Week 1 – Mapping the Somatic Self
Every survival strategy leaves a trace in the body. This week, you’ll learn how those survival states shape identity—and begin to locate where your true Self lives beneath the patterns.

Week 2 – The Body Remembers, The Body Leads
Your body holds the stories your mind can’t always access. Through posture, movement, and sensation, you’ll discover how memory lives in the body—and how the body can guide you forward.

Week 3 – Protective Selves vs. Authentic Self
The ways you’ve learned to protect yourself were once necessary. Now, you’ll explore how to honor those strategies for what they are—and experience what it feels like to move from protection into connection.

Week 4 – The Self in Relationship
So often, survival mode takes over in connection with others. This week helps you notice how your body responds in relationship—and teaches you how to stay rooted in your Self without abandoning it.

Week 5 – The Body’s Yes and No
Clarity lives in your body. By rebuilding trust in your somatic boundaries, you’ll learn to hear and honor your body’s signals—your authentic Yes and your protective No.

Week 6 – Self Beyond Survival
Survival distorts reality. Here, you’ll experience how perception shifts when you step out of protection—and how clarity, compassion, and Self-leadership return when you live from your core.

Week 7 – Embodied Expression
Your authentic Self has a voice—and it lives in your body. Through somatic practices, you’ll begin to express your truth with presence, confidence, and freedom.

Week 8 – Integration: Becoming the Somatic Self
This final week brings it all together. You’ll weave the practices into your daily life so embodiment becomes more than a practice—it becomes who you are.

Are You Feeling Disconnected & Exhausted?

Always striving to meet external expectations?

Feeling like you’re stuck on an endless treadmill of “shoulds” and “musts”?

Exhausted from always being in your head, analyzing every moment of your life?

For only $700 for lifetime access to Connected Healing: Nervous System & Somatic Therapy, discover a new way to connect with your true self beyond overthinking and striving for others. Feel a sense of presence and peace within yourself, not based on performance or perfection.

HEY, I'M MELISSA!

MY LIFE’S CURRICULUM IS MY MOST HONORED CREDENTIAL.

I was under the belief I was not intelligent until my mid-twenties. Like many of my clients, it turns out my history of trauma meant my brain was not working to its potential. A lifetime of survival mode wreaked havoc on my mind and body. Back pain, anxiety, gastrointestinal distress, and depression waged war on my life, and often through thought and action, I waged war on myself. 

Like most of us, I believed getting healthier meant diet and exercise, so I became a Certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist. I helped hundreds of clients lose physical weight. I later realized it was the symbolic weight they could shed within a safe space that led to the biggest, most lasting transformations.

WHILE MY PHYSICAL BODY CHANGED, THE PAIN REMAINED, GASTROINTESTINAL DISTRESS BEGAN, AND THE INTERNAL WAR WAGED BY DIET CULTURE FESTERED.

In 2015, my son Cannon was born. I saw the world—and myself—in a different light. It was as if the callouses on my heart had been rubbed raw. I knew I had to do something about the internal wars I had been fighting. With a C-PTSD diagnosis and work in both traditional and complementary therapies, as well as a certification in yoga therapy and Asian bodywork, I began to heal in a way that was beyond intellectual understanding.

I learned that intellect is not the appropriate vehicle for healing.

I dedicated myself to understanding how the body stores trauma and how it can also hold the key to its release. My formal education includes a Master’s in Social Work and certifications in neuroscience, trauma healing, and somatic therapy, giving me the tools to guide others through deep, transformative healing. From my own experience, I know that true healing starts from the inside out. When we reconnect with our bodies and find safety within, the mind can begin to process and rewire old wounds.

In the work I do, I create a safe space for nervous system regulation, somatic healing, and parts work. We don’t try to force ourselves into a rigid healing framework. Instead, we focus on integrating these practices into everyday life—taking small, manageable steps that can be repeated often. This approach allows us to gradually shift our nervous system, release stored trauma, and foster healing in a way that feels natural and sustainable. It’s about embedding these practices into your routine, so healing happens alongside your life—not apart from it.

A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME, OFTEN.

Through my own journey, I’ve learned that healing isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about becoming aware of our inner world, befriending the parts of ourselves we’ve pushed away, and creating safety within ourselves. It’s about shedding the weight of old wounds and integrating healing into our daily lives—one small, intentional step at a time.

The answers aren’t outside of you. They’re within. As you become more connected with yourself and embrace the parts of you that have survived, you begin to heal, grow, and step into a life that feels truly aligned and fulfilling.

I WOULD LOVE TO HOLD A SAFE SPACE WITH YOU, AS YOU ARE.