Support for Metabolizing Life & Motherhood
You’ve learned how to support your child and their nervous system.
The spaces I create support you and yours.
Mothering through adoption is beautiful, sacred, and life-changing.
And, sometimes, it’s exhausting, overwhelming, and deeply tender or raw.
Mothering asks a lot of us…
It invites us to learn, grow, adapt, and show up in ways we never imagined. To hold complexity. To stay curious. To support our children while navigating our own lives, relationships, transitions, and questions along the way.
It’s some of the most sacred work we do. And some of the hardest—especially when mothering comes through adoption, with its own unique transitions and complexities.
You love fiercely and are devoted.
You've read the books, attended workshops, listened to podcasts–on the nervous system, separation, trauma, behavior, attachment, and how to create safety for a child who has experienced loss. Many of us become experts in understanding and caring for everyone around us while quietly losing connection with parts of ourselves. It doesn’t happen all at once. It never does.
Often, as mothers, we are carrying far more than we were ever meant to hold alone while moving within a culture that leaves little space for rest, integration, grief, or repair.
Some days your mind races, your body aches and your soul might feel…dull.
You've been the one doing the holding.
This is a place to be held.
Over time, the body begins speaking through exhaustion that sleep is unable to meet.
Digestive issues, tension patterns, emotional reactivity, anxiety humming beneath the surface, or a quiet sense of disconnection. The mind races, while the heart feels both full and overwhelmed at the same time
There is nothing wrong with you.
Rooted in Ayurveda and woven with somatic guidance, nervous system support, and deep listening, this work helps you metabolize life more gently so your body, heart, and soul can begin to catch up.
Together, we create space to reconnect with your rhythms, your body, your inner knowing, and the parts of you that may have been waiting a long time to be tended to.
I believe when women are deeply supported, witnessed, nourished and connected to themselves, they have a greater capacity to create the healing, grounded spaces their children need too.
More ways to work together:
METABOLIZING THE MOMENT SESSIONS: We work with what is present (1 or 3 sessions)
RETURN TO CENTER - 3 Months Guidance/Accompaniment: An Opportunity to work through a season with support—connecting to nourishment, rhythm, and understanding seasonal and cyclical care that creates space for more ease, grace, pleasure and possibility.
MotherCircleAdoption: 8-week Program co-facilitated with my friend, colleague and fellow adoptive mom, Michelle Kenefick. Based on a curriculum developed by Kimberly Ann Johnson, adapted to explore unique complexities of mothering through adoption.
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Coming Back to Rhythm
When life has been outpacing your body
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About Karla
I’m a mother through birth and adoption, and I know intimately what it feels like to care deeply for everyone else while quietly losing connection with yourself.
Years ago, although I was teaching yoga and supporting others, underneath I was exhausted, overwhelmed, anxious, and depleted in ways I couldn’t explain.
Ayurveda and somatic healing changed the way I understood my body and my life. Rather than seeing myself as broken, I began understanding that my system had simply been carrying too much for too long without enough support, rhythm, or space to recover.
I continue teaching, practicing and living Ayurveda because this wisdom has held me through grief, loss, motherhood, and rebuilding my life from the inside out. The teachings have guided me in how to hold joy and sorrow simultaneously, how to listen to my body with curiosity instead of judgment, and how to return to center again and again.
For more than fifteen years, I’ve supported women through motherhood, grief, transition, and healing using Ayurveda, yoga, somatic awareness, nervous system support, energy healing, and deep accompaniment.
The through-line in all of my work is embodiment — and I’m here to accompany you as you come home to your whole self and inner knowing again.