Nona Jordan

For the last ten years, I’ve worked with women in business who seek to grow their work sustainably and to amplify their impact in the world. Often, it is the residual effects of trauma that are silently sidetracking women from realizing their dreams. The coaching and healing work I offer is holistic and trauma-sensitive. When we work together, you will receive traditional coaching, but also the support of appropriate energy medicine and practices that cultivate a foundation on which you can thrive.

I’ve coached and taught thousands of women in business. For four years, I served as a master instructor training life coaches through Martha Beck’s training program. Through my own signature group programs, I’ve worked with women on critical aspects of empowerment including: money, authentic marketing and messaging, cultivating confidence, shamanic and energy practices for clarity and healing, using intuition and voice to reach a wider audience, the practicalities of creating a structure for a successful business and, I’ve run mastermind support circles to help women create success on their terms.

As a survivor of developmental and sexual trauma myself, I’ve spent a great deal of my life intuitively being led to alternative practices and modalities that supported my own healing. I was told I would just have to deal with PTSD forever – I refused to believe that I was forever broken by trauma.

It has been empowering to see scientific research emerge that supports yoga, breath and meditation as deeply supportive practices to help people heal from trauma. Bringing together modern research and coaching tools, practical wisdom on business building and powerful energetic practices of healing, all of my work is supportive for those who have experienced trauma and wish to thrive on a foundation of self-knowledge and strength.

Coaching: I provide safe space as a thought-partner to build your business knowing that developmental and/or sexual trauma responses are likely to be present. I help identify the triggers, reorient the client to the present moment to move forward with compassion and integrity.

Holistic Healing Practices: I offer supportive guidance to develop healing practices that are effective at expanding the window of tolerance and increasing a sense of safety in the body and in the world. Practices include: yoga, breath, meditation and eco-therapy.

Energy Medicine: I offer crystalline consciousness energy work and/or flower essences. Flower essences are a beautiful vibrational medicine that help heal the nervous system and ground you, gently supporting a release of old trauma and patterns that are at odds with the future you wish to create. Crystalline

Consciousness Energy Work is similar to Reiki however, it calls on the crystalline energy networks of the body and the Universe to promote healing based on intentions.

Approximately 75% – 80% of the women in my practice identify themselves as having experienced developmental trauma, often sexual and/or emotional in nature. These women often struggle to build a foundation of wellness, or find their systems are disorganized and chaotic or they are terrified to share their voice or invite people into their work. With very little exception, this is a trauma-response for these women. There is often shame or frustration: Why is this still an issue? Why am I still dealing with this? Why can’t I figure this out?

Many of the issues women face in business are unconscious recreations of traumatic patterns that are asking to be healed and integrated on a deeper level. Often, the response women have to their struggles adds violence (more trauma) to an already tender situation. I don’t see the work I do as helping women “get over” trauma. My deep belief is that you, and I, are better when we create strong foundations that honor the trauma we’ve experienced. We can be sensitive to our traumatic past in how we live our lives and build our business and in doing so, we restore our innate capacity to handle challenges with grace – you know, like growing a business of meaning.

By acknowledging that trauma is playing a role in how women respond to building their work, it eases the pressure and brings compassion into the situation. From there, we can look at what’s happening in real-time, and distinguish what’s real today from what was real in the past. We can gently build habits of self-care that nurture and calm the nervous system and use that success to build systems that support the business.

I often bring in yoga, breath or meditation and I often offer flower essences to help heal the nervous system as well as energy work based on intention. I take a very practical approach, using ancient practices to support clarity, healing and restoration while holding space for women to work at their uncomfortable edge and expand their window of tolerance so they can share their work and grow their business. We can be trauma-sensitive in how we approach ourselves and our work and in doing so, we can move beyond letting trauma derail our desires.