, connection, joy, and purpose. 

As your coach, I am trained in Organic Intelligence®, and Trauma Safe®,  (learn more here and here) somatic therapy modality that supports change at the level of the biology and healing from accumulated trauma, stress, and experiences that cause suffering and pain in a variety of ways. 

Organic Intelligence is a framework that not only supports you in processing intensity and trauma but also (and more importantly!) grows the processor itself, increasing your overall capacity to be with all of life as it is with increasing ease, compassion, and presence. 

My work is suited for those looking for support in:

  • Processing and digesting trauma in a gentle approach

  • Healing trauma patterns (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) that keep you stuck, in a state of stress, or prevent you from living the life you desire

  • Finding and amplifying joy, ease, meaning, and pleasure in your present life

  • Enlarging your capacity to be with life as it is with greater ease. 

  • Connecting with your purpose

  • Creating healthy, mutual, and enjoyable relationships 

  • Resolving chronic tension, a feeling of stuckness or dissociation from your body 

  • Relieving physical, emotional, or mental suffering and pain

  • Discovering an increased capacity for doing, non-doing/rest, ease and enjoyment, and/or listening to and following your own inner knowing 

  • Increasing your compassion, self-acceptance, self-awareness, and communication skills

  • Practicing a compassionate, grounded, embodied way of living and being in the world

  • Understanding your patterns, way of relating, and unique somatic history

  • Living an empowered life, making choices from a place of clarity, freedom, and connection 

We will create the conditions in which your inherent self-healing capacities are catalyzed for greater presence, ease, connection, and growth to support your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

My clients are supported in resolving mental and physical issues from chronic stress and trauma, and cultivating pleasure, freedom and ease in the body and mind, growing your capacity to access connection, more energy, and purpose in your life. This process centers around 1. Reconditioning your biology to facilitate a mapping of the here and now of the external environment (called “orienting”) 2. Once this is stabilized, it allows the nervous system to gently process intensity and trauma 3. Reinforce a positive reinforcement framework, supporting your nervous system in doing what it wants to do and draw on its brilliance and intelligence leading to embodiment and holistic wellness.


What is Organic Intelligence?

Organic Intelligence® (OI) is a unique theory and therapeutic modality of human empowerment and Trauma Safe™ growth, supporting holistic change at the level of the biology and facilitating a re-sync of the nervous system and whole being. 

Organic Intelligence is different from typical coaching frameworks and trauma resolution models in a powerful and more effective ways:

- It draws on our neurophysiology’s innate self-organizing capacity and resilience to restore our connection to our body and whole self, increasing our sense of well being, presence, productivity, and capacity to handle challenging and complex situations. 

- Challenges old therapeutic paradigms that center and focus on “what’s wrong” (thus strengthening our negativity bias!) and thus risks further dysregulation and retraumatization. Rather,  OI supports nervous system regulation through positive reinforcement, drawing our attention to the resources and wisdom that are continually arising from our being in order to gradually increase our capacity to be present to our lives and relationships. This, in turn, helps us be resourced, embodied, and present enough to can gently process and digest trauma rather than continue to re-experience and reinforce it.  


Wisdom Spiritual Direction

What is Wisdom Spiritual Direction?

Wisdom Spiritual Direction is about waking up to Wholeness, listening deeply to the intelligence of Love, and ultimately joining God on our journey of transformation. Each of our paths are unique, and Wisdom Spiritual Direction creates a container for those seeking a deeper, more intimate relationship with God, drawn to explore the very Ground of Being, Divine Presence, and Mystery in our lives. 

Wisdom Spiritual Direction is about practicing a way of knowing that involves our whole selves - our hearts, our bodies, and our minds. This way of Being widens our perception within the Whole and invites us to live and breathe and move from this place of compassionate, grounded, and rooted Presence. To awaken to the reality of our interconnectedness with all living beings woven within the web of the beloved community - the vast human and more than human family past and present, biological and spiritual ancestors, and the earth. 

With the mind in the heart, the organ of spiritual perception, we experience a deeper alignment with who we truly are and what is ours to do in the world so that our work becomes an offering of Love and hope flowing out into our world from a place of freedom and joy. In this way, spiritual direction becomes a spiritual practice of welcoming our whole selves and the content of our lives into the arms of Love, ultimately deepening our capacity to be more present and open to the reality of God’s work in our lives at the level of doing and being.

My work in this space is not to “direct” you but rather companion you on this journey into Love.

What does a session look like?

Spiritual Direction Sessions are 60-90 minutes long. 

Through spiritual practices and conversation, we will listen to and for God together, exploring how Love is working and moving in your life and inviting you into deeper Wholeness. 

Spiritual companionship creates a safe and open space for welcoming and witnessing what wants to emerge. We join God in the ongoing process of your transformation, a journey of revealing and a wearing away, surrender and effort, waking up and living from and within the whole. 

 

Who is Spiritual Direction for?

Spiritual Direction is for anyone who is curious and open to the larger questions and mysteries of our spiritual existence, for those who want deeper meaning and purpose in life, for those who seek to strengthen their relationship with Love (God, Source of Being or whatever you want to call the One), and for those who are asking questions, searching, and trying to find God. 

Scheduling & Payment

If you feel drawn, let’s chat together to see if it’s right for you. I offer a complimentary 30-minute introductory phone consultation. To schedule, please email me at laceydodd@gmail.com and we can set up a time to connect. At that time you are welcome to ask questions, share about yourself and the kind of support you are seeking, or we can talk about areas in your life you might like to explore together. 

Sessions are 60 minutes and take place over Zoom or at my office in the neighborhood of Hillcrest in San Diego, California.  

Sessions cost $100.  

I also offer discounts for OI students in the OI Coaching Programs. My wish is that this work is accessible to whoever is interested in working together. If cost is an issue, I offer a sliding fee scale on an as-needed basis.Please contact me to explore these options.