Reclaiming Your Original Beauty: A 7 Week Virtual Guided Group Experience Using the Safe and Sound Protocol as a Tool for Transformation

When we feel safe and connected, our True Nature and Original Beauty emerges

Our next round of this group will be sliding scale $250-$500 for folks who have weathered Hurricane Helene. Group max is 8 participants

Thursdays 10 AM - 12PM

Spring 2025 Dates: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/24, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22

Are you seeking the kind of belonging that welcomes all parts of you?

Imagine how it would feel to not have to do or be anything other than yourself to receive connection.

Our Original Beauty refers to the qualities of our true nature that have been a part of who we are from when we were born. These qualities emerge when we move towards deeper embodiment. You can be in your Original Beauty and experience this type of belonging.

Our sensory processing system, trauma history and attachment wounds can create experiences in our body that make it difficult to land in an embodied sense of safety and connection. The Safe and Sound Protocol can support healing in these areas.

The Safe and Sound Protocol is an intervention that:

  • brings protective parts of ourselves that formed when we didn't get messages of unconditional love forward for healing

  • dismantles anything in the way of our ability to yield and surrender into an embodied sense of belonging

  • uses filtered music and frequency to shift our sensory system's orientation from threat/defense to safety/connection

As more safety enters the system, the sensory processing experience, attachment themes and trauma physiology that live in our nervous system and impedes our ability to yield into enoughness and belonging will be brought to the surface for healing. 

You’re invited to:

Reclaiming Your Original Beauty: A 7 Week Guided Virtual Group Experience Using the Safe and Sound Protocol as a Tool for Transformation

What You Will Receive

  • Access to the SSP Core Program

    Access to the SSP Core program

    Access to SSP Connect program during the duration of the SSP intervention for ANS regulation

    Access to follow-up SSP Balance program post Core program for one month

    Link to access listening device remotely on your device of choosing (smartphone and earphones, earbuds, or headphones required and supplied by you)

    Secure end to end encrypted account with access to your personal dashboard to record progress

  • Support

    Individual Intake session with Heidi or Laurie: Includes Intake Questionnaire, Autonomic Nervous System Assessment, review of Polyvagal Theory and the mechanics of SSP

    Orientation session with the group including review of the maps of healing that we will work with in the group experience including the Window of Tolerance, Developmental Movements, Parts Work, Attachment Styles and Adaptive Strategies

    5 weekly 120 minute listening sessions in a group of 8 people, with guidance through the SSP listening process

    Completion session with the group to make meaning of what you experienced and planning for how to continue with the journey 

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Investment:

FOR SPRING 2025 - We are offering this group on a sliding scale basis of $250 - $500 as a give back to the community after Hurricane Helene

Typical investment:

2 month group experience for $1000 OR

3 month payment plan

Equipment Needed:

  • Bluetooth headphones, not noise cancelling

  • Phone with access to apps

  • Sensory regulation tools that support your nervous system

Meet the Facilitators

  • Heidi Andersen

    MS, LCMHC-S, Certified SSP Practitioner, Certified Body Trust® Specialist

    Heidi Andersen is a white (Danish & German lineage), cis, midlife, body-centered psychotherapist practicing in Asheville, NC. Heidi is the owner of Reclaiming Beauty, an outpatient group practice of body-centered psychotherapists specializing in weight inclusive treatment for the intersection of trauma, attachment wounds, and eating disorders through a body liberation lens and somatic approach. Heidi believes embodiment heals and combines her studies of Somatic Internal Family Systems, Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and the Center for Body Trust® in support of her clients’ nervous system healing.

  • Laurie Jackson

    MA, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner

    Laurie is the founder of Relational Somatics and Ritual, an Animist Somatic mentorship and practice space where we inquire, facilitate, and educate on Relational Somatics with Creation and the Web of Life. Laurie is a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Transforming Touch therapist living and working on the ancestral lands of the Tsalagi people in Asheville, NC. She is a cis, white-bodied, neurodivergent woman in midlife, a student of the decolonial movement, an animist witch, a storm lover, a sister, daughter, wife, aunt, and friend. She is descended from colonial settlers from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, and Slovakian immigrants.

FAQs

  • The Safe and Sound Protocol is a practical application of the polyvagal theory developed by Dr. Stephen Porges. It is a non-invasive, acoustic vagus nerve stimulator that helps you connect to yourself and the world around you from a foundation of physiological safety.

  • The Safe and Sound Protocol helps you progress in therapy by shifting your fundamental experiences of the world. SSP will bring to the surface the parts of you that get in the way of your ability to land and yield in your zone of optimal arousal. It works to heal these parts by increasing resiliency and deepening embodiment.

  • Healing happens in community. This group is designed where participants are witness and gentle support to each other’s process. It is also more cost effective to experience the SSP in this group container.

  • The group facilitator holds a strong container that allows each participant to yield into receiving their own support rather than feeling the pull to care take others.

  • The SSP offers an opportunity to address trauma via a bottom up process (focusing on bodily sensations and nervous system resiliency), which means you can access healing without needing to relive or retrieve specific memories.

  • Yes! You can learn more about the current research about the effectiveness of the SSP HERE.

  • There are no known long term side effects of the SSP. There is a risk of experiencing some side effects for the first 2-3 weeks including increased agitation and hyperactivity, itching/soreness in ears, periods of nausea/dizziness, hypersensitive hearing, headaches, increased tiredness, and draining/fluid in the ears. These effects happen because the SSP is clearing levels of dissociation. As we become more present to what’s happening in our nervous system, we can learn to respond to its cues effectively. The SSP is a training ground for developing a sense of curiosity to what is arising inside, and increasing our skillful response to this information.

ENDORSEMENTS

  • "Heidi has a unique gift and blend of embodied presence and the ability to speak the truth with fierce kindness and authority. A true gift and model for these current times in our culture when we must come into our own power and embodiment in a way that honors ourselves and others at the same time. I would whole-heartedly engage in a group or workshop with Heidi trusting her skills in group containment, clinical attunement, and heart-centered presence at every level. Her workshops and groups are a transformational experience that will support you in your personal and professional growth as you deepen embodiment, connect with your inherent wisdom, and align with your inner beauty”.

    Paula Scatoloni, LCSW, SEP, SSP Certified Practitioner

  • "Heidi is amazing at holding space and her presence invites participants to explore their systems with compassion and non-judgement! Highly recommend! I am a somatic therapist and been in the field of somatic therapy and healing for 25 years. I am well aware that healing is an ever expanding spiral. I was working with developmental neglect that seemed to be hampering some growth that was emerging. The SSP helped me deepen into some releases that have been profound and lasting. The format of being in a group together and weaving in personal experiences with group experiences also provided a layer of connection and witnessing that feels crucial."

    Anne Sherry, Certified IFS Therapist

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