13: You Don’t Have to Be Fully Healed to Be Worthy: A Conversation with Dawn Christensen

Have you ever believed you needed to be fully healed before you were allowed to help anyone else?In this deeply moving conversation, Tania sits down with somatic healing practitioner and former professional dancer Dawn Christensen to explore the belief that we must be fully healed, fully polished, fully “there” before we are worthy of showing up.Dawn shares her journey from ballet and performance to surviving a near-fatal car accident at 19 and navigating decades of complex chronic illness, including Ehlers-Danlos and POTS. Through profound stillness, spiritual awakening, and creative expression, she came to understand something radical and freeing: the body is not broken, but wise.Together, they explore the exhaustion of the performer identity, the pressure to perfect even our spirituality, and the quiet ways we try to earn a seat at the table that was never ours to earn.This conversation is a gentle return to embodied safety. To slowing down. To remembering that worth is inherent, not achieved.You do not have to arrive polished.You are allowed to serve, create, and belong as you are.About Dawn ChristensenDawn Christensen is a former professional actress and dancer, a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts and the William Esper Conservatory. After surviving a near-fatal car accident at 19 and navigating decades of complex chronic illness including Ehlers-Danlos, POTS, and Long COVID, she devoted her life to somatic healing and embodied safety.She is a certified somatic healing and core centering practitioner and created the GRACE program for individuals facing chronic illness at Beth Israel Medical Center and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s in New York City.Today, she works one-to-one with clients experiencing overwhelm and offers digital healing programs designed to help people remember that the body is not broken, but wise.Resources & LinksYour Body Is the Messenger: A 44-Day Somatic CompanionANewDawnHealingArts - EtsyCode for listeners: SOMATICS $8.88One-on-One Somatic OpeningA one-time introductory offering for $88A one-hour guided somatic experience where you gently return to your body, your breath, and your truth.Included:• A brief opening connection to meet you where you are and set intention• A guided somatic healing session (approximately 60 minutes, paced to your nervous system)• A personalized integration to support you afterward, including:    – a written somatic reflection    – a custom 5-minute audio practice created just for youSubstack: Essays on Somatic Healing & Embodimenthttps://dawnchristensen.substack.comInstagram: @dawnchristensen1111TikTok: @dawnchristensen727Facebook: Dawn ChristensenSend me a message