Empowered Spaces

09/05/2026

Thank you, Gloria, for fighting to make this world a better place for women and LGBTQ+ people — at work, at home, and in every community.

May her memory be a blessing.

09/05/2026

It is such a privilege to host this powerful offering from The Angel Band Project. This is a free music therapy group for survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. Please help us spread the word so those who could benefit can find their way here.

If you live in the St. Louis area and have been impacted by the trauma associated with intimate partner violence, you are invited to join us for our newest survivor support group starting Sept. 22. Led by a board-certified music therapist, this free 8 week trauma-informed private program will offer activities such as songwriting, music making and more. Registration is required by Sept. 15. To sign up, scan the QR code above or contact Jenny Dodson-Weihl at [email protected] for questions.

09/01/2026

We were trained to move at the pace of the world.

It’s urgency, its endless demand that we override ourselves to keep up.

Trust doesn’t grow at that speed. It grows at the pace the body knows is needed.

Slowing down might be one of the more radical things we do.

For our own healing, and for the world we’re building together.

Where do you notice yourself overriding your own pace?

I’d love to know what your body asks for when you get slow enough to hear it.

with love and care,
Kelly

08/31/2026

I’ve opened registration for the fall session of Quieting the Storm, my teen therapy group for girls in high school, and wanted to share it here.

The teen years can be one of the loneliest stretches of life. Self-doubt, insecurity, overwhelming emotions, and that feeling that everyone else has it figured out.

Quieting the Storm is an inclusive space for girls in high school to show up exactly as they are, to connect with others who know what these years feels like, learn more about themselves, and experience the compassion and support that can grow when we don’t have to navigate these years alone.

This 12-week therapy group is trauma-informed and nervous system guided. We explore topics including identity, self-compassion, friendship, navigating challenging emotions, and care practices.

The fall session begins September 21.

I’ve had the privilege of leading this group for the past 18 years, and it remains some of the most meaningful work I do.

There is something really special about witnessing young people find their voice, discover more compassion for themselves, and realize they aren't alone.

I believe deeply in the power of young people having spaces where they can be witnessed, understood, and supported by one another.

If you know a teen or family who might benefit, I’d be so grateful if you would share this with them.

And to everyone who has referred a young person to me over the years, thank you. It means more than you know.

with care,
Kelly

https://www.kellycaul.com/therapy-groups

08/28/2026

Tuesday mornings, Gayla Downey holds space at Empowered Spaces for moving with your body rather than against it.

This is trauma-informed, somatic yoga: accessible movement, breath, and moments of stillness, offered with the understanding that every nervous system arrives differently.

Yoga to Support Trauma & Somatic Healing
is a trauma-informed, somatic practice — No experience needed and there’s nothing to “get right”. You choose what feels supportive.

You set the pace here, you can pause, rest, or simply notice, and you’re always the one who decides what feels supportive.

If you’re carrying stress, grief, burnout, or the weight of a big transition, this can be a gentle place to build a more compassionate relationship with your body and reconnect with a felt sense of steadiness.

Drop in any Tuesday from 9-10 AM, and feel free to pass this along to someone who could use a softer landing right now.

08/26/2026

The wellness industry has a favorite explanation for why we struggle, and it always circles back to us as the individual.

The “fix” is some version of managing yourself better, and when that doesn’t work, we are all conditioned to believe it’s because we didn’t try hard enough.

What I sit with in the therapy room is different. A body braced around survival is almost always responding to something real, to conditions that are genuinely too much, and with too little support to carry them.

What gets pathologized or seen as personal “dysfunction” is often a body telling the truth about a life that’s asking more of it than any one person can carry alone.

We cannot breathe our way out of these conditions.

There’s a grief that comes with being asked to soothe our own way through what was never survivable alone, and then feeling like we failed when it didn’t work. So much of what we’re taught to fix in ourselves was never ours to fix as an individual.

Our bodies settle in the presence of other bodies, in spaces built to hold us, and in the relief of not being alone with the weight of it all.

Prentis Hemphill has taught me to understand healing as something that happens in relationship, not in isolation.

That’s the work we’re tending at Empowered Spaces, making room for people to set down what they were never meant to carry by themselves.

If part of you has been living inside the first question, there’s room to set it down and sit with the second one here.

However much you’ve been holding on your own, you belong somewhere willing to help you carry it.

With love and solidarity,
Kelly

08/24/2026

Check out these amazing upcoming offerings from Gayla Grateful Heart Rituals, LLC❤️

Check out all of my upcoming events!
https://www.gratefulheartrituals.com/upcoming-events

All events are held at Empowered Spaces:
7602 Big Bend Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63119.

Learn more about the work we're doing: https://www.empoweredspaces.net/

08/24/2026

This is the power of showing up together. This is what happens when we are committed to taking care of each other.

Growth. Abundance. Healing. Love.

Yesterday we gathered in the Empowered Spaces community garden for a Garden Party - the term one of our members lovingly coined in replace of garden workday.

We harvested pears, apples, peppers, cucumbers, squash, herbs. - in total 490.5 pounds of food💜💜💜

All grown with love. All grown to share with our community.

So grateful to be in community with these amazing humans.

My heart is full.

With love and care
Kelly

❤️

08/20/2026

I am thrilled to share with you that Ash Green (they/them) Ash Green LMT is joining our Empowered Spaces Collective! Please join me and welcoming them!

Ash is a nonbinary, q***r, neurodivergent intuitive massage therapist, meditation guide, yoga sharer, and energy worker.

Since 2019 they have been living their passion for serving others by supporting folks in relaxation, self care, and tuning into the sacred wisdom all of our bodies hold.

As an intuitive guide, they combine their gifts of clairsentience, clairvoyance, and intuitive channeling with knowledge and skills from multiple paths and trainings to create unique healing sessions and share practices intended to support folks exactly where they are on their healing journey, whether that be on the massage table or during a group meditation over some singing bowls.

Ash started practicing yoga regularly at the recommendation of a therapist to help with depression & anxiety, and over thirteen years has gotten much more than they bargained for as the practiced revealed itself to be not just self care but a profound tool for personal and collective liberation.

Ash’s healing hot takes are that mobility & movement are not requirements to practice yoga,

that while your body keeps the score it holds more than trauma (joy, childlike wonder, love, wisdom, just to name a few),

and that you are meant to be so many better things than calm.

Ash has studied therapeutic and relaxation massage, MFR, (The Healing Arts Center, LMT), reiki (Reiki Master practitoner- Usui & Holy Fire), pranic healing, trauma informed care, sound healing (self taught), guided meditation, energy anatomy, and the teachings of yoga for spiritual development and social justice (Ignite Institute for Yogic Leadership and Social Change, CYI-300).

State gently tuned to learn about Ash’s upcoming offerings!