Hi, I’m Dana, the founder and owner of CoreExploreOnline, and a passionate advocate for people to find the root cause of their symptoms and pain, so they can feel joy, pleasure and connection in their lives.
I had 3 car accidents in four months, injured my lower back and was stuck in bed for a week. After that, I slept 2-3 hours a night, stopped going to the gym (even though I used to go 3-4 times a week), didn’t go far from home and just started baking and eating instead. I thought I was fine. And I came up with lots of perfectly logical reasons as to why I was living the way I was.
After 2 years of being ‘fine’ (apart from a back problem) my occupation therapist wrote a report saying that I was showing signs of PTSD. After an evening of Googling I realised I ticked all the boxes, the penny dropped, and I later received the formal PTSD diagnosis. It was like I had suddenly woken up!
How did I not see it?? The reality is, I was living so much from my head that I had no idea what was REALLY going on with me. It was only later that I realised that this didn’t start when I had the car accidents. This was a pattern I had for as long as I could remember. It was my normal - my body was an object that I didn’t particularly like, that carried my head around. All I wanted was for my body to look the way it was supposed to and do what my head wanted. I was sure that everything would be okay if I could just push a little harder, be a little smarter, need (and eat) less and just will my way through the challenges.
Over the years that followed, I tried to find help anywhere I could. Psychologists, in-patient rehabilitation programs, EMDR, acupuncture, 12-step programs, yoga, healthier eating habits. And they all helped.. to an extent.
Then I tried Core Energetics and my life changed. In the first session, I knew it was what I had been looking for!
I started to experience my feelings through my body, rather than constantly trying to manage, suppress and control them. I learned how to understand and interpret the signals of my body and my feelings. I felt like a whole new world had opened to me, giving me access to actually FEELING joy and pleasure, not as mental concepts but as experiences in my body.
Over time, I started to learn what it felt like to be myself - I started to feel my heart. My relationships with myself and others improved and my body stopped being an object to me -
I felt it as a lived experience. My work life started having more ease, my back pain was gone, my energy highs and lows stabilised over time and I was able to build a happy, healthy, long-term relationship with someone who I love.
What I loved through my own early experience with Core Energetics and through my practitioner training was the constant wows both for my logical brain, and in my body. All of it finally made sense, I finally made sense. I felt a relief in my body all the way to my bones. I didn't feel broken anymore. I could see for the first time that I was simply blocked in my body and life because of distortions I learned from my history. And that I could work through these blocks in a systematic way, while embracing the goodness in me.
Although I started my journey and even my practitioner training with the intention of my own growth, the connection and flow I felt within myself (and with others) moved me into private practice. And then into teaching and supporting the training of other practitioners.
You – even the most tender and quiet places within your heart.
Connecting with who you are, where you are at
Exploring new ways to help you with innovative learning methods with tried and tested Core Energetics technique
Offering you practical help when and how you need it
Receiving feedback about your experience so we can learn how to better meet your personal needs
Supporting you in your growth, as we continue in ours
Engaging with issues of access and equity
CoreExploreOnline was born from my intention to support clients with my whole heart, wherever they are.
If you want to explore your unique story it’s best to start with private sessions. You can also use the embodied movement classes and subscriptions to learn the foundational skills and understandings you need to continue your growth and get the in the moment techniques that can help you through your process.