The Process of Coming Home to Yourself

Embark on a transformative journey toward self-awareness and authentic living. "Going BareFoot" is the process of shedding emotional masks and facing the deepest parts of who you are.

Self-love is an unconditional love. It takes nurturing the mind, the body, and the soul

All of Anna's work is rooted in one simple truth: healing is not a destination. It is a daily practice. Like massaging scar tissue, you don't cure it, but with consistent, loving attention, it moves freely again. The same is true of our minds and our souls.

Anna is also currently writing Going Barefoot: A Spiritwoven Path — a book about this very journey, with the practices and framework she used to find her way back to herself. Releasing Winter 2026.

Three Doorways

Whether you enter through the Mind, the Body, or the Soul — all three paths lead to the same place: you. Fully, authentically, and lovingly Y O U.

From the Inside Out

This is not therapy, though it can feel deeply therapeutic. Anna works as a self-care coach, not a licensed mental health professional. For clinical mental health support, please seek a licensed therapist. The Mind work is a guided process of becoming honest with yourself — not the self shaped entirely by fear, habit, or someone else's expectations — but the self underneath all of that.

We all have an inner critic and it isn't necessarily your enemy. It is the part of you that learned to speak that way as a form of protection. A warning system of sorts to 'behave' or something bad will happen. It may have served us while we were young or going through trauma but as we grow older, that protector becomes a prison guard and its main tool is our nervous system. The deepest part of this healing is learning to support your nervous system, because it has been conditioned to chaos and stress. When you understand that this is where everything starts, everything starts to change.

Through 1-on-1 sessions — virtual or over coffee/tea — we slow down enough to actually hear what's been running in the background. The thought loops. The patterns. The places you keep getting stuck.

Topics We Explore Together

Therapeutic Touch as a Path to Healing

Anna has been a Licensed Massage Therapist for over 14 years, specializing in deep tissue work, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, scar tissue release, and cupping therapy. Her work is result-oriented and transformative — sometimes intense, always intentional, and always worth it.

Bodywork at Dragonfly Rose is never just physical. Every session is an invitation to come back into your body and to feel what's been held there. To breathe into what's been tight, and to leave a little more at home in yourself than when you arrived.

All massage sessions held at Connected LLC, Manchester, Maine. Breathwork & meditation available in person or virtually.

Body Work & Breath Work

Breath Is the Anchor to Now

Your breath is the only function of the body that is both automatic and conscious. Learning to breathe with intention is one of the simplest and most profound things you can do for your own nervous system regulation. Available as standalone virtual or in-person sessions.

Back to Yourself

The Soul work is the most personal of the three pillars. It doesn't look the same for any two people — because what reconnects one person to their essence is completely different from what reconnects another.

For some it's photography — seeing themselves clearly through a lens for the first time. For some it's writing, movement, painting, singing, hiking, or sitting in nature. For some it's learning to notice synchronicities, symbols, and the quiet language their own intuition speaks. I call these practices your Toolbelt. They are the practices and activities that you do just for you.

All of this is woven together in Anna's book Going Barefoot: A Spiritwoven Path, releasing Winter 2026. The Soul work on this page is a living preview of those teachings.

Finding Your Way Back

These practices are drawn from Anna's forthcoming book. They are not about adding more to your to-do list. They are about learning to hear what is already speaking — in your body, your patterns, your dreams, your daily life.

Not Three Separate Paths.
One Whole Journey.

Most healing work addresses one thing at a time — talk for the mind, massage for the body, spirituality for the soul. And all of those things have value. But integration asks a different question: what happens when all three are working together?

When you do mind work and your nervous system is simultaneously being regulated through bodywork, the mental shifts go deeper and stick longer. When your body is releasing held tension, your soul practices have more room to breathe. When your creative fire is lit, your mind softens its grip.

The Integrated You path brings everything together into a single, cohesive journey home to yourself. This is not a rigid program. It is a living, responsive, practice shaped around exactly who you are and where you are right now.

• ✓   Grounded in who you actually are
• ✓   No longer at war with yourself
• ✓   Capable of setting boundaries without guilt
• ✓   Able to choose yourself, again and again
• ✓   Home in yourself — maybe for the first time

Anna Marie Thomas

I am a Licensed Massage Therapist, a self-care coach, a photographer, a writer, a mother, and a woman who has been through a great deal and came out the other side of all of it not just intact, but genuinely in love with herself and her life.

All of my work is rooted in one simple truth: healing is not a destination. It is a daily practice. I am not a coach who read the books and decided to teach. I am a coach who lived the curriculum and kept coming back to herself, over and over again, until I knew the way home by heart.

The Story That Shaped Everything

I was born June 7th, 1983 in Southern California. I grew up in a home where love and violence were tangled together in ways that took me decades to understand and untangle. I grew up being told I was worthless. I grew up not knowing what safetly or love felt like. I don't remember much before I was 10 but I can see the conditioning.

A week before my 11th birthday, my stepfather violated me. I told my fourth-grade teacher what my stepfather had done to me and she was the only person who believed me. She is one of the superheroes of my childhood. I was taken from my home that day. This one singular moment told me that my voice was wrong and that if I spoke my truth I would be punished. Going into foster care turned out to be one of the greatest gifts I was ever given, even though it didn't feel like it at the time. I was with the most amazing family for 3 years before they put me back into the custody of my mother and stepfather. My foster family taught me how to heal through art and music. They showed me what a loving family looked and felt like. For that I will forever be grateful because it placed seeds that slowly grew through the rest of my life.

I grew up with the belief that I was worthless and deserved nothing. That belief shaped every relationship I walked into for the next thirty years. I stayed when I should have left. I gave until I was hollow. When I left my second marriage it was because I had reached a point where I didn't want to be alive anymore. I left to save myself, and that distinction matters enormously to me now.

Coming Back to Myself

I spent an entire year after my second divorce doing genuine work. Not performative wellness rituals — actually sitting with everything I had been running from. This is where I began learning how to love myself. Even the parts I was ashamed of. The parts I was told were too much.

Something deeply profound happened when I turned 40. Everything I had been doing — all the work, all the healing, all the slow daily practices of choosing myself — began melding into place. I looked in the mirror and genuinely loved what I saw. Not just physically, but on a soul level.

I became a Licensed Massage Therapist in 2011, not because it was a practical career choice, but because I understood in my bones what it meant to carry pain in your body, and I wanted to help people release it.

Where I Am Today

I am the happiest I have ever been. Not because my life is easy — most the time it is not. But because I finally know who I am, and I like her. I more than like her, I love her completely.

I am a mother to my two beautiful children, a massage therapist who has been doing this work for over 14 years, and a coach who works with people who are done surviving and ready to thrive. I am also currently writing Going Barefoot: A Spiritwoven Path — releasing Winter 2026.

I more often than not feel like an alien — like I don't really fit anywhere. But I have stopped needing the world to understand me. I have started building a world that fits me instead. And I will help you discover the world that you want to build for yourself.