rachel's peace

After almost thirty years on my healing journey, I have learned tools to help me overcome fear, anxiety, depression, bulimia, a sense of powerlessness, and a scarcity mindset. The path to inner peace, connection with the divine source, self-love, acceptance, and experiencing the full beauty of my embodied aliveness, has been the work of my life. I now have discovered what it is like to feel grounded, connected, whole, and alive in my body and surroundings.

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I was born in 1973 to a white mother and black father, which was not very common at the time. I didn’t have any mirrors for my identities. My body blended two opposites that were not “meant to” cohabitate in our society. Finding self-love and social acceptance were difficult and grew worse when I was almost kidnapped at age nine. This experience was never discussed, and I lived with the trauma of it stored in my body for decades.

 

I found temporary strength and power on the basketball court where I could both escape and shine; where I found my voice and freedom through physical play; and where I didn’t have to explain my existence to anyone. At the same time, I had unhealthy relationships throughout high school and college, and the unhealthiest relationship was with my own body.

 

After career-ending injuries, I spiraled into bulimic behavior, withdrew from college, and went to an inpatient facility for my eating disorder. Wanting a quick fix, instead of finding healing through individual and group therapy, I went deeper into disordered behaviors. After hitting rock bottom and getting “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” I started praying that the divine would help me heal. It was at this time that I knew that if I could find healing, it would be my life’s purpose to share tools with others.

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Over time, I grew enough confidence to finish college, work as an educator in independent schools, and become a certified personal trainer, spin instructor, and health coach; however, through all of this "doing" I was still in a culture completely focused on the mental and physical body. After years of cognitive-based talk therapy, yoga, walks, workouts, meditations, learning about the chakra system, ayurveda, and a plant-based lifestyle, I still did not feel completely safe in my body and lived with daily anxiety.

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It wasn’t until I went deep within and began to work ALL six layers of the body (physical, mental, emotional, energetic, awareness, and bliss layers), that I was ultimately able to find balance and inner alignment. I became a certified yoga instructor through Yoga Farm Ithaca and was lucky enough to learn from Kim Beekman. After hearing Kim’s first presentation, I knew I wanted to dive deeper with her. I went through a two-month accelerated healing program unlike any other process in the world that combined neuroscience, body-based trauma release, daily re-wiring practices, and soul retrieval to make lasting changes in the physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and awareness layers of the body. After this transformation, I trained with Kim to be an Inner Alignment Coach and now an Inner Alignment Healer. 

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It is an honor to share the Inner Alignment tools with my clients, and help them remember that everything they have ever needed has been within them all along!

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