Welcome
About Tricia and The Oak Institute
I'm a mother. A space holder. A lifelong noticer of things others miss.
I've spent the past two decades supporting humans in complex systems—parents, children, communities—especially where emotional truth lives beneath the surface.
I was trained in trauma-informed practice, reflective supervision, and somatic healing methods, including Hakomi and yoga. My foundation is grounded by secular teachings from a direct student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
I've founded and led a school rooted in nervous system care. I carry the quiet lineage of my Indigenous Irish ancestry—where the land, the seasons, and the sacred unseen guide how we listen, lead, and belong.
Living with dyslexia taught me how to think in patterns and feel what's unsaid. Motherhood taught me how to speak when no one else will.
This work has never been a straight line. It's been a devotion — to truth, to iteration, to following what's real even when it looked messy from the outside. The spiritual wasn't the starting point. It's what I found when I stopped running.
The methodology is proven. The path is yours.
I built The Oak Institute for those women walking deep paths — whether they asked for them or not.
The Oak Institute & The Steady Path
The Oak Institute exists to support women living with depth — carrying far more than most people ever see.
Here, you'll find quiet-but-powerful guidance to help you live from the inside out. Not by adding more. By returning to what's already true in you — and practicing it, gently, in real time. That's how it integrates.
The Landing is where it begins — a single, embodied practice for accessing your own inner knowing in real time. It's the heartbeat underneath everything we do here.
The Steady Path is the heart of Oak. A scaffolded journey that weaves nervous system care, emotional intelligence, and soul-level clarity — designed to help you walk with inner, fierce grace in a world that makes absolutely no sense, without abandoning yourself or your life in the process.
The work isn't the same for everyone. Some women start with The Landing alone. Some move through Steady Foundations first, building the ground beneath their feet. Others are ready for the full Steady Path — nine months of applying everything, living it, integrating it.
The container gets more explicitly sacred as you go deeper. That's by design.
Steady. Rooted. Yours.
I write over on Substack to make sense of what I’m living—slowly, honestly, and in real time.
It’s a space for reflection, not performance. Imperfect, on purpose.
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