The Woman Behind Gentle Grove

Reiki Practitioner | Shadow Work Guide | Trauma-Informed Journal Creator

I don’t believe in pretending we’re all okay. I believe in naming what most people avoid: the ache, the freeze, the grief, the longing to return to something real.

I created Gentle Grove because I got tired of healing being a performance. Tired of spiritual spaces that skipped the part where it hurts. Tired of being told to rise when all I needed was to root.

This isn’t a brand. It’s a space for people who’ve carried too much for too long, and are finally ready to put it down.

Who I Am

Somatic field holder | Nervous system Reiki | Emotional healing through presence

I’m not a coach. I’m not a guru. I’m not here to sell you a better version of yourself.

I’m someone who’s walked through dissociation, shutdown, and survival, and decided to stop hiding it.

I’ve felt energy my whole life. Not as a concept, but as a presence.

One of my core memories is standing in front of a sacred totem pole in Vancouver, feeling what I can only describe as vibration. A pulse moving through the wood, through me. I didn’t know what it meant. But I knew it was real. And I reflect on that moment often.

That sensitivity didn’t make me fragile. It made me a field holder before I had the language for it.

Now, I use it with intention, through Reiki energy healing, nervous system attunement, and trauma-informed ritual practices that don’t bypass the body.

I know what it’s like to freeze in therapy. To feel numb during meditation. To wonder why the healing didn’t work.

I believe your wholeness doesn’t need to be earned. And I know how to hold space without needing to fix you.

What I Offer

Somatic shadow work tools | Trauma-informed journals | Distance Reiki sessions with crystal support

I create rituals, journals, and distance Reiki sessions for people who are done performing healing. Done bypassing. Done waiting for permission.

The journals I offer aren’t just for reflection, they’re for reclamation. They’re designed to support emotional healing and reconnect you to the parts of you that went quiet: the version that froze, that fawned, that fragmented to stay safe.

If journaling feels impossible, if you feel too numb, too collapsed, too tired to even begin, a good place to start is with a Descent Energy Session.

These sessions are supported by carefully selected crystals, placed in a body-aligned grid that mirrors what your system may be holding.

I work with crystals not as tools, but as energetic allies. I feel their presence in the field, and place them intuitively to support the body’s reorganization and remembering. The crystals aren’t decoration. They’re part of the field architecture, anchoring the energy and providing resonance for the body to reorganize itself gently.

It won’t crack you open. It won’t demand a shift. But it will hold you in a field where your body can start to feel safe enough to remember.

What I offer is simple:
A mirror.
A pause.
A space where you don’t have to perform healing to be held.

What This Isn’t

This isn’t for everyone. It’s not fast. It’s not filtered for mass appeal.

It’s quiet. It’s real. And it meets you where your body actually is, not where the world says you should be.

If You’re Still Here

You already feel it. You’re not here by accident. You don’t need another program. You need a place to be held while you find your way back.

This is that place. And I’m not here to fix you. I’m here to walk beside you while you remember.

🖤
Sarah
Gentle Grove