What do you want from your one life?
Somatic coaching and creative thought partnership for making choices, taking chances and moving toward what matters to you.
Bring whatever it is.
The half-formed idea. The change you can see clearly and don’t yet know how to move through. The feeling of being stuck in a career, or a life, you built carefully and well.
The thing you want and are embarrassed to want.
The decision that makes perfect logical sense and somehow feels off.
You don’t need a clear goal. We’ll start with what you’re circling, what keeps surfacing or what wakes you up at night, and see what it’s made of.
What are you beginning, becoming or letting go?
It might be a business, a new role, a changing relationship to work or a dream project that seems unreasonable. Maybe it’s a life that looks good on paper but doesn’t quite fit anymore.
Maybe you are carrying a vision, a responsibility or a decision that requires more than another round of thinking on your own.
It could be what you want the next year — or next decade — to be for.
Or the astonishing fact that you’re still here and you get to decide what to do with that.
“Working with Michelle was amazing — each session provided practical tools that encouraged deeper awareness and reflection. I’ve gained greater insight into where I experience blocks and learned how to use the tools we discussed to work through them and improve my overall quality of life.”
— LAUREN, PROJECT MANAGER
Fieldwork for Mortals
Fieldwork for Mortals is slow, careful attention to a whole life in the middle of change.
DESCRIBE THE EDGE
What is changing? Who are you becoming? What is beginning, ending, asking for attention or no longer possible to ignore? This is your threshold.
GATHER WHAT’S THERE
We look at the facts, constraints, stakes, desires, fears, histories, possibilities and what's happening in your body.
NOTICE THE PATTERNS
What happens under pressure? Do you override yourself, overthink, defer, rush, control, perform, disappear or delay?
DISCERN WHAT MATTERS
What do you know? What is old? What is fear? What is care? What is actually yours to choose?
ACT WITH COURAGE
We turn what you've found into a step you can feel good about. Then we tend to what emerges, with the attention of someone patiently watching a new seedling take root.
The Practical Details
Coaching sessions are private, 60 minutes and held on Zoom.
The monthly rhythm is three weekly sessions followed by a fallow period for reflection, integration and rest.
Some ideas need a few concentrated conversations. Others benefit from a thought partner who understands the terrain over time.
All coaching packages include between-session support, with replies within two business days.
Choose Your Engagement
CLEARING
One month · 3 sessions
$1,200
For a decision, possibility or problem that deserves more than another round of thinking on your own. We clear away what’s crowding it, look at what’s at stake, gather what your mind and body are noticing and find a next step you can stand behind.
SEASON
Three months · 9 sessions
$1,100/month — $3,300 total
For a transition in motion, when what you’re building and who you’re becoming are changing at the same time. One full season to notice the patterns that appear under pressure and practice new ways of being as the change unfolds.
CONFLUENCE
Six months · 18 sessions
$1,000/month — $6,000 total
For a longer arc of change, when the way you work, live, choose and see yourself is shifting all at once. We stay with it long enough to see what’s taking shape, sometimes in stillness and sometimes in motion, and let new ways of being find their true course.
Start Here
Book a free 15-minute exploratory call. Tell me a little about what's on your mind, and we'll see whether working together is a good fit.