About Me

 May this story help you find the path to your highest timeline.

Allison Lorne : Nurse Midwife. Somatic guide. Spiritual healer. A woman who awakened to the gift of her own sensitivity, integrated her trauma, left abuse behind and leads other women to their own empowerment.

Certified Nurse Midwife  •  25+ Years in Women's Health  

Spiritual Somatics Founder

What I was born with

I was a highly sensitive empath in a family that didn't know how to hold me.

Growing up in Pacific Palisades, CA, my permeable sense of feeling energy was a chore before I ever realized it was a gift. I could read a room before I could read a clock, because reading the room was how you stayed safe. Some of what I was carrying came down the family line, the way trauma is inherited before someone comes along who's willing to FEEL instead of fight.

Mostly, my sensitivity felt like a burden. Crying easily, ruminating on unsettling events and lengthy, deep processing of conflict all added up to feeling lost in a large family. Violence in the home and childhood abuse drove me to hiding my feelings.

At seventeen, my boyfriend dropped me off to start school in Santa Cruz, CA. During our goodbye love making I immediately knew I was pregnant. Psychically, I knew. Even though conception isn't instant, my knowing was.

I chose an abortion for many reasons, and firmly believe in a woman's right to choose. But growing up in a conservative household and walking through a protest line at Planned Parenthood contributed to the grief and shame that sent me into a deep depression for most of my early 20's. In my search for meaning I found Dr E Aron's work on the Highly Sensitive Person and I came to understand myself and my sensitivity as a precious gift.

My passion to share my awakening lit a fire in me that guides my life's work, to this day. I knew I wanted to turn my pain into service and became a Nurse Midwife to guide women through the sacred portals of  feminine mysteries. After 1500 deliveries, I retired from a medical system built on volume and profit to offer care that is in even deeper alignment with my soul's mission.

a rite of passage

Perimenopause was a spiritual awakening.

When I entered midlife, I didn't realize it at first. At 35, my earliest signs of perimenopause were night terrors - I would wake up screaming and not know why. What I didn't know then was that my shifting hormones were creating increased sensitivity. I wish someone had explained it to me then and I could have taken such better care of myself.

What actually happened was me barely surviving a storm of stressors.  A demanding job and multiple abusive relationships and maladaptive coping had me drowning. I was drinking, depressed and, at times, suicidal. What followed was a decade of talk therapy, worsening anxiety and functional alcoholism.

While I was struggling to leave the last abusive relationship, my insightful therapist referred me to Somatics. You see, during talk therapy I was evasive and deflected direct challenges.  She knew I needed a different approach and what I experienced next changed my life. 

In Somatic therapy I was faced with what my body was holding. All the old fears, guarding and resistance came to the surface. No longer could I mask and hide. The conversation was now between me and my body.

I learned to stay with what I was feeling. I built more capacity for my sensitivity. I brought curiosity into relationship with my triggers. I came to understand and love myself in a whole new way.

All along, my care for my clients has reflected this evolution. Somatics is integrated into my coaching and the cornerstone of my practice. My intuitive energy work easily combined with somatic processing and Spiritual Somatics was born. My training in Spinal Energetics advanced my practice even further and now my sensitivity is my most important skill.

My midlife transformation brought me into deeper understanding of my sensitive and spiritual nature. The Perimenopause Portal synthesizes this journey into a course to help others experience this rite of passage as a path to empowerment and spiritual becoming.

What I Teach Now

Spiritual Somatics is a deep conversation with your best friend...your body.

Everything I teach now, I learned the hard way first. I bridge twenty-five years of clinical training with somatic work and Spinal Energetics, because I refuse to make a woman choose between being taken seriously and being spiritually met. I’ve watched enough women shake, cry, rage, and come back into their bodies in a single session to trust this method completely.

I teach embodied sovereignty — the ability to live from your own internally driven point of reference instead of everyone else’s expectations of you. I had to build that for myself, one threshold at a time, long before I could hold it for anyone else.

If you’re standing at your own threshold right now — perimenopause, the end of something, the start of something you don’t have language for yet — I’d be honored to walk it with you. I’ve done this work in the dark wishing I had someone to hold a light. Now I carry the lantern.