We welcome Micaela Giles, Co-Founder at Origins Collaborative Care PLLC - Director of Mind-Body Education and Healing. Micaela is a true ‘survivor to thriver’ story. In our time together, she shares how she took control to save herself and discovered a pathway of healing that transformed her health and her life in ways she only dreamed possible.

Her dedication to uncovering what was wrong led her to take her profound personal experience, comprehensive formal education, and an exhaustive amount of informal research and transform it into a unique and powerful approach that is deeply intuitive and responsive to those needs she serves. Just some of what Micaela shares is —

• Why developing a well-being community is utmost in recovery
• How ill health can be the result of early developmental trauma,
• What is the autonomic nervous system, and how it plays a part in our recovery,
• Ways to learn to trust yourself (again)
• What is Polyvagal Theory, other wellness and well-being techniques, and so much more…

About Out Guest: Micaela Giles is the Co-Founder at Origins Collaborative Care PLLC-Director of Mind-Body Education and Healing. She considers her most invaluable learning to be her own hard-won experience as she charted a course of healing from severe, complex chronic illness (and all the many associated losses — personal, relational, financial, and beyond).

Micaela brings nearly 15 years of highly specialized education, training, and certifications in energy healing, somatic movement, complex and developmental trauma, Polyvagal Theory, the autonomic nervous system, expressive arts therapy, neuroscience, Ancient Wisdom Traditions, bodywork, mindfulness/meditation. Micaela’s training includes SomaSoul Body-Centered Gestalt Psychotherapy, Shake Your Soul Yoga of Dance Teacher Training, 200-Hour Embodyoga Teacher Training, Yin Yoga study with Paul Grilley, Trauma Sensitive Yoga with Bessel van der Kolk, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Reiki II Advanced Certification with John Harvey Gray, and as well as being a Certified Medical Intuitive.

She is also a Certified Safe and Sound Protocol Practitioner (including advanced certification for Remote SSP Delivery), an Acoustic vagus nerve stimulator developed by Dr. Stephen Porges based on his Polyvagal Theory, and a trained Hospice volunteer. Learn more at https://www.originscollaborativecare.com/

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