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The Mind-Body Way

As a Somatic Coach, I center the body and nervous system as anchors in healing and personal growth.

I help people find freedom from living in survival mode, shed conditioning and accumulated stress, and come back home to their hearts and bodies.

06/15/2026

This Wednesday in our Refuge circle we’ll welcome the relationship between grief & gratitude into the room to teach us.

Refuge is an online community grief & joy practice held every 4th Wednesday of the month (this month it’s on the 3rd Wednesday).

Let’s bring grief (and gratitude) back into the light, and back into community.

06/11/2026

Grief rituals tend to bring forth gratitude and joy, gratitude practices tend to bring forth grief. All signs of being alive, of life force and energy moving through the body and soul.

I also embrace numbness at times when it comes forward - the dorsal vagal strategies like dissociation, shutdown, numbness, collapse - are here to serve a purpose as well. To protect us, our psyches, our bodies, from what is too much to feel, to process or experience. To get us to hit a big stop button, even sometimes is a part of healing.

Yet what happens if we get stuck there, or spend way more time there than we’d like, in the numbness, shutdown, collapse? We feel less alive, we feel less connected. Less available to be present with others. And we become much easier to oppress as well.

We’ll explore the relationship between gratitude and grief in our next Refuge practice - Wed June 17th 7pm EST.

Link in bio. Suggested sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Thank you to teachers like Holly Truhlar & Francis Weller for teaching on this phenomenon, which I see clearly in the spaces I lead as well.

06/05/2026

All the lessons from a year of upheaval ❤️‍🔥

✨ Offerings ✨

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD

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06/04/2026

Some of my favorite moments are when I feel a restrictive subconscious pattern shift and a more easeful, and true way of being becomes known.

In my own work and my work with clients, I have an eye for spotting these - subconscious patterns that were once protective and adaptive - that may now function more as drains of energy and blocks to authenticity and mutually beneficial relationship.

In the past, I often would push myself to present a full decision, and my default is to take on too much, so that’s usually how my decision would lean.

In this new way of being - honesty about the in-between, I see how collaborations, projects, relationships can bloom to their fullest potential. The places I actually don’t have full alignment or capacity for stay open perhaps for a better fit to fill.

Honesty with care wherever possible, and without blame but simply truth of what’s alive.

When the journey to a destination is full of over giving and bypassing, it’s likely the end result will reflect that with some quality of inauthenticity or instability. Approaching the journey with honesty about what’s really here is setting the stage for a more holistic destination with authentic roots.

✨ Offerings ✨

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one April 22 7pm EST.

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD

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05/23/2026

Growing capacity for complexity is good medicine for these times.

I notice as I do this practice, I can shift from an urgent, frustrated, judging, or even powerless place to a place of wide, curious, layered awareness. Over time, where I was previously stuck in freeze, I start to feel flow, ability to take a next aligned step.

In relationships, where there was tension and opposition, room is made for organic solutions, collaboration, and empathy.

✨ Offerings ✨

Earth’s Embrace - Learning to trust the river of grief together. A 2-month eco-somatic container of in-person small group immersions and integration.

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one April 22 7pm EST.

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD

05/20/2026

Our bodies know the way, the Earth knows the way, Community knows the way. Can we let go and trust?

Sacred container for grieving with the support of Earth and Community starting soon!

If you are called to join us for Earth’s Embrace, an Eco-Somatic Container for Grief & Joy, apply at link in bio. Apply by 5/29.

Two in person nature immersion days, June and July near Frederick, MD + online support in between.

✨ Offerings ✨

Earth’s Embrace - Learning to trust the river of grief together. A 2-month eco-somatic container of in-person small group immersions and integration.

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one April 22 7pm EST.

Song of Aliveness: Eco-Somatic Song Retreat - 7/26

Somatic Journey Toolkit - Me in your Pocket for Self-Paced Embodied Learning and Healing

1:1 Somatic Coaching - Building Safety, Trust, & Resilience through Body Wisdom

Somatic CranioSacral Therapy - Attuned Touch for Nervous System Care, Release, & Early Developmental Repair

Sacred Kin - Biweekly Women & Q***r Inclusive Circle Frederick, MD

05/18/2026

Trusting the River of Grief 🙏❤️

Earth’s Embrace - Learning to trust the river of grief together. A 2-month eco-somatic container of in-person small group immersions and integration. Begins in early June.

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one May 27 7pm EST.

05/15/2026

As you may know, we let go of our sweet dog Abbey last week.

As I’ve had more space to process, I can tell you this grief of losing Abbey is hard. It is not separate from the grief I feel about all of the harm unfolding around the world. It is interconnected. Yet, my experience of Abbey’s loss is of a grief that for lack of a better word feels more pure. Simpler. I can wrap my head and my heart around this grief. Afterall, is it not a part of life that everyone and everything we love we will one day lose?

The healing and training I’ve been doing around grief work has helped me A LOT as I move through this loss. I feel my capacity for grief, and all the layers that come along with grief, growing.

One of my goals is to grow my capacity for processing collective grief and facilitating collective grief spaces.

Abbey’s death is the loss of one treasured life, a long-lived life full of love and care. An ending honored with ritual, community, and the welcoming of grief.

Yet the collective grief is so many multitudes of interconnected ungrieved losses across so many generations, it is hard to put into words.

How do we do it friends? How do we grieve the unfelt grief of so many generations?

Upcoming Containers for community grief tending:

Earth’s Embrace - Learning to trust the river of grief together. A 2-month eco-somatic container of in-person small group immersions and integration starting in early June.

Refuge - Online Monthly Community Practice for Grief & Joy. Next one May 27 7pm EST.

Links in bio

05/14/2026

What if we are past the point at which we can function without grieving?

Too many generations of unmet needs and unacknowledged pain, held in our bodies who are yearning for gentle spaces to land and allow what is here to be here. No need to push it down, no need to constantly find the bright side, but simply to offer our grief, numbness, anger, confusion, exhaustion to the altar to be witnessed.

A few spots left, a couple weeks left to join Earth’s Embrace, an Eco-Somatic Container for Grief & Joy in the area of land now known as Frederick,MD.

+ Refuge, our monthly community online practice for grief & joy is coming up soon too…

08/18/2025

When I’m in nature
Life is a prayer
My awe near wordless
As thoughts softly repair

When I’m in nature
Colors glow
And beauty comes in every form
Until I am beauty too again

When I’m in nature
My defenses rest
Quietly emotions find room
To sway inside my chest

When I’m in nature
Feeling the rhythmic pace
I release the unconscious grasp
For everything is already in place

I am here, in nature
Where I’ve always belonged
Timeless, connected,
Cradled by birdsong

Next Eco-Somatic Group Retreat
🌀SPIRAL🌀

Sunday, October 5, 10am - 4:30pm
(this specific date will be for women and is an LGBTQIA+ affirming space)

ThorpeWood (near Frederick, MD)

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Link in bio ✨

Address

245 W Patrick Street
Frederick, MD
21701

Website

https://linktr.ee/nicole_robinson

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