My ideal clients are fellow adventurers who are experiencing mental challenges pursuing their recreation of choice.
I coach folks 1-1 and plan to add programs/courses/retreats to my offerings soon. I specialize in somatic work and resolving the symptoms of trauma that hold people back from living a full life. For adventurers, fear and anxiety at their crux move during an outing is a common concern; or perhaps panic attacks and high anxiety while planning/before setting out.
I've been in business for 8 years, but it's been on the back burner for the last 5 years. I'm relaunching my business with this new trauma resolution emphasis. So, it is very undeveloped right now. I have a lot of planning and patience ahead of me!
My current growth edge is getting clients and having my business support me financially. I'm leaning into learning about all the things available to me electronically - like sending newsletters to a list and creating a course online, as well as being consistent on social media and creating content.
Though a solopreneur, I find that I do best when working with and collaborating with others...that sort of accountability is very motivating for me, so I would love to partner with anyone in this course who wants someone to bounce ideas off of, as well as failures and successes!
I live in Montana and love going on adventures when I'm not working with my people. I spend a lot of time on horseback, backpacking, river boating, skiing, and just hanging out in nature.
My ideal clients are fellow adventurers who are experiencing mental challenges pursuing their recreation of choice.
I coach folks 1-1 and plan to add programs/courses/retreats to my offerings soon. I specialize in somatic work and resolving the symptoms of trauma that hold people back from living a…
Comment below with your experience of the Circles that you attend -- what do you love about it? And any suggestions are welcome as well.
Comment below with your experience of the Circles that you attend -- what do you love about it? And any suggestions are welcome as well.
Lovely Soul Gym Circle today - thanks, Susan! So helpful to share, reflect, give and receive feedback. I walked away with confidence in my social media post, as well as ideas for new ones.
I love them so much! It's the one place I can go to consistently to get support for what I am doing. When I bring a piece of content, I get such great feedback from my peers and it often leads to other conversations that generate ideas for more content, or how to deepen what I did create, etc. It's also so nice to just be with other people when most of my work time does not involve being with others. I love that it is usually a small group. It allows plenty of time to explore things in a leisurely way. I have so much energy for the rest of my work day after the Soul Gym Circle on Friday mornings!
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Daily energy reboot is the secret of working lightly. My secret of staying healthy and personally sustainable, working focused hours more consistently than most people, even though I’m actually easily distractible. But I keep returning, returning, returning... In this lesson's video I describe the foundation of the Energy Reboot.
Yes! An attitude reboot is exactly what it is. I named my calendar event (to help me make it a habit for now) "Anchoring & Attitude Reboot"
Hey Friends - here's my final letter after incorporating your edits. Thanks so much - it was super helpful and now I'm feeling way better about sending this to people. Until I had the opportunity to read it aloud with you all to witness, I didn't realize how uncomfortable it felt because my marketing person's voice was too in it vs. my own. So many thanks - off I go to "cold email" my peeps :)
Subject: Sharp End Podcast – thank you, XXX!
Hi XXXX,
I follow The Sharp End podcast and just heard the episode where you were interviewed. Holy cow – I’m glad you’re all ok! Thank you for sharing your story - it’s a brave thing to share and it will benefit many people.
I’m also into adventuring and had my fair share of close calls, which impacted me with stress injury and adventure trauma. After a near-death ski fall in the backcountry and a few scary whitewater swims, I lost interest in ski mountaineering and boating – my two adventure staples. I lost confidence in my body and felt betrayed by it. I felt depressed and exhausted, and if I tried to force myself to go do one of those activities to be with my friends, I experienced intense anxiety. It was an invisible injury – it didn’t show up on an x-ray – and I wondered what was wrong with me, but I was certainly injured. A stress injury.
While healing, I spent a lot of time finding credible resources to move beyond my stress injuries. Adventuring is at the core of who I am (I bet you can relate!), so I was thrilled when my symptoms went away and suddenly I was leading through whitewater rapids again and going skiing. Eventually, this whole experience led me to hone my expertise into a coaching/counseling practice to help other adventurers heal from this sort of thing.
I’m writing to you primarily because I want to share hope and resources on your journey if you feel like you are impacted by stress injury, or know others who have. What I’ve learned was hard to find, and has helped me thrive again. After trailblazing and figuring it out, I want to show everyone this off-the-beaten-path until it’s on every adventurer’s radar like the CDT because I truly want to be of service to our adventure community – it’s at the heart of why I run my genuinely service-based coaching practice.
No matter what you’ve tried before, know you don’t need to live with the symptoms of adventure trauma. I do offer 1-1 coaching, and would be honored to support your journey, but even if not, I want to leave you with info that has helped me; beta from one adventurer to another. So, if you can relate to my experience, if you’re holding back in any way, or have lost that spark of enthusiasm, read on for the beta. Otherwise, I’ll bid you farewell for now and invite you to share this missive with anyone in your network who might be suffering from adventure-trauma stress injury.
Symptoms:
Not everyone gets a stress injury from a traumatic event, and here are some of the signs we need extra support. Symptoms are wide and varied - I won’t list them all here. The ones I hear about most commonly in the adventure community are:
· We lose interest in the activity or avoid anything that reminds us of the incident
· We feel anxiety or even have panic attacks planning or prepping to do the activity
· We are easily startled by things we weren’t previously startled by
· We feel more on-guard or hypervigilant than before
· Nightmares, and other sleep issues
· We lack energy and motivation; we feel exhausted
Why Talk Therapy Doesn’t Work:
Many of us who’ve had these experiences go to traditional therapy and are frustrated with the results we see - or worse, we feel like a failure since it didn’t work for us; like, “there must be something wrong with me.” In reality, talk therapy often fails its adventure clients. When a highly stressful incident occurs, it is overwhelming to the nervous system, and our nervous system literally suffers an injury - much like my bicep would get a strain if I tried to curl 100 pounds. The perceived “mental” injury actually happens in the body and if treatment does not include the body, then we don’t heal fully. And this is why typical talk therapy often doesn’t work - you can’t talk your way out of a stress injury any more than you can talk a broken leg into being unfractured. Positive self-talk might help a little, but it won’t get us over the ridgeline and to the other side.
What DOES Work?
Over the past several decades, new, EFFECTIVE modalities of treatment are available for adventurers. In all of my research, training, and experience, an approach called Somatic Experiencing (SE) is the most effective technique for this sort of thing. SE Practitioners are trained to gently work with the body via reading signals from your nervous system. We help incomplete stress cycles held in the body to resolve themselves, which in turn resolves our symptoms. For decades, conventional science has poo-pooed the mind-body connection. But today, there are mountains of evidence to support that this and similar techniques are REALLY effective in treating symptoms (and don’t require medications, exposure therapy, etc.).
The Path Forward:
So if you feel as though there might be some lingering symptoms after your incident, I encourage you to check out SE. You can do that via their website, or you’re welcome to learn more about it in a 1-1 beta chat with me. I offer 30 minutes, free of charge (and no strings attached - I promise not to try to sell you anything 🙂). My goal with these sessions is to learn about what obstacles you are facing, and letting you know if SE in general, or with me, might be a good fit for you. From there, for folks who resonate with my work, I am honored to be their guide on the healing journey and get started with sessions. For everyone else, I am simply ecstatic that another person in the world knows about SE - that there IS an effective solution to adventure trauma. I will even happily refer them elsewhere.
If you want to learn more, here is my website. If you know you’d like to connect, you can book a free 30-minute Exploratory Session here. If not, the 2nd link in this email, to Somatic Experiencing International, is where you should start.
I really hope you find this beta helpful - I’ll check back in a few days to see how all this lands with you.
Warmly,
Julia Yanker
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner & Coach
Hey Friends - here's my final letter after incorporating your edits. Thanks so much - it was super helpful and now I'm feeling way better about sending this to people. Until I had the opportunity to read it aloud with you all to witness, I didn't realize how uncomfortable it felt because my marketing person's voice was too in it vs. my…
Hey Friends - here's my final letter after incorporating your edits. Thanks so much - it was super helpful and now I'm feeling way better about sending this to people. Until I had the opportunity to read it aloud with you all to witness, I didn't realize how uncomfortable it felt because my marketing person's voice was too in it vs. my own. So many thanks - off I go to "cold email" my peeps :)
Subject: Sharp End Podcast – thank you, XXX!
Hi XXXX,
I follow The Sharp End podcast and just heard the episode where you were interviewed. Holy cow – I’m glad you’re all ok! Thank you for sharing your story - it’s a brave thing to share and it will benefit many people.
I’m also into adventuring and had my fair share of close calls, which impacted me with stress injury and adventure trauma. After a near-death ski fall in the backcountry and a few scary whitewater swims, I lost interest in ski mountaineering and boating – my two adventure staples. I lost confidence in my body and felt betrayed by it. I felt depressed and exhausted, and if I tried to force myself to go do one of those activities to be with my friends, I experienced intense anxiety. It was an invisible injury – it didn’t show up on an x-ray – and I wondered what was wrong with me, but I was certainly injured. A stress injury.
While healing, I spent a lot of time finding credible resources to move beyond my stress injuries. Adventuring is at the core of who I am (I bet you can relate!), so I was thrilled when my symptoms went away and suddenly I was leading through whitewater rapids again and going skiing. Eventually, this whole experience led me to hone my expertise into a coaching/counseling practice to help other adventurers heal from this sort of thing.
I’m writing to you primarily because I want to share hope and resources on your journey if you feel like you are impacted by stress injury, or know others who have. What I’ve learned was hard to find, and has helped me thrive again. After trailblazing and figuring it out, I want to show everyone this off-the-beaten-path until it’s on every adventurer’s radar like the CDT because I truly want to be of service to our adventure community – it’s at the heart of why I run my genuinely service-based coaching practice.
No matter what you’ve tried before, know you don’t need to live with the symptoms of adventure trauma. I do offer 1-1 coaching, and would be honored to support your journey, but even if not, I want to leave you with info that has helped me; beta from one adventurer to another. So, if you can relate to my experience, if you’re holding back in any way, or have lost that spark of enthusiasm, read on for the beta. Otherwise, I’ll bid you farewell for now and invite you to share this missive with anyone in your network who might be suffering from adventure-trauma stress injury.
Symptoms:
Not everyone gets a stress injury from a traumatic event, and here are some of the signs we need extra support. Symptoms are wide and varied - I won’t list them all here. The ones I hear about most commonly in the adventure community are:
· We lose interest in the activity or avoid anything that reminds us of the incident
· We feel anxiety or even have panic attacks planning or prepping to do the activity
· We are easily startled by things we weren’t previously startled by
· We feel more on-guard or hypervigilant than before
· Nightmares, and other sleep issues
· We lack energy and motivation; we feel exhausted
Why Talk Therapy Doesn’t Work:
Many of us who’ve had these experiences go to traditional therapy and are frustrated with the results we see - or worse, we feel like a failure since it didn’t work for us; like, “there must be something wrong with me.” In reality, talk therapy often fails its adventure clients. When a highly stressful incident occurs, it is overwhelming to the nervous system, and our nervous system literally suffers an injury - much like my bicep would get a strain if I tried to curl 100 pounds. The perceived “mental” injury actually happens in the body and if treatment does not include the body, then we don’t heal fully. And this is why typical talk therapy often doesn’t work - you can’t talk your way out of a stress injury any more than you can talk a broken leg into being unfractured. Positive self-talk might help a little, but it won’t get us over the ridgeline and to the other side.
What DOES Work?
Over the past several decades, new, EFFECTIVE modalities of treatment are available for adventurers. In all of my research, training, and experience, an approach called Somatic Experiencing (SE) is the most effective technique for this sort of thing. SE Practitioners are trained to gently work with the body via reading signals from your nervous system. We help incomplete stress cycles held in the body to resolve themselves, which in turn resolves our symptoms. For decades, conventional science has poo-pooed the mind-body connection. But today, there are mountains of evidence to support that this and similar techniques are REALLY effective in treating symptoms (and don’t require medications, exposure therapy, etc.).
The Path Forward:
So if you feel as though there might be some lingering symptoms after your incident, I encourage you to check out SE. You can do that via their website, or you’re welcome to learn more about it in a 1-1 beta chat with me. I offer 30 minutes, free of charge (and no strings attached - I promise not to try to sell you anything 🙂). My goal with these sessions is to learn about what obstacles you are facing, and letting you know if SE in general, or with me, might be a good fit for you. From there, for folks who resonate with my work, I am honored to be their guide on the healing journey and get started with sessions. For everyone else, I am simply ecstatic that another person in the world knows about SE - that there IS an effective solution to adventure trauma. I will even happily refer them elsewhere.
If you want to learn more, here is my website. If you know you’d like to connect, you can book a free 30-minute Exploratory Session here. If not, the 2nd link in this email, to Somatic Experiencing International, is where you should start.
I really hope you find this beta helpful - I’ll check back in a few days to see how all this lands with you.
Warmly,
Julia Yanker
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner & Coach
Shoot, friends! I am assisting at a training on Friday :( If we happen to be in our break at that time, I'll try to join for a bit - it's on my calendar just in case. Otherwise, see you all next Friday!
Please see the latest version of the post at the top of our Writer's Circle Forum -- thank you!
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Please see the latest version of the post at the top of our Writer's Circle Forum -- thank you!
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Please see the latest version of the post at the top of our Writer's Circle Forum -- thank you!
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Oh my gosh,
Thank you, Susan! I'm looking forward to connecting with everyone :)
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