FREE COMMUNITY SERIES
FREE Somatic Practice Gatherings for More Secure Relationships
Now more than ever, we need relationships that can weather storms. Let’s practice!
Somatic Relationship Practices & Community
Colonization has shaped our relationships in a way that reinforces hyper individualism, disconnection, and exile over repair. Through interpersonal & systemic trauma, we lose capacity to hold the natural nuance that comes with relationship. Imagine relationships where conflict was uncomfy but not so terrifying that it leads to all-consuming, brain-cramping rumination (and ultimately avoidance and relationship disintegration). Imagine having more space in your nervous system to differentiate old trauma from the person right in front of you. We hope you’ll join us so we can practice together!
We are deeply wired for life-giving relationships; our bodies just need to remember how.
In a time where systems of power and control are doubling down, let’s fortify what they can’t take — our innate ability to create life-giving, reciprocal relationship patterns. Coming back into relationship is not only healing; it’s resistance.
Complex relationship trauma shrinks our capacity, meaning that our relationship patterns become shaped by survival strategies — very black/white and easy-to-singe. This is nothing you did wrong; it’s just healthy, functional survival energy frozen in time.
Somatic practices are powerful allies for releasing survival energy from the past, and for helping your nervous system know that more life-giving relationships are now available to you. We hope you’ll practice with us — see all info and registration below!
Tuesdays, Oct. 13th & Oct. 20th via Zoom (recordings available)
Logistics
This series is a gathering + fortifying opportunity for our email community ❤️ Upon sign-up, you’ll be given an option to attend live or receive recordings only. Totally free + keep the recordings forever!
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Session #1
Tuesday, Oct. 13th, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Topic: “is it a red flag or my trauma?”
Session #2
Tuesday, Oct. 20th, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Topic: Staying Connected through Conflict & Complexity
(Thorough topic descriptions further down the page)
Upon sign-up, you’ll receive an option to come live or receive recordings only.
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Sessions will open with a brief overview of our lens of healing, community agreements, and any logistical matters we need to cover.
Then we’ll move into our session:
Short grounding and check-ins
Topic discussion and education
Specific somatic practices relevant to the topic
Time for journaling, reflection, and connection
Q&A
*Liz will stop recording with about 20 minutes left, and the community will be invited to come off mute and spend time in connection and reflection!
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In our work at Rose, Raven & Roar™, we’re invested in the deepest root cause of relationship pattern shift, from harm-based to reciprocal and life-giving.
In an ever-evolving effort to do this, we take a micro-macro approach. We believe that along with inner somatic and attachment patterns, we must equally participate in shifting macro relationship patterns (colonization, white supremacy, fundamentalism, purity culture, etc.).
We also fundamentally consider our disrupted attachment pattern with the Earth and with nature. Colonization has distorted our way of being in relationship, and this is reflected in how we relate to the land, shaped by disconnection and extraction rather than reciprocity. We believe that coming back into reciprocal relation with nature is critical to repatterning.
We hold all of these lenses equally in our healing philosophy. Importantly, we hold it in the hand of one of our biggest values: non-perfection. Exiting the grips of complex trauma and power-over structures is messy, and we all have generations of conditioning. We’re gonna mess it up sometimes.
The only way to repattern is to mess up, and to stay in relationship at the same time (which is healing in itself!). To us, healing innately means that we’re expanding our capacity for differences, layers of complexity, relational mistakes, and the SO important process of rupture and repair. Survival-based relational patterns equal fear and exile. We think healing means remaining in care and connection when there’s messiness and disruption ❤️
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Heal. So we don’t have another generation of trauma passing itself off as culture.”
— Leslie Priscilla
Session #1 — October 13th
“Is it a red flag or my trauma?”
When we’re traumatized, it’s harder to differentiate between discomfort and actual danger. In this session, we’ll practice skills designed to help your nervous system begin differentiating between old signals from ghosts of the past, a safe enough person being imperfect, and when you actually do need to run.
Session #2 — October 20th
Staying Connected through Conflict & Complexity
In this session, we’ll dive deeper into recognizing sensations of discomfort, stretchiness, and actual danger. We’ll move through somatic practices to help your nervous system learn how to stay in relation while uncomfortable, vs. the survival-based urge to disconnect completely when there’s discomfort. These practices are ideal for moving through conflict in a way that reinforces depth and intimacy in relationships.
Who this is for
Spooky, nerdy, deep-feeling folk who crave depth and a deeper sense of belonging in relationships
Anyone recovering from abuse, high-control religion, or harmful relationship patterns and committed to breaking generational cycles of harm
Hi, I’m Liz.
I’m so grateful you’re here, and I hope that our cobwebbed corner of the internet can bring some hope and inspiration to your spooky, big heart.
I’m a clinical psychotherapist, LPC-MHSP licensure supervisor, complex trauma & relationship specialist, founder of RR&R, and a survivor. My soul speaks cat, coffee, macabre, and sarcasm. Nearly two decades of supporting survivors, my entire career has revolved around this question: “How do we move from trauma-based relationship patterns to reciprocal, life-giving patterns in the deepest, most lasting way possible?”
I wanted to offer these connection + somatic practice sessions to our community as a reminder that although we’re contending with gigantic power-over tantrums, we are not alone. Our power is in our deeply relational (and wild) nature. I hope to meet and practice with you soon!
Disclaimers & Expectations
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Although these practice gatherings involve somatic and nervous system regulating practices from a licensed psychotherapist, no part of this offering is clinical therapy nor should be treated as clinical treatment of any kind. Participation does not create a clinical relationship between yourself and Elizabeth DeVaughn.
You agree that you are able to attend these practices with the ability to discern the right amount and level of participation for you. It is always recommended that you defer to the instruction of providers that you already have a medical or clinical relationship with.
Elizabeth will of course be available for emotional regulation support as needed, the above statements still withstanding. If you need a higher level of clinical support, we will provide referrals.
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As a practice space and community of relationship pattern healing, we stand for liberation, autonomy, and being in reciprocal, power-with relationship with ALL beings.
We make every, ever-evolving effort within Rose, Raven & Roar™ to be anti-racist, anti-ableist, gender affirming, queer-allied, anti-purity culture, anti-fundamentalist, and vegan/cruelty-free. We strive to maintain a warm, welcoming, inclusive space for all bodies, sexual orientations, faith traditions, and cultural backgrounds.
We value and hold deep & wide space for complexity, nuance, differences, and the important relational process of rupture and repair, knowing that freeing ourselves from systems of oppression will not be clean or easy. In essence, we are anti-perfection and welcome mistakes.
This said, any type of abusive, bullying, or oppressive behavior will never be tolerated within any of our containers or spaces.
Please join us in doing everything possible to keep this space a safe, consensual, confidential, inclusive, power-with space for all.
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*Community agreements are coming soon. If you’re attending live, they will be emailed to you along with the Zoom links.
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Boundaries are the place where I can love both you and me at the same time.”
— Prentis Hemphill