ABOUT LIZ

ABOUT LIZ

Hello! I'm Liz. I'm a certified trauma professional, NARM® Practitioner, breathwork facilitator, MBEC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counseling graduate school student. I am passionate about destigmatizing mental health and helping others better understand themself, their body, their brain, and their habits to reach their goals and live in a state of acceptance and compassion rather than overwhelm, frustration, and shame.

While I focus on all aspects of mental wellness, my specialties are in nutritional psychology (understanding how our brain and mindsets influence our habits, actions, and choices regarding health and wellness), relational trauma, complex trauma, and nervous system regulation.

From a very young age, I struggled with crippling anxiety and panic attacks. My inability to cope with my anxiety was a contributing factor in developing an eating disorder later on in life which ultimately led to the onset of multiple chronic illnesses and symptoms that impacted my life in difficult ways for years in my early twenties. You can listen to my story in more depth here but my own experiences are what brought me to this field and led me to become so passionate about psychology, mental health, and the relationship we have with ourselves. 

My undergraduate degree is in early childhood education and special education and while I did not stick on this career path, my degree played a large role in my passion for understanding human development as the majority of our belief systems, habits, experiences, and identities stem from childhood. After college, I decided to pivot and joined a mental health counseling graduate program. I have also completed several trainings and certifications in trauma, nutritional psychology, and nervous system regulation.

Through my podcast, social media platforms, and blog, I aim to make mental wellness resources more accessible, destigmatize mental health, spread awareness and acceptance for those affected by psychological disorders, and advocate for those with chronic illnesses.

Facing the parts of ourselves we are disconnected from, fearful of, feel shame towards, etc. is not easy but the connection to ourselves and others that we gain is worth it. I take a non-pathologizing approach to mental health and personal growth, meaning, viewing people through the lens of compassion and acceptance instead of judgement and understanding the impact that our environment has on our development. All people have inherent worth and dignity and everyone is capable of making positive changes in their lives.

I am grateful that my healing journey connected me to my passion for helping others and am honored to be a part of your healing process whether it is through working together, one of my programs or offers, or my free content ♥︎

 

Pillars of The Unbounded Self Brand:

1. Psychoeducation: In each program within the Unbounded Brand, you will learn about any psychology, neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and nutrition information that is relevant to that course. This information is broken down into easy-to-understand and apply concepts, and will help you to better understand yourself, your brain, and your body.

2. Agency: Nobody understands your body, experiences, or mental state better than yourself. While stepping slightly beyond your comfort zone is sometimes necessary for personal growth and self-discovery, there's no obligation to force yourself into anything before you're ready. You have the authority to decide the pace and extent of your challenges. The objective of any Unbounded program isn't to hold you to a strict plan, but to empower you to listen to yourself and your body, making choices that genuinely nurture and benefit you.

3. Acceptance: Growth is like peeling an onion, there is always another layer. Life is a never-ending journey of healing and growth therefore, "perfection" and "total healing" are not the goal. Approaching transformation from a place of acceptance allows us to stop waiting until we reach our goals to respect our bodies, feel confident, nourish ourselves, and enjoy life. Our bodies and lives fluctuate daily and practicing acceptance helps us to ride the ebbs and flows of life rather than resist them.

4. Curiosity: Even our most frustrating and destructive self-sabotaging habits and actions formed for a reason and at one point in our lives they served a very important purpose. Rather than approaching ourselves with guilt, shame, and judgment, we approach these "survival strategies" with curiosity and openness. This allows us to better understand our inner world (states of being, relationship to ourselves, how we relate to others and the world around us, what motivates our behavior, what drives us, why we do what we do or don't do what wish we would, etc.).

5. Embodiment: We utilize an embodied approach to transformation as opposed to solely mindset work which often leads to resistance, tension, frustration, and mental overwhelm. Since the majority of our fear, resistance, discomfort, trauma, past experiences, etc. live in the body, we use embodiment practices to help regulate the nervous system and increase the capacity for self-regulation. 

 

Blog Posts

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