Our Disabilities

We navigate the world with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), Bipolar 2, CPTSD, and acute digestive dysregulation. Because DID means we experience life as a team rather than a single individual, we use plural pronouns (we/our/us).

Forged in Survival

Our qualifications are our lived experiences. Over the last decade, we have survived:

• Medical Trauma: Four surgeries, multiple complications, and over three years spent entirely in surgical recovery.

• Psychiatric Crisis: Surviving suicidality, crisis housing, and years of intensive psychiatric hospitalization and outpatient programs.

• Systemic Gaslighting: Navigating life-altering, bed-bound digestive issues that specialists could confirm, but neither diagnose nor treat.

Reclaiming Autonomy

We are now a small business owner. Where the medical system hit a wall, we built our own path. We engineered the diet that finally healed our gut. We directed our own physical rehabilitation. We went from being completely bedridden and requiring 30 hours of psychiatric care a week, to hiking, carrying heavy loads, teaching conditioning classes and creating BodyMind Autonomy!

The BodyMind Lens

My lived experience demonstrates there is no separation between human bodies and minds. This makes us the perfect teacher and creator of a BodyMind practice that integrates mental and physical health.

The Lens In Class:

• Performance vs Process: There is no wrong or right way to practice. All bodies are different. We won't teach you how to perform a movement. We focus on teaching the process of practice, so you learn how to adapt the movements to your body.

• Fluctuating Capacity: Everyone has different capacities and every day those capacities change. You'll be given options within every practice/ movement. You can scale your participation based on your current state, whether that means napping as your practice or conditioning your muscles.