The Patterns That Once Protected You May Now Be Keeping You Stuck
You may already know what you want to change.
And still find yourself repeating the same patterns.
Saying yes when you mean no.
Taking care of everyone before yourself.
Avoiding the conversation.
Working harder.
Keeping the peace.
Doubting yourself.
Reaching for something outside yourself to feel better.
These patterns aren't flaws or bad habits. They were learned — often long before you realized you were learning them.
My work helps you uncover the patterns keeping you stuck, understand what they have been protecting, and create new ways of responding that give you more choice, freedom, and trust in yourself.
Your Patterns Are Not Flaws
The ways you've learned to protect yourself, belong, stay safe, be loved, or get your needs met didn't appear out of nowhere.
They were learned.
Some may have served you beautifully at another time in your life.
But what once protected you can eventually become the very thing keeping you from the freedom, relationships, confidence, intimacy, and life you want now.
You don't need to become a different woman.
You need the freedom to choose differently.
My work helps you uncover the patterns keeping you stuck, understand what they have been protecting, and create new ways of responding with more choice, freedom, and trust in yourself.
Sometimes we begin through conversation and coaching.
Sometimes we begin with the body through Ishtara.
And sometimes we work with both.
“Nicole is always willing to go to the deepest places in herself and bring her own unconditional love to whatever she finds there. That willingness is rare.”
— Tracy, Creator of Ishtara®
We Can Work With the Story — and the Body
For years, I believed that if I could understand myself deeply enough, I could change myself.
Understanding mattered.
But I eventually discovered there were places thinking alone couldn't reach.
The body remembers.
It responds before the thinking mind has time to explain. It can reveal what we need, what we fear, what we protect, what we long for — and what may still be unfinished.
This is why my work brings together coaching and a body-based method called Ishtara®.
Sometimes we begin with conversation.
Sometimes we begin with the body.
Sometimes we work with both.
There isn't one right doorway.
There is the doorway that's right for you.
Sometimes we begin with conversation.
Sometimes we begin with the body.
Sometimes we work with both.
Ways to Work With Me
“I’ve become much better at recognizing old patterns as they’re happening, understanding where my reactions come from, and choosing how I want to respond rather than simply operating on autopilot.”
— Mike, Coaching Client
LIBERATION
A 12-Week Private Coaching Journey
For the woman ready to understand what's been keeping her stuck — and begin choosing differently.
Liberation is deeply personal, one-to-one coaching.
Together, we look beneath the problem you're trying to solve and become curious about the patterns underneath it.
The relationships.
The roles you've taken on.
The things you tolerate.
The needs you've learned to silence.
The stories you've carried about who you need to be.
The ways you protect yourself without even realizing you're doing it.
Our work isn't about fixing you.
It's about helping you see yourself clearly enough that you have choices where you once had patterns.
Over 12 weeks, our work may explore:
• Safety & Trust
• Autonomy & Power
• Belonging & Identity
• Sexuality & Freedom
• Love & Intimacy
We follow what is alive in your life rather than forcing your experience into a formula.
Liberation Includes
12 weeks of private coaching
Weekly 60-minute sessions
Personalized practices and reflections
Support integrating what you discover into your everyday life
Investment: $1,800 CAD
From my very first class, I felt an indescribable sense of safety. My body finally had a place to heal. With Nicole's intuitive guidance, thoughtful framing, and deep presence, I was able to move through decades of trauma and come home to myself.
I am forever grateful to Nicole for helping me reconnect with myself and my life. Thank you beyond words."
Meg Rossi - Long-time Ishtara Practictioner
ISHTARA®
When Understanding Isn't Enough, We Invite the Body Into the Conversation
Ishtara is a science-supported, body-based method for healing yourself with a 15-minute movement practice you can learn at home.
You don't need to know how to dance.
You don't need to be flexible.
And you don't need to perform.
You simply need a body.
Through movement, music, witnessing, and practice, we begin listening to the body's language.
You may discover needs you didn't know you had.
Feel boundaries you couldn't think your way into.
Experience anger, pleasure, grief, power, tenderness, safety, desire, or joy differently.
And begin changing patterns your body has been carrying for years.
The body doesn't need to be controlled. It needs to be heard.
Ishtara gives us another way to listen.
The 12-Week Ishtara Method Training
Over 12 weeks, you'll learn both Body Story and Body Personality, giving you a deeper understanding of your body's language and a practice you can continue using long after our time together.
This isn't about getting movement "right."
It's about becoming curious about what your body already knows.
Through repetition, practice, witnessing, coaching, and the experience of being held within a small group of women, you'll begin developing a different relationship with yourself — one rooted in listening rather than overriding.
12 weeks | Small group | Maximum 6 women
Investment: $1,776 CAD
Flexible payment options available.
Curious, but not ready for 12 weeks?
Come experience the work for yourself at a Complimentary Introduction to Ishtara®.
No experience is necessary. All women are welcome.
THE RETURN
Coaching + Ishtara®
The story.
The body.
The woman as a whole.
For the woman who wants to work with both the story and the body.
Sometimes we can see the pattern clearly.
We understand exactly why we do what we do.
And still — the pattern remains.
The Return brings together my two bodies of work: private coaching and Ishtara.
In our coaching conversations, we uncover the beliefs, stories, relationships, choices, and patterns shaping your life.
Through Ishtara, we give the body a place in that conversation too.
Together, these approaches allow us to work with what you know consciously and what your body may still be carrying.
The goal isn't endless self-improvement.
It's greater freedom to be fully yourself.
The Return Includes
12 weeks of private Liberation coaching
12 weeks of Ishtara Body Story + Body Personality
Six months of supported exploration, practice, and integration
Investment: $3,576 CAD
RECOVERY COACHING
Recovery Can Be More Than Not Drinking
Getting sober changed my life.
But eventually I discovered that removing alcohol wasn't the end of my healing.
It was the beginning.
Without the thing I had used to cope, soothe, escape, connect, celebrate, numb, and survive, I had the opportunity to discover what had been underneath it.
Recovery coaching gives us a private place to explore not only your relationship with alcohol, but your relationship with yourself.
The patterns.
The needs.
The relationships.
The boundaries.
The identity you're discovering without alcohol.
Whether you're questioning your drinking, newly sober, or years into recovery and wondering what now?, you don't have to figure it out alone.
Recovery isn't only about what you leave behind.
It's also about the life you get to create.
Maybe You Don't Know Which Way to Begin
That's completely okay.
You don't need to diagnose yourself.
You don't need to know which program you need.
And you certainly don't need to have your life figured out before we talk.
Come as you are.
We'll talk about what's happening in your life, what keeps repeating, what you want to change, and what you're longing for instead.
Then we'll explore whether working together — and which way of working together — feels right.
No pressure. No fixing. Just a conversation.
We'll talk about what's repeating, what you want instead, and where we might begin.
You Are Not the Pattern
This may be the thing I most want you to know.
The pattern isn't who you are.
The overgiving isn't who you are.
The silence isn't who you are.
The perfectionism isn't who you are.
The numbing isn't who you are.
The woman underneath all of that has always been there.
My work is about helping you uncover what's been keeping you stuck so you can create more freedom in your life — through coaching and a body-based method called Ishtara®.
You don't need to become someone new.
You get to come home to more of who you already are.