I came to this path the hard way.

By 2018, I’d already survived a lot. I’d lost my abusive ex-partner to suicide, lost all of my hair to an incurable autoimmune condition, was diagnosed with cPTSD, yet had a big open heart and a desire to help others.

Living in Colombia, having graduated with a degree Community Development, I founded a non profit that fed hundreds of people a week and was admired from the outside. But I would collapse after every event, exhausted for days. 

I wasn’t unwell, I was just… exhausted. Because no matter how much I gave, I could never quite fill the discomfort inside. 

So in 2018, I pivoted. I became a Certified Yoga Therapist and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapist. I thought maybe I just needed a different job — something more spacious, more sustainable.

So I started relationship coaching, and spent 40 hours a week sitting in the depths of grief, uncertainty and discomfort with humans navigating anxiety, OCD and difficulties with relationships. We dove in polarity, spirituality, tantra and the deeper parts of ourselves asking to be loved, and held, and seen, that are easy to ignore unless you’re in 1:1 therapy.

It was beautiful.

Until holding space for hundreds of humans during covid became too much, I burned out again and thought “oh, I will just nervous system hack my way to wellness!” 

I became a Certified Ayurveda Wellness Coach… hoping if I learned enough about balance, I could finally feel it.

But beneath it all was a nervous system still stuck in overfunctioning. Still trying to earn its right to rest.

When that didn’t work, I fixated outwardly and thought that if I could perfectionise my business (funnels, scaling, offer, team, mentors, courses), then I could get it right and feel at peace inside. 

Nope. 

It wasn’t until late 2022 that I finally surrendered to the truth: That no job, no new plan, no optimized funnel, no perfect co-founder…was ever going to give me access to a vibrant well of energy or a soft blanket of safety I was longing. 

My approach now includes a non pathologising combination of mind, body, spirit and science.

Modalities I incorporate include somatic parts work (internal family systems), mindfulness (from the lineage of Steffi Preiss), somatic attachment therapy, polyvagal theory, evolutionary psychology, and nervous system science. Of course, with a healthy dose of trust and wonder for the unknown side (spirit).

This approach has carried me through different countries, relationships, economic seasons, and creative cycles, and kept me happy and sane. I sleep well. I earn a sustainable income that ebbs and flows, but grows consistently and I’m in relationships where I feel securely attached. While hard days do come, I can find a deep, steady knowing from within. 

The life I’ve built is not proof that I’ve “figured it out.” It’s just evidence that something else is possible.

I can support you in moving through the fire and into your own clarity, but I am mindful not to teach you to see others are proof your life can work for you. No. You have been looking outside to others for answers for too long. 

I’m here to help you access your truth inside. You won’t be given a 5 step plan, or be encouraged to do anything that doesn’t feel quite right, even if you can’t explain it. 

Instead, you’ll be invited into the full spectrum:

Grief. Rage. Longing. Confusion. Power. Joy.

So, if you’ve tried all the tools and something still feels off…

And even if you’re sceptical, doubting and scared. 

Then perhaps that’s where we begin. 

🤍

Sheridan