A behind-the-scenes look at my process, what to expect when working with me, and why this approach goes deeper than traditional astrology or coaching alone.
I wanted to take a minute to talk about how I work, and how I work with energy. (Integrations are my audio downloads – if you want to hear this spoken, listen to it on Substack)
As a Projector in Human Design, it’s important for me to share openly about my process so that the right people will find me. So let me pull back the curtain a bit on The Whole Being Approach.
Obviously, I work with astrology. But I also work with energy, somatics, and what I call the Whole Being approach, which is exactly what my blog, The Whole Being Integration, is named after.
The Whole Being approach means we’re not just working with one dimension of you. We’re working with the body, with energy, and with the soul – all together.
We’re not just doing somatic work in the body.
We’re not just reading your astrology chart and talking about your soul blueprint.
We’re not just doing energy work and manifestation.
We’re doing all of them. Together. Because they’re all connected.
Resting right at the intersection of energy and the body, is of the most important aspects of this approach: subconscious programming.
How I Got Here
I’ve worked with many practitioners and coaches over the years, all of whom have been incredibly helpful. And I still do – as the work I do on myself is integral to how I am able to show up in my sessions.
I’ve done deep subconscious work with coaches who focus specifically on that. I’ve done somatic-based work with coaches who help you get into your body and access your intuition. I’ve followed people like Dr. Joe Dispenza and Gregg Braden, who teach about heart-brain coherence and how the energy you create in your body informs the field of reality around you. (Another post all on its own).
I know this all sounds complex. But here’s where I’m going with it: my own journey started back in 2009 when I came down with chronic illness. I’ve traveled from that moment all the way to now, going through layers and layers of healing work. And in that process I also came home to my soul through astrology.
And I’ve put all of these modalities together in a way that was shown to me intuitively—a way that works for me.
All of these processes I use with clients, I’ve used them on myself first. Many of them came to me in meditation. I did this actual work in meditation with myself.
Now, I wouldn’t say that’s for everyone. I think I had gone through so much growth and development—and gotten to know my soul and who I am—that I felt comfortable being able to do that with myself. There are still times when I need to work with somebody else. Absolutely.
But this was during my Pluto transit, and it was necessary that I got to know all the buried parts of me. And I was learning how to integrate them. Because my path in life is to learn from experience, then share that experience to help others.
Why I Use the Word “Integration”
I don’t like to use words like “dissolving your subconscious programming” or “getting rid of” parts of yourself.
Those words indicate that part of you is wrong. And it’s not. It just wants to be seen. It wants to be integrated.
Here’s what happens: when you go through something traumatic it’s really about what happens in the body.
When you have a traumatic experience and you’re not able to fully digest and process it in the moment, it gets fragmented. A part of your subconscious gets fragmented. A part of your energy gets fragmented. And it gets stored in the body.
I don’t want to go down this rabbit hole, but I do want to give a sneak peek: there’s research now on muscle fascia and how it’s essentially a conductor of information within the body. A superhighway of energy flowing to different parts, giving and storing information. I think this also has to do with cerebrospinal fluid. But again, we won’t go down that road.
What I’m pointing out is this: the body is connected in this really incredible way. As we experience and feel emotions, or as we don’t have time to experience and feel them and they get fragmented off, it happens in different areas.
It happens in your soma, your actual body.
It happens in your energy field.
It happens in your psyche.
And I think the psyche is layered. It exists in the field. It exists in the brain from a neuroscience perspective. It exists in the body. We all share a field of information we can tap into at any time, which has been shown in quantum physics.
So when I work with clients, my goal is to get to the bottom of all those areas.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Let’s say your goal is to meet a partner who is respectful, treats you right, and is mentally and emotionally healthy.
In the past, maybe you’ve met partners who were elusive and ghosted you. Or they treated you terribly. Or they gaslit you, telling you things about yourself that weren’t true.
Your goal now is to meet a partner who doesn’t do that. Here’s what we’re going to do together. We’re going to look at your astrology birth chart. Because that’s where the indicators of the psyche exist.
The birth chart gets deep into your psyche. I don’t think people know this about astrology.
The way I see a chart is this: all of the challenging aspects, the layered information around past lives, your overall life theme, the difficult dynamics you’ve experienced, those are all information. They’re breadcrumbs.
Once we do your astrology reading and get deeper into that, we start using that information in the coaching sessions.
That’s where you say, “My goal in this session is to meet a better partner. To put myself out there for people who are ready for a healthy partnership.”
And we look at what’s going on in your psyche.
How do you think and feel about yourself?
A lot of this comes from the principle that when we want something, we have to address the opposite of that thing.
If we want partnership, we have to address: what does it feel like to be alone? Is there a fear around being alone? What does that mean?
Your body, your energy, and your astrology chart will tell you everything.
And at the end of the day, the person who makes the final call is always you.
Your astrology chart might say a lot of things. It’s very layered and complex, and not everyone’s ready to hear all of that information at once. When you’re ready to process it, that’s the information you’ll work through in coaching. The chart is always there to reference later when you want to go deeper.
You couldn’t possibly tackle it all in one coaching container. But the important pieces will come to mind for you. And that’s what you’ll work with.
The Coaching Process
In the coaching container, we work with what’s going on in the psyche.
What subconscious programming do you have in place right now that’s stopping you from getting to your goal, whatever that goal is?
And we give that part attention.
We give it attention by dissecting it and understanding what it wants from you.
We give it attention by understanding where it lives in the body.
We give it attention by having a conversation with it.
And we give it attention by getting into the energy of it.
Getting into the energy is a little more abstract. But the point is to integrate it back into your body.
You’re having all these conversations with a part of yourself, with this feeling or thought or belief. You’re comforting it. You’re letting it explain why it’s there, what it’s protecting, what it’s doing. Sometimes it just needs to be seen, held, acknowledged.
Then you’re getting into the body. You’re understanding where it lives, what it feels like, what it looks like.
And then you call in the energy.
That’s when the integration happens.
The energy helps you rearrange and visualize this part being integrated in a healthy way. Because it will still exist in you. You’re still going to feel it. And you’re going to want to acknowledge it.
The whole reason it became something driving on autopilot in your life is because you weren’t acknowledging it. You were ignoring it.
So you integrate it. You let it be known. But from a new perspective: You’re here. You don’t have to fragment yourself. We’re all here together. And I’m in charge now.
Of course, a lot of this stems from IFS parts work and other modalities. I pull from many different approaches because I’ve found so much value in them. Some practitioners choose just one, and I think that’s amazing. No shade. This is just my process and what I found works for me.
That’s why I’m talking about this, because people are going to listen to this and either say, “Oh, hell yes, absolutely, I want to do this,” or they’re going to say, “You know what? This isn’t for me.”
And that’s the whole point. That’s me living by my Human Design, putting this information out there so the right people find me.
The Nervous System Component
One more really important piece: the nervous system.
All of the work I just described, it will not be possible if your nervous system is dysregulated to the extent that it’s in fight or flight constantly.
Your body can only hold as much as your nervous system can allow.
If you’re in a constant state of stress, always waiting for danger, that’s going to be your reality.
So part of the work we do in the somatic realm is ensuring that the nervous system gets the attention it needs. Sometimes we have to work through rewiring it. Because without that foundation, the new energy won’t anchor.
This is why the Whole Being approach is so layered. But also so effective.
Astrology Readings vs. Coaching
I want to clearly outline the difference between how I do astrology and how I do coaching.
I do astrology readings as a standalone offering. If you just want a birth chart reading and a reading about your transits and upcoming energies, I’m absolutely down for that. I offer that as a service.
I also offer coaching.
And the coaching happens to also include astrology, because we use the chart as a map for you to understand more depth about yourself, and then we use that information when we go into the actual coaching work.
So that’s how I use astrology in both contexts. You can have either. You can have both. It’s totally up to you.
A Little More About Me
So that’s a little bit about me and how I work.
If you have any questions, reach out anytime. I’m happy to answer them.
I hope this clearly outlines what to expect and how I work. A lot of it is hard to conceptualize when you’re just reading through blog information. But I think this really ties it all together in a concrete way so you can have a baseline understanding of what I do and how I do it.
And then, obviously, decide if it’s right for you.
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