Reclaim Yourself: a 6 Month Healing & Mentoring Partnership
understand your nervous system’s unique needs, get out of your head and learn body-based practices to process your triggers & past trauma so you can let go of anxiety and trust yourself again.
👋🏾 I’m Manisha
I’ve been a somatic practitioner for over 15 working privately with clients and students who are highly sensitive to help them slow down, quiet their minds, tune back into their bodies, and start to listen to their intuition again, without feeling overwhelmed by all the noise around them.
Many people who are highly sensitive are extra observant of the environment around them. They are more attuned to people’s feelings, moods, and even facial expressions. They take in a lot from their environment and may feel depleted more easily than others.. Because they are so attuned to others, they often anticipate other people’s needs, are more present and empathetic listeners.
Sound familiar?
When you’ve been oriented more outwards for as long as you can remember, it’s easy to keep your focus on other people and have forgotten how to tune into your own body for guidance.
You may also often be on the receiving end of people talking at you (versus to you), be easily affected by the moods and feelings of others and shape shift to make other people happy.
Instead of continuing to look to others for cues about yourself, it’s time to turn inwards to remember who you really are.
This may be challenging if you’ve experienced early trauma and looking outwards or being vigilant has protected you in some ways in the past… and if you’re a highly sensitive person, because you’re so attuned to people and situations around you,, trying to control what’s going on around you by making sure everyone else is ‘ok’ may be your way of keeping yourself feeling safe and secure.
We’ve all got coping mechanisms to help keep us feeling safe… humans are wired for survival so it makes sense!
Unfortunately, sometimes these coping mechanisms can go too far and create challenges for us in our relationships, work, and health.
This can look like:
- Avoiding saying no because you don’t want to disappoint or upset someone
- Feeling responsible for everyone and everything and feeling like you have to be the one to ‘fix’ it
- Anticipating everyone’s needs and ending up feeling depleted, taken for granted, or resentful
- Walking on eggshells or noticing you get anxious when people’s moods shift
- Staying small, being ‘agreeable,’ not wanting to rock the boat
- Frustration as so many of your relationships feel one-sided
- Dealing with health issues like migraines, stomach issues, auto-immune type symptoms
- Overthinking, perfectionism, control, and a low grade anxiety that feels like it’s part of your personality (even tho it’s not!)
I suspect you’ve been able to work around this for a long time – I bet you can read a room, tune into what people are feeling, and anticipate their needs.
This is one of your superpowers but when it’s ON all the time, it leads to a feeling of low grade anxiety and depletion especially when you’re not doing what you need to do to refuel your nervous system – and you’re not even sure how!
As a sensitive, empathic person myself, who overthinks like the best of them, I 💯 get the above and have done my share of work to understand why I’ve felt so depleted in certain environments or around specific people.
Not only have I studied the body, nervous system and trauma healing modalities (you can read more below about my experience), I really get this on a personal level… My sensitive nervous system always felt on edge and anxious until I learned what I needed to feel more grounded, centered, and connected to my body.
- I felt like it was my job to help people feel better if they were upset
- If I walked into a room filled with tension, I would want to figure out how to help
- I often felt extra cautious because I didn’t want to do or say anything ‘wrong’
I would feel so anxious if I sensed that other people felt upset or unsettled… it was ‘easier’ to put myself in the middle to try to fix it to avoid the conflict.
It took me years to learn that it doesn’t work this way – you can’t fix other people’s issues and getting in the middle only makes the overall problem worse.
And putting myself in the middle was really about me trying to control my anxiety – not about other people. I had to learn how to step back and learn how to sit with discomfort. My own and that of someone else.
That’s when you can truly feel free.
You can then express what you really think, need and want because you know that you can handle it when someone disagrees with you – or gets upset.
You don’t feel like you have to fix everything anymore.
Once I made those connections and focused on shifting some deeply ingrained patterns, my relationships changed for the better. I took responsibility for what was mine and communicated what I needed from others more confidently. There was less confusion, assumptions and resentment.
Without realizing it, you may be bringing your past experiences into your current relationship.
Unresolved issues in early relationships, dynamics with parents and siblings, and experiences that felt traumatic (trauma with a small ‘t’ has a huge impact on us) can creep into your relationship when they are unconscious.
You —
- feel extra sensitive in difficult conversations
- stay quiet when you actually want to speak up
- freeze or overreact in tense situations and then regret it later
- hesitate to ask for what you need
I’ve known Manisha for 10 years and reconnected with her more recently for support when I was totally overwhelmed by stress and burnout. The support I’ve received has been so much more than I imagined.
Every single session has been incredible in its own way. The biggest breakthrough for me was realizing that my habit of compartmentalizing wasn’t helping me grow as a whole person. This work helped me bring awareness & light to deeply buried emotions that I really needed to process to finally move forward.
I am so grateful for her kindness, expertise, and special gifts. This experience has been pivotal to my progress, and I’m already looking forward to my next session!
Maybe you had experiences as a child where you got in trouble for speaking up. You might have grown up in a chaotic household where it felt safer to do as you were told and not bring attention to yourself. There may not have been an adult who could tune into your level of sensitivity so you didn’t feel understood even when you tried to express yourself.
There are many reasons why our needs can go unmet… but if we don’t acknowledge that on some level, our adult relationships suffer if we try to get these needs met by our partners, friends or even children.
The mind-body connection is real.
If you identify as someone who is highly sensitive or an empath, then in my experience, the mental work (i.e. mindset, talk therapy) will only get you partially there. Awareness is the first part.
Learning how to soothe and regulate your nervous system when you’re upset, overwhelmed or triggered requires that you learn how to tend to your body.
This is the real magic of somatic or body based work. You get to connect to your body in a gentle way and heal the impacts of past difficulties or early trauma you may have experienced that led to people-pleasing and overgiving patterns in the first place.
Personally, somatic work has been the key for me. My mind took me far but for me to feel more settled, learn how to process my emotions so I could speak up for myself and not feel overly anxious when I had to deal with a difficult situation was 100% the result of me learning how to work with and heal my nervous system.
This work has been truly life changing for me and it’s why I love supporting others on their path as well.
Over the course of the six months mentorship, we will explore:
- how your past experiences, early challenges/unresolved trauma are impacting your ability to take up space, speak up, feel worthy, and show up with confidence in your relationships, work, friendships, as well as the impact on your health and well-being
- body based healing modalities to process unresolved experiences/ past trauma so you’re not longer triggered or reactive and you can approach people and situations from a more grounded, clear place
- ways to rebuild your sense of self, learn to trust (instead of minimize) your feelings, and expressing yourself more authentically in a way that aligns with your values
You no longer need to trade in parts of yourself to feel connected or to feel like you belong. When you do the work to reconnect to your body, you connect back to your wisdom and intuition as well.
Relationships support healing. When you have the right support to help you process your life experiences, you’re rebuilding your inner foundation from the ground up and are able to release the old patterns and coping mechanisms you’ve been using to help keep you safe.
This process is highly individualized to your needs…no more piecing together advice from viral reels, podcasts, and self-help books hoping something will stick. You’ve got a partner on your journey now. We take everything you already know and heal what’s stopping you from putting it into practice.
Imagine yourself in six months time feeling like a completely different person (but more like yourself than ever before).
Ready to invest in 1:1 support to help you make the change?
We would be a good fit if:
- you’re on a path of personal development and have done some healing, therapy or coaching
- you’ve learned a lot about yourself through reading self-development books, listening to podcasts, etc, and while it’s been helpful, you’re not sure how to implement what you’re learning and you want the right 1:1 support
- practices like yoga, meditation, or other movement practices help you take the edge off but it feels temporary and still deal with overwhelm, anxiety, and have a hard time navigating triggers or conflict in your relationships
- realize that you need to go beyond talking about your challenges and want support to better understand your nervous system and how to work with triggers and past trauma that feel stuck in your body no matter how much you’ve worked with them
The logistics:
- In depth questionnaire prior to our initial call to help you focus on your desired outcomes during our time together
- Initial kick-off session (75 minutes) to identify 1-2 core patterns/issues keeping you stuck and establish the foundation for our work
- Ongoing sessions (17- 55 minute virtual sessions ~3 calls per month) – you’ll be guided through a combination of somatic modalities, coaching, and mentoring to help you process the past, shift the impact of past experiences/ trauma affecting your nervous system, and step into a lighter, clearer, more confident version of yourself
- Access to me in between sessions (M-F) via text for reflections and support so you can maintain momentum between sessions
- Curated resources and ‘homework’ shared after each session to support the integration
Investment:
8400 USD or
$1400 USD/monthly payments
The world needs more empathetic, compassionate humans to lead the way.
It would be my honor to support you!
Still with me?
There’s a good chance this program is exactly what you need!
Book a free consultation call below so we can connect, get your questions answered and make sure this is a good fit for what you need at this time. It’s so important to me to make sure we’re the right fit for this type of deep healing work.
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About Manisha
I’m a somatic healing practitioner and I’ve spent over two decades studying, practicing and teaching an array of somatic practices one on one and in groups.
While I didn’t realize it until years later, as someone with a sensitive nervous system, I’d always been drawn to practices that would help me feel grounded in my body. Over the years, I’ve studied yoga, meditation, craniosacral therapy, inner relationship focusing and the learning never ends.
The combination of learning how to slow down, be with my emotions, and navigate triggers using body based practices and studying attachment, nervous system physiology and relationship dynamics is what actually helped me engage in more fulfilling relationships.
Creating safe spaces and blending a variety of somatic modalities so people can process what’s keeping them anxious or repeating the same old (dysfunctional) patterns in relationships is the focus of my work.
I love spiritual practices and have studied and incorporated astrology into my client work for years, and I have a very grounded approach to healing as an occupational therapist, yoga teacher, and a constant student of the impacts of early traumatic experiences on our relationships.