About
For the one who holds it all together
If you've spent years being the capable one, the one who remembers everything and says yes before checking in with yourself, you probably know a lot about why you do it. You may still feel it in your body every day, in the tiredness that sleep doesn't touch.
I know that from the inside. I grew up judged on performance, and I was a competitive athlete who lived in my head more than my body. After surgery for a tumor in my spinal cord, I had to tape a pencil to my hand to learn to draw and write again. Sitting there, I realized there was no way I could be "perfect again," even if I tried.
I never thought of myself as an artist. I was over 49 when I took my first painting and figure drawing classes, and it took me about two years to believe my teachers when they said I was one. If you've ever told yourself you're not the creative type, you're in good company. The paint made it possible to quiet my mind and let my body wisdom speak, and it gave me back the part of me that remembers how to make a mess without asking if it's good enough. Now I use my lack of dexterity to my advantage, because it gets me out of my head and into my right brain.
When we work together, you learn to remove the need to prove yourself as your inner motivation.
Working with me is gentle and unhurried, and you set the pace. There's no version of this where you're doing it wrong. I'm Michelle Hess, MA, RYT, CPC: poet, mixed media artist, subtle body coach, embodiment mentor, and yoga teacher.
