For years, Mallory Tedrick believed her extreme exhaustion was narcolepsy. But after countless sleep studies and treatments that didn’t work, she began to see a different pattern. In this personal story, she shares how trauma, nervous system shutdown, and deep sensitivity shaped her relationship with sleep and how learning to listen to her body changed everything.

A trauma-informed reflection on how the ego protects, blocks intuition, and shapes our inner world and how we can meet it with compassion instead of fear.

Healing is rarely linear it’s a round, unfolding process of remembering who we are. In this reflection on spiritual integration therapy, Mallory Tedrick, LPCC, explores how the language of the soul can guide trauma healing beyond words. Through somatic awareness, mindfulness, and holistic practices, she invites clients to connect body, mind, and spirit to rediscover meaning after anxiety, depression, or PTSD. This approach to holistic trauma therapy honors both the science of psychology and the mystery of the sacred within.

I’m not exactly sure what this post will become, but I am trusting that this is the right place to start. So—welcome. It means a lot that you’re reading this.

I’m a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Clinical Psychotherapist, but those words only scratch the surface of who I am and what I do. I work with clients who are ready to go deep—not just into the roots of their anxiety or depression, but into their soul. Into a blueprint they can feel but haven’t yet fully accessed—or perhaps lost touch with along the way.

My work is body-based, trauma-informed, and soul-centered.