What I do
Coaching with Kathryn Bumgarner
I help individuals and communities recover from trauma through transformational coaching. With the ever-increasing knowledge of how trauma is experienced in the body, trauma experts are redefining trauma symptoms as a whole-body experience, moving away from a mental health disorder. With healthcare professionals being on the front line, Healthcare Professionals are experiencing moral distress, secondary traumatic stress, acute traumatic stress, post traumatic stress, traumatic grief, and what is now known as collective trauma. Most are not aware of living in fight or flight, or in what is now known as freeze and collapse
"Kathryn is a gifted and loving coach (and human being). Her intuitive sensitivity and kind presence have provided a safe and grounded space for me to heal, grow and open to new possibilities. I am so grateful to receive the gift of her wise and caring guidance on my healing journey."
Joy L.
Chicago
Hello and Welcome
My mission is to create legacies and elevate humanity to an even more harmonious place by shepherding individuals and communities through trauma recovery.
Healing from trauma is possible. Trauma recovery promotes nervous system regulation, creating a safe space for a pause, allowing for spaciousness, for responding, rather than reacting, from a dysregulated nervous system.
Trauma Recovery Coaching is highly effective because it is based on a new deeply grounded and practical understanding of collective trauma eruptions, a new understanding of how the past is being lived today with traumatic experiences not fully integrated, and how the future is being co-created with innovation, inspiration, and creativity with trauma integration.
Shepherding individuals and communities through recovering from a traumatic experience is a journey considering the “contemplative practices” of trauma-sensitive yoga, trauma-sensitive meditation, and trauma recovery coaching, a bearing witness of sacred space, and the holding of a safe container for healing, building on a forty year nursing practice grounded in “Human Becoming”, a nurse theory developed by Dr. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, with principles of ontology and structured around three abiding themes: meaning, rhythmicity, and transcending.
Latest Blog Posts
Walking to Sacred Places Known For Healing
Pilgrims have been walking to Sacred places known for healing for centuries. I personally have walked with other pilgrims to a few of these Sacred places. Mont-Saint-Michel in Norm
Living life will experience trauma
Living life will experience trauma. Experiencing a terrifying event where you thought you were going to die, is not that uncommon. Most people will recover from a traumatic experie
Unintegrated Trauma and Diseases of Despair.
Let’s begin with diseases of despair. Alcoholism and suicide are diseases of despair, preventable diseases, and related to unintegrated trauma and Post Traumatic Stress. The
Trauma Informed Leadership Development in nurses on the front line.
Trauma Informed Leadership Development in nurses on the front line. Nurses on the front line. Nurses standing in their truth, in a picket line, on strike. Nurses finding thei
Nurses Go On Strike in NYC.
The healthcare system is broken. The system is not sustainable. Many people will suffer. Many people are already suffering. Many people have been suffering for a long time. Much sl
Trauma Informed Care may become Trauma Informed Fatigue
I have noticed, and been attentive to, the growing use of the word “trauma informed” as new practices and policies are put in place in schools, Pediatric Clinics, Children’s