Elizabeth Brown – Trauma-Informed Healer & Founder of IRM
If you are sensing there is MUCH more to life than what you are experiencing, that’s exactly how i felt.
I felt out of my body.
That my thoughts weren’t my own.
I felt crazy.
I felt out of control, like something, or someone else was the driving force behind my behaviour and decisions.
Having grew up in an abusive household. Physically, emotionally, and mentally torn down. It destroyed me as a child.
I carried a rage that lived in my bones. I lashed out at anyone who tried to love me. I was angry not just at the world, but at myself. And to escape the overwhelm, to dull the depth of what I was feeling, I turned to self-destruction. I numbed everything that made me human.
For years, I was medicated for anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. I thought healing meant fixing myself. I kept trying to push through, to be better, to finally be free. I’d have breakthroughs, only to fall back into the same patterns that had shaped me from the beginning.
What I didn’t know then is that the pain I carried didn’t start with me. And that the path to healing wasn’t about fixing who I was. It was about remembering who I’ve always been underneath the trauma.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve dedicated my life to studying trauma, energy work, ancestral healing, and the nervous system. I’ve sat with thousands of stories, my own included. I’ve learned what creates real, lasting change in the body and spirit.
And now, I’m here to share it. Not from a place of having it all figured out. But from a place of truth, lived experience, and deep reverence for this work.
The healing of my ancestral lineage comes with a great responsibility, and a larger understanding. This journey into forgiveness and compassion, love and acceptance, comes from a deeper place of self inquiry. I had to understand my past, to move forward into my future.
When we begin to understand our past, we begin to heal for our future.
I know what it’s like to feel stuck.
To lose your sense of direction. To question your worth. To feel exhausted and disconnected from everything that once mattered. I’ve lived those moments where giving up felt easier than going on.
But it was in that stillness, in the quiet of that darkness, that something began to shift. That’s where my healing truly began. Slowly, I started to return to myself.
This path changed me. Not by erasing the pain, but by teaching me how to meet it with compassion. I’ve made peace with what was. And despite everything I’ve walked through, my heart holds nothing but love for the version of me who survived it. Even for those who were part of my hardest chapters, I’ve found understanding.
For more than 20 years, I’ve done the work. Even through depression and addiction, I stayed committed to uncovering the parts of myself I once wanted to run from. I faced the shadow head-on. I learned how to witness, feel, and release the rage, the despair, the self-destruction. I stopped trying to fix myself and began to free myself.
It was in the darkest places that I found the light. And now, I see that same light in every person I work with. It’s always there. Sometimes buried. But never gone.
THIS IS MY JOURNEY
Our Ancestors knew, that healing comes in cycles and circles, one generation carries the pain, so that the next can live and heal. One cannot live without the other, each is the other’s hope, meaning & strength
— Gemma b Benton
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I’ve trained in many modalities over the years, but the deepest wisdom I carry hasn’t come from a textbook. It’s come from sitting with real people. From learning alongside healers and mentors. From witnessing the truth that rises when someone is finally ready to feel what they’ve been holding.
My life has always been shaped by self-inquiry, spiritual practice, and embodiment. Not just as concepts I’ve studied, but as ways I’ve survived. Healing isn’t just something I offer. It’s something I’ve had to live through, over and over.
The practices I share now are the ones that brought me back to myself. They’re not just tools. They are how I move through life. They shape how I listen. They are the foundation of how I hold space for others.