My Story

I'm Ann - a trauma-informed Physical Therapist and a woman who's had to rebuild from the inside out.

For over 30 years, I’ve helped others feel strong, steady, and whole again. But when my own life fell apart two years ago, everything changed in my own body.

Within a year and a half, I endured a cascade of losses. I lost both of my parents. I had three major spinal surgeries. And just when I most needed support, I was blindsided by a series of betrayals from people I had trusted deeply. The kind of betrayals that don’t just shake your world - they shatter your sense of safety, identity, and even your relationship with your own body. I lived in hiding for weeks, not out of drama, but out of sheer fear - hypervigilant, disoriented, unsure of who or what to trust - and had to rebuild my life completely while my head was still spinning. It left me emotionally shattered and on constant alert. In the aftermath, I was in survival mode.

At first, I thought the worst part was the loss itself - the cruelty, the silence, the distancing from family I had loved, the financial blow. But I soon discovered something deeper: the trauma was living in my body. I hadn’t just lost a marriage and two lifelong friendships. I lost my sense of safety and nearly everything I thought was secure - including my health.

My heart would pound at night, making sleep impossible. My breath stayed shallow when there was no danger. I experienced mysterious ailments that tests couldn’t explain. Pain returned in areas I thought had healed. I startled easily. I couldn’t focus, retain information, or move freely without bracing, collapsing, or freezing. Through this, I also struggled with not feeling believed or understood.

As a PT, I had long understood the connection between stress and the nervous system in physical recovery. But this was personal and cellular. This was ME.

I wasn’t just grieving a life I had lost - I was trying to find safety in a body that no longer felt like mine.

I share my story not to shock, but to show that I’ve walked in the shoes of women who are up at 3 am Googling how to feel better when betrayal feels physical. Experiencing what I did gave me an understanding I didn’t previously have, despite my many years treating women who had been through a lot. There are many resources for emotional recovery after trauma, but few that speak to the physical wreckage betrayal can leave behind - and even fewer that combine professional expertise in movement-based healing with lived experience.

So I started building what I couldn’t find: a space where women like me could gently reconnect with their bodies after betrayal, loss, and trauma.

Embodied Betrayal Healing was born from this truth: healing from emotional trauma isn’t just emotional. It’s physical. And it takes time and focused care, much like a physical injury. This space is for women like you and me - women whose bodies still carry the imprint of betrayal long after the dust settles.

Through movement, nervous system regulation, breathwork, along with pelvic, energetic and visceral therapy concepts from my decades in practice, I want to offer actual tools to help you reclaim your sense of agency, grounding, and wholeness as you recover from betrayal. Tools that can perhaps even help prevent trauma from settling so deeply into the body.

Here, I bring together clinical knowledge and personal experience - not as a cure-all, but as a beginning. A way back home to yourself.

Because healing happens faster and more completely when we can breathe - and when we’re not walking alone.

I’m not writing this from a mountaintop of healing. I’m walking this road with you, one breath and one movement at a time. Embodied Betrayal Healing was born from professional expertise, deep personal pain, and a desire to make something good from it.

If you’re in the thick of it, I see you. Your pain is real. And so is your strength.

Welcome.