Somatic embodiment for high-achieving women who want to slow down, reconnect with inner peace but struggle with over-functioning, the impact of chronic stress on their health and wellness that only scratches the surface.
Finally get to the root of what therapy, mindset, meditation and diets haven't solved.
Hi, I’m Katarina.
I help women reconnect with themselves through the body so they can move from stress and survival into vibrant health, presence & joy.
Nervous system-based work, integrative nutrition and somatic embodiment to repair your health and bring you home to yourself.
You’re here if you want to navigate change as you get older from a place of presence, inner peace and focus but you need help to stop stress manifesting in your body…
a constantly racing mind coupled with brain fog so you can’t think straight
struggling to shift anxiety so everything feels like a threat
bone-deep exhaustion that no amount of sleep can fix so you don’t feel like yourself
chronic tension your body physically can’t let go so you don’t move like you used to
‘mystery’ autoimmune conditions doctors can’t explain so you keep low to avoid flare ups
painful tummy from eating any food and cutting out everything you love is making you miserable...
I see you and I understand how you feel.
You may be at the backend of an exhausting career and years of working over capacity has left you feeling numb, fatigued and lethargic.
You’re looking for change and know what to do but can’t bring yourself to actually take action on the things that support you, you’re feeling stuck and overwhelmed.
You’ve realised that you're looking for answers outside of yourself all the time.
You know it's time to look within, but you need help as you don't know how to come back to yourself and where to start, worried that you might lose everything you’ve worked so hard for. (You won’t and if you do it will be by choice!)
You’ve tried everything to manage your stress, anxiety, time, energy, have a better work-life balance, take time off…
…but as soon as you’re around the kids or your partner need support or you’re on a new project, you’re triggered and overwhelm. There is little capacity for risk and growth.
And because you’ve been told over and over that managing is best it could get - when it comes to healing - you wouldn’t know where to begin.
From a young age we women are socialised to absorb everyone else's stress — praised for ignoring our own limits, conditioned by a culture that rewards over-giving and over-responsibility.
You built a successful life. But it’s built around pressure, urgency and chronic over-functioning — a web of invisible adaptations, not one obvious stressful event but a million tiny paper cuts over time.
Eventually, usually as we start to get older, the weight becomes too much for s system that’s not built for constant state of survival. The only way your body can communicate that depletion is through physical symptoms, and deep exhaustion.
THE DEEPER TRUTH
Chronic stress symptoms are not the problem — they are the messengers — the signs that you've been carrying more than your system was built to hold, for this long, alone.
Years, maybe decades, of accumulated stress live in your body:
Emotional and mental strain, poor sleep, malnourishment, toxic overload
Unresolved stress and conditioned thinking, keeping your nervous system in survival mode
A body that's learnt to brace and tense, rather than move through challenge with real resilience
This isn't your fault. Your nervous system has been doing exactly what it knows best to keep you alive and survive.
Healing means going to the root, at the level of the nervous system — not another surface-level fix. And I don't mean rehashing trauma, digging at root causes, or reliving your childhood.
I mean connection to the body through the good old-fashioned sensory input: felt sensation as the doorway back into your body. Your body already has what it takes to heal, repair and rebuild and you’re in the right place.
Hi, I’m Katarina Hunter.
I had everything - the degrees, the career, the relationship - ticked every box I thought would make me belong.
On the outside I was upbeat, strong and admired for my achievements - but on the inside I felt lost and disconnected.
As I started to get older my body was slowing me down through worrying chronic health issues. I was searching for solutions trying things for years, until I realised that fulfilment and health were an inside job.
Everything changed when I stumbled upon an embodiment session online - something profound was happening when I was working with my own nervous system. My physical health repaired in response to becoming more at home in my body. This became my life’s work and for 8 years I have been helping women to be in their body as a foundation to healing, empowerment and growth.
Healing starts in the body, not the mind.
Join Women’s Embodiment Practice Sessions to begin your journey…
Rest, Reconnect & Release stored stress and tension in the body.
Beneath the stress, the overthinking and constant striving is a part of you that wants to slow down and soften. Embodiment is a practice of coming back to her - more present, grounded and regulated. Self-regulation isn't something you achieve. It's something you practice.
Come once.
Then come as often as you like.
Your first session in free - use the code FIRST-FREE at checkout. After that it’s £22 a session, booked week by week. Come when it suits you.
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Free
ONE 90-MINUTE SESSION
A full 90-minute guided session
Small group - online
One practice to take home
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Nothing to prepare, and no commitment after
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Single session
£22
PER SESSION
One 90-minute guided group session
Small group - online
One practice to take home
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3 MONTHS PRIVATE
Private nervous system healing
Trauma healing & somatic embodiment coaching
Support between sessions
Access to resources and practices
Starts with a 30-minute call
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Calm Your Nervous System Using Your Sight
A 15-minute eye-orienting somato-sensory practice to cultivate felt sense of safety and calm chronic stress activation.
Where you look affects how you feel. We are going to be looking around the environment and stimulating our visual sense -- at the same time we are activating neural synapses within our brain.
Find a quiet space, listen in and tune into your environment to notice the regulating effects on your body, your nervous system state and your mood.
Navigating Silent Burnout: Women’s Hidden Struggle
Blog post
Do you find yourself going through the motions of your successful life while feeling increasingly hollow inside? Your friends call you resilient, your colleagues depend on your reliability, and everyone assumes you've got it all together. But inside, you're disconnected from what you actually feel or need.
But here's what makes this particularly challenging for high-functioning women: we've learned to override our body's signals. We've become so skilled at pushing through that we literally can't feel when something is wrong. We don't notice the early signs because we're disembodied.
Why Thinking Feels Safer Than Feeling
The Sensitive Professionals Podcast Interview
So many of us have learned to survive by staying in our heads - overthinking, analysing, planning, staying one step ahead. But what gets lost when thinking feels safer than feeling?
In this podcast interview we talked about why the mind starts to feel safer than the body – especially for sensitive women – and what it takes to gently come home to yourself.
Beyond People Pleasing
LinkedIn Live Dialogue
When ‘being nice’ starts to cost you your health, relationships and authenticity. Exploring the lesser-known nervous system survival strategy that shows up as being endlessly accommodating, agreeable, and emotionally attuned… until you’re burnt out, resentful, or quietly disappearing from yourself.