We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Amanda Curry. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Amanda below.

Amanda, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

I was working in a children’s cancer hospital and looked around at both the vast intensity of hope and pain within the walls of the institution. I watched people’s lives transform minute to minute- from devastating test results to life saving transfusions. The ebb and flow of emotions were high. I felt myself becoming conscious to the realization that I had compartmentalized my work with these children and their families.

Come in, smile, do the job, and leave. I had created new innovative programs for the ICU and yet felt resistant to connecting on a more visceral level.

This I realized was due to me, my wounding, my inability in opening up my heart on a deeper level and experiencing more of what these little ones and their families were traversing.

And then COVID 19 dropped in our lap. This bomb of unknowns, intense fear, and a new level of life and death was introduced. With that extra time and space away from work, I was allowed to dive deep into my hurt, my patterns, my learning to shed this armor I had built up so tightly. As the world’s heart was breaking, mine was opening and allowing all the rawness of life to filter through.

So as we headed back to our normal work schedules and I was reintroduced to this consistent world of ups and downs, I showed up differently both form my patients, families, and coworkers. I was able to open myself to a new connection where I could feel into and see their BEingness. I could hold space for their lived experience in a way I had not imagined was possible.

Through my own healing, I was gifting others with the permission to just be. To be in the heaviness, the heartache, the frustration, and confusion. Be in the expansive miracles of moments where it all felt like it was working out or that headway was being made on this devastating disease.

Because that’s what we are to each other. Flickers of hope, flames being fanned for one another through the darkest times of life.

Amanda, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

As I stated prior, I am a physical therapist by trade. I studied at the University of Tennessee Health Science center where I earned by Doctorate in 2011. I have gone on to become specialty certified in the field of oncology through the APTA and am both published and humbled to have started the early mobility program in the ICU for pediatric oncology patients.

Shifting gears though, my true calling and gifts came online around 2020. After a long road of self development and traditional therapy, I dove head long into the world of inner child healing and somatics. This has proven LIFE CHANGING for me and thus I felt called to deepen my healing and become equipped with these tools so that I could then guide others towards their own healing power. I am a trauma informed master coach for Training Camp for the Soul- a program that empowers people with tools to restore trust, connection and safety from within and reclaim their wholeness and power. I completed my year long Mastery certification course in 2021 and have been serving its cofounder Anat Peri and other master coaches since that time.

I am also a breathwork facilitator and meditation coach utilizing a variety of breath practices and Level 1 Certified through the David Elliot Method. I host monthly virtual breathwork and meditations circles both in person and virtually and feel called to support people 1:1 as they are ready to expand deeper into their practice.

I have a passion for women (especially moms) who deal with overwhelm, shame, and feels of being “too much.” I feel my strength as a practitioner is being able to hold individuals in big emotions and guiding them back to their heart and their deepest needs and desires. I work with individuals 1:1, in small group settings, and in retreat settings.

Have any books or other resources had a big impact on you?

The 5 Personality Patterns by Steven Kessler The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
Healing and The Reluctant Healer by David Elliot
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

These books have been incredibly powerful in my journey of healing and facilitation.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

My healing journey up until 2020 was a series of fragmented awareness and intermittent acceptance of who I was and what I had experienced up until that point. It wasn’t until May of 2020 that I was blown away by Anat Peri’s teachings and her work through Training Camp for the Soul. There I was empowered through her teachings on Mother and Father Learning and how their beliefs, patterns, and energy were foundational to who I had become. I found hope in the fact that if I could learn something, I could also unlearn it so I got to work unlearning and releasing my programming of overdoing, perfectionism, control, shame with emotions, and lack of safety with connecting to others.

These unlearned lessons and release of preprogrammed dysfunction have allowed me to make space to plant new seeds of truth that only my body could reveal. I am so thankful for all the layers I have shed and for the inner knowing that I now have the gift and responsibility to parent myself in all that I have experienced and will come up for me j the future.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://linktr.ee/thesomaticdpt
• Instagram: thesomaticdpt
• Facebook: Amana Gentz Curry
• Other: TikTok- Thatspicycurry

Image Credits
Alexa Burke Photography