You can't think your way into healing.
You relate your way there.
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Curiosity + Compassion + Connection
Lead To
Expanded Capacity + Lasting Change
Our Healing Approach
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Have you ever wondered why one part of you wants change while another refuses?
Why does motivation disappear the moment something matters?
Why do you know what to do but can't seem to do it?
Why does your body say "no" when your mind says "yes"?
You aren't broken for feeling conflicted. These responses often come from the protective patterns your nervous system developed to keep you safe. The part of you that keeps sabotaging your progress may be trying to protect you. Imagine responding to your protective parts with curiosity and compassion instead of fear.
This course offers a compassionate way to understand those patterns — through somatic awareness and parts work. Instead of trying to fix or override your reactions, you'll learn how to listen to the parts of you that developed for protection and connection.
Through gentle teachings and experiential practices, you'll begin building a safer relationship with your inner world. them with curiosity — creating space for more awareness, choice, and self-compassion.
Understanding Your Inner World Through the Guidance of Your Body
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What if the behavior you're trying to change is actually protecting the client?
Somatic parts work changes the question from "What's wrong?" to "What's this protecting? Your client's conflict isn't dysfunction—it's organization around protecting. Symptoms are often intelligent adaptations. Somatic cues can reveal which protective parts are online. The nervous system provides the context that makes parts work more effective.
Learn to recognize what's happening beneath the symptom. Learn to trust what you're noticing in the room. Learn to recognize subtle cues, pace sessions safely, and hold the relational field with steadiness and depth — so clients can move from story to sensation, and from understanding to embodied connection. Great therapy isn't just what you do. It's how you relate.
Inside you'll find:
· 12 comprehensive videos offering in-depth, embodied, clinically focused learning
· 3 guided audio practices to help you experience the work in your own system
· Downloadable PDF tools, session maps, and reflection prompts you can use right away
· Lifetime access to all materials, plus future updates
Everything inside is designed to be practical, accessible, and immediately usable in real sessions — at a pace that supports your own nervous system.
Bridging the Body With Relational & Parts-Based Work
For Clinicians
“Lauren’s somatic practices have been a gift. I’ve learned to navigate discomfort, feel safe in my body, and find moments of joy that I didn’t know I could experience.”
“Lauren creates a safe, non-judgmental space where I can truly explore my emotions. Her approach is thoughtful and empowering, and it’s helped me grow in ways I never imagined.”
“Lauren’s somatic practices have taught me to listen to my body with compassion. I’ve gained tools to manage stress, build resilience, and feel more present in my life and relationships.”
How Our Approach Heals
Notes from Clients
Symptoms are not failures—they’re adaptations.
Your patterns aren’t your identity—they’re your history trying to protect you. Lasting change comes from relating to those experiences differently. Awareness, curiosity, compassion, and connection are the path.
At the simplest self, we believe
For much of my life, I wanted to run away—from myself, my pain, and the patterns I developed to cope. As a survivor of childhood SA, I carried deep shame and self-hate, numbing myself in any way I could just to get through.
But even in the pain, something in me wanted more. I wanted to feel calm. I wanted to feel joy. I simply wanted to feel.
I came to understand that disconnecting from my body was how I survived. The ways I coped made sense. And when I began the process of reconnecting with myself, it wasn’t easy—it felt unsafe at first. But over time, learning to regulate my nervous system, move through big emotions, and rebuild trust in myself and others changed everything.
That’s why I do this work. I know firsthand that healing isn’t about forcing change—it’s about understanding, reconnecting, and expanding what feels possible.
At The Simplest Self, our mission is to help you feel safe in your body so you can feel empowered in your life. We support you in relearning your relationship to past survival strategies, so you can step into more connection, ease, and self-trust.
And I don’t do this work alone. The Simplest Self has grown into a team of dedicated practitioners who share the same commitment to helping others feel safe, connected, and empowered. Because as I always say, healing happens in community.
