FEATURED BOOK

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly
How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®

life-is-hard-and-then-you-fly

FEATURED BOOK

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly
How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®

life-is-hard-and-then-you-fly

FEATURED BOOK

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly

 

How Your Nine Instinctive Responses Can Turn Pain into Purpose Through the Revolutionary Healing Power of SMGI®
life-is-hard-and-then-you-fly

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SIGNATURE TALK TOPICS

(Customizable for keynotes, breakouts, retreats, and trainings)

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly

How our instinctive survival responses—when understood and supported—become the very wings that set us free.

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The Nine Survival Responses

Why fight, flight, and freeze are only the beginning—and how recognizing all nine changes everything.

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From Triggered to Resourced

How to calm the nervous system quickly and create inner safety without reliving trauma.

________________________

Turning Pain into Purpose

How unresolved trauma becomes a roadmap for healing, growth, and contribution.

________________________

Embodied Healing That Lasts

Why insight alone isn’t enough—and how body-based inner journeys create lasting change.

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AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE

A felt sense of calm, clarity, and safety

New language for understanding trauma without shame

Practical tools they can use immediately

A shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What happened—and what’s possible now?”

__________________________

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IDEAL AUDIENCES

Wellness, healing, and personal growth conferences

Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and healers

Trauma-informed organizations

Women’s events, leadership retreats, and conscious business gatherings

Anyone navigating stress, overwhelm, or life transitions

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KEYNOTE & TALK FORMATS

20–45 Minute Keynote: Inspiration + practical tools

60–90 Minute Talk / Workshop: Deeper teaching with experiential exercises

Half-Day or Full-Day Trainings: Immersive learning and nervous-system transformation

Author Events & Book Talks

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BOOKING & CONTACT

 

🎙️

SIGNATURE TALK TOPICS

(Customizable for keynotes, breakouts, retreats, and trainings)

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly

How our instinctive survival responses—when understood and supported—become the very wings that set us free.

________________________

The Nine Survival Responses

Why fight, flight, and freeze are only the beginning—and how recognizing all nine changes everything.

________________________

From Triggered to Resourced

How to calm the nervous system quickly and create inner safety without reliving trauma.

________________________

Turning Pain into Purpose

How unresolved trauma becomes a roadmap for healing, growth, and contribution.

________________________

Embodied Healing That Lasts

Why insight alone isn’t enough—and how body-based inner journeys create lasting change.

🧠

AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE

A felt sense of calm, clarity, and safety

New language for understanding trauma without shame

Practical tools they can use immediately

A shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What happened—and what’s possible now?”

__________________________

👥

IDEAL AUDIENCES

Wellness, healing, and personal growth conferences

Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and healers

Trauma-informed organizations

Women’s events, leadership retreats, and conscious business gatherings

Anyone navigating stress, overwhelm, or life transitions

⏱️

KEYNOTE & TALK FORMATS

20–45 Minute Keynote: Inspiration + practical tools

60–90 Minute Talk / Workshop: Deeper teaching with experiential exercises

Half-Day or Full-Day Trainings: Immersive learning and nervous-system transformation

Author Events & Book Talks

__________________________

🔗

BOOKING & CONTACT

 

🎙️

SIGNATURE TALK TOPICS

(Customizable for keynotes, breakouts, retreats, and trainings)

Life Is Hard and Then You Fly

How our instinctive survival responses—when understood and supported—become the very wings that set us free.

________________________

The Nine Survival Responses

Why fight, flight, and freeze are only the beginning—and how recognizing all nine changes everything.

________________________

From Triggered to Resourced

How to calm the nervous system quickly and create inner safety without reliving trauma.

________________________

Turning Pain into Purpose

How unresolved trauma becomes a roadmap for healing, growth, and contribution.

________________________

Embodied Healing That Lasts

Why insight alone isn’t enough—and how body-based inner journeys create lasting change.

🧠

AUDIENCES EXPERIENCE

A felt sense of calm, clarity, and safety

New language for understanding trauma without shame

Practical tools they can use immediately

A shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “What happened—and what’s possible now?”

__________________________

👥

IDEAL AUDIENCES

Wellness, healing, and personal growth conferences

Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers, and healers

Trauma-informed organizations

Women’s events, leadership retreats, and conscious business gatherings

Anyone navigating stress, overwhelm, or life transitions

⏱️

KEYNOTE & TALK FORMATS

20–45 Minute Keynote: Inspiration + practical tools

60–90 Minute Talk / Workshop: Deeper teaching with experiential exercises

Half-Day or Full-Day Trainings: Immersive learning and nervous-system transformation

Author Events & Book Talks

__________________________

🔗

BOOKING & CONTACT

 

Gina’s Media Bio for Your Program

Gina’s Media Bio for Your Program

Program Media Bio

Option One:
Gina Vance is a Mind-Body Mentor and Inner Journey Guide who brings her experience with shamans, integrative medical doctors and a wide range of healers, to her full-time private practice guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition.
Gina teaches mind-body methods that are easy, natural and delightfully transformative, resolving anxieties, malaise, and feeling “stuck”; while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.
She knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world.
Join her to experience how to have more fun while doing more good.

Option Two:

Gina Vance is a Somatic Hypnotherapist and Mind-Body Coach, guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition. She teaches simple and effective mind-body methods to create change – whether to grow something, like a business, relationship, or feeling, like pleasure, satisfaction and joy, or to diminish something, like pain, anxieties, harmful habits, and feeling stuck.
The mind-body methods that Gina teaches are easy, natural and delightfully transformative ways of working with the power of your subconscious, while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.
As the developer of SMGI® – Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, she knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world. Join her to feel better, do better, and be happy.

Full Biography:

Gina Vance is an author, speaker, and trauma healing educator known for making complex healing concepts accessible, experiential, and hopeful. She is the creator of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® (SMGI®), a body-based method that helps people transform pain into purpose by working with—rather than against—their instinctive survival responses.
After healing her own severe and physically disabling PTSD, Gina devoted her life to understanding how healing actually works—not just cognitively, but somatically, where survival patterns live. For more than two decades, she has guided thousands of clients, students, and practitioners through inner journeys that restore safety, agency, and connection to one’s authentic self.
Blending neuroscience, lived experience, and guided inner practices, Gina’s work reframes trauma responses as intelligent adaptations rather than flaws to fix. Her speaking style is warm, engaging, and deeply human—inviting audiences to experience immediate nervous-system shifts while offering practical tools they can use right away.
Her message is clear and empowering: healing doesn’t have to be grueling—and you are not broken.

Option One:
Gina Vance is a Mind-Body Mentor and Inner Journey Guide who brings her experience with shamans, integrative medical doctors and a wide range of healers, to her full-time private practice guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition.
Gina teaches mind-body methods that are easy, natural and delightfully transformative, resolving anxieties, malaise, and feeling “stuck”; while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.
She knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world.
Join her to experience how to have more fun while doing more good.

Option Two:

Gina Vance is a Somatic Hypnotherapist and Mind-Body Coach, guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition. She teaches simple and effective mind-body methods to create change – whether to grow something, like a business, relationship, or feeling, like pleasure, satisfaction and joy, or to diminish something, like pain, anxieties, harmful habits, and feeling stuck.
The mind-body methods that Gina teaches are easy, natural and delightfully transformative ways of working with the power of your subconscious, while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.
As the developer of SMGI® – Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, she knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world. Join her to feel better, do better, and be happy.

Full Biography:

Gina Vance is an author, speaker, and trauma healing educator known for making complex healing concepts accessible, experiential, and hopeful. She is the creator of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® (SMGI®), a body-based method that helps people transform pain into purpose by working with—rather than against—their instinctive survival responses.
After healing her own severe and physically disabling PTSD, Gina devoted her life to understanding how healing actually works—not just cognitively, but somatically, where survival patterns live. For more than two decades, she has guided thousands of clients, students, and practitioners through inner journeys that restore safety, agency, and connection to one’s authentic self.
Blending neuroscience, lived experience, and guided inner practices, Gina’s work reframes trauma responses as intelligent adaptations rather than flaws to fix. Her speaking style is warm, engaging, and deeply human—inviting audiences to experience immediate nervous-system shifts while offering practical tools they can use right away.
Her message is clear and empowering: healing doesn’t have to be grueling—and you are not broken.

Option One:
Gina Vance is a Mind-Body Mentor and Inner Journey Guide who brings her experience with shamans, integrative medical doctors and a wide range of healers, to her full-time private practice guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition.

Gina teaches mind-body methods that are easy, natural and delightfully transformative, resolving anxieties, malaise, and feeling “stuck”; while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.

She knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world.
Join her to experience how to have more fun while doing more good.

Option Two:

Gina Vance is a Somatic Hypnotherapist and Mind-Body Coach, guiding individuals and groups on inner journeys of self discovery, healing and transition. She teaches simple and effective mind-body methods to create change – whether to grow something, like a business, relationship, or feeling, like pleasure, satisfaction and joy, or to diminish something, like pain, anxieties, harmful habits, and feeling stuck.
The mind-body methods that Gina teaches are easy, natural and delightfully transformative ways of working with the power of your subconscious, while healing the traumas at the root of unwanted habits and experiences.
As the developer of SMGI® – Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®, she knows how to guide you into the depths of your subconscious and deep Self in a light and comfortable way, so that you can experience the beauty, power, and value that is intrinsically yours to embody and express in the waiting world. Join her to feel better, do better, and be happy.

Gina’s Full Biography

Gina Vance is an author, speaker, and trauma healing educator known for making complex healing concepts accessible, experiential, and hopeful. She is the creator of Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery® (SMGI®), a body-based method that helps people transform pain into purpose by working with—rather than against—their instinctive survival responses.
After healing her own severe and physically disabling PTSD, Gina devoted her life to understanding how healing actually works—not just cognitively, but somatically, where survival patterns live. For more than two decades, she has guided thousands of clients, students, and practitioners through inner journeys that restore safety, agency, and connection to one’s authentic self.
Blending neuroscience, lived experience, and guided inner practices, Gina’s work reframes trauma responses as intelligent adaptations rather than flaws to fix. Her speaking style is warm, engaging, and deeply human—inviting audiences to experience immediate nervous-system shifts while offering practical tools they can use right away.
Her message is clear and empowering: healing doesn’t have to be grueling—and you are not broken.