Hana Clare Raftery

M.S. in Occupational Therapy - Yoga Teacher - Ayurvedic Health Counselor - Breathwork Facilitator - Reiki Healer - Safe & Sound Protocol Provider

My Story

Writing a bio is not easy - I am multi-faceted, multi-passionate, and ever-evolving (as I know you are too).

I am a highly-sensitive mother, a partner, a daughter, a friend, and a entrepreneur. I am a student of yoga and Ayurveda, of nature and the seasons, of my own body, my own creative energy, and my own nervous system.

The first thing I want you to know about me is that I (like you) believe in a brighter and more beautiful future. I want us and I want our children and grandchildren to have clean water and beautiful forests. I want us to know and be known by our neighbors and bring food to each other. I want us to make art together. I want us to feel safe and nourished in our bodies.

I believe we each have a role to play and unique creative gifts to offer in service of our collective future.

The second thing I want you to know is that I (like you) am all too familiar with burnout. I’ve burned out from sensory overwhelm and overstimulation. From people-pleasing and over-giving emotional support to friends. From perfectionism and incredible amounts of internal and external pressures in my academic life. I've burned out from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue in community mental health work. I’ve burned out from over-working at multiple jobs while following my dream to start my own business. Then I burned out from starting my own business. Most recently, I’ve burned out from the sleepless nights and endlessly overwhelming and overstimulating challenges of motherhood.

By necessity, I (like you) have been on a life-long journey of figuring out how to care for my highly-sensitive nervous system while playing my small role in creating a brighter, more beautiful future.

My work combines my lived experience of mothering, entrepreneurship, healing from burnout, and navigating life with sensory sensitivities, plus my 15+ years of practice and advanced studies in yoga, ayurveda, breathwork, reiki energy healing, meditation, life coaching, occupational therapy, polyvagal theory, mental health, teen wellness, pre and postnatal care, sensory processing science, and trauma-informed somatic healing. I am also a certified Safe and Sound Protocol Provider, an evidence-based therapeutic listening program designed to help you think, feel, and connect better through nervous system regulation.

It is one of the great joys of my life to guide other to heal their nervous system from the impacts of burnout, overwhelm, and overstimulation and find ways to express their creativity in service of a more beautiful personal and collective future.

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