I spent years saying yes when my body was screaming no. Every time, there was a signal—a tightening in my chest, a sinking in my gut, a sudden exhaustion I'd rationalize away. It wasn't until I started listening that I realized my body had been setting boundaries long before I had the words for it.

I spent most of my life treating my body's signals like interference—something to push through or distract myself from. It wasn't until someone asked me what my body needed that I realized I had no idea. Turns out, it had been trying to tell me something for years.

Most coaching asks what you think. Somatic coaching asks what your body already knows that your brain is busy filtering out. Here's what an actual session looks like—and why the first fifteen minutes aren't small talk.

I can't tell you what somatic coaching will do for you—that's genuinely not mine to predict. But I can tell you three things that tend to shape the experience before you even begin. One of them has nothing to do with the work itself.

For most of my life, I treated my body like a logistics problem. Hungry? Wait. Tired? Push through. It wasn't until someone asked me what my body needed that I realized I had no idea—and that the not-knowing wasn't personal. It was learned.