Show Notes

Title: Episode 7: Coming Home to the Body: A Conversation between Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW, and Yvette Lalonde on Somatic Healing, Trauma, and Autonomy

Summary: What does it mean to come home to your body when you've spent years learning to override it? Lasara talks with Yvette Lalonde about somatic healing, trauma, and reclaiming bodily autonomy. They explore the language of sensation, consent in medical care, and why nervous system regulation isn't simply about calming down. They also talk about the ways dominant culture shapes our experience of our bodies, and what it means to center our own experience as trans and gender-expansive folx navigating perimenopause and menopause.

Key topics: somatic healing; felt-sense vocabulary; bodily autonomy; medical trauma; embodied consent; nervous system capacity; gender dysphoria; perimenopause and menopause

Guest links:
Inner Flow Somatic Counselling: https://innerflowcounselling.com/
About Yvette: https://innerflowcounselling.com/about-2/

As always, you can find more about Lasara and what they're up to at:
https://linktr.ee/Lasarafirefoxallen - for relevant links, coaching, upcoming classes, and their socials.

Genderqueer Menopause: https://www.genderqueermenopause.com

#SomaticHealing #TraumaInformedCare #BodilyAutonomy #GenderAffirmingCare #GenderqueerMenopause #QueerHealth

About Yvette Lalonde:
Yvette Lalonde (they/them) is a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor and the founder of Inner Flow Somatic Counselling. Their body-centered work brings together movement, breath, and nervous system awareness, with attention to the ways society and oppressive systems shape lived experience. Their own experience of complex trauma informs their work helping people reconnect with their bodies.