Amy Rebekah, M.A., L.M.T., S.E.P., C.S.T., R.Y.T., C.B.D., C.C.E.

 

"My professional practice has been an ever-evolving offering of bodywork, yoga, meditation, somatic trauma healing, childbirth education, labor and birth doula support, lactation education and newborn care, ceremony, healing circles, rituals, herbal and nutritional counseling, deeply rooted in my own evolving personal practice of self-care, personal reflection, generational and personal healing, and transformation.  My capacity to hold space for others as they fight cancer, give birth, accept death, end or begin a marriage, job, or parenthood, or dive into their own trauma-informed patterns, beliefs, addictions, and behaviors is the foundation of my leadership experience of walking with people through navigating change"

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Amy Rebekah is a visionary leader, facilitator and healer with over 20 years in practice as a licensed massage therapist, craniosacral therapist, doula, childbirth educator and doula trainer, a community herbalist, circle keeper, a story steward and story-teller, a speaker and author, a researcher and trainer of Trauma-Informed and Healing-Centered leadership. 

 

Amy is currently enjoying  the experience of weaving her practical lived experiences with the theories and scholarship inside of a doctoral program in leadership and change through Antioch University.  This academic journey increased Amy's capacity from supporting individuals and couples going through intense change or healing, to supporting groups and organizations working for change by supporting them in their capacity to practice a more authentic, responsible, embodied, and collaborative leadership culture through engaging a trauma-informed approach.

 

In 2020 Amy founded ReStoryative Somatics, LLC to share her services and train other professionals in trauma-informed and healing-centered leadership. She is passionate about supporting leaders and those who support others in learning the practice of self-regulation of their nervous systems in service to co-regulation as a leadership practice.  She especially enjoys working with organizational systems to implement trauma -informed care as organizational culture change.

 

In 2022 Amy shared her vision of a new way of operationalizing trauma - informed and healing - centered care in service to uplifting perinatal professionals working to transform the current maternal and infant mortality crisis, a pilot project known   as T.R.I.B.E.; Trauma & Resilience - Informed Birth Education Perinatal and Parenting Co-operative. With the support of a community initiative grant through the Northwest Dayton Partnership, and a Community Initiative for Racial Equity Grant through Kellogg foundation, Amy had the opportunity to train18 interdisciplinary perinatal and parenting support professionals in trauma - informed care and somatic oriented healing centered practices, while the members of the pilot in return co-created parenting peer support circles and interdisciplinary wrap-around care to pregnant women and families in Northwest Dayton. Although the pilot did not result in the birth of an co-operative organization as first imagined, the results of the training and the pilot project were incredibly positive, the harvested wisdom of which is seeding new projects of different kinds inspired by the transformational work of the women who courageously co-created the first pilot .

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In 2023, Amy and her daughters  also joined forces to create a collaborative company called CommuniTEA Love, a company dedicated to facilitating connection within the community through access to delicious herbal tea blends and they are having a wonderful time building this legacy of love together.

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* ReStoryative Somatics is informed by the theoretical frameworks and embodied practices of somatic experience, somatic trauma resolution, neuro- affective relational model, community resilience model, women writing for change circle facilitation, shadow work, non-violent communication, the Be Present empowerment model, medical massage therapy, visionary craniosacral therapy, reiki, a doctoral program in leadership and change, and over twenty years lived experience of supporting birth, death, parenting, healing, grief, growth, and transformation. *

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