Today we’d like to introduce you to Dena Nolan.
Hi Dena, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I actually started in the Construction industry, estimating houses & sheds & helping customers solve problems. Fast-forward 16 years, I was feeling highly stressed, burned out & unsupported. So, I made the decision to move on. It was at this time,
I awakened to the fact that I was not living my life, I was living the life that my family and society expected me to follow. This was a journey that took me to very dark, sad places. However, with every layer that I peeled back and worked through, the lighter and more authentic to my true self I felt.
I then found an office job where I felt completely supported & enjoyed working again, but I still felt this empty feeling like something was still missing. This job, however, allowed me the prosperity to find what that missing piece was.
One day while watching ‘Sex, Love & GOOP’, I knew this was it! This is the thing! I love researching things that really interest me, so I started researching schools, the what’s, the how’s, for Somatic Intimacy Coaching classes and signed up. I’ve always been the office therapist. Everyone seeks me out to tell me their problems and stories. Complete strangers tell me their life stories. I’m a Libra, we’re all about relationships, balance & fairness. Helping others by just listening to relationship issues or giving advice is engrained in my being.
While in classes for coaching, Reiki came calling for the 2nd time & this time I answered. Reiki at its basic level is also about love and it made my spiritual awakening feel more understood. It made the healer inside me become more prominent and willing to show herself to the public.
After growing up in a conservative community and religious upbring, coming out as a Sex & Intimacy Coach & a Reiki healer was not an easy feat. It’s taken a lot of courage and thick skin, but I can say that I’m doing something that speaks to my soul and my purpose.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I grew up as the oldest in a traditional Catholic family. There were a lot of expectations to be a certain way. I was programmed in that life. After about 2 years of very intense learning about myself and growth, I had to reprogram myself to what feels good in my body, to my soul, not what society wanted me to be. I’ve also had to thicken my skin and do a lot of work around rejection. At first, I slowly let my new identity slip out because I was afraid how others would accept me. Now I’m able to just be me and you either take me or leave me. I’m no longer as worried about what others think. People are slowly coming around to energy healing, but still think it’s woo woo. People make fun of what they don’t understand because it’s uncomfortable or scary to them.
In classes for coaching, you are broken open as a client to practice being a coach. It is highly emotionally draining, but at the other end, I got SO much growth from it. I understand so much that I would’ve never known not going. There’s no how-to book for relationships.
People feel a lot of shame when it comes to relationships, and I’ve had a lot of people immediately put walls up when I tell them what I do. It’s like the conversation is immediately over, almost like I might see something they don’t want me to see.
As you know, we’re big fans of Reconnect & Release. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
I am a Reiki Master Teacher & a Somatic Intimacy & Relationship Coach. I help people to learn about how they are in relationship and how that might be working for or against them. We work through programming and shame and celebrate all of their growth, We practice foundationally, communicating, set boundaries, attachment styles, romantic touch, pleasure, and also help them learn what actually turns them on and how to ask for it. As a somatic coach, the focus is on the body and how it feels in the body, staying in the body, and how to help release trauma and resentment trapped inside. I think I am the only Somatica Institute™ trained coach in the St Louis area.
Whether you just need to cry about your current situation and be held, you want to upgrade your skills, learn how to flirt, or how to stay out of your brain because it’s telling you lies, or you’re going through a life change and you need support, No matter how embarrassing they think their issues might be, I am here to listen without judgement.
I also offer house Reki energetic house cleansings. Recently, I’ve been creating short mindfulness meditation & journeys on YouTube. I know how hard it is to find the time to sit and be mindful. They are guided & I build containers in some of them for journeying or meeting guides and ancestors. This is an outlet for creativity for the healer in me to help people be still and listen inside themselves.
Alright so before we go can you talk to us a bit about how people can work with you, collaborate with you or support you?
I can work alongside medical professionals to help people work on mental blocks leading to ED issues. Also, with Reiki, I can help people with pain management holistically.
I can work alongside therapist and counselors to help clients work on tools they suggest or help them find tools that compliment what they are working on.
I can help with groups on relationship & intimacy topics that pertain to what they are covering.
Pricing:
- Coaching $111
- Reiki $50-95
- Couple’s Connection Date Night $111
- Spiritual Awakening Support $83-166
- Reiki Energetic House Cleansing $175
Contact Info:
- Website: https://reconnectandrelease.com/
- Instagram: @reconnectrelease
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/1DbfEeq3bE/
- Youtube: ReconnectreleaseLLC
