Our Team
This work is held by people who practice what they offer.
We are not here to fix, diagnose, or direct your inner life.
We are here to notice, listen, and stay.
The Staying Practice is shaped through lived experience, clinical training, and years of learning how to remain present with discomfort, uncertainty, and emotion. This work began personally and continues relationally.
Our approach is grounded in respect for the nervous system, compassion for protective strategies, and trust in the body’s intelligence.
This is not expertise over your experience.
It is companionship within it.
Andrew W. Seefeld, MD
I am an emergency physician and addiction medicine specialist working at the intersection of crisis, recovery, and human resilience.
My work is grounded in the understanding that people are not broken. They adapt. What we often call symptoms are intelligent responses to overwhelming experiences, unmet needs, or unsafe environments. These strategies help people survive. Over time, they can also keep people disconnected from themselves, from others, and from the places where real healing happens.
The Staying Practice grew out of both clinical work and lived experience. It is about learning how to stay present with experience long enough for awareness, choice, and connection to emerge.
I believe meaningful change does not happen through pressure or insight alone. It happens through relationship, pacing, and respect for the nervous system.
In this space, I do not position myself as an expert over your inner life. I work alongside people who are curious about another way of relating to themselves. One rooted in honesty, steadiness, and care.
I am the author of The Fire I Fed: From Ashes to Awareness, which reflects many of these themes.
Founder
I am a registered nurse whose work centers on nourishment, thoughtful therapies, and a return to the rhythms of the natural world.
I’m drawn to prevention and to supporting the body early, before deeper imbalance develops.
I believe that when the body is supported, healing unfolds naturally, in its own time.