Jo Tucker, Somatic Coach
Hi, I’m Jo, a certified life coach and post traumatic growth guide. A woman in her late 30s learning to listen to herself better each day. A loud laugher, forever curious about humans and the world we’ve created. I live in the paradox of being human and more than human, seeking new ways to be present to the exquisite joy and intense pain of this life.
It is my belief that all bodies are wise, whole and infinitely capable. Together, we uncover these aspects of self through practicing body-based consent, somatic movement, and radical self-responsibility.
My clients describe me as a sanctuary space. I move quietly, steadily with clients as we explore creating embodied safety in the nervous system through deep attunement and cooperation with your body’s inherent treatment plan.
I am practiced at being in the complicated. I see it as a deep responsibility to be with the complications of life, especially when there are no apparent answers. I help clients build the embodied skills we all need to survive and thrive in our times- a capacity to grapple with the complexity in ourselves and others, to love, to differentiate ourselves from systems and stories that harm.
Both my education and my life experience colour my professional practice.
I am an orphan, having lost my parents too soon after living in a complicated relationship with both. I know what it is to live through complicated loss and what it means to continue to live life within that loss.
I am chronically ill. I was diagnosed with diabetes almost 10 years ago. I walk the complicated line of accepting and loving my body while grieving its limitations, daily.
I am an entrepreneur. I have worked in social services delivery, government policy, and everywhere in between to land in the field of therapeutic support. I know what it is to navigate boundaries in corporate settings, and the intensity of striking out on one’s own.
It is my absolute privilege to witness my clients come home to themselves and mobilize towards their values and deep-heart desires.
Approach
Jo Tucker is practiced in the field of somatics and nervous system support, she works with folks to release trauma-patterning so they can live more deeply into their inherent resilience, freeing up their capacity to mobilize towards their values and deep-heart desires.
She has completed in-depth somatic training with Rachael Maddox. She was a founding member of the leadership committee within the program, as well as an instructor, coach and credential process supervisor for the lifespan of their practitioner training program, ReBloom.
Over the years, she has completed somatic abolition education with Resmaa Menakem and Kelly Germaine. She has taken one-off training with the Embodiment Lab, and participated in group somatic practices with Alchemical Alignment and Wildbody Somatics.
She is currently in continuing education around attachment, safety and somatics with Carmen Spagnola as well as anti-capitalism, anti-racism and impact with Toi Smith. Jo currently offers in- depth one-on-one support and has group courses that offer a mix of embodied somatic support and psychoeducation for increasing resilience at work and at home.