Sofia Health
Kathryn Bumgarner
Mindfulness for Tinnitus
Calm and Centered: Relief from Tinnitus through Mindfulness and Breathwork. In this class, we will explore together methods that will offer relief from "ringing in the ears", trusting our bodies' innate wisdom and healing. I personally experience this "ringing in the ears". Each year I share with my primary care practitioner that my only complaint is this constant "ringing in my ears", which seems to be getting worse. I hear that there is nothing that can be done for tinnitus. As this has progressively worsened, needing to wear hearing aides, but still having difficulty with concentration and hearing conversations, I began doing some research. I discovered that mostly due to my years of yoga and mindfulness practice, as well as teacher of trauma sensitive yoga and meditation in Military Communities I do not suffer as many do, even to the point of suicide. Suicide.
With years of participating in Veterans and Service-Members events, addressing the suicide rate of Veterans, and returning service members, I am bringing what I have learned and experienced to the support those who suffer from Tinnitus. I am meeting many Vets who are experiencing tinnitus as a result of their Military experience. With my research I have discovered the relationship between tinnitus and Post Traumatic Stress. Tinnitus Distress is a product not of the sound of our tinnitus but of the way our body and our mind are responding to the sound. I offer this mindfulness class as an affirmation that there is something that can be done to help those experiencing tinnitus, from maybe a simple slight annoyance, to being a source of trauma experienced in the body and debilitation.
Intrinsic Health Coach
Thomas Huebl Practice Group Leader for Transparent Communication
Trauma Recovery Leadership Coach
Warriors at Ease Certified Teacher in Military Communities
Registered Yoga Teacher 200
My journey has not been a series of deliberate choices, but a path that has unfolded through the culture, family, and time into which I was born. I have experienced it less as something I do, and more as something happening through me. A quiet unfolding—marked by signs, openings, and people who appear at the exact right moment. My work has been to stay aware, to listen, and to say yes when the next step presents itself.
I walk alongside suffering—not to fix or rescue—but to attune, to hold, and to invite integration. My mission is to shepherd individuals and communities through trauma recovery, toward the creation of legacies that elevate humanity into greater coherence, harmony, and health.
Healing is not something we impose from outside. It is intrinsic to the body’s design. The body remembers wholeness. It is all-knowingness and love.
I am a Certified Intrinsic Health Coach, Trauma Recovery Coach, Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and Certified Warriors at Ease (WAE) Teacher. With over 40 years in nursing—23 of those in hospice and palliative care—I now support leaders and care providers in remembering their innate wholeness and integrating trauma in ways that bring forth creativity, presence, and deep relational intelligence.
I see trauma recovery as a sacred process. My work weaves together trauma-sensitive yoga and meditation, Transparent Communication (Thomas Hübl), and the grounded principles of Trauma Recovery Coaching. Together, these practices support the metabolizing of trauma held in the body—restoring coherence and opening space for new life.
Compassion is never what exhausts us.
What many have come to call “compassion fatigue” is not the result of caring too much. Compassion, in its true form, is regenerative. It connects us to life. It is not the giving that depletes us—it is the unacknowledged, unintegrated trauma we carry that slowly drains our vitality.
We are not worn down by our compassion. We are worn down by the accumulation of unseen grief, unspoken sorrow, and the repeated crossing of our own boundaries in systems that rarely make space for integration, reflection, or rest.
This exhaustion—this sense of being overwhelmed, numb, or disconnected—is the body’s wise signal. It is saying: "It is time to come home. Time to metabolize what could not be held in the moment it occurred. Time to listen, to feel, and to restore coherence from within."
In my work, I do not treat compassion as the problem. I hold it as sacred evidence of your humanity. Together, we turn toward the deeper root of depletion—not to pathologize, but to gently unwind what the body has carried for far too long.
Healing begins not by caring less—but by integrating more.
Intrinsic Health Coaching invites a new paradigm—one that honors the body’s innate intelligence and its natural drive toward balance. In this approach, health is not the absence of symptoms, but the presence of vitality, coherence, and connection. We do not rush to fix. We listen. We follow what is emerging. We trust the body as a wise ecosystem, always reaching back toward its original harmony.
My path into trauma recovery catapulted while caring for Veterans at the end of life through the "We Honor Veterans" program. In those final days of life, I witnessed how undiagnosed PTSD manifested with only weeks to months to live. Traditional interventions for PTSD were not feasible. All that remained was presence, breath, and movement, the healing ground for a peaceful death.
As a Certified Practice Group Leader with Thomas Hübl, I now guide others in the practice of Transparent Communication—restoring coherence in relationship, in community, and in the field between us.
Trauma recovery is both personal and collective. And healing—real healing—is the threshold through which we remember how to serve, how to lead, and how to love.
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