Meet your Practitioner
I'm Virginia Skidmore, I'm a Trauma-Trained Somatic Practitioner, here to compassionately guide you to regulation and healing
My Story
I know what it feels like to build a life from the outside in.
I spent years doing everything I was supposed to do. I became a Civil Engineer. I followed the path that made sense, the one that looked successful, the one that everyone around me agreed was the right direction. And for a long time I genuinely believed I was okay. I was functioning, I was capable, I was keeping it all together.
But underneath all of it, I had no idea who I actually was or what I actually wanted. I had been so busy becoming who I thought I needed to be that I had completely lost myself.
When I finally started to slow down enough to notice, I realized that so much of how I had been moving through the world and designing my life, was not really even mine to begin with.Â
The decisions I was making, the way I was showing up in relationships, the constant need to achieve and perform and stay one step ahead. The constant anxiety running in the background, planning for every possible scenario. The overwhelm that came from overworking and overachieving at work. These were not personality traits, they were survival patterns. And they had been running my life for as long as I could remember.
That realization brought me to somatic work. And it changed everything.
Through my training at the Body First Healing Institute and my studies in somatics, IFS parts work, attachment theory, and Polyvagal Theory, I found the framework that finally made sense of my own experience. Not just intellectually but in my body. For the first time I understood why insight alone had never been enough to change anything. And I found a way back to myself that no amount of thinking had been able to give me.
Now I bring that work to others.
At Magic of the In Between I help women who are stuck inside lives that look right but feel hollow understand their nervous system, recognize their survival patterns, and build real safety in their body so they can finally make decisions that come from who they actually are rather than who they learned to be.
If there is one thing I want you to know, it is this: you are not too far gone and it is not too late.
You are not broken and your body has never been missing the capacity to heal. What has been missing are the conditions that make healing feel safe enough to actually unfold.
There is a version of your life on the other side of this work. One that feels like yours. One that feels like home. One that feels like you. It has been waiting for you all along.
You just needed somewhere safe enough to find it.
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