Amanda James
Most of the women I work with have already tried to fix this from the mind.
They’ve read the books. They’ve done the talk therapy. They understand their patterns and yet they’re still living in self-abandonment, still contorting for connection, still stuck in the same relational loops.
That was my experience too.
For a long time, I believed that if I could just understand myself better, things would change. But insight didn’t stop the pattern. What finally did was learning to work with the body because that’s where survival identities are formed and where self-abandonment actually lives.
As I began listening to my body instead of overriding it, everything transformed. I learned to recognize the tightening, the freeze, the urge to stay agreeable or small not as something to fix, but as information. Over time, this work dismantled the survival-based identity I had been living from and helped me rebuild a sovereign sense of self.
I became a coach because I saw how many women were living the same way I had, shaping themselves around approval and relational survival, disconnected from their own truth. I felt called to create a space where women could reconnect with themselves in a way they were never taught to: through the body, through their individual truth and through self-belonging.
My deeper why is simple. I want women to have a place to reclaim their desires, their voice and their embodied truth so they can stop shrinking and start living from wholeness.
Today, I support women through trauma-informed, body-based identity work that meets them exactly where they are. No two bodies are the same, so no two sessions are either. The goal isn’t self-improvement, it’s learning how to live without leaving yourself behind.
Regulation and pleasure are the raw fabric of a meaningful life.
When the body feels safe, it can finally soften into aliveness.
My Approach
My approach starts with a simple truth: your body already knows what’s real.
In our work together, we don’t override that. We listen to it. Sensation leads. Breath, pacing, and permission matter. The body becomes the reference point not the story, not the analysis, not what you think should be true.
Most of the patterns we struggle with formed in survival. The body learned how to stay safe, connected, or chosen long before there was language for it. My work supports the shift from living out of those survival strategies to living from sovereignty, where your choices come from self-trust instead of self-abandonment.
Shame often sits at the center of this. Not as something to push through, but as something that developed for a reason. When the parts of you that were exiled for being “too much,” “not enough,” or “unsafe” are allowed to speak, something shifts. Those parts aren’t broken — they’re usually longing for contact, agency, and belonging.
This is how authentic identity gets rebuilt. Not by deciding who you want to be, but by listening to who your body already is.
Our work may include:
Grounding and somatic awareness
Nervous system support and resourcing
Trauma integration and sequencing
Boundary building
These aren’t concepts. They’re practices that create more choice, more clarity, and more internal authority.
Whether you’re carrying unresolved trauma, navigating motherhood, feeling disconnected from yourself, or wanting a more honest relationship with your sexuality, this is a space where your whole self is welcome. The parts that feel shut down. The parts that want more. The parts that learned to survive.
My role isn’t to tell you who you are. It’s to help you trust what your body is already saying, so you can live from self-belonging, intention, and a sense of sovereignty that doesn’t require force.
You don’t need to become someone else.
You need a body you can trust again.
Let’s start there.
Holistic Healing & Wellness
ACSB CERTIFIED SOMATIC INTIMACY COACH & SEXOLOGIST
Institute of Relational Harmony
ACSB CERTIFIED SEXOLOGICAL BODYWORKER (in training)
Institute of Relational Harmony
SHAPESHIFTER FACILITATOR TRAINING (in training)
Madelyn Moon
SACRED THEATER SOMATICS™ (in training)
Madelyn Moon
REIKI PRACTITIONER TRAINING L1 & L2
Root Alchemy Institute
YIN YOGA TEACHER TRAINING
The Yoga Cave
