Proof of Life®

Your vitality is not something to earn.

It’s something to remember.

Proof of Life® is a matriarchal framework for embodiment, healing, and repair.

It’s not about self-care as performance or survival as success; it’s about reanimating what patriarchy tries to suppress:

your rhythms, your beauty, your rage, your joy, your truth.

It’s the thread that runs through everything I offer, from acupuncture and facial work to online courses, writings, and ritual.

This is not a method. It’s a remembering.

the ethos

In a world that asks you to numb, minimize, and disappear, Proof of Life is a quiet rebellion:

  • Your body is not a problem. It’s a portal.

  • Healing doesn’t have to look like fixing.

  • Your aliveness is evidence enough.

  • The more you move away from yourself, the more lost you’ll be. Proof of Life means coming home to yourself.

Proof of Life meets you at the intersection of:

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine: re-rooted in matriarchal values.

  • Feminist embodiment: not empowerment, but reconnection.

  • Lineage work and spiritual repair: across time and kin.

  • Rhythms for all neurotypes: spacious, non-linear, and humane.

  • Creative expression: writing, ritual, story, and myth.

The Principles

  • The matriarchy would never allow this.

    A call to reimagine what is normal, acceptable, and just, especially in systems of health, beauty, and care.

  • The five elements are not a typology. They’re a cosmology.

    Earth, Water, Wood, Fire, and Metal serve as energetic scaffolding, not fixed labels. They map movement, emotion, and repair.

  • Healing is multidirectional.

    We don’t heal alone, and we don’t heal in a straight line. Proof of Life honors the web: ancestry, descendants, community, and self.

  • Beauty is structural.

    Not weaponized aesthetic perfection, but rather what it’s meant to be: the integrity of what holds you. Whether in your fascia, your bones, or your story, beauty lives in alignment.

  • Vitality is a right, not a reward.

    You don’t have to perform your pain or prove your worth to receive care. Aliveness is not conditional.

  • There is no such thing as too much.

    Too emotional, too loud, too sensitive, too ambitious… Proof of Life welcomes the bigness, the truth-telling, the full spectrum of being.

in practice

Proof of Life® is not one thing. It’s a living ecosystem.

  • Structural repatterning through the face. Acupuncture, gua sha, cupping to affect change on lymph, fascia, emotion, expression.

    Learn more here.

  • Where rest, repair, and connection are non-negotiable. In this small-group setting, treatments are streamlined and quiet, with chairs arranged for privacy and silence. Intake is completed through HIPAA-protected paperwork so your session can be fully restorative. Ideal for regular nervous system support, pain relief, and ongoing wellness. Not suitable for face-down treatments. Book online here.

  • Sacred space-holding. Energetic restoration. Reconnection to cyclical rhythm.

    Learn more about functional vs integration acupuncture sessions.

  • Seasonal, sensory, and soul-deep. Designed for remembering, not achieving (ok, a little achieving).

    Interested in deeper work? Learn more here.

  • Myth-making and truth-telling. From breast health to vampire fiction (you’ll see soon enough!), the thread remains.

    For now, find me on my blog, but fiction and substack are brewing!

A Note on the Name

The phrase proof of life comes from hostage situations: it’s evidence someone is still alive.

Does it feel a bit harsh? Maybe. But in a culture that demands disconnection, this work is that signal.

It’s the pulse that runs throughout the code and mirror that’s held up to your face, saying:

You are still here. You still get to choose. You still get to live.

Not sure where to begin?

Start with where your body says yes.

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