Why Good Vibes Only Falls Short
Our culture teaches us to brush it off and move on faster than our nervous system can actually integrate. We’re taught to stay productive, stay positive, and avoid anything that feels uncomfortable.
But what gets pushed down doesn’t disappear. It shows up in our bodies, our relationships, and in patterns that keep repeating.
The uncomfortable emotion is not the problem. Avoidance is.
This work is about turning towards what’s real, with support and honesty, reconnecting with our bodies, our truth, and creating space for something better.
Hi, I’m Lacye Winkelpleck
I’m a grief support specialist, somatic practitioner, and integration guide working at the intersection of grief, shadow work, addiction recovery, and personal transformation.
I came to this work through lived experience. After the sudden loss of my partner to an accidental overdose, I found myself navigating not only grief, but the layered realities that come with it—single parenting, identity shifts, and the quiet unraveling of everything familiar. That experience didn’t just shape my path—it deepened my capacity to sit with others in the complexity of their own.
My work is rooted in embodiment and integration. I don’t believe in bypassing what’s hard or rushing toward resolution. I believe in learning how to be with what’s here—tending to grief rather than fixing it, working with the body as a source of truth, and integrating experiences so they create lasting change.
I am a certified grief support specialist and microdosing support facilitator, and I’ve spent over two decades in and around ceremonial and healing spaces—leading groups, facilitating workshops, and holding space for people in times of transition.
In addition to grief work, I support clients navigating addiction recovery, life transitions, and psychedelic integration. My approach combines somatic awareness, reflective inquiry, and practical tools to help you work with patterns, reconnect with yourself, and move forward with greater clarity and resilience.
My Approach
Facing What's Real
We begin by meeting what’s actually here, building a sense of intimacy with yourself through honest awareness. This is a space to name what’s been avoided, and to build the capacity to stay present and tend to what’s real.
Embodiment
This work isn’t just cognitive, it lives in the body. Emotions we avoid processing are held physically, showing up as tension, pain, and dis-ease. Through somatic practices, movement, breath, and awareness, we begin to locate and shift what’s been held, creating space for release and a greater sense of freedom in the body.
Integration
Insight alone doesnt create change: integration does. Once we are aware of our patterns, we can begin to work with them— shifting our responses, behaviors, and habits in real time until new ways of being take root and what we’ve learned becomes how we live.
Becoming
As we face and move through what’s been held or avoided, learning to bend and not break, new possibilities begin to emerge. There is a growing sense of spaciousness— space to respond and choose differently, to meet life with a deeper sense of trust and resilience, and to welcome the unknown with curiosity.
