About Francesca Rose
Somatic Eating Disorder Recovery Coaching, Psychedelic Preparation & Integration, Trauma-Informed Embodiment Work
My healing began in an eating disorder inpatient clinic at age 18. Like many of the people I now support, I feared becoming my full self, staying small and compliant, convinced that expressing myself or taking up space would be dangerous.
What changed? I got tired of living a restricted story.
But recovery didn’t arrive through a single breakthrough. It came in mosaic pieces: through years of practice, the discomfort of growth, being witnessed in my vulnerability, time in nature, dancing through the sticky layers, and the insights of sacred plant medicine.
I came to see that healing stalls when it stays focused on symptom management.
Now, I understand healing and growth are processes of processes of unlearning inherited patterns, remembering the language of the body, grieving what was unmet, and gradually inhabiting the fullness of who we are.
Psychedelics have played a meaningful role in my recovery, helping me cultivate self-trust, emotional resilience, and a felt sense of worthiness beyond performance or appearance. They offered me a glimpse of who I was beneath the eating disorder and gave me the tools to build a new relationship with my body, rooted in reverence, curiosity, and compassion.
My own experience now shapes the way I support others—gently, at your pace, with care for safety and for the conditions your body needs to heal and thrive.
Today, I work with individuals and groups navigating body mistrust, emotional disconnection, and the fog of confusion that often accompanies both. My work is body-based, attachment-based, and nature-inspired — drawing on embodiment practices, sacred plant medicine, and somatic therapy to support the cyclical, organic, and courageous return to the body and self.
Whether we’re preparing for a psychedelic journey, remeeting the body through somatic practice, discussing avenues for eating disorder support, or disentangling from the grip of diet culture, the intention is the same: to support your return to clarity, agency, and embodied wholeness.
Background And Experience
I bring over 16 years of experience navigating eating disorder recovery, along with immersive training in somatics, psychedelics, movement, and nervous system healing.
Core Influences & Certifications
– Level 1 & 2 Embodied Eating Disorder Recovery (The Embodied Recovery Institute)
– Transilience: 6-month psychedelic coaching intensive
– Smart Body Smart Mind: nervous system healing and rewiring
– Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate (The Embody Lab)
– Addiction Recovery & Psychospiritual Integration Coaching (Being True To You)
– Conscious Dance Facilitator (Dance Awake)
– 400-hour Yoga Teacher Training (Reunion Yoga, Synergy, Budokon)
– Mindful Movement & Contact Improvisation Facilitator
Professional Roles & Practice
– Board member, The International Microdosing Institute
– Working with psychedelics and microdosing for healing and integration since 2017
– Anti-diet, trauma-informed, and HAES-sensitive
Education
– Postgraduate degree in Brand Strategy & Communications
My approach is shaped by ongoing study and direct experience with:
Polyvagal Theory, Buddhist philosophy, Somatic Experiencing®, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Body-Mind Centering®, animist psychology, ecopsychology, and mindfulness
What I Wish For Your Healing
May you stand in your worth and act from a place of dignity.
May you trust your body’s impulses and honour your inner voice.
May you express yourself freely and creatively, from your inspired heart.
May you rest without guilt, receive without shrinking, and allow yourself to be seen.
May you befriend every part of yourself, even the ones that feel hard to hold.
May you remember that who you are has always been enough.
May you offer yourself the nourishment you deserve.
May you celebrate how far you’ve come.
And may you come to know that you are the medicine you seek — and always have been.
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I am of Eastern European, Dutch, British, and Jewish Ashkenazi descent, and I grew up in Cape Town, South Africa.
As someone born on South African soil, I acknowledge that I live and work on land originally stewarded by the Khoisan and Bantu peoples. This awareness informs my relationship with place, ancestry, and the ongoing work of repair.
This landscape has shaped my own relationship with the body, belonging, and the unseen threads that connect us as humans to the wider world.
My pronouns are she/her.