Let me tell you a story…

about
The Woman Who Forgets Herself

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful woman,
who can hardly remember how it used to feel
to wake with anticipation instead of obligation,
to move because she wanted to, not because she had to,
to be held and actually feel the pleasure in it.

Because somewhere between
being the “good girl” when she was young,
and the standards of today…

she went quiet.

Not because she is no longer available to herself,
but because her body learned that to function at a high level,
it had to shut the door on pleasure & aliveness.

She has spent years doing what’s ‘right.’
What she ‘should’ be doing.

To feel “better,” she’s
read the books,
practiced gratitude (even when she didn’t feel much of it),
used the breathwork app…
but there’s still something missing.

She longs to just be herself,
instead of performing herself.

She wonders,
”What is this piece that feels gone?
I have a nice home, a beautiful family,
a good job, nice friends…
I should be happy.”

But she doesn’t realize
that this unsettled feeling
is her body’s way of whispering:

“I don’t feel safe here.”

Sound familiar?

The Science Beneath the Storm

If you relate to this story,
what’s happening inside you isn’t brokenness. It’s protection.
Your mind and body aren’t betraying you.
They’re trying to keep you moving.

When the nervous system gets stuck in survival mode
(what we call fight, flight, freeze, or fawn),
it can look like:
-over-functioning - I have to do it all
-hypervigilance
-irritability
-unexplained exhaustion
-the quiet belief “I’ll never be enough”

The system has coded in messages like:
”if I’m not perfect, I’ll be rejected”
”if I can’t do it all alone, I’ll be a failure”
”if I miss a step, I will be criticized”
”if I am simply me, I will not be accepted"

Stillness feels unsafe.
Connection feels risky.

The brain reroutes sensation away from pleasure toward performance.
The mind learns to analyze instead of feel.
The heart closes; not out of coldness,
but out of fear of rejection.

This is your magnificent brain doing its job to protect you from harm.

But without awareness of it,
it comes at a cost.

This is how women forget themselves.
How they go numb to the lives in front of them.

Not by choice,
but by adaptation.

In HER Rising, we gently rewire the body’s internal landscape.
We “rewrite the code” that equates safety with
silence, performance, and overachieving.

We invite the nervous system to instead expand its capacity for
emotion, connection, and pleasure.

Because once the body feels safe,
the authentic, true self -
the feminine,

can rise.