Hello, My Name is Lila
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I graduated from the UCF School of Nursing with honors in 2019 and have worked in acute hospital settings for 7 years including as a charge nurse and travelling across 6 states and 7 different hospital systems. As a nurse and midwife apprentice I’ve worked from the “womb to the tomb”—addressing clinical conditions in humans from a few hours or days old to 100 years old. My specialties include progressive/stepdown care, covid nursing, emergency room, clinical decision units, and I am currently working as a pediatric emergency room nurse. Additional trainings include:
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Peristeam Hydrotherapist Training through SteamyChick Institute (2023)
Whapio the Matrona Holistic Doula Certification (2023)
ECornell’s Plant Medicine Certification (2024)
YTT 200 with Asheville Yoga Center (2024)
Completion Process Certified Practitioner with Teal Swan (2025)
In-person training with Indigenous Mayan Midwives for abdominal massage in Guatemala (2025)
Abdominal Therapy Collective (ATP 1&2) Certifications (2025)
Homebirth Midwifery Apprenticeship (3 months) (2025)
My passion for learning through the physical body started young as I experimented through different forms of dance, gymnastics, soccer, swim teams, strength training, and by discovering yoga asana at around 16 years old. Along the way, movement became an important emotional outlet for me and I learned how to use bodywork to heal from injuries, pain, and imbalances in my body. My connection and understanding of the body was formed naturally and has been supported by 7 years of clinical practice as a Nurse working in many different areas of the hospital. In 2016 I began more intentionally recovering from childhood Complex PTSD (CPTSD) which had caused me to have addictions, disorganized attachment, and many other manifestations of trauma—through that journey bodywork has become an essential tool in my own healing and the experiences from my past drive a lot of the work I do today.
I was born just outside of London, England with extrasensory perception that caused me to perceive the world differently by reading frequencies and patterns that don’t translate through physical dimensions. This looked like giving up eating animals at 4 years old after feeling the experience of an animal before slaughter, reading potential future timelines, and sensing earth bound spirits around the village I lived in, but also more subtly gave me an ability to read people on a deep level and understand how different medicines would meet different needs. I first became interested in the intersection of trauma and the womb through my own journey in healing from “PCOS” (now more appropriately named PMOS) that was compounded by experiences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and chronic stress. The same year I started deep recovery (at age 24) I decided that I didn’t want to continue using birth control to mask the symptoms that my hormones were communicating, which put me on a path of rebalancing my body from high testosterone holistically. Long before starting my nursing career in 2019,
I’m a dedicated environmentalist and a huge animal lover, currently living with one rescued dog and two fosters. I became passionate about plant based nutrition after working in a raw vegan restaurant when I was 20—I love to cook and make different recipes with plant medicines. I still move my body through various ways and am always exploring different somatic expressions and natural ecosystems. I also enjoy interior design and sustainable architecture, and traveling to different historical and cultural sites.