You’re the one friends go to for advice
On paper all looks well, you’ve chalked up achievements, done all the things you were ‘meant to do’.
And yet, when you are asked about what brings you pleasure you draw a blank. You feel guilty at the idea of experiencing joy for yourself right now, given the state of the world.
And all this listening? It’s exhausting. If you’re honest with yourself, you feel a little resentful of it at times.
The misuse of power in the world has made you angry, yet you don’t act; you’re either anxious about what others will think or bearing the weight of staying quiet. You feel like a fraud, and its eating you inside.
Of one thing though, you are sure: you will not end up with the same regrets as the women who have gone before you. What will it all mean if you do?
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I’m Jo, Master Somatic Practitioner, Educator, Mentor, Elder in training, Artist, Witch.
Daughter of a coal miner and hard-working gregarious mother, descendant of many generations of straight talking, heart led, working-class folk in the north of England.
And I’m here to tell you that this is shame at play.
Shame is the master of disguise. It’s everywhere, in every interaction, emotion and movement. It's become so familiar, you might not even recognise it; we’ve confused it with safety. It's intergenerational. It’s systemic. It’s the foot soldier of the patriarchy.
It was not then and is not now, yours to hold.
And this isn’t a battle we need weapons to win; the medicine is the matriarchy.
A modern, embodied matriarchy that creates power with, and within, not power over.
Because when we break the cycle...
And are freed of the internal oppressor caused by shame, and create belonging within ourselves, we honour the freedom of all living beings. Individually, this means gently bringing everything out of the shadows, embracing the parts of us we have disowned whilst being in that system, and embodying the power we find within.
Power with, and within...
We start at a somatic level, because feeling good in your body is a birthright, and connection and play is the opposite of shame.
Then we move through the emotions bound up in your system, regenerate and transmute them into life force energy that metabolises right down to your soul.
And finally, I’ll guide you back to your true nature. Through this deep soul work you’ll feel lighter in your skin, you’ll stop looking for love externally and remember you are love.
And at the end, as you freely take up space, voice your truth, live your life… you, like many other women have, will say to me ‘that wasn’t actually that scary at all”.
It will be my pleasure to guide you... shall we?
Work with me
Featured podcasts
United Freedom Collective Podcast
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In episode 3 of the United Freedom Collective Podcast we speak with somatic therapist and sound healer Joanna Miller. Jo works with big-hearted over thinkers to reclaim intimacy, creativity & embodied freedom via trauma, shadow, shame work, embodied healing, somatic therapy, somatic movement, sound, and voice work. She also trains other somatic therapists. Jo approaches her work with deep understanding, passion and commitment, something which became even more apparent as we settled in to our conversation. For anyone interested in sound healing, somatic therapy, the relationship between frequencies and well-being, this podcast is for you.
Send A Sound Radio Show - Margate Radio
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Send a Sound Project was a creative collaboration with Arts Education Exchange. Arts Education Exchange is a charity based in Margate that provides creative education, training, and employment for young people. The Send a Sound project was a collaboration between the students, tutors and local artists in lockdown which later produced an album. Here you can hear Jo and other local artists talk about their experience and creative process in a dedicated show on Margate Radio.
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Have a listen to a conversation about redefining the Boss Babe / Girl Boss archetype. We speak about peeling back to a more embodied connection to authentic power. We do go into the terrain of Girl Boss but we also discuss a lot about embodied presence, Britten asked me to share a little of my personal history and she shared a bit about my chart (I am so going back for more of her work), and there was a lot of love.
It's All Me: Creating Islands of Safety Within Yourself & Your Children
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Life is one big initiation. Join Gervase and her Focalizing teacher, Jo Miller, as they discuss what it would look like to have ‘enough’ in the face of trauma, the ways in which we’ve been lied to as women, and how we can resource somatics and focalizing to create a fuller, more robust sense of self in ourselves and our children.