About us
You don’t only need to talk about your trauma to heal.
You also need to release it from your body.
This healing circle is a trauma-informed, body-based space for adult children of dysfunctional, emotionally immature, or narcissistic families. If you grew up carrying the emotional weight of your caregivers — as the fixer, the golden child, the scapegoat, the invisible one — you may still be holding those patterns in your fascia, nervous system, voice, and breath.
If you’ve explored your story, named your trauma, and done the inner work — but still feel stuck, disconnected, or physically unwell — this group offers a gentle shift into embodied healing.
We begin where the body is now, not where the mind got stuck.
What We Focus On
- Nervous system safety as the foundation of healing
- Somatic unwinding of old roles and people-pleasing patterns
- Fascia awareness as a doorway to emotional release
- Quiet space for reflection, integration, and deep inner listening
What to Expect
Each session includes:
🔹 Grounding & Arrival
Gentle breathing, body awareness, or nervous system settling
🔹 Mini Teaching (5–10 minutes)
Short insights on how trauma lives in the body — and how it can begin to unwind
🔹 Somatic Practice or Reflection
Invitational practices such as fascia awareness, intuitive movement, or gentle journaling
Always optional. Always body-led.
🔹 Integration
Time to rest, notice, and let the work land in your own way
No sharing required.
Who This Group Is For
This space is for adults who:
- Grew up in emotionally immature, neglectful, or enmeshed families
- Are releasing guilt, fear, or self-blame around boundaries
- Are exhausted from people-pleasing, fixing, or shrinking themselves
- Feel hypervigilance, shutdown, or emotional suppression in their body
- Are ready to heal from the bottom up — not just intellectually
- Crave a somatically aware space to reconnect with themselves
No diagnosis is required.
No trauma story needs to be shared.
Your nervous system already knows what it needs — we’re simply creating the space and safety to listen.
How We Meet
This group is offered via YouTube Live.
This format allows you to participate in a way that feels safest for your nervous system:
- No pressure to be on camera
- No requirement to speak or share
- You can come late, leave early, or simply listen
- You are free to receive without being seen
For many people healing from emotional neglect, hypervigilance, or family roles, being observed or evaluated can feel activating. YouTube Live creates a gentle environment where you can stay regulated, present, and resourced — while still benefiting from somatic teaching and guided practices.
Participation is always optional. Presence is enough.
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A Note from Natalie
I’m Natalie — a Somatic Healing & Embodiment Coach, certified yoga therapist, and MA in Psychology. But more importantly, I’m a deeply sensitive woman who spent most of my life carrying emotional weight that wasn’t mine.
I’m no longer performing, fixing, or twisting myself to be loved — and I hold this space so you don’t have to either.
This is a sacred place to slow down, listen inward, and honor your healing as the brave, layered journey that it is.
To learn more about me and my approach, visit my website.
Upcoming events
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Chasing the Spark: A Somatic Look at Attraction & Attachment
·OnlineOnlineThis session is presented as a live stream, offering a gentle, low-demand way to explore somatic healing.
Have you ever wondered why you feel intensely drawn to certain people—even when the relationship feels confusing, destabilizing, or hard to sustain?
Why some connections feel electric at first… but painful over time?
In this experiential, body-based session, we’ll explore attraction and attachment through the lens of the nervous system, not psychology alone.Rather than asking “What’s wrong with me?”
We’ll gently ask, “What does my body recognize as familiar?”Many of us learned very early what closeness feels like—through family dynamics, emotional availability (or lack of it), and survival patterns that formed before we had words. Those early imprints often shape who we’re drawn to as adults, especially when chemistry feels intense or hard to walk away from.
This session is about bringing compassionate awareness to those patterns.
What We'll Explore
- Why “the spark” can sometimes be a nervous-system response rather than true safety
- How attachment patterns live in the body, not just the mind
- The difference between excitement, familiarity, and regulation
- How your body learned what love feels like—and why it keeps repeating certain dynamics
This is not about analyzing past relationships or labeling yourself.
It’s about noticing, feeling, and beginning to understand your body’s responses to closeness and connection.We’ll move slowly, with optional reflection and gentle somatic awareness. You’re welcome to simply listen and receive.
Format & Nervous System Support
This session will be offered as a live, private YouTube stream and recorded. You’ll be able to access the replay using the same link after the live has ended. This format is intentionally chosen to support nervous system safety and somatic healing — allowing you to stay present without being seen or needing to participate. There are no cameras, no chat, and nothing required of you. You’re welcome to listen, rest, or experience whatever arises, in your own time and in your own way.This session focuses on awareness.
For those who feel ready to go further, I’ll also be offering a follow-up Eventbrite workshop, Trauma Bonded Relationships: Why Love Feels So Hard to Leave, where we focus on change—gently exploring trauma bonds in the body and beginning to soften the survival patterns that keep us emotionally attached to painful relationships.Find out more about the workshop here.
Led by: Natalie Bussell
Somatic Healing & Embodiment Coach | NB Holistic Health
Trauma-informed. Nervous-system aware. Body-based healing.55 attendees
The Art of Settling: A Guided Somatic Rest (Registration Required)
·OnlineOnlinePlease note: This is a donation-based event hosted on Eventbrite. RSVPing here on Meetup does not register you for the session — you’ll need to complete registration on Eventbrite.
Are you exhausted… but still wired at night?
Do you finally lie down, only to notice your body won’t quite let go?The Art of Settling is a 60-minute guided somatic rest created for people whose nervous systems are tired of being “on.”
This is not a workshop.
Nothing will be processed, analyzed, or worked through.
This is a quiet, spacious experience designed to help the body gently downshift into deep rest — without effort, insight, or participation.
You’re invited to join from your bed or couch, in your pajamas, wrapped in blankets and pillows. Lights can be off or soft. Headphones are encouraged. There are no cameras and no expectations.
Guidance will be minimal and ultra-slow, with long stretches of silence. Many people notice yawning, softening, drifting, or falling asleep. All responses are welcome.
There is:
• no fixing
• no analyzing
• no sharing
• no catharsis
• nothing to figure outThis is parasympathetic settling — a place where nothing is required of you.
You don’t need experience with meditation or somatic work.
You don’t need to understand your nervous system.
You don’t need to “do” rest correctly.If your body has been longing to stop, to soften, and to be held by quiet at the end of the week, this space is for you.
You’re welcome to close your computer afterward and continue resting for the night.
Come exactly as you are.
Leave exactly as you are — only softer.Format: Unlisted YouTube Live Stream
Registration: This event requires separate registration on Eventbrite
(Meetup RSVP alone does not grant access)
Length: 60 minutes
Pricing: Donation-basedLed by: Natalie Bussell
Somatic Healing & Embodiment Coach | NB Holistic Health
Trauma-informed. Nervous-system aware. Body-based healing.28 attendees
Past events
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