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Good Neighbor Podcast: Colorado Springs
EP #57: Healing Beyond Words: Trauma Release for Mind, Body and Soul
What makes Desarae Walker with Rest For Your Souls a good neighbor?
The journey to healing from trauma often requires going beyond traditional therapeutic approaches. Desarae Walker, founder of Rest For Your Souls, reveals powerful modalities that address trauma at its deepest levels—the subconscious, cellular, energetic, and spiritual dimensions where lasting change becomes possible.
Following a severe horse accident that resurfaced past trauma, Desarae found conventional medicine merely masked her symptoms. This personal struggle launched her quest for more effective healing approaches, ultimately leading to her current practice where she employs emotional clearing techniques, neurofeedback, fibroacoustic therapy, and eye movement technologies similar to EMDR. "Trauma will keep our brains stuck," she explains, sharing how these methods create new neural pathways to replace anxiety, fear, and pain with healthier patterns.
What sets Desarae's approach apart is accessibility—her methods require no verbal processing, making them effective for everyone from neurodivergent individuals to traumatized animals. Her background serving complex PTSD sufferers, veterans, and domestic violence survivors brings a deep understanding to her work. Most compelling is how she transforms her own story—overcoming divorce, homelessness, and childhood adversity—into a healing mission.
Whether you're dealing with what Desarae calls "big T trauma" or the accumulated stress of everyday life, her message resonates: "If you live long enough, you've had stress, you've had trauma." Through her practice near LaSalle and Union in Colorado Springs (and long-distance sessions for remote clients), she offers a promise of regulation and rest for body, mind, emotions, and soul—allowing you to finally do what you truly love. Ready to find rest for your soul? Visit www.restforyoursouls.com to learn more about this transformative approach to trauma healing.
To learn more about Rest For Your Souls go to:
Rest For Your Souls
719-220-2205
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Tony Hills.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you looking for stress and trauma release? Help might be closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing our good neighbor, Desiree Walker, with. Rest For your Souls, Desiree. How's it going?
Speaker 3:It is going great, Great, wonderful, lovely sunny day in Colorado Springs.
Speaker 2:Awesome. Hey, we're excited to learn about your company and what you do. Tell us about what you do.
Speaker 3:So I do stress and trauma release using various modalities that work on a subconscious, cellular, energetic and or spiritual level. I offer emotional clearing using the emotion code and body code, which uses applied kinesiology, or what people may call muscle testing, to identify and release trapped emotions on a subconscious level. I also do neurofeedback on a subconscious level. I also do neurofeedback fibroacoustic therapy, which uses music to help release stress and trauma on a cellular and energetic level. I also do brain tap as well as rapid eye technology, which is very similar to EMDR, which is eye movement desensitization, reprocessing, which is helping the brain to create new neural pathways and kind of getting unstuck, because a lot of times trauma will keep our brains stuck, because our brains are wired for good or bad. So you know you could have a wiring for anxiety. So that modality helps us to create new neural pathways for good. And I will soon be adding neurosomatic programming, which is basically helping the body to reset, the mind and the body to reset.
Speaker 2:Interesting. How did you get into this business?
Speaker 3:So my journey started about 13 years ago.
Speaker 3:I got into a really bad horse accident in Westcliff, colorado, where they thought I broke my back or pelvis and by the time I got to the ER and an ambulance I didn't break either one.
Speaker 3:But I was badly wounded and that accident brought up a lot of my past abuse and I was just basically I mean, I couldn't work for the most part. I was in pain all the time, doctors were just throwing pills at me, and so I really wanted to go on a more subconscious, physical level, somatic level, to release the stress and trauma and the pain I was in all the time. And that led me to reflexology and that's where I first got my start was working with the nervous system and the different points on the hands, the ears, the feet to release stress and bring about relaxation. And then that then led into just working with highly traumatized people PTSD, complex PTSD people like myself who were just looking for answers and didn't want to just mask it with other things. And 90 to 95% of our patterns, our behaviors, are on a subconscious level and I really wanted to use modalities that went beyond the surface or the conscious memory so that people could truly deal with the trauma and the root.
Speaker 2:Okay, what are some myths or misconceptions in your industry?
Speaker 3:okay, what are some myths or misconceptions in your industry? Um, I think a lot of people think they may not need this type of work. You know a lot of people go well, I'm not highly traumatized. Or you know I didn't have an accident, or you know I don't necessarily need therapy, and so, uh, I think that's one of the the main myths. Or sometimes people are just scared to come. You know, maybe they're just so highly traumatized and they've tried other therapies and they just don't work, and so I I think that that's kind of like a myth. Or, you know, I tell people life is stressful. If you live long enough, you've had stress, you've had trauma. You know whether that's big T trauma or little T trauma, we've all had trauma in some way, and so, um, you know, just helping people to identify their trauma too as well. I think sometimes people don't even realize what could have been traumatizing to them. That's the other myth, that people just don't realize that that was painful or neglectful, or abandonment, or you know putting things into words.
Speaker 2:Okay, who are your target customers and how do you attract them?
Speaker 3:Uh, I would say people who are just, you know, if you're alive, you're my customer or you're a potential customer. I would say, um, my background is with, um, highly traumatized people, like I said, um complex PTSD, ptsd, um, veterans would be a great fit, just because, you know, sometimes with war or even before they got, you know, went to war, went into the military, they did deal with PTSD. So then it's kind of compacted. I also work with animals as well, in addition to humans, so I've done horses, dogs, cats, who have dealt with either abuse or trauma. I also deal with domestic violence. That's my background. So, as well as divorce, narcissistic abuse, adoption, anything with like adoption imprints, I work with the neurodivergent population for almost six years, so individuals who are on the autism spectrum. My modalities work very well, for because many of them have limited or no verbal capacity to kind of explain what they're feeling, and so all of my modalities do not require you to talk or do anything. They're very passive but they are also very effective as well.
Speaker 2:Okay, outside of work, what do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:So I like dancing, so salsa, jazz, cultural dance, I love. I like sleeping. I have two kiddos and then obviously work full time for the most part, and so anytime I can get in a good nap or sleep, that's, that's fun to me. I love reading books, also anything with nature and traveling, and I also like brewing kombucha and making homemade sourdough bread.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's switch gears. Can you describe a hardship, a life challenge you overcame? How it made you stronger? What comes to mind?
Speaker 3:So I would say, going through a really difficult divorce, a marriage as well, but finally took the leap of faith to get out of a unhealthy marriage, and that was very life-changing, because I was a stay-at-home mom for five years and that was, you know, my family and my marriage were my stability, and so I literally, you know, chose instability, if you will, in many ways for finding out who I was.
Speaker 3:It forced me to really find myself, you know, not just me as a mother or as a wife, but really what does Desiree like? And that was also kind of how I got my journey, that's, I was basically houseless, if you will. I gave him everything in the divorce and I ended up getting a grant to get my certification in reflexology and I just, I never looked back and found out what I loved, what I was passionate about, and overcame every statistic about me as a divorced mom, as someone who had a very high ACEs score, which is the adverse child, adverse child experiences Um, anyone who has over a four has higher risk for physical and or psychological issues, and I think I had like a a nine out of 10. Uh, and so I just, you know, I overcame all of that and doing what I love and helping people who, uh who have gone through trauma or loss and are looking to find themselves as well, and homeostasis.
Speaker 2:Wow, Desiree. Please tell our listeners one thing they should remember about Rest For your Souls.
Speaker 3:Oh, let's see. I would say, you know, if your soul is seeking rest, I would say I'm the person for you. I think that you know, so many things can dysregulate our nervous system, dysregulate our souls, and so, you know, my business is the business and helping people to regulate, you know, their souls, their body, their mind, their body, their emotions, and so I think that when you have that regulated and your soul is at rest, you can do what you truly love.
Speaker 2:And so I think that's the one takeaway I would say Okay, how can I listen to learn more about Rest For your Souls?
Speaker 3:So you can go to my website. It's wwwrestforyoursoulscom and it's by appointment only, um, and I'm near LaSalle or off of LaSalle and union, um, I have an office there and I also do, uh long distance sessions. Uh, so, if you don't want to leave your house or if you live in another state, I have clients, you know, in different various states and different places, and so you know I've I've found that working with traumatized people, it's it's tough to get to a, to an appointment. You know you got to find a babysitter or you know you just may be too down in the dumps to really, even, you know, get out, and so I do also most of my work long distance as well.
Speaker 2:Well, Desiree, I really appreciate you being on the show. We wish you and your business much success moving forward.
Speaker 3:Thank you.
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