Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast.

My name is Guy McPherson.

I interview incredible people who've dedicated their lives to helping those who've been impacted by trauma.

A big thank you to our sponsors and our guests who are supporting this show.

So five, four, three, two, and one.

Our folks, welcome back to the podcast.

Very excited to have us my guest today. Arani.

Arani, welcome. Hi, thank you so much for having me, Guy. Awesome. Appreciate it.

Arani is an author and guide whose work weaves depth psychology, somatic awareness, and embodied

spiritual practice. She supports women healing the mother wound and seekers

integrating transformative experiences through presence relational care and respect for the nervous

systems pace her approach is grounded trauma-informed and experiential emphasizing integration as a

lift process rather than a peak moment or conceptual understanding.

All right, Arani, just a little bit about you before we get going.

Share with the listeners where you're from originally and where you are currently.

I was born at Boulder Community Hospital, and I've lived in Boulder my whole life. When I was 23,

I, well, I had graduated from college and intended to move to Northern California with a

group of friends, but I got a real job. So I stayed and ended up moving up into the mountains above Boulder.

And I am very happy here.

These mountains are my roots.

And so although I've traveled a lot and spent a lot of time in India and South America, Europe, all the places.

I have never had the desire to leave the mountains here.

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