Please reach us at connect@sacredsoulbalance.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
Sacred Soul Balance is a holistic wellness and lifestyle company offering personalized guidance and practical support for everyday life. Sacred Soul Balance provides practical, concierge-level services ranging from emergency business coverage, administrative support, 24/7 restaurant support, pet care and dog walking, home organization, and hourly assistance for both individuals and small businesses.
The foundation of Sacred Soul Balance is accessible whole-person care that supports both inner healing and the daily structures people rely on. Virtual services include astrology and birth chart readings, Enneagram consulting, nutrition and herbal guidance, and trauma-informed sessions focused on nervous system regulation and self-understanding. The website shop includes a curated retail selection of clean body care, aromatherapy, crystals, decks, journals, light therapy tools, and handmade wellness products.
Yes, you can! If you’re not already a current client, you’ll need to book online before I can provide any services. If you have questions before booking, text 805-807-6898 and I’ll point you in the right direction. Once you place your booking, send me a text so we can set up the details. If my day is already fully booked and I truly can’t squeeze you in, I’ll refund you right away, but it is SO rare that happens as my business is built around being there for you!
Sacred Soul Balance serves downtown Paso Robles and surrounding areas. If you’re in rural Paso (you already know if you are), a small travel fee applies. Atascadero, Templeton, San Miguel, and Santa Margarita require a travel fee for the first visit. Once you’re a current client, travel fees may be waived dependent on schedule.
I also serve anywhere in SLO County upon request — Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cambria, San Luis Obispo, Pismo, Arroyo Grande, and surrounding areas. Just reach out and lets chat!
Wellness refers to the ongoing practices that help maintain physiological balance, support daily function, and sustain a sense of vitality—things like movement, nourishment, hydration, breathwork, and body care. These tools are essential for regulation and resilience, especially in a world that pulls us constantly out of rhythm.
Healing, on the other hand, asks us to go deeper. It means tracing chronic patterns to their roots, tending to emotional wounds, exploring stored trauma, and confronting the underlying causes of disconnection or discomfort—physically, psychologically, and energetically. It’s less about fixing and more about remembering who you were before the world told you otherwise.
At Sacred Soul Balance, both approaches are respected and integrated. As an astrological herbalist and nutritionist, I see wellness and healing not as separate paths, but as complementary processes. One stabilizes the body’s systems, the other helps release what no longer belongs. Together, they create the conditions for sustainable change—where you don’t just feel better, you feel more like yourself.
Holistic
Holistic health is a whole-person approach to wellness that views the body, mind, emotions, spirit, and environment as deeply interconnected. Rather than isolating symptoms or chasing a diagnosis, holistic practices look at how different parts of your life influence each other—and how true healing comes from addressing the full picture. This philosophy is woven into everything at Sacred Soul Balance, from handmade bath soaks that ease the nervous system to magnesium sprays, coaching, herbal tinctures, and aromatherapy tools that support mental, emotional, and physical balance. Holistic care doesn’t mean doing it all—it means working with your body’s natural intelligence across all levels of your being.
Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine is a collaborative, whole-body approach that blends conventional Western care with proven natural therapies. It recognizes the value of both—diagnostics, labs, and medications when needed, alongside herbal medicine, nutrition, movement, energy work, and mind-body healing. The goal is to treat root causes, not just manage symptoms, and to support the body’s natural healing ability with the best tools from all systems. You’ll find this reflected in the offerings at Sacred Soul Balance—where nervous system regulation, plant-based healing, and spiritual support live side by side. Whether you're exploring light therapy, detox tools, or lifestyle coaching, it's all connected—and intentionally so.
Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine refers to healing systems and practices that are used outside of or in place of conventional Western medical approaches. These traditions—such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbalism, and homeopathy—are often rooted in centuries of lived experience and ancestral wisdom. Rather than focusing solely on symptom relief, these systems seek to understand and address the deeper causes of imbalance by supporting the body’s natural capacity to restore itself.
Within the framework of Sacred Soul Balance, many practices align with these alternative traditions, blending plant-based remedies, elemental therapies, and energy-centered tools that have been used across cultures to encourage harmony and resilience. Choosing an alternative path doesn’t mean rejecting science or reason—it means expanding the definition of what medicine can be. It invites us to consider how healing might feel when it’s not just prescribed, but understood, chosen, and aligned with the body’s own intuitive intelligence.
Plant Medicine
Plant medicine is the practice of using herbs, flowers, roots, resins, and botanicals to support healing on physical, emotional, and energetic levels. It is one of the oldest systems of care in human history—passed down through oral traditions, cultural rituals, and community knowledge. Today’s herbalism continues to evolve from that lineage, blending ancient wisdom with contemporary understanding of how plants interact with the body’s systems.
Rather than forcing change, plant medicine works in relationship with the body’s rhythms—gently encouraging balance, soothing dysregulation, and nourishing the systems that carry stress, grief, inflammation, and fatigue. It invites a slower, more attentive way of healing—one that asks us to notice patterns, trust the process, and reconnect with the natural world as both a resource and a teacher.
Naturopathy
Naturopathy is a holistic medical system that blends modern science with traditional healing practices. It’s built on the belief that the body has an innate ability to heal when given the right support—and that real health means treating the whole person, not just the symptoms. Licensed naturopathic doctors are trained in both conventional diagnostics and natural therapies, creating an approach that’s thorough, personalized, and deeply rooted in prevention.
Common tools in naturopathic care include herbal medicine, clinical nutrition, detoxification protocols, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle coaching. As a certified holistic lifestyle coach and nutritionist, I offer support aligned with this philosophy—helping you reconnect with your body, clarify your needs, and build routines that actually work for your life.
If you’re curious about what this could look like for you, feel free to reach out at connect@sacredsoulbalance.com.
Nervous system regulation
is the ongoing process of helping your body return to a state of balance after stress, overwhelm, or activation. It’s the foundation of emotional health, trauma healing, and real resilience. A regulated nervous system doesn’t mean you never feel anxious or upset—it means your body knows how to come back from it. It can shift gears when needed, instead of staying stuck in survival mode.
Your nervous system controls everything from your mood and digestion to your immune response and sleep. When it’s regulated, you feel safe, steady, and more able to engage with life fully. When it’s dysregulated, you might feel anxious, shut down, reactive, disconnected, or chronically tired—and often not know why.
Regulating your nervous system is a daily practice, not a one-time fix. It involves tuning in, noticing what state you’re in (fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or rest), and using supportive tools to help shift your internal state. Breathwork, grounding techniques, movement, nourishing food, safe relationships, laughter, time in nature, sensory regulation, rest—these are all ways of supporting regulation. And sometimes, it’s as simple as drinking water or stepping outside.
This work is especially crucial for those healing from trauma, chronic stress, or systems that taught them to ignore their bodies. Nervous system regulation is what makes all other healing possible. It builds capacity. It rewires old patterns. It gives you back access to clarity, connection, and choice.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re “too much,” “too sensitive,” or “not resilient enough,” this work isn’t about fixing you—it’s about meeting your nervous system with the care it’s been craving. And from there, everything starts to shift.
Dysregulation
Dysregulation is what happens when your nervous system gets thrown off balance and struggles to return to a calm, centered state. It’s your body stuck in survival mode—revving too high (like anxiety, racing thoughts, or emotional overwhelm), or dropping out completely (numbness, fatigue, disconnection). And sometimes, it flips between both.
Dysregulation isn’t just “feeling off.” It’s biological. It happens when your nervous system doesn’t feel safe, even if there’s no real threat in the moment. For folks with trauma histories, chronic stress, or attachment wounds, dysregulation can feel like the default—because your body learned to stay on high alert or shut down just to get through.
Signs of dysregulation might include irritability, emotional outbursts, panic, zoning out, difficulty sleeping, shallow breathing, brain fog, digestive issues, or feeling like you’re floating outside of yourself. It’s not a character flaw—it’s a signal. Your body is asking for safety.
The goal isn’t to avoid dysregulation forever. It’s to notice it sooner, respond with care, and have tools to come back to regulation when life gets loud. Think of it like emotional muscle memory. The more often you practice responding with breath, movement, co-regulation, or grounding, the easier it becomes to shift your state over time.
These are the four primary stress responses your nervous system can activate when it senses danger—whether the threat is real, remembered, or perceived. They're automatic survival strategies, hardwired into your biology. And in trauma healing, learning how to recognize them is one of the most powerful things you can do.
Fight shows up as anger, irritation, a need to control your environment, or lashing out. It’s your system gearing up to confront the threat head-on.
Flight looks like anxiety, restlessness, overworking, or constantly staying busy. It’s your body trying to escape the danger by moving away or avoiding.
Freeze can feel like numbness, dissociation, foggy thinking, or being emotionally unavailable. It’s a shutdown response—your system decides the safest thing is to play dead or disconnect.
Fawn shows up as people-pleasing, over-apologizing, struggling with boundaries, or putting others’ needs ahead of your own. It’s the body’s attempt to keep the peace and stay safe by appeasing the threat.
These aren’t choices—they’re automatic protective responses. And while they may have helped you survive in the past, they’re not always helpful in your current life. The work is to get curious, not judgmental. Noticing which state you’re in lets you respond with tools that bring you back to center—like grounding, breathwork, co-regulation, or nervous system-safe movement.
Learning your patterns isn’t about labeling yourself—it’s about building the awareness and compassion needed to change them.
Chakras are energy centers throughout the body, first documented in ancient Indian spiritual texts called the Vedas. The word “chakra” translates to “wheel” in Sanskrit—each one spinning along the spine, influencing physical, emotional, and energetic health. There are seven major chakras, each with its own theme and function:
Balanced chakras support whole-body alignment. Blocked ones? They’ll let you know. Many Sacred Soul Balance offerings—from body oils to coaching—are built to support this system.
Qi (pronounced "chee") is the vital life force that animates everything. It’s a core concept in Traditional Chinese Medicine and other East Asian systems of healing. Qi flows through the body via meridians, energizing organs, tissues, and emotions. When Qi flows freely, we feel well—energized, balanced, alive. When it’s blocked or depleted, symptoms surface: fatigue, stress, illness, or emotional dysregulation.
Qi is influenced by everything: breath, food, thoughts, environment, relationships, and emotion. Practices like acupuncture, breathwork, tai chi, and even intentional rest all help regulate and replenish Qi. It’s not woo—it’s ancient wisdom that sees the body and spirit as one.
Meridians are the invisible highways of energy that run throughout the body, guiding the flow of Qi to every organ and system. There are twelve primary meridians, each linked to a major organ and emotional function:
These lines are the foundation of acupuncture and acupressure, but you don’t need needles to benefit. Movement, breath, sound, and even self-massage can help stimulate and restore balance in these energetic pathways.
The human energy field—sometimes called the aura—isn’t just some woo-woo glow hanging around your body. It’s actually a complex, layered system of subtle energy that extends beyond the physical body and reflects your emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Think of it like the energetic blueprint of your whole being—each layer communicating with different parts of you and your lived experience.
There are seven main auric layers, and each one aligns with a corresponding chakra (or energy center). These layers are said to vibrate at different frequencies and interact with both your internal and external environments. Together, they form a kind of energetic atmosphere that can be felt, sensed, and in some cases, even seen by highly sensitive folks or energy healers.
Here’s a simplified breakdown:
These layers aren’t stacked like pancakes—they interpenetrate and overlap like luminous fields. When balanced, they help you feel grounded, whole, and connected. When out of whack, they can show up as mental fog, emotional overwhelm, chronic tension, or a general sense of being off.
Healing modalities like energy work, breathwork, sound therapy, crystals, or even time in nature can help realign and nourish your auric field. This isn’t about perfection—it’s about learning to listen to your own energetic rhythm and creating space for your full self to breathe.
Yin and Yang are foundational principles in Traditional Chinese Medicine, symbolizing the dance of opposites that make up everything in life. Yin is the cool, calm, internal, and nourishing force. Yang is the warm, active, external, and energizing counterpart. Neither is better—they need each other to exist.
Together, they reflect the balance Sacred Soul Balance is all about—learning to hold both rest and action, structure and flow, the knowing and the not-knowing. Just like our work here, it’s about finding the truth of who you are by meeting every part of yourself—and realizing the answers you were chasing out in the world have been within you all along.
The Five Elements—Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water—are part of the foundational framework of Traditional Chinese Medicine. They aren’t literal elements but symbolic forces that reflect cycles of nature, patterns in the body, and emotional tendencies. Each one corresponds to organs, seasons, emotions, and personality themes:
These elements aren’t about labeling or limiting—they’re here to help you understand your energetic makeup and what keeps you in balance. Like everything here, they’re about returning to the rhythm of who you are.
Ayurveda is a holistic healing system from India with roots over 5,000 years old. It’s based on the idea that health is a state of balance between three doshas, or energetic forces: Vata (air + ether), Pitta (fire + water), and Kapha (earth + water). These doshas influence everything from your digestion and mood to your sleep and skin.
Each person has a unique constitution, or prakriti, made up of these doshas in different proportions. When your doshas are out of balance—whether from food, environment, stress, or seasonal shifts—symptoms show up. Ayurveda works through diet, herbal medicine, daily rituals, movement, and seasonal alignment to bring you back to your natural rhythm.
It’s not about perfection—it’s about living in a way that honors your body’s wisdom, your environment, and the cycles you move through.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is an ancient, whole-body healing system that sees the body as deeply connected—every part influencing the rest. It’s built on thousands of years of lived wisdom, blending observation, nature, and energetic awareness into practices like acupuncture, herbal medicine, cupping, gua sha, qi gong, and food therapy.
At its core, TCM focuses on balance. It works with the body’s natural energy—called Qi—along with the rhythms of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, and a network of energy pathways known as meridians. Instead of chasing symptoms, it looks deeper, asking: What’s this really about? Where is the flow blocked? What’s the body trying to say?
TCM helps us learn the language of the body. It’s not just about treatment—it’s about prevention, alignment, and remembering that healing isn’t separate from nature. It’s part of coming back into relationship with ourselves and the world around us.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is a foundational part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It uses ultra-fine needles to stimulate specific points along the body’s meridian pathways—those invisible energetic highways that carry Qi, or life force, throughout the body. Each point connects to an internal system, organ, or emotional pattern, and when gently activated, it can help release blocks, ease pain, calm the nervous system, and restore internal flow.
But acupuncture isn’t just about physical pain. It’s used to support emotional healing, digestion, sleep, hormone regulation, nervous system repair, and even long-held trauma. What makes it powerful is its ability to work with your body—not against it—reminding your system how to do what it was designed to do: heal, reset, and realign.
This is subtle medicine with deep, lasting impact. A quiet conversation between your body and its own wisdom.
Acupressure
Acupressure is like acupuncture’s needle-free cousin—an ancient healing technique that uses the power of touch to activate points along the body’s meridian lines. By applying gentle but intentional pressure to specific spots (often with fingers, tools, or ear seeds), we can support the flow of Qi, calm the nervous system, and release stuck emotional or physical energy.
Each point corresponds to an organ system and emotional theme—like grief in the lungs or fear in the kidneys. This practice is accessible, empowering, and easy to integrate into everyday life. Whether you’re using a simple acupressure ring, massaging a point during a stress spiral, or setting intentions with ear seeds, this is energy medicine you can feel—no needles, no appointments, just your own hands and awareness doing the work.
One of our favorite healing aids, ear seeds are available on the Sacred Soul Balance site for gentle, daily support. Tiny but powerful.
Cupping
Cupping is an ancient healing practice that uses suction to gently pull stagnant blood, lymph, and energy toward the surface of the body. Think of it as a deep exhale for your tissues—a way to release what’s been stuck beneath the surface.
By creating space under the skin, cupping helps improve circulation, reduce inflammation, ease muscle tension, and encourage emotional energy to move through instead of getting trapped. The circular marks it leaves behind aren’t bruises—they’re signs of old buildup being pulled out so the body can process and release it.
It’s one of those timeless therapies that continues to hold its place in modern healing because it works—with visible results and real relief.
If you’re looking to experience cupping in person, we recommend booking a session with Zoey at Opulent Healing in Morro Bay, located at 1052 Main Street, Suite F. You can reach her at (805) 440-3382.
Reflexology
Reflexology is a body-mapping therapy that applies pressure to specific zones on the feet, hands, and ears—areas that reflect and connect to different organs, systems, and energy channels throughout the body. It’s based on the idea that your entire body is mirrored in your extremities, and by stimulating these points, you can influence overall balance and well-being.
Even though it looks simple, reflexology can have deep effects. It helps regulate the nervous system, supports circulation, encourages detoxification, and can ease pain or tension in places far from where you're pressing. Whether you’re working with a practitioner or trying simple techniques at home, it’s a gentle but powerful way to reconnect with your body and support internal harmony.
Chiropractic Care
Chiropractic care focuses on the alignment of the spine and the overall health of the nervous system. Through hands-on adjustments and gentle corrections, chiropractors help restore movement, relieve pressure, and support the body’s natural ability to regulate and heal itself.
It was one of the first holistic healing modalities I ever tried—and it changed everything. For the first time, my body and brain were quiet. There was no pain. Just presence, clarity, and a sense of relief I didn’t even know was possible.
While most people turn to chiropractic care for back or neck issues, it can have ripple effects throughout the body. When the spine is aligned, it supports better digestion, clearer thinking, emotional regulation, sleep, mood, and overall energy.
Your spine is more than structure—it’s a communication highway. When it moves freely, everything else can flow.
Massage Therapy
Massage therapy is a hands-on healing practice that goes far beyond simple muscle relaxation—it’s bodywork for your entire system. Depending on the technique, whether it’s deep tissue, lymphatic drainage, Thai massage, or intuitive touch, massage can help release physical tension, process stored trauma, and move emotional weight that’s been sitting in the tissues for too long.
This kind of care reconnects you to your body in real time. It reminds you that rest isn’t a luxury—it’s a biological need. Healing doesn’t always come from doing more. Sometimes it comes from softening, receiving, and letting your system feel safe again.
If you're local and looking for a practitioner who deeply understands this kind of work, we recommend Zoey at Opulent Healing in Morro Bay. She's located at 1052 Main Street, Suite F, and can be reached at (805) 440-3382.
Lymphatic Drainage Massage
Lymphatic drainage is a gentle, rhythmic massage technique designed to encourage the natural movement of lymph—a fluid that carries waste, toxins, and immune cells throughout the body. When your lymphatic system is flowing freely, it helps clear out buildup, reduce swelling, and support immune function.
This practice is deeply supportive for detoxification, post-surgery recovery, chronic inflammation, and those moments when your body feels bogged down and heavy. It’s a way to help your system let go—softly and with intention.
While many receive lymphatic drainage from trained practitioners, it’s also something you can start at home. We offer dry brushes for both body and face on our website—a simple, effective way to stimulate lymph flow daily using your own hands.
Balneotherapy
Balneotherapy is the therapeutic use of mineral-rich water for healing—something humans have practiced for thousands of years. From ancient Roman bathhouses to Japanese onsens to Indigenous hot spring traditions, cultures around the world have long known that water can be medicine when it’s paired with intention.
This healing method typically involves soaking in natural springs or mineral baths containing elements like magnesium, sulfur, calcium, and other earth-derived compounds. These minerals are absorbed through the skin and can help reduce inflammation, soothe muscle and joint pain, support skin conditions like eczema or psoriasis, and improve circulation. Just as importantly, it helps calm the nervous system, inviting your body out of stress mode and into repair.
Balneotherapy is still used today in modern integrative and rehabilitative medicine—especially in Europe, where it's a recognized therapeutic treatment for chronic pain and autoimmune conditions. But you don’t need access to a spa or spring to experience its benefits.
You can recreate the ritual at home with intention and the right ingredients. We offer therapeutic bath salts on our website to help you bring this timeless healing practice into your own space.
Polyvagal Theory is a framework for understanding how the nervous system responds to safety, danger, and connection. Developed by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges, it focuses on the vagus nerve—a major communication highway between the brain and body that controls heart rate, digestion, facial expression, voice tone, and how we respond to stress or threat.
Rather than seeing the nervous system as simply "on" or "off," Polyvagal Theory outlines three distinct states: ventral vagal (calm, connected, safe), sympathetic (fight or flight), and dorsal vagal (freeze, collapse, shutdown). These states are automatic and biological, not mental or chosen. Understanding this helps reframe behaviors—not as flaws or failures, but as survival strategies the body uses to stay safe.
Recognizing which state you’re in allows you to respond more compassionately to yourself and others, and to use tools that support regulation instead of bypassing what your body is feeling. At Sacred Soul Balance, this theory influences everything—from nervous system coaching to magnesium-based products, breath support tools, and sensory regulation items like body oils and herbal soaks. Healing isn’t just about bouncing back—it’s about learning how to come home to your body again and again.
Vagus nerve
The vagus nerve is the main character in your nervous system’s healing journey. It’s the longest cranial nerve in your body, running from your brainstem all the way down through your face, throat, heart, lungs, and gut—basically acting like a communication superhighway between your brain and the rest of your body. When we talk about nervous system regulation, we’re really talking about how well this nerve is functioning.
The vagus nerve is central to Polyvagal Theory, which explains how we shift between states of safety, danger, and shutdown. When your vagus nerve is toned and active (called "ventral vagal" state), you feel calm, grounded, socially connected, and emotionally resilient. When it’s underactive or hijacked (hello, chronic stress or trauma), your body can get stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn modes.
Here’s the magic: you can actually stimulate and strengthen your vagus nerve over time through simple, consistent practices—like deep belly breathing, cold water exposure, humming, gargling, chanting, singing, laughter, and safe human connection. Even eye contact and being seen in your full truth can activate it. That’s why co-regulation and embodiment practices matter so much—they’re literally speaking the vagus nerve’s language.
This isn’t just some woo-woo nerve you heard about on a podcast. It’s the science-backed, body-based route to long-term healing, emotional regulation, better digestion, improved immunity, and feeling safe enough to be yourself.
If you’ve felt stuck in survival mode or disconnected from your body, vagus nerve work is where the shift begins.
The Window of Tolerance is a concept used to describe the optimal zone of nervous system regulation—where you feel safe, present, and able to respond to life without becoming overwhelmed or shutting down. When you're inside this “just right” window, you can think clearly, process emotions, and handle challenges with more resilience.
Outside that window, the body shifts into survival responses: fight or flight (anxiety, panic, irritability) or freeze and shutdown (numbness, disconnection, exhaustion). These aren’t choices—they’re automatic biological reactions when the nervous system perceives danger, even if there’s no real threat.
Over time, trauma, chronic stress, or overwhelm can shrink your window, making it harder to stay regulated. But the good news is that your window can grow. Nervous system tools like breathwork, grounding exercises, somatic tracking, trauma-informed movement, and sensory supports can help you come back into your window and stay there more often.
Window of capacity describes the emotional and energetic bandwidth your nervous system has for handling stress, discomfort, or challenge without going into overwhelm or shutdown. It’s closely related to the concept of the Window of Tolerance, but with a little more nuance—it includes not just what your system can handle, but how much it can hold and integrate over time.
When you’re within your window of capacity, you can stay present and connected even during hard conversations, emotional waves, or unfamiliar experiences. When you're outside that window, you may notice patterns like snapping, spacing out, people-pleasing, overworking, freezing, or spiraling into old coping mechanisms. None of this means you’re broken—it just means your system hit its limit.
Capacity isn’t fixed. It can expand through safety, co-regulation, self-awareness, and nervous system tools. And it can contract during illness, trauma responses, grief, burnout, or when life just gets heavy. Building your window of capacity is less about “getting stronger” and more about learning how to notice your limits, meet them with care, and gently widen what’s possible from there.
Internal Family Systems, or IFS, is a therapeutic model that views the human psyche as a collection of distinct inner “parts”—each with its own emotions, roles, and history. These parts may include inner critics, protectors, exiles (parts that carry pain or trauma), and others that step in to help you function or cope. At the center of it all is your core Self—the calm, wise, compassionate presence that exists beneath the noise.
Rather than labeling these parts as problems or pathologies, IFS recognizes them as intelligent adaptations that developed to keep you safe. Some shield you from pain. Others hold wounds that never got the chance to heal. The goal of IFS isn’t to get rid of any part—it’s to build a relationship with them, earn their trust, and help them release the burdens they’ve been carrying.
Parts work is deeply compassionate, especially for trauma survivors and those who’ve spent years feeling fragmented, reactive, or self-critical. It’s about inner leadership—learning how to let your true Self take the lead in your healing process.
At Sacred Soul Balance, the principles of IFS show up in coaching, journal prompts, ritual tools, and even how products are created: to meet you where you are, not fix what was never broken. Healing happens when all your parts feel heard, honored, and safe.
Attachment theory is a psychological framework that explains how our early experiences with caregivers shape the way we connect in relationships throughout life. At its core, it’s about safety—how safe, seen, soothed, and supported we felt in our earliest bonds, and how that foundation informs our nervous system responses to closeness, conflict, and emotional needs.
There are four primary attachment styles:
Secure (comfortable with intimacy and autonomy),
Anxious (craving connection but fearing abandonment),
Avoidant (valuing independence and pulling away from vulnerability),
Disorganized (a mix of fear, chaos, and unpredictability in connection).
These patterns aren’t personality traits—they’re adaptive strategies developed to survive whatever relational environment we grew up in. And while they can create challenges in adult relationships, they’re not fixed. Understanding your attachment style is the first step toward shifting what no longer serves and building new patterns rooted in trust, communication, and co-regulation.
Trauma-informed care is a healing framework that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma and understands how it shapes the body, brain, behavior, and sense of safety. It’s not a specific method—it’s a lens. A way of seeing and supporting people that centers compassion, consent, and nervous system awareness at every step.
Rather than asking “What’s wrong with you?” trauma-informed care asks, “What happened to you?”—and even more importantly, “How did your body learn to survive?” It acknowledges that trauma isn’t just about what occurred—it’s about how the body responded and whether there was enough safety and support to process the experience.
In this space, there’s no pushing, fixing, or bypassing. Just presence. Trauma-informed support honors a person’s pace, protects their autonomy, and works gently with the nervous system to rebuild trust—both internally and externally.
At Sacred Soul Balance, trauma-informed care is woven through everything—from the tone of coaching sessions to the textures of body products to the pacing of emotional healing tools. Every offering is created with the understanding that healing takes time, and that safety isn’t assumed—it’s built.
Inner child work is the therapeutic practice of reconnecting with the younger parts of yourself—those internal versions that still carry the imprints of early experiences. These parts often formed during moments when you didn’t feel safe, seen, soothed, or supported. They may hold onto unmet needs, emotional wounds, or beliefs that were once protective but now feel limiting.
Rather than dismissing these parts as “immature” or “irrational,” inner child work invites you to approach them with curiosity and compassion. You’re not trying to erase them—you’re learning to listen. This process helps bring awareness to patterns like perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, or chronic self-doubt, which are often rooted in childhood survival strategies.
By showing up as a caring and consistent inner parent, you begin to meet those needs that were never met, rewrite old narratives, and build a foundation of internal safety and trust. This work is often deeply emotional, sometimes playful, and always tender—because healing the inner child means giving yourself what you once needed most.
At Sacred Soul Balance, inner child awareness flows through many offerings: journaling prompts, coaching support, intuitive healing sessions, and products designed to soothe and regulate the nervous system. This work often marks the beginning of profound transformation—because when you heal your inner child, you heal the parts of you that stopped believing healing was possible.
Grief work is the intentional process of acknowledging, feeling, and integrating loss in all its forms—not just death, but the loss of people, places, identities, relationships, timelines, and dreams. It recognizes that grief is not linear, predictable, or something to “get over.” Instead, it’s something to be honored, witnessed, and moved through—with care.
This kind of healing invites you to stay present with what hurts without being consumed by it. Grief is a natural response to change, and when it’s ignored or rushed, it often lodges in the body as tension, fatigue, anxiety, or emotional disconnection. Grief work helps us stay in relationship with what we've lost while slowly making space for what’s next.
Practices like ritual, reflection, writing, movement, breathwork, and somatic tools offer ways to process grief without intellectualizing it. They help you feel without collapsing, remember without spiraling, and soften without shutting down.
If you’re unsure where to begin (and most of us are), the Planet Grief Card Deck is a gentle, meaningful place to start. It offers prompts, practices, and reminders that help you move through grief one small step at a time.
Reparenting
Reparenting is the practice of giving yourself now what you didn’t consistently receive growing up—emotionally, physically, or energetically. It’s about becoming the steady, compassionate, boundaried caregiver your younger self needed and maybe never got. This work often surfaces during inner child healing, trauma repair, and nervous system regulation, because so much of our adult dysregulation stems from unmet needs in early life.
Reparenting doesn’t mean blaming your actual parents (though let’s be real—naming what didn’t happen is often part of the process). It means shifting from survival-mode reactions and self-abandonment into conscious care. That might look like soothing yourself in moments of panic instead of spiraling, standing up for your needs when you used to stay silent, feeding yourself nourishing food, letting yourself rest without guilt, or even saying, “You’re safe now,” to the younger parts of you that still feel scared.
You might find yourself asking, What would I say to a child in this moment? And then saying that to yourself. Not because it’s pretend—but because those inner parts are still there, still waiting to be seen, heard, and held.
Reparenting is an act of deep reclamation. You stop outsourcing care and start showing up as your own source of safety, structure, nurture, and truth. It’s how we interrupt generational cycles, shift long-held patterns, and build trust within our own bodies and choices.
This is the long game of healing—not just knowing better, but loving better. Especially when it comes to yourself.
Shadow work is the practice of meeting the parts of yourself you’ve been taught to hide, reject, suppress, or shame. It’s not about fixing what’s “wrong” with you—it’s about turning toward the places you’ve been disconnected from, with curiosity instead of judgment. The “shadow” isn’t evil or broken. It’s just the part of you that got pushed into the dark because it didn’t feel safe to be seen.
This can include anger, jealousy, control, people-pleasing, fear of failure, deep insecurity, or even your full brilliance and power—because yes, sometimes that gets stuffed down too. Your shadow is made of all the pieces you thought you had to exile in order to be accepted.
Shadow work asks you to slow down and listen. What triggers you? What stories repeat? What do you judge in others? What do you run from in yourself? These are clues—not problems. When approached with love, shadow work becomes a path back to wholeness.
You don’t have to do it all at once. In fact, you shouldn’t. True shadow work is slow, sacred, and deeply regulating. It’s the kind of healing that lets you stop abandoning yourself. You build capacity to hold discomfort, tell the truth, and integrate all parts of who you are—especially the ones you were told were “too much” or “not enough.”
This isn’t just emotional work. It’s spiritual reclamation. It’s nervous system repair. It’s liberation.
And it’s the work you’ve probably already been doing—every time you set a boundary, tell the truth, or stop pretending you’re fine when you’re not.
Boundaries are the sacred edges that define what you allow into your energy, your time, your body, your relationships, and your life. They’re how you teach others to treat you—and how you honor yourself, even when no one’s watching.
Healthy boundaries aren’t walls. They’re doors, built with clarity and care, that let in what nourishes and keep out what drains. They can sound like: I’m not available for that. I need more time. That doesn’t feel good to me. I love you, and I need space. Boundaries don’t make you mean, selfish, or cold—they make you rooted, honest, and safe to be around.
If you grew up in chaos, trauma, or caretaking roles, boundaries might feel foreign or even scary. You may have learned to prioritize connection over your own needs. But boundaries are how you return to yourself. They’re how you break cycles. They’re how you reclaim your nervous system from the weight of other people’s expectations.
Practicing boundaries is a daily, living thing. It’s messy and courageous and worth every uncomfortable moment. And no—you don’t have to justify or over-explain them. You get to choose what’s right for you.
Self-compassion is the practice of meeting yourself with kindness, especially when you feel like you don’t deserve it. It’s the antidote to shame, burnout, perfectionism, and inner criticism—and a core ingredient in any real, lasting healing work.
Contrary to what hustle culture might’ve taught you, self-compassion isn’t weakness. It’s not letting yourself off the hook. It’s about seeing your pain clearly and responding to it with gentleness instead of judgment. That sounds like: Of course I feel this way. It makes sense. I’m doing the best I can.
When your system is flooded or your inner critic is loud, self-compassion offers regulation. When you mess up or fall apart, it offers repair. And when your healing gets hard (which it will), it offers staying power.
This isn’t just a nice idea—it’s a nervous system strategy. Self-compassion increases vagal tone, reduces stress, improves resilience, and supports your ability to show up for others with authenticity instead of burnout. In parts work and inner child healing, it’s the bridge that lets you hold the messy, scared, brilliant, and beautiful parts of you—all at once.
You don’t have to earn kindness. Start with how you speak to yourself. Start where it hurts. That’s where the gold is.
The mind-body connection is the awareness that your thoughts, emotions, experiences, and physical body are all deeply intertwined. What affects one affects the others—your stress levels can impact digestion, unresolved trauma can cause chronic pain, and emotional suppression can show up as tension, illness, or fatigue. This connection isn’t metaphorical—it’s measurable.
In coaching, healing, and product creation, honoring the mind-body connection means tuning in to how your body communicates and treating symptoms as signals, not annoyances to be silenced. It means asking: What’s my body trying to tell me right now? instead of pushing through, numbing out, or disconnecting.
Whether you’re using a magnesium spray to ease muscle tension, a crystal for energetic alignment, or breathwork to calm your thoughts, you’re engaging the mind-body relationship. When you care for your body, you support your mental clarity. When you heal emotionally, your body often follows. This is the foundation of every offering here—real, integrated healing that doesn’t leave parts of you behind.
Enneagram
The Enneagram is a personality system rooted in ancient wisdom and modern psychology, describing nine core types—each with its own emotional patterns, motivations, fears, and coping mechanisms. Rather than boxing you in, the Enneagram helps illuminate the habits you’ve formed to navigate the world, offering insight into both your strengths and your blind spots. It’s especially powerful as a tool for healing because it reveals what drives behavior beneath the surface—inviting deeper awareness, compassion, and growth. At Sacred Soul Balance, the Enneagram is used not to define who you are, but to help you meet the parts of yourself you may have outgrown, ignored, or misunderstood.
Myers-Briggs (MBTI)
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a popular framework for understanding personality preferences, based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. It maps individuals across four spectrums—Introversion vs. Extraversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving—resulting in sixteen possible personality types. While not diagnostic or predictive, MBTI can be a helpful mirror for exploring how you process information, make decisions, and interact with the world around you. It’s especially useful when paired with somatic or energetic work, offering insight into nervous system tendencies and communication patterns.
Human Design
Human Design blends elements of astrology, the I Ching, Kabbalah, the chakra system, and quantum physics into a single system meant to reveal how your energy is designed to move through the world. Based on your birth date, time, and location, it provides a “body graph” that highlights your energetic blueprint—including your decision-making style, communication strategy, and how you best interact with others. At its core, Human Design isn’t about fixing anything—it’s about honoring how you were wired before conditioning took hold. It can be especially affirming for neurodivergent individuals and those healing from burnout, as it provides practical permission to stop forcing what was never aligned.
Astrological Archetypes
Astrological archetypes refer to the energetic expressions associated with the twelve zodiac signs, the planets, and the houses in an astrology chart. Each archetype represents a unique set of traits, challenges, and potentials—for example, Aries is bold and initiating, while Pisces is intuitive and boundary-blurring. In astrological herbalism and integrative healing, these archetypes offer a language to better understand your constitution, emotional patterns, and even physical tendencies. Exploring youfr chart can help you clarify how different parts of you are interacting, what cycles you’re currently moving through, and how to align your choices with natural timing and personal truth.
Life Path
Your Life Path number comes from numerology, a system that studies the symbolic meaning of numbers as they relate to human behavior, personality, and spiritual growth. It’s calculated using your full birth date and is often considered a blueprint for your core tendencies, natural talents, and the broader themes you’re here to explore or evolve through in this lifetime.
Unlike quick-fix personality quizzes, the Life Path system isn’t about telling you who you are—it’s about highlighting the patterns, challenges, and opportunities that tend to follow you, especially when you’re out of alignment. When used consciously, it can be a guide for decision-making, self-reflection, and understanding long-standing emotional or behavioral loops.
The zodiac is a 360-degree belt of constellations that the sun, moon, and planets appear to move through from our viewpoint on Earth. It is divided into twelve signs, each representing a unique archetypal energy that reflects different aspects of personality, development, and life experience. In astrology, these signs help interpret how cosmic cycles influence personal patterns, emotional tendencies, and phases of growth. The zodiac forms the foundation of your birth chart, with each sign bringing its own lesson, challenge, and medicine.
The Twelve Zodiac Signs and Their Dates:
Aries – March 21 to April 19
Taurus – April 20 to May 20
Gemini – May 21 to June 20
Cancer – June 21 to July 22
Leo – July 23 to August 22
Virgo – August 23 to September 22
Libra – September 23 to October 22
Scorpio – October 23 to November 21
Sagittarius – November 22 to December 21
Capricorn – December 22 to January 19
Aquarius – January 20 to February 18
Pisces – February 19 to March 20
Copyright © 2025 Sacred Soul Balance - All Rights Reserved.