Hi. I’m Sherri.
I help women who have survived arterial dissection to restore nervous system stability so they can feel safe, steady, and confident in their bodies again.
Surviving an arterial dissection changes more than the body.
After my own life-threatening aortic dissection and emergency open-heart surgery, I found myself in a space many women later described to me … medically stable, but internally unsettled.
My scans were reassuring. My repair was successful. (My surgeon and I were both quite happy about this, obviously).
Unfortunately, my nervous system didn’t get the memo.
At least not immediately.
Before my cardiac event, I was consulting with clients as a trauma-informed, board-certified holistic health practitioner, specializing in emotional trauma integration and nervous system regulation. That work had always centered on how the body holds stress and how safety is rebuilt.
Living through a survival-level cardiac event reshaped how I understood it.
I experienced firsthand how structural repair and internal stabilization don’t move at the same speed.
As I went through the medical research on survivorship outcomes and listened more closely to other women’s stories, one pattern became impossible to ignore: early recovery often lacks structured guidance for emotional stabilization and restoration of body trust.
Certainly, cardiology focuses on structural repair. It absolutely should.
And rehabilitation rebuilds strength and endurance.
But the recalibration of internal safety – the part of recovery that determines whether a survivor feels steady in her body again – is rarely addressed in a systematic way during those first months.
Instead of accepting that gap as inevitable, I developed a structured framework to support the psychological and physiological recalibration that comes AFTER survival.
This work doesn’t replace medical care.
It’s designed to complement it.
My focus is supporting women in the first six months after dissection who are medically stable but still navigating fear spikes, hypervigilance, scan-related anxiety, or difficulty re-establishing confidence in their bodies.
I believe emotional stabilization in early recovery is not a sidebar to cardiac care; it’s foundational to sustainable rehabilitation and long-term confidence.
Recovery isn’t about returning to who you were before.
It’s about rebuilding trust in the body you’re living in now.