Returning Home To Our Bodies
Connection Through Trauma-Informed Bodywork and Community Care
Embodiment is Healing
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A vital framework for understanding embodied trauma
and helping clients heal. This book is a trauma-informed guide for somatic practitioners, movement therapists, bodyworkers, and personal trainers. Guided by the principle that if trauma happens to the body, healing happens through the body.
Trauma-Informed Bodywork offers an inclusive, consent-driven,
and mutually empowering approach to trauma-informed healing.
Meet Chelsea
About Me
I am an Author, intuitive creatrix, student of complexity, and seeker of knowledge and experience. I help people return home to themselves in my clinical work as a trauma therapist. I work at the intersection of movement, myth, and medicine.
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What does that mean?
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Movement in nature allowed my body to feel joy and discomfort simultaneously- which supported my reconnection to myself. I experienced years of chronic overwhelm and bodily bypassing with a mix of perfectionism, childhood trauma, and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome/Early Arthritis. Being in my body was very uncomfortable; and sometimes still is. Escaping or pushing through the pain furthered my disconnect. When moving outdoors, connected to the season, and allowing my pace to change with my body's cues and being open to its messages was life changing. I am passionate about helping others return to themselves too- not by pushing through, but moving with discomfort and care.
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Myth shows up as the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and where we come from. Myth's are powerful- they encode our bones and blood and they also tell a tale of resilience and strength. Not just what keeps us stuck or continuing in our own patterns but they enliven and fortify who we become. I believe we can tap into the power of myth to support our own healing and in turn the collective. My Celtic heritage and teachings of my maternal grandmother guide me today in the mythic threads of what keep us stuck and what helps us to thrive.
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Medicine is a complex topic. When I work with medicine and healing approaches I blend science, acknowledge the social determinants of health, incorporate Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approaches to meridian work, as well as brain-based approaches like Brainspotting and Internal Family Systems. Trauma symptoms are rarely treated entirely with one approach in my opinion. I weave and blend modalities that acknowledge the old and the new ways.
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I currently offer community embodiment calls twice annually around the Summer and Winter Solstice. If you are interested in joining one of these calls please email me for more information.
Movement is the language of the body.
Seasonal Equinox & Solstice Gatherings
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At the turning points of the year
when light balances itself,
when darkness deepens and holds
We Gather.
Around the Summer Equinox and the Winter Solstice, I open a ritual space for providers, caregivers, bodyworkers, activists, and creatives who are living and working inside The Web of Care. Those who tend to bodies, engage with movements, communities, and are tasked with the care of others. Those who give, organize, listen, hold, and build- often without enough support beneath them.
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These gatherings are an invitation into a web of embodied community care.
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We begin by arriving in the body. Through somatic grounding and gentle ritual, we listen for what the season is asking of us- where balance wants to be restored, where rest is required, where life is quietly reorganizing itself.
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This is a trauma-informed space where nervous systems are respected, pacing is slow, and choice is central. Business, creativity, and care are held together—not as productivity, but as living practices shaped by capacity, consent, and connection.
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There is space here for:
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settling into breath, sensation, and presence
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reflecting on work and livelihood through a trauma-aware, embodied lens
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open, unstructured time for movers, makers, healers, and helpers to meet without agenda
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witnessing one another as whole beings, not roles or outputs
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Summer Solstice calls us into balance, reciprocity, and shared light—how we are seen, how we share resources, how we sustain one another in motion.
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Winter Solstice invites stillness, inward listening, and trust in the dark—how we rest, compost, and tend what is becoming beneath the surface.
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These gatherings are not about fixing or striving.
They are about remembering.
Remembering that care is seasonal.
That community is built through presence.
That we do not have to do this work alone.
Come as you are. Come with what you’re carrying.
Let the season hold part of it with you.
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For 2026 The Seasonal Calls are:
Summer Solstice 1 p.m. EST June 22, 2026
Winter Solstice 1 p.m. EST December 21, 2026
Please email me at chelsea@traumainformedbodywork.com for more information
Embodied Parts Therapy
Chelsea combines intuitive bodywork, trauma therapy, and movement practices to facilitate healing and resilience. Chelsea currently works with a Craniosacral Therapist to offer joint mind-body integration sessions and also offers bodywork sessions at Anchored Hope Therapy. These sessions occur on the traditional unceded territory of the Piscataway, Nanticoke & Susquehannock Nations, known today as Annapolis, MD
Land & Labor Acknowledgment
This work has been created on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and other Indigenous peoples of the Chesapeake region, whose relationship to this land and water continues today. Annapolis and the surrounding region were also shaped through the forced labor and resistance of enslaved people and their descendants. I acknowledge that the opportunities and institutions that exist here are inseparable from those histories. I also recognize that I am a descendant of Celtic peoples whose lands were fought over and whose people endured hardship and death in defense of their homes and culture. This acknowledgment is not intended as a symbolic gesture but as a reminder of responsibility. I strive to support justice by valuing fair labor, engaging honestly with history, and contributing where I can to more equitable communities. This commitment is ongoing and requires continued learning, accountability, and action.