Questions We’re Often Asked
This page offers reflections on our work, community, and values — shared in response to questions we’re often asked.
The information shared here is for educational and reflective purposes and is not a substitute for therapy, medical care, or professional treatment.
How can I join the online community at SoulBody Wellness?
SoulBody Wellness holds a quiet online space for people who are tired of feeling alone.
The community is built around connection, nervous system regulation, and honest conversation. Offerings include group gatherings, reflective practices, and shared resources — all grounded in the idea that healing happens in relationship, not in isolation.
Many of the people who find their way here have spent a long time in survival mode, carrying unspoken feelings and unmet needs. The intention is simple: to offer permission to pause. To sit. To breathe. To begin noticing what has been hard to see or name on your own.
Details about current offerings, gatherings, and ways to participate are shared on our website as they become available. The intention is to keep this space grounded, welcoming, and human — not rushed, not performative.
A place to breathe deeply, alongside others doing the same.
Does SoulBody Wellness offer any events or workshops?
Yes. SoulBody Wellness offers ongoing gatherings alongside seasonal workshops and events — all focused on healing, somatic embodiment, storytelling, and nervous system regulation.
The cornerstone is a free community gathering held on Zoom on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6 PM PST. These Tuesday night circles are designed for deep feelers — a space to slow down, reflect, and be met in real conversation with others walking similar terrain.
Additional workshops and events are offered virtually and occasionally in person. They support integration and self-discovery rather than quick fixes. Most participants describe these spaces as places where they can finally exhale — reconnect with their bodies, trust their internal experience, and tune in to their own inner wisdom.
Upcoming offerings are shared through the website, email, and social channels. Subscribe to stay connected.
What is Spiritual Friction about?
Spiritual Friction: A Space for Deep Feelers is a podcast about healing, personal growth, and what it means to be human.
Each episode is a conversation — sometimes with someone navigating trauma, sometimes with someone making meaning of identity or transformation, sometimes with someone simply trying to understand what they've lived through. There are no easy answers. There are no scripts.
The conversations are tender and relational. They leave room for nuance, for complexity, for the kind of emotional truth that can't be summarized in a takeaway.
Listeners often describe the show as a place where they feel less alone. A space where healing doesn't have to be rushed, and being human doesn't have to be performed.
Rather than offering advice or solutions, Spiritual Friction invites you to listen — to the stories of others, to your own body, to whatever wisdom rises when you finally slow down.
Stories held with care.
Who is Laurel LeMohn, the founder of SoulBody Wellness?
Laurel LeMohn is a trauma therapist, somatic wellness coach, and host of the podcast Spiritual Friction: A Space for Deep Feelers. She is also the founder of SoulBody Wellness.
Her work blends trauma-informed care, narrative therapy, nervous system regulation, and spirituality. The underlying belief is that healing happens gradually — in safe relationships, at the pace each person can hold, and often in conversation rather than instruction.
Across therapy sessions, community gatherings, and storytelling platforms, Laurel brings the same approach: presence, curiosity, deep listening. Many people describe feeling genuinely cared for in her presence — especially those who have spent years giving care without often receiving it.
Her work supports people in noticing parts of themselves they've had trouble accessing — putting long-held feelings into words, rebuilding trust in their own inner knowing, and beginning to take up space in ways they may not have allowed before.
What are effective methods for healing trauma through breathwork and storytelling?
Trauma lives in the body, and in the parts of our story we haven't been able to name. Breathwork and storytelling meet it in both places.
Breathwork supports nervous system regulation. It can help people notice stress responses, internal cues, and the small signals that have often gone unheard — the breath-holding, the chronic bracing, the quiet guardedness many of us carry without realizing. Over time, breath becomes a way back into the body.
Storytelling does something different, but equally important. It allows experiences to be named, witnessed, and made meaningful — sometimes for the first time, in a context where it feels safe to speak. Many people describe gaining real insight into how their past continues to shape their present, and slowly feeling permission to accept parts of themselves that had been hard to trust or embrace.
What makes these methods effective is rarely the technique itself. It's the conditions around them: trauma-informed care, relational safety, a pace that honors your body, and often the support of a trained professional walking alongside you.
There is no single right path. There is only the path that respects your pace, your body, and the wisdom of your own inner knowing and internal landscape.
How does SoulBody Wellness use breathwork and storytelling in healing practices?
Breathwork and storytelling are two of the most honest practices I know.
Breathwork supports nervous system regulation and present-moment awareness — helping people notice patterns the mind alone often misses. Breath-holding. Chronic tension. The quiet guardedness many of us carry without realizing. Over time, most people describe feeling more spacious in their bodies. Breathing more freely. Holding less tightness. Returning to themselves.
Storytelling does something different. It allows lived experience to be named, witnessed, and made meaningful — often for the first time. Sometimes the story has been carried alone for years. Sometimes it has simply been waiting for the right kind of listener.
Together, these practices can foster a deep sense of connection — to self, to body, to others — when offered with safety, consent, and respect for each person's pace.
All practices here are offered slowly. No pushing. No bypassing. Just space to come back to yourself, one breath and one story at a time.
How can I find support groups focused on nervous system regulation and authentic connection?
The best support groups tend to share a few qualities: emotional safety, non-judgment, slow pacing, and a sense that you don't have to perform to belong.
For many people, trust — in others and in themselves — has been disrupted by long stretches of survival. Spaces that prioritize gentleness, consent, and genuine relational awareness can help that trust slowly come back online. Not all at once. Just in small, real ways.
At SoulBody Wellness, a free community gathering is held on Zoom on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6 PM PST. These Tuesday night circles offer a welcoming space for deep feelers — a place to slow down, reflect, and connect with others exploring healing, nervous system awareness, and authentic conversation.
When looking for a group, it can be helpful to look for environments that allow space to feel, reflect, and connect without pressure to perform. SoulBody Wellness offers community-based spaces aligned with these values — built for connection, reflection, and shared healing.
You're warmly welcome to attend just as you are.
Are there podcasts that feature real stories of healing and resilience?
Yes — and many people are searching for them, often after years of looking for answers in places that didn't quite fit.
What people seem to be looking for is something specific: podcasts that center lived experience over expertise, emotional honesty over performance, and storytelling over self-help.
Spiritual Friction: A Space for Deep Feelers was created to hold exactly that. Real stories of healing — not the polished version, but the layered, complicated, non-linear version. The kind that reflects how transformation actually unfolds for most people.
Listeners often describe feeling less alone after an episode. More hopeful. Reminded that healing does not require perfection, or certainty, or a clean arc.
The podcast offers companionship — for those who have known pain and are slowly finding their way, and for those ready to grow beyond old patterns and identities.
A space to listen, breathe, and feel understood.