Private coaching for overthinkers who want to feel free and joyful
The Aliveness Practice
A six-month coaching experience for people who want to feel alive and turned on by their aliveness.
You don't need another formula for how to live.
You need to become better at following your aliveness with courage.
The work beneath the visible problem
The symptoms vs the cause
You arrive because of stress, looming burnout, overthinking, people-pleasing, difficulty setting boundaries, lack of confidence, overworking.
These are often symptoms of something deeper:
You have become very good at overriding yourself.
- You analyse when you need to make a clear decision and move on.
- You say “yes” when you want to say no.
- You look outside yourself for answers before asking yourself what you want.
- You wait until stress becomes overwhelming before you allow yourself to rest.
- You understand your patterns but keep repeating them anyway.
In the Aliveness Practice we work on the cause, so you create a joyful and free life.
How we work
We include all of you in the conversation.
Your intellect is one of your biggest strengths and it’s not the most powerful source of information if you want to feel radiantly alive.
01 · NOTICE
Become aware of what is actually happening.
You notice thoughts, sensations, emotions, impulses and patterns as they are - not as the drama-filled stories you make up around them.
02 · DISCERN
Learn what the signals are telling you.
We practise distinguishing fear from danger, desire from obligation and discomfort from a genuine boundary.
03 · CHOOSE
Act with all of yourself present.
Speak, decide, ask, negotiate or wait from a place that includes both your intellect and your somatic experience.
What becomes possible
The change will be visible in your everyday living.
You decide with conviction.
You recognise when more analysis is useful and when it has become a way to avoid choosing.
You catch the “no” earlier.
You set clear boundaries around your time, space and energy.
You ask more cleanly.
For money, time, help, space, change without burying the request under an apology.
You recognise stress earlier.
Your body does not need to turn the volume all the way up before you pay attention.
You feel more at home in your life.
You feel more joyful, alive, loving, courageous and free.
You create calmness and peace.
You have the tools to create the experience you desire.
This is not a quick fix
You practice your new identity.
We are not rushing towards the perfect answer.
We notice. We get curious. We experiment.
Often your body understands something before your mind.
You anchor in the sensations and feelings of your new self through role-play and repetition.
6 Months Private coaching
A sustained space to become more yourself.
You will build a different relationship with yourself across real decisions, relationships, work, stress and everyday life.
We take the time to notice patterns, experiment with new responses, learn from what happens and repeat.
What becomes possible
"Maria has really taught me to feel and enjoy all the pleasure in my life—from a bite of a juicy mango to the yumminess of a yoga pose. I'm enjoying life more all around."
Selection
This is for you if
- You are self-aware, but insight alone has not changed your patterns.
- You are willing to be present with your emotions and the sensations in your body.
- You want more agency, not somebody to make your decisions for you.
- You are willing to experiment between sessions.
- You value honesty, responsibility and depth.
Probably not
- You want a rigid formula.
- You want somebody else to tell you what is right.
- You want feelings to become a reason to avoid taking action.
- You want insight without practising different behaviours.
- You need trauma treatment or clinical mental-health care rather than coaching.
Questions people ask
Before we work together.
I've already done therapy or coaching. Why would this be different?
This work puts much more attention on what is happening in your body, emotions and immediate experience—not only on explaining the problem intellectually.
Does this mean I should trust every feeling?
No. The goal is discernment. A feeling or body signal is information to investigate, not an automatic instruction to obey.
Is this therapy?
No. This is coaching. If you need trauma treatment or clinical mental-health care, this work is not a replacement for appropriate therapeutic support.
Do I need to know exactly what I want before we begin?
No. Curiosity is enough to begin. Part of the work is becoming clearer about what you actually want and learning to recognise your own answers.
The next step is a conversation
You don't have to know exactly what needs to change before we talk.
You just need to be curious enough to explore what might become possible when you stop overriding yourself.
In a Clarity Call, we'll explore where you are, what you want, what is currently holding you back and whether working together is the right next step for both of us.