We have been married since 2006, and best friends since we were teenagers. We live with our children in Thailand, where we love the slower-paced life, and incredible beauty around us. We have been on quite a wild journey of healing ourselves, and it is our immense honor to help you learn how to listen to the wisdom of your body as you find your way back as well.   

In Healing and Wholeness,

Lauren + Luke

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🗣”A normal response to an abnormal situation”. We have shared that statement so often with people who feel so much shame, self-loathing, + hopelessness about how they engage with themselves/the world. The research on PTSD in the last couple of decades has been nothing short of REMARKABLE. Such a better understanding we now hold on […]

Trauma Effects

March 20, 2023

Post Traumatic Stress Response

If you could think of sympathetic activation like everything speeding up, then you could think of dorsal as everything slooowwwiinnng down. In this state: ◇ breathing slows ◇ movement becomes difficult ◇ thoughts turn fuzzy ◇ everything seems lost o/r hopeless. This is an autonomic (involuntary) defensive state of the body. It is a state […]

Nervous System

March 20, 2023

The Shut-Down State of the Nervous System (AKA “Dorsal”)

There are 3 primary states of the autonomic nervous system. Learning about these states in regards to yourself + others can truly TRANSFORM your understanding of what it is to be human. Our nervous system STATE informs us moment by moment of what is “true” about the world inside of us + around us. The […]

Nervous System

March 20, 2023

Sympathetic State of the Nervous System

At FLOURISH, we believe that ALL healthcare fields should be appropriately trauma-informed. In the 15 years we’ve been in helping fields, we have seen the wreckage left in the wake of providers + practitioners who do not understand what trauma is, nor the impacts of trauma on the human body. Are you sick of being […]

Trauma Effects

March 20, 2023

TRAUMA INFORMED HEALTHCARE