Nicole "Nikki" Ocean

Nicole “Nikki” Ocean is a peer recovery guide, retired executive, smooth jazz electronic fusion music artist, and former certified real estate instructor and coach who brings creativity, compassion, and lived experience into her work. She offers gentle recovery practices for people ready to move from surviving to truly living. Drawing from her long-term recovery journey with disordered eating, ARFID, OCD, complex trauma, chronic illness, and cancer survivorship, Nikki shares from a place of lived experience, curiosity, and compassion. She believes healing is not linear, and that safety, self-trust, and a meaningful life are built gently over time. Nikki shares personal experiments, practices, and shifts from her own recovery journey, offering insights into breakthroughs, discoveries, and tools that have helped her reconnect with herself and create a life beyond survival. As someone who is disabled and neurodivergent, Nikki integrates mindfulness, nervous system awareness, self-inquiry, and trauma-informed practices into her work. Her practices include seated yoga with breathwork, gentle stretching and Shikantaza meditation (a Zen practice of “just sitting” in awareness without striving or forcing), and reflective practices. Through her Insight Timer work, Nikki creates space for regulation, self-compassion, creativity, joy, gentle humor, and inner child play—helping people reconnect with ease, expression, and the parts of themselves they may have become disconnected from.

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