A Bit About Me

Hello, my name is Kyle Vandenbroucke and I grew up in Bend, Oregon in an evangelical christian household. Early on my family struggled financially but soon found stability later on. My parents were heavily involved in the church and It was the place I knew community in as I was homeschooled for most of my childhood. The church was a source of great comfort for me as I had profound experiences of pure love and acceptance while I dealt with shame in my childhood. This beautiful encounter of Grace altered how I saw myself and the world. I felt so much compassion and love for everyone around me. Alongside this experience, though, was the experience of a rigid religious perspective that did the opposite and created more shame and fear in my life. It took a long time before I could see this, and I even became a youth minister in the process, which gave me an even deeper understanding of the disfunction that can happen in church. I spent a long time learning how to separate my pure experience from the dogmatic view religion gave me, but in the end I feel totally free from the religious element and connected even deeper to my inner being and The Great Mystery some might call God. Church trauma is unique in that individuals can send messages that you shouldn’t trust your instinct, your body, and your intuition, but it comes with a bent that these are messages from the ultimate source of truth. It can mess with you. My mission is to connect people back to their childlike state where they were naturally exactly who they are, without the programming that takes place in those formative years that alter our ability to be connected to our origin. The connection we have with others, nature, and the Divine goes far deeper than we could ever imagine.

I struggled with a chronic health condition off and on my whole life, and have learned how to care for my body from it. It’s incredible what pain does to wake us up. I denied the pain for so long, wishing I was normal, but when I finally came to terms with it and listened to what my body was trying to tell me I was able to find a deeper love for myself and compassion for others suffering. We now know that chronic illness is often associated with early childhood developmental trauma. As I have healed the wounds of my early childhood, my symptoms have exponentially improved. Now I help people struggling with chronic health conditions do the same.