For the past twenty years, Angela McKinney has been transforming people's lives, including her own, as a practitioner, educator, and somatic guide. Angela is an addiction recovery expert and speaker on habits, decision-making, and continuous growth. She has facilitated the development and implementation of more than 100 recovery and wellness programs and events across the country. She lives with her husband and two teenage sons in New Jersey.
My Story
I speak, write, and teach from a place of continued healing and thriving.
As a young woman, I trained to be a professional gymnast, dancer, and actress. However, childhood trauma stopped me from moving forward just as I achieved success. After battling my own addictions and hiding, I learned the untangle skills that led me to thrive and now offer them to you.
My trauma inspired me to become an expert in crisis intervention, addiction recovery, and the psychology of habit formation and to develop a 3-Step mind-body system, The Untangle Method™. I have drawn on the fields of biology, philosophy, psychology, the arts, and humanities to develop a deep understanding of how the body and mind recover from overwhelming experiences to flourish once again.
Media
Angela McKinney frequently speaks on Fragility & Resilience, Trauma & Healing, and Addiction & Transformation.
For a sample of her speaking, listen to or download her 60-minute audio workshop.
Angela has an innovative approach to thriving through utilizing our innate tools - nature, movement, storytelling, imagination, and untangling our stuck states through decluttering.
In her new book Untangle: How to Create Big Possibilities Through Small Changes (Imprint: DartFrog Blue, October 11, 2022, Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-956019-43-8, Paperback ISBN: 978-1-956019-41-4, Ebook ISBN: 978-1-956019-42-1, LCCN: 2022902846), Angela will show you how untangling “little stressors” will be your key to freedom.
Each section of the book is accompanied by experiences of real people who have worked with Angela. Exercises, reflections, and questions for readers will guide them to identify the tangled part that is reluctant to change to be able to move into the part that is hungry for change. Finally, she intertwines neuroscience and modern-day psychology with our innate tools of nature, imagination, poetry, rhythm, and somatic exercises to develop an “untangle practice” that takes us from shame and hiding to aliveness and thriving.
