What if you could reclaim midlife from a crisis to be managed into a catalyst for healing, inner peace and deep wisdom?
Hi, I’m Katarina. I help high-functioning women at the threshold of midlife who’ve been holding it together move from survival mode into vibrant health, joy and a life that feels meaningful to you.
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COACH - SOMATIC PRACTITIONER - EMBODIMENT TEACHER
Quietly longing to put it all down? Start here:
FREE MONTHLY SOMATIC SESSIONS
From overthinking to embodied grounding and presence: gentle nervous system reset
Simple, guided somatic practice sessions for high-functioning women in midlife who are exhausted by a busy mind and longing to feel more grounded and settled in their bodies - without telling yourself to calm.
The body-based practices help your nervous system find its way back to safety - fostering inner calm, building capacity and reducing overwhelm.
‘I left feeling more centred - and I could still feel the benefits unfolding for days afterward.’ - Masha M.
ABOUT KATARINA
When burnout found me at forty, I did what most high-functioning women do. I tried harder. I changed jobs. I moved cities. I added supplements, better routines, more discipline. I was doing all the right things - and still felt stuck, sad, and unwell.
It wasn't until I stumbled into an embodiment session online that something quietly shifted. Not dramatically. Not immediately. But something in my body recognised what my mind had been too busy to hear.
The problem was never that I wasn't doing enough. It was that my nervous system had never been taught that it was safe to stop.
I've spent the last seven years working with women like me -lawyers, consultants, finance directors, civil servants - who are highly capable, deeply empathetic, and quietly exhausted. Women who are one to two years past burnout, feeling stronger on the surface, but still disconnected from themselves in ways they can't quite name.
Many are navigating perimenopause and menopause - the point at which hormones no longer buffer the over-functioning that once made them successful. Their bodies are finally saying: not like this anymore.
WHO THIS IS FOR
It's time to stop being
everyone else's stress absorber.
You've been through burnout. It's been one or two years since. You're feeling stronger - but your life still looks great on paper while inside you feel exhausted and disconnected. You know you can't sustain the way you've lived.
Beneath it all, your body is quietly rebelling against a life that has demanded too much of you for too long. Your nervous system is strained under pressures it was never meant to hold alone.
You feel it in your body:
Fatigue that rest doesn't fix.
Anxiety that positive thinking doesn't shift.
Chronic pain, digestive issues or autoimmune conditions your doctor can't explain
You feel it in your soul:
The tension of saying yes when you mean no.
The longing to put it all down.
To finally be seen and cared for, not just endlessly fix others.
To stop searching for the next routine, technique or fix.
Behind the exhaustion and the symptoms is something you may not even be aware of - a nervous system that has been in survival mode for a very long time. This isn't a personal failing. It's a self-preservation pattern. And your body is craving connection, safety, rest and play.
4 Major Signs You're in Need of a Regulation Reset
‘Overwhelm’ is a consistent feeling in your day to day life.
No matter how much you try to organise, delegate or meditate, you can't seem to get out from underneath the feeling of being buried under all you have to do and that you'll never truly be able to learn how to relax or rest. Life feels like the same damn thing after another and you wonder if you'll ever feel ‘caught up’.
You're having trouble identifying and communicating what you need.
You know you don't feel good, but you're not sure what to do about it. You recognize you need a change, but you don't even know where to start. Maybe you've experienced a big shift in your life recently or things have been building up over the years, but you know you don't want to move forward like this.
‘Body, what body?’
You may recognise you have something connected to your head that’s been carrying you around all these years, but you don’t have a physiological connection and sensory reference for what that means. You feel disconnected, distant, or completely cut off from the experience your body is having, and the aches and pains that seem to be growing more present by the day you either ignore or push through.
Even the word ‘boundaries’ makes you feel sick, let alone the thought of setting them.
You know you need boundaries and you're starting to feel resentful of all the time and energy you give to others but have no idea how to put all the information you've read about on Instagram and in self-help books, into action. You know you can't keep operating at this level of over-giving and over-functioning but can't seem to figure out how to stop this runaway train...
Of course, when your nervous system is stuck in chronic survival mode, that permission to hold your boundaries feels elusive and threatening.
Instead of saying no or enough, staying with yourself when disappointing others, you end up locked up in the same loops of over-giving, saying yes when you mean no, appeasing and people pleasing - - and feeling drained, anxious and disconnected.
It's not your fault. And it's not due to a lack of knowledge, either.
It's your nervous system trying to protect you in the best way it knows how.
But it's ready to learn a new strategy, don't you think?
If you want a safe space to explore how to get out of survival mode and back into alignment so you can actually live the full, complex, evolving life you were meant for - book your free 30-minute call now.
CLIENT WORDS
What becomes possible.
‘I’ve been seeing a doctor for ten years for my Hashimoto’s, taking so many supplements and medication and nothing has helped my autoimmunity calm down as the work we have done on discharging stored stress and nervous system regulation…
I am amazed how stuck emotions in my body were causing this. I feel better, I sleep better, I don’t overeat, I don’t feel anxious anymore.’
- Nicola
‘I could never have imagined how just by bringing my attention to and noticing my body sensations for the first time was already going to bring me shifts in how I felt. It feels like being home and safe in my body for the first time.’
- Michaela
‘We've barely scratched the surface and I am already seeing a huge difference in myself just after two weeks… This feels like a huge cloud is lifting because in the past, despite eating well and exercising, I have found it really hard to shift anxiety and fully recover from burnout.’
- Kate