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Rachel Halder ❍ Somatic Soul Work
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Workshop
Safety & Self-Trust
Simple somatic tools to calm your nervous system, validate your emotions, and reconnect with your inner sense of safety.
Ebook
Sacred, Sexy & Whole
For anyone raised in purity culture who feels shame, numbness or pain around sex.
Writing · Substack
Real Sex
Writing & teaching at the intersection of nervous system healing, trauma, sexuality, earth eros & soul embodiment.
Podcasts & interviews
Conversations on freeze, fawning, sexuality, trauma and spirit. Each one with what you can take from it.
Newest · Talking About Midlife · Kellie Stirling · June 2025
Why We Fawn
What fawning is, and why people-pleasing can be a way your body keeps you safe.
We talk about sexual fawning: saying yes to intimacy when your mind says yes but your body says no. What happens when we do it again and again, and what sits underneath it.
2024
Unshaming Our Trauma Responses and Neurodivergence in the Facilitation Space
Together We Rise Summit · Catherine Hale · December 2024
How trauma responses and neurodivergence show up when you hold space for others, and how to meet them without shame.
Unshaming the Freeze Response
Free Your Soma · Aimee Takaya · June 2024
What freeze is, why it’s so often misunderstood, and how it shows up in sex, relationships and work. How tiny movements, safety and self-trust help you thaw.
The Left-Handed Path, Mystic Christianity, and the Somatic Spiritualist
Free Your Soma · Aimee Takaya · April 2024
Intimacy with yourself, the mystical side of Christianity, Rae’s own path through abuse and spiritual awakening, and stepping out of the cycle of needing to fix.
2023
Feeling Dysregulated? How to Heal Trauma Somatically Through Slowness
Creative Magic Club · Sarah Mac · October 2023
For when anxiety and a dysregulated nervous system make it hard to get things done: how slowing down turns self-judgment into kinder care of your energy.
Somatic Sexual Trauma Healing
Jaclyn Explores Somatics · Jaclyn Shea · October 2023
Why practices like tantra can backfire after trauma, why small slow steps heal more than doing more, how purity culture disconnects us from the body, and why knowing your no matters for your yes. Ends with a grounding practice.
2022
How Your Body Holds Trauma
Taryn It Up In Business and Love · Taryn Weil · August 2022
How the body holds and processes trauma, what somatic work actually looks and feels like, and how you know when you’ve healed.
Deactivating Fight Response: Being Coached by Rachel Rae Halder
Things We Carry · Jen Underwood · August 2022
A live coaching session: all-or-nothing thinking, needing pressure to get things done, what to do with fight mode, and finding the middle ground.
Earlier
Sexuality Beyond Trauma with Assana Rae Halder
The Multiorgasmic Millionaire · Tilly Storm · January 2020
What if you were never broken? Sexuality beyond trauma, and how collective, ancestral and generational wounds live in our bodies.
Breath Work with Assana Rae
Connected with Emily Beatrix · Emily Beatrix · September 2019
A conversation on breathwork.
Sexual Trauma, Spirituality + the Decolonization of Bodies
Ignite Intimacy · Laura Aiisha · June 2018
Sexual trauma, sexuality and spirituality, the decolonization of bodies, racism and healing.
Content note: an intense conversation about sexual trauma.
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I’m Rachel. Somatic teacher, ritualist, erotic reclamation guide, and space-holder of humans. A lover of wild spaces and deep questions and nuance.
I help people come home to themselves—through the body, through desire, through deep nervous system listening and integration.
Topics I speak on
- ☾Freeze, fawn and the nervous system
- ☾Somatic sexual trauma healing
- ☾Slowness and nervous system safety
- ☾Desire, neurodivergence and highly sensitive nervous systems
- ☾Purity culture and religious sexual shame
- ☾Mystic Christianity, animism and the left-handed path
- ☾Boundaries and energetic codependency
- ☾Ancestral and lineage healing
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Talking About Midlife · Together We Rise Summit · Free Your Soma · Creative Magic Club · Jaclyn Explores Somatics · Taryn It Up In Business and Love · Things We Carry · The Multiorgasmic Millionaire · Connected with Emily Beatrix · Ignite Intimacy
rae@raehalder.com · M.A. in Religion · 11 podcast and summit conversations since 2018
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