Hi, I’m Denise

I work with women and gender non-conforming femmes of color both personally and collectively to:

heal interpersonal and intergenerational trauma
create new consensual culture and interdependence
decolonize our wellness and worthiness.

I do this through group programs, monthly healing circles, 1:1 somatic healing work and community-building trainings.

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@denisedimensional

It’s taken many winters to finally find ease, re

It’s taken many winters to finally find ease, rest and receptivity in a season that continually asks me to slow down and surrender to the stillness.⁣⁣⁣
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It’s taken many moons of resistance, unease, numbness and intensity to find joy in the mystery, comfort in the not knowing. ⁣⁣⁣
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It’s taken many rituals and rhythms of inhabiting myself more fully, more sweetly, to find the safety in letting more of myself be seen, loved and tended to. ⁣⁣⁣
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It’s taken many moments of not-enough-ness and feeling my way in the dark, of not knowing I was in the dark, before finding the magic of being at home in my body. ⁣⁣⁣
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It’s taken persistence in reminding myself that I am wanted as I am, that I am sexy as I am, that I am cherished as I am, to feel radical acceptance of my layers, curves and edges. ⁣⁣⁣
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It’s hard af. It’s challenges me daily to just BE without needing to prove. ⁣⁣⁣
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The longing to belong has propelled me to deepen my experience of myself. To find the places within where I feel met & loved. ⁣⁣⁣
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To feel satiated. ⁣⁣⁣
To feel ease. ⁣⁣⁣
To feel abundant.⁣⁣⁣
To feel turned on.⁣⁣⁣
To feel creatively juicy.⁣⁣⁣
To feel soft.⁣⁣⁣
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So I may share it with my village, my garden, my people.⁣
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So we may regenerate aliveness through the collective life force that reawakens our cells, revives our spirit and renews our commitment to loving one another. ⁣
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For the many years I’ve existed feeling othered, lesser than, not enough, weird and awkward, these self portraits are an ode to you. ⁣⁣⁣
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As an offering that my queer, bespectacled, mystical, dimply, round-bellied, thicc thighs with booty, brown body can exist and take up space with my fullness.⁣⁣⁣
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Here’s to me feeling more pleasure & joy in my body.⁣⁣⁣
Here’s to me making my desires known loud & proud.⁣⁣⁣
Here’s to me expressing more of my medicine & magic.⁣⁣⁣
Here’s to me experiencing more of me. ⁣⁣⁣
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{ID: Two self-portraits/selfies of a queer Malaysian Chinese woman wearing a heather black beanie, deep ocean blue long sleeved shirt and white earrings. She sits on a grey chair with her kitchen counter & bookshelf behind her. The vibe she emits is radiant and empowered.}

Making room for joy, rest and love. ⁣ ⁣ This y

Making room for joy, rest and love. ⁣
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This year has been the most challenging yet expansive and transformative.⁣
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I’ve come home to myself over and over again;⁣
Through the relationships that show me more of my truth and hidden pain,⁣
Through wading in unknown waters that teach me surrender and self-trust,⁣
Through making the really hard choices that invite me to feel more deeply, to know myself more truly. ⁣
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I made the least amount of money I’ve had since graduating college, yet I feel more abundant than ever before.⁣
I feel more trusting in myself than ever before.⁣
I feel more open to the mystery than ever before.⁣
I feel more at home in my body than ever before.⁣
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I’ve learned through iteration- making small steps that have surmounted over time. ⁣
I’ve learned through anger - fiercely protecting what is inherently sacred and needy. ⁣
I’ve learned through trial & error - moving through feelings of failure for the courage to try again. ⁣
I’ve learned through holding complexities - multiple realities existing within our cultural soma, held only as the witness to our humanity. ⁣
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My teachers have come in the form of collective disruption and destruction, revisiting old narratives and tearing them down, feeling my no to make my way for my “yes, this is my truth.” ⁣
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I’ve sat with shame and remorse.⁣
I’ve sat with rage and ancestral pain.⁣
I’ve sat with fear and uncertainty.⁣
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I’ve looked and longed for wholeness.⁣
For belonging.⁣
For pleasure.⁣
For liberation.⁣
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For the embodied capacity to hold these energetics so I may be fed and filled. So I may be a vessel for the embodiment of my soul’s highest potential. ⁣
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If only to make more room for my joy. ⁣

{REPOST FROM @jesssong} TOMORROW (Weds) @ 7PM EST:

{REPOST FROM @jesssong} TOMORROW (Weds) @ 7PM EST: Getting in your feelings, but make it vulnerable: @denisedimensonal and I talk about:⁣
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🔥 What does it mean to actually “Feel our Feelings”?⁣
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🔥 How can our feelings be { healing } -- vs simply { cathartic }? ⁣
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🔥 How can we create conditions to feel safe enough to feel our feelings?⁣
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Many of us are learning to name & honor our feelings. But how do we know when we are THINKING our feelings vs FEELING them? And if we’re thinking them, how can we start feeling them to heal deeper?⁣
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@mswjake broke it down: Thinking about feelings (“labeling them, talking to a friend about them, or overthinking”) uses different parts of the brain/body than FEELING them in our bodies. Avoiding that feeling part = negative health symptoms in our body, thoughts, and health.⁣
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Come ask q’s to my friend @denisedimensional (who specializes in somatic awareness, healing, and the intersectional experience of trauma) about ways to intentionally, consciously, fully practice feeling our way through uncomfortable (or even painful) spaces. ⁣
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👇👇👇 Drop your questions below.⁣
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Denise is a queer Malaysian Chinese immigrant who is an intuitive space holder and somatic healer. Her work is grounded in spirituality and liberation, and centers the lived experiences of women and femmes of color so that they may take up space with their wisdom, healing and embodied truth. ⁣
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Jess Song is the founder of Back to Self, a service committed to demystifying journaling as a self-care practice. She aims to bridge cultural and generational gaps in emotional navigation by bringing counseling, healthy communication, and healthy relationship frameworks into a daily, accessible practice.⁣
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As always, thanks for nerding out with me! See you on Weds @ 7pm.⁣
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#emotionalhealth #journalingtips #emotionalnavigation #journalyourway #mentalhealthawareness #backtoself #loveyourself #radicalselfcare #feelingstuck #lifejourney #somatichealing #feelyourfeelings⁣

Ayyy it’s finally here!⁣ ⁣ Soul Embodiment i

Ayyy it’s finally here!⁣
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Soul Embodiment is now officially open for enrollment. ⁣
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I am so deeply honored to be holding space and guiding 8 women and femmes {of color} to the wholeness of their BEING.⁣
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This is where we’ll be attuning to and felt-sensing our essence-nature, a blueprint of health that carries the secrets to our soul’s living purpose.⁣
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This is where we’ll be exploring the crevices and curves of our bodies, our edges, our systems, our pleasure and our culture.⁣
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This is where we’ll be holding the vision of what’s possible for ourselves and each other when we break free from internalized oppression.⁣
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This is where we’ll be softening into receptivity, slowness, tenderness and our inherent worthiness. ⁣
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This is where we’ll be burning down, tending to, re-rooting, weeding & watering our collective soil, planting seeds of surrender, transformation & regeneration. ⁣
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May we find our way to each other with ease and desire.⁣
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May we show up so we can be seen in the fullness of our humanity. ⁣
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May we grow in our capacity to feel, heal & come together. ⁣
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Interested? Only 4 spots left. Link in bio~

A healing offering for the community! @goldie.vent

A healing offering for the community! @goldie.ventures and I are co-creating a sacred space for processing the feels, releasing anxious energy and grounding into resilience. Open to all 💜 link in bio to register. Held on zoom.