The people who need this most
are often the ones furthest from it.
I came into this work through years of study in psychology and social work. In that space, I kept being confronted by the same gap.
The people carrying the heaviest loads, the ones who had grown up without the experience of being held, without the warmth of belonging, without the quiet certainty that their body was welcome in the world, were the very people furthest from the kind of care that might actually help them. Not more talking. Not another assessment. Just presence. Warmth. The experience of being held without condition.
I know that gap personally. I grew up without a lot of what we consider foundations: a sense of belonging, physical closeness, the feeling of being held. As a young adult, I didn't have the financial means to access what many considered ordinary, let alone something like bodywork. The things that would have made a real difference to how I felt in my own body, in my own life.
I also know what it is to carry things in the body that words alone couldn't reach, and to not have access to anything that could.
These experiences are part of why I do this work. And they are the reason The Unfurling Fund exists.
Right now, the practice reaches those who have the means and the space to choose it. The Unfurling Fund is my way of beginning to change that, and an invitation for our community to be part of it.