You deserve joy and ease.
We are not built for the extraction of our body’s resources, the quiet depletion of our energy for endless demands. We are meant to share freely from the reservoir of our abundant energy, creativity and wholeness, in community and in our integrity.
Hi, I’m Andrea Sorum, a Somatic Life Coach supporting clients who bravely listen to the inner wisdom that is looking for a different way. I can help you to:
Reset your nervous system for safety and calm
Find freedom from cultural myths like perfection and people-pleasing
Design a life that aligns with your values
Cultivate joy and resilience
Find relief from pain and fatigue
Your nervous system isn't slowing you down. It's been trying to set you free.
Art: ©Yelyzaveta Mahda
Somatic Coaching can support you to..
Befriend the fear and survival patterns that keep getting in your way.
Trust your intuition implicitly.
Cultivate boundaries that both create space for the life you desire and are loving and empowering for others.
Wire your brain to be on your side and creatively work through challenges.
Nourish and stabilize your body, mind and spirit. Reset your nervous system.
Design a life that prioritizes your values, what brings you joy and meaning.
Choose what’s right for you.
Individual Session
$150 for one 50-minute session - now 50% off ($75)
A Package of 10 or 20 sessions that includes:
Individualized bi-weekly 50-minute coaching sessions
Voice note support between sessions
Values clarity + life visioning work
Savings on individual sessions and referral discounts
New client special - 50% off one package!
Reclaim your..
Body Wisdom
Our body’s communication systems - the sensitivity, symptoms, intuition, tension, and activation we experience - carry vital information.
Your experience says you cannot push through, optimize, protocol or positive think your way through this. It’s time to try something different. In the midst of the demands of your life, learning to listen to your body’s wisdom is the first act of liberation.
Creativity
Your authentic voice, your creative expression, is vital not just for your own healing, but the time and place you belong to.
As we break free from the knots of “should” and relationship patterns that drain us, we have more energy for imagination - for drawing connections, for leadership, for inspiring others.
What is possible for our world needs each of us - our unique spark - to come alive with creativity.
Agency
When we feel stuck, hemmed in by life circumstances, or burned out, it is hard to imagine or hope for something to change. But there are always choices available to us, even in the most difficult situations. In fact, losing all ability to control life is a part of the initiation into the strength of your own fire.
Your nervous system was built to keep you alive - to survive - and will gravitate towards those familiar survival patterns. But you can learn new patterns, claim your sovereignty, maintain compassionate boundaries and find freedom and choice.
My promise to you
Integrity
I value honesty, equality and collaboration. I am a co-creator with you and will honor your values, intuition and needs as a coach should. I am not a licensed mental health professional and will let you know if anything is outside the scope of my training.
I celebrate the diversity of gender expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, brains, cultures, ethnicities, heritages, skin pigments, religions, spiritual practices and all forms of expression that inform our humanity.
I honor and pay my respect to the Indigenous elders past and present and their wisdom that has cared for and preserved the land I live and work on (non-ceded treaty Dakota land).
Compassion
The investment of your time, your resources, your intention and your willingness to be seen, heard and loved is something I feel honored to hold and nurture. My training is trauma-informed and sensitive to all the ways human beings suffer. I am committed to creating safe containers that are healing and nurturing.
Instead of staying in shame, we can cultivate a willingness to acknowledge our growth areas and forgive ourselves. We can begin to recognize how others’ expectations for us keep us second-guessing ourselves and buried in doubt. We can move through shame with abundant grace.
Instead of staying paralyzed by fear, we can love those patterns that have worked so hard to keep us safe, while ultimately deciding when it feels right to move forwards.
Instead of feeling like a victim, we can cultivate and receive self-compassion for ourselves.
The only way forward, truly, is through compassion and love.
Value
It takes a lot of courage to do this work, and it takes a commitment. My promise to you is to offer individualized, high-quality coaching that integrates all levels of knowing - somatic, cognitive, spiritual and emotional - so you not only have the information and tools you need, you also can embody and default to the new patterns and energetics you choose for yourself.
When you invest in yourself this way you change your life in a way that goes beyond yourself or your lifetime.
When you answer the call of liberation for yourself you answer the call of liberation for others as well. You become an inspiration and leader
It is time to listen.
It is time
to set stone on stone -
one cairn at a time -
to mark the path.
It is time to honor
what you need
to be;
Who the world
needs you to be.
It is time to come home
to yourself.
Read more in the journal.