SO LA began as an advocate site specific to SA resources. We have since grown into a brain and embodiment business that exists for the moments when the places we expected to help us no longer know how to hold what we’re carrying.

Here you’ll find a growing collection of survivor stories, sensory experiences, symbolic tools, research, original artwork, and resources designed to help people recognize themselves through the many different ways human beings make meaning and process pain and trauma.

Whether you’re beginning with a book, a candle, a piece of art, a conversation, a need for community, or simple curiosity, every path leads back to the same place: the quiet work of understanding yourself with greater honesty, compassion, and hope.

For every future purchase made, we give back to a relevant and carefully selected charitable cause. We also welcome suggestions and feedback for the organizations you personally love and recommend!

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  • Crystals

    One of many symbolic languages that can help us recognize ourselves through sensation, ritual, and personal meaning. People have used crystals to create meaning, comfort, and connection for centuries.

    Here, it is another doorway into our sensory world, where objects become companions to reflection and healing. Not because our crystals heal us, but because the relationships we build with them sometimes helps us to see and heal ourselves.

    Enter the Crystal Collection đź’Ž 

  • The Tui Tarot

    An original tarot deck created as a symbolic language for personal pattern recognition, reflection, and meaning-making.

    Explore the cards, their unique artwork, the symbolism, spreads we map, and the many ways they connect throughout the SO LA ecosystem and offer guiding support.

    Enter the Tarot Studio 🗺️ 

  • Brain Health

    Neuroscience offers another language for understanding trauma, why and how your body’s been carrying it, memory, healing, and the nervous system.

    Explore the Science Behind Understanding Our Brains to Understand Ourselves 🧠 

  • Support Through Many Doorways

    Whether you’re looking for understanding, regulation, community, creativity, or support, no two healing journeys look the same or always need the same things, so every offering begins in the same place: meeting you wherever you are.

    Resources, experiences, artwork, sensory tools, and guidance here are designed for supporting you during all different stages and phases of healing.

    Find Your Starting Placeđź“Ť 

The Origin Story

Every ecosystem has an origin.

Tiny Heart Pieces is the story that made this work impossible to walk away from. It’s the memoir that gave rise to everything else you see here.

What began as one person’s search to understand the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse became a larger question:

Where are people supposed to go when their lived experience and need for support isn’t adequately held by family, institutions, mental health systems, or the law?

This memoir is another doorway into that question. The field notes, artwork, tarot, sensory experiences, and educational resources that grew from it are of the others.

Whether or not your story looks like this one, I hope you find something here that helps you trust what you’ve known, understand what you’ve lived, and feel a little less alone.

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II. The Motherland

II. The Motherland

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I. The Black Rock

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IV. In The Raw

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SO LA The Foundation

SO LA began as a blog and advocacy site dedicated to sexual abuse awareness and the often-overlooked aftermath survivors are left to navigate. Through this platform, I recognized the suffering stored in the body and life altering, lingering effects trauma has on the mind, body, brain and nervous system. 

While the bones of the site began in sexual abuse trauma, the patterns extended far beyond a single kind of trauma. Realized developmental trauma impacts all of us, and has a long line of history before its' wake deep in our DNA.

As the community and site continued to grow, I saw where many forms of trauma shared remarkably similar patterns in their aftermath. That realization gradually expanded my mission to become more supportive of all walks of life.

Tools, teachers and practices to take care of your mental health and brain function deserve full accessibility, but this sadly isn't always or even often the case. SO LA continues to exist, in part, to help close that gap by making meaningful resources and healing modalities easier to discover and understand.

In shared aftermath effects, the site offers support toward all of your unique paths toward self-trust, purpose and meaning. It also acknowledges the tremendous self compassion needed on the journey to self acceptance and safety in your body and mind. Taking care of your mental health, uncovering who you really are, and understanding what you're meant to give back is a courageous journey. The vulnerability it takes to trust and open yourself up in this way after enduring traumatic pain and suffering is not for the faint of the heart, yet the feeling of belonging is so important for survivors at the same time. 

Support doesn’t always have to come with a hefty price tag. Sometimes it arrives through a conversation with a stranger, a book you didn’t intend to pull off the shelf, a song, a film you didn’t expect to recognize so much of your self and story in, a poem, a visual symbol that strikes a chord, a painting, or learning to create, write, narrate, or paint, yourself. There are many unexpected moments where we recognize ourselves in other forms of language, and while signs and symbols may not have appeared in your syllabus, they have helped human beings make meaning and see themselves more fully and deeply for thousands of years.

I built SO LA to offer an array of products and tools to promote safety in embodiment, self trust and belonging, so people can tap in on their own terms, and give back to carefully selected, relevant causes at the same time. I wanted this site to offer a community of growing and accessible support in this way, helping other supportive foundations and communities to grow too. 

SO LA Safe Space is now so much more, it’s become an ecosystem of belonging and in every room you find here, support is always available in whatever language speaks to you. 

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SO LA The Foundation

SO LA began as a blog and advocacy site dedicated to sexual abuse awareness and the often-overlooked aftermath survivors are left to navigate. Through this platform, I recognized the suffering stored in the body and life altering, lingering effects trauma has on the mind, body, brain and nervous system. 

While the bones of the site began in sexual abuse trauma, the patterns extended far beyond a single kind of trauma. Realized developmental trauma impacts all of us, and has a long line of history before its' wake deep in our DNA.

As the community and site continued to grow, I saw where many forms of trauma shared remarkably similar patterns in their aftermath. That realization gradually expanded my mission to become more supportive of all walks of life.

Tools, teachers and practices to take care of your mental health and brain function deserve full accessibility, but this sadly isn't always or even often the case. SO LA continues to exist, in part, to help close that gap by making meaningful resources and healing modalities easier to discover and understand.

In shared aftermath effects, the site offers support toward all of your unique paths toward self-trust, purpose and meaning. It also acknowledges the tremendous self compassion needed on the journey to self acceptance and safety in your body and mind. Taking care of your mental health, uncovering who you really are, and understanding what you're meant to give back is a courageous journey. The vulnerability it takes to trust and open yourself up in this way after enduring traumatic pain and suffering is not for the faint of the heart, yet the feeling of belonging is so important for survivors at the same time. 

Support doesn’t always have to come with a hefty price tag. Sometimes it arrives through a conversation with a stranger, a book you didn’t intend to pull off the shelf, a song, a film you didn’t expect to recognize so much of your self and story in, a poem, a visual symbol that strikes a chord, a painting, or learning to create, write, narrate, or paint, yourself. There are many unexpected moments where we recognize ourselves in other forms of language, and while signs and symbols may not have appeared in your syllabus, they have helped human beings make meaning and see themselves more fully and deeply for thousands of years.

I built SO LA to offer an array of products and tools to promote safety in embodiment, self trust and belonging, so people can tap in on their own terms, and give back to carefully selected, relevant causes at the same time. I wanted this site to offer a community of growing and accessible support in this way, helping other supportive foundations and communities to grow too. 

SO LA Safe Space is now so much more, it’s become an ecosystem of belonging and in every room you find here, support is always available in whatever language speaks to you. 

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