The old self was built for survival.

The Self underneath is built for truth.

Somatic coaching for founders, creatives, & executives.

$99 · 45 minutes · a written Baseline Map within 24 hours.

Shannon Myers, MS, SEP · In practice since 2011

Change is the work.

You have been understood before, and you are still running the same pattern. Not everything needs explaining. Some things need to stop.

Something is done in the room, not only discussed. What changes is not what you know. It is how much of you is still available when something triggers you.

Non-clinical coaching and somatic education. This is not therapy, and you do not have to do therapy first.

Start with a Clarity Call

$99 for 45 minutes. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days, whichever one you choose.

Nothing is charged when you book. The written Baseline Map arrives within 24 hours, whether or not you continue.

1. Book a time that works (opens in new tab).2. Meet Shannon for 45 minutes.3. Pay $99 after the call.

The Map holds four things: your dominant state, your patterns in your own words, one practice, and a recommendation.

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Not ready to book? Take the free nervous system check and see the pattern first.

In their own words

“I came in burned out and skeptical. Shannon helped me see that my nervous system was running the show -not my lack of discipline. The shift in my capacity to lead and be present has been remarkable.”
— SaaS Founder, The Aligned Work
“Working with Shannon gave me language and a body-based map for what I'd been experiencing for years. I stopped white-knuckling my way through life. The work is real, the results are lasting.”
— Operations Director, Integrative Somatic Coaching
“I had done years of traditional therapy. Nothing touched what one somatic session with Shannon reached. It wasn't about re-living the story -it was about finally releasing it from my body.”
— Agency Founder, The Aligned Work
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“Shannon has been a true beacon and guide during some very intense moments of my journey. I've left her space feeling empowered and reminded of my True Nature. Deep integration is offered here.”
— Zaria, Integrative Somatic Coaching
“What an amazing session! I think my procrastinator child feels loved and accepted and valued for the first time in my life. I have this seed of peace in myself now that I can nurture and grow. It is no longer something I am fighting against.”
— Tech Executive, Integrative Somatic Coaching
“The knowledge she has bestowed upon me through her selfless pursuit of us to self-heal has been astounding. Beyond. Quantum. She is a true healer. Her work is a one-stop-shop for ALL perspective shifts.”
— Wellness Practitioner, Integrative Somatic Coaching
“I feel like you really get me and I sense your genuine determination to help me move past being in pain and symptoms. Our interactions spark my hope. For the first time, I believe real change is possible -not just management.”
— Christina, Integrative Somatic Coaching
“Shannon helped me integrate a spiritual opening that had left me destabilized for months. She brought both scientific grounding and genuine spiritual wisdom. I finally feel like myself again -more myself than I've ever been.”
— Mindfulness Instructor, Integrative Somatic Coaching
Shannon Myers

Why this work is different

Shannon Myers, MS, SEP combines clinical depth, spiritual intelligence, strategic precision, and regulated presence, for leaders whose old way of working is no longer sustainable.

For years, Shannon succeeded externally while her body carried the burden: complex trauma, autoimmune illness, chronic pain, and exhaustion that achievement could not solve.

A near-death experience moved her from symptom management into nervous- system repair, spiritual integration, and total life redesign. The integration work is not theoretical. She has walked it herself.

MAPS Approved Provider (opens in new tab)Somatic Experiencing International (opens in new tab)

  • 25 years of business strategy
  • 15 years of nervous-system work
  • Trauma-informed somatic training
  • Lived recovery
Read Shannon’s credentials

Credentials: Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP); MS in Counseling; IFS-informed; Polyvagal Theory trained; MAPS-approved training for non-ordinary states; extensive training and personal experience in expanded-state integration; Reiki Master; ACISTE member; 25+ years business strategy.

The Regulated Anchor: Why physiology matters more than certifications

True somatic change is not transmitted through advice; it is transmitted through autonomic co-regulation.

Radical Ego Transparency (no expert persona): Operating without the need to be the "expert" or "savior" creates a vacuum that allows the client's defensive ego to soften.
Non-Dual Presence (the witness state): Listening beneath words to somatic tension, micro-expressions, and the vast awareness behind trauma.
High Vagal Tone (a well-regulated nervous system): When panic or existential dread enters the room, Shannon's own ventral vagal regulation acts as a biological anchor signaling directly to your vagus nerve: You are safe. We can go here.

The architecture of a transformative session

Most coaching changes thoughts. This changes the physiology beneath them.

Chronic vigilance is a system doing its job for too long. The work teaches it that the job is done.

  1. Establish Safety

    Your body learns it can be seen without being judged, fixed, rushed, or abandoned.

  2. Interrupt the Pattern

    Old loops lose authority. The survival strategy becomes visible instead of automatic.

  3. Hold the Void

    The unknown is held long enough for your system to learn it can survive without the old pattern.

  4. Anchor the New

    Insight is linked to sensation, choice, rhythm, and repetition until it becomes baseline.

Deconstruct a session: the neuroscience of relational rewiring

How a session creates profound baseline shifts through human connection and autonomic co-regulation without chemical agents:

1. The Luminous Container (Somatic Safety)

Before depth is possible, physiology must down-regulate from fight/flight/freeze into open social engagement through tone, paced breath, and regulated co-presence. The body registers: I am completely seen, and I am not in danger.

2. The Precision Strike (Disrupting the Story Loop)

The Default Mode Network loops repetitive narratives (“I must be perfect,” “I am my burnout”). Rather than arguing with the story, precisely timed inquiry points directly to observing awareness, causing a momentary glitch in the DMN where the old pattern loses authority.

3. Holding the Void (Stillness without Panic)

When the narrative collapses, vast silence or grief opens up. Where most rush to reassure or advise, Shannon stays still in the discomfort. The nervous system learns it can survive the death of the old pattern.

4. Neuroplastic Seeding (Embodied Anchoring)

Neuroplasticity peaks when high alertness pairs with deep safety. In this open window, new insight is linked directly to physical sensation, cementing the new neural baseline before the session closes.

See what this can change: the 6 physiological shifts

Not a symptom checklist. A description of what opens when your nervous system stops organizing your life around survival. Some shifts are obvious; others you only notice in hindsight: waking without bracing, or a hard conversation that no longer costs you three days of recovery.

  1. Sleep through the night

    Your body stops monitoring while you rest.

    From the outside, you fall asleep in minutes instead of rehearsing tomorrow. You stop waking at 3 a.m. with your mind in problem-solving mode. You do not need alcohol, a podcast, or sheer exhaustion to override vigilance. From the inside, your body stops sleeping like a sentry, one ear open, muscles tensed. When physiology registers safety, sleep restores you instead of leaving you wired.

    What it makes possible: Decisions unclouded by depletion, unforced patience, and the return of immune, hormonal, and metabolic repair.

  2. Feel without being overtaken

    Emotion becomes information again, not a flood to survive.

    Feeling something no longer means becoming it. Sadness is a wave that passes rather than a pit that swallows the day. Anger is a clear boundary signal, not a threat to suppress. You can have hard conversations without your throat closing, and stay open without reaching for armor.

    What it makes possible: Intimacy without numbness, creativity unhooked from urgency, and relationships where you can be affected without being dismantled.

  3. Stop mistaking urgency for truth

    The internal alarm stops firing at ambiguity.

    A dysregulated nervous system treats every unanswered email or shifting tone as immediate danger. When regulation returns, the gap between trigger and response widens. You stop sending midnight reactive messages or abandoning uncomfortable decisions.

    What it makes possible: Strategic execution unhijacked by cortisol, steady relationships, and decisions made from the integrated Self rather than panic.

  4. Lead without abandoning yourself

    Work stops requiring the slow erosion of your needs.

    For many leaders, dedication is self-abandonment in disguise: holding everyone's anxiety, performing steadiness, and saying yes when the body says no. Sustainable leadership is not the capacity to endure; it is the capacity to remain present without self-erasure.

    What it makes possible: A career your body does not need to recover from, unhurried authority, and boundaries that protect without aggression.

  5. Live from the Self, not the protection pattern

    The survival strategy that built your career stops running it.

    Your protection pattern was brilliant. It made you perceptive, high-achieving, and adaptable. But it was built for a past emergency. It runs your life as if the threat is still active. The small self does not vanish; it simply steps down from commanding the system.

    What it makes possible: Life organized around what is true rather than what was once safe. Clean reception, rest without guilt, and leadership relieved of fear.

  6. Recover faster from what used to break you

    The pattern still knocks. It just no longer costs you days.

    Regulation does not mean you are never triggered. It means your recovery curve changes. What once cost three days of rumination or shutdown now takes an hour and a conscious breath. You build grounded trust in your ability to navigate back.

    What it makes possible: Healthy risk, clean truth-telling, and the certainty that your nervous system can survive discomfort without collapsing.

Current clients: your packages and pricing are unchanged. Everything here applies to new clients only.

The Work & Pricing

Three paths. One shared core. Nervous system regulation comes first in all of them, and it is what you keep whichever you take and whether or not you go further.

Every path starts with The Clarity Call: $99, 45 minutes, a written Baseline Map within 24 hours. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days.

“I came in burned out and skeptical. Shannon helped me see that my nervous system was running the show -not my lack of discipline. The shift in my capacity to lead and be present has been remarkable.”
— SaaS Founder, The Aligned Work

Integrative Somatic Coaching

Up to 10 clients per quarter

You are not in crisis. You are carrying more than you can hold.

People who want steady somatic work for stress, dysregulation, and integration.

  • Weekly 55-minute somatic sessions
  • Somatic Experiencing®, energy work, and integration
  • A written Baseline Map refresh at session 6 and at session 12
  • No between-session messages

$99 for The Clarity Call first. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days.

$1,000 / mo$2,700 in full (Save $300 upfront)

12 weekly sessions · Foundation: establish safety, interrupt chronic vigilance, and reset the initial baseline.

$3,000 over 3 months. Or $2,700 in full.

The Aligned Work

Five clients selected per quarter

You built it alone. Now you are the ceiling.

Founders and self-employed people carrying work they cannot hand to anyone else.

  • 6 sessions of 60 minutes across 90 days, every two weeks
  • Aligned Work Style Map and Aligned Capacity Map, written and returned in month one
  • Portal messaging to Shannon, replied to within the next working day
  • Boundary and capacity design for the working week
$2,250$375 per session · 90 days

$99 for The Clarity Call first. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days.

Credited in full toward The Whole Self within 30 days.

Invoiced to you. Employers and EAPs reimburse on their own terms.

The Whole Self

Three clients selected per quarter · Fall, Winter, Spring

You are responsible for many people. You hold the system. Nothing holds you.

Work, life, health, purpose, and the people you hold.

Executives responsible for many people whose old way of working is no longer sustainable.

  • 13 sessions of 60 minutes across 90 days
  • Nervous system map and work style map, built on your Baseline Map and returned in month one
  • 90-Day Regulation & Work Protocol
$6,500$500 per session · 90 days

$99 for The Clarity Call first. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days.

Invoiced to you. Employers and EAPs reimburse on their own terms.

Explore all inclusions
  • Portal messaging to Shannon, replied to within the next working day
  • Morning, mid-day, and bedtime routine design
  • Health coaching
  • Boundary and capacity work
  • One relationship-of-any-type session: self, romantic, work, family, friend, or something larger than the self
  • Purpose, identity, and visibility alignment
  • Advisory for real work decisions
  • Day 30, 60, and 90 milestone reviews

Every path starts with The Clarity Call.

$99 for The Clarity Call first. The fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days.

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A clear boundary

This is not therapy. It is non-clinical coaching, somatic education, and integration support. No diagnosis, treatment, or crisis care. If activation rises beyond that scope, Shannon slows down or refers you to licensed care.

Bring this work to your team.

For organizations

For ongoing one-to-one work at the executive level, see The Aligned Work and The Whole Self.

Executive advisory, leadership workshops, corporate retreats, podcast appearances, and collaborations. Shannon works with a handful of organizations each year.

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Important disclosures

Pace and Referrals: If activation rises beyond coaching scope, Shannon slows down or refers.

Nature of Services: Coaching, somatic education, spiritual mentoring, and integration support. Not therapy, crisis care, medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Integration Information: Expanded-state and non-ordinary experience support is non-clinical. No substances are provided, condoned, or sat for.

Emergency Situations: Contact crisis services, emergency medical services, or a licensed provider immediately.

Billing and Employers: You are invoiced directly, and you pay Shannon. Employers and EAPs reimburse on their own terms; Shannon does not verify eligibility and does not provide tax documentation. Ask your benefits administrator what your plan covers.

Client Responsibility: Clients are responsible for their decisions, actions, and well-being.

Common Questions

The process, scope, and fee before you book the call.

How do I arrange a Clarity Call?

Book directly on Shannon’s calendar here (opens in new tab). The Clarity Call costs $99 and lasts 45 minutes. Within 24 hours of the call, you receive a written Baseline Map with your patterns, one practice, and a recommendation for what comes next.

What if I'm not sure which service is right for me?

You don't have to know. That's what the $99 Clarity Call is for — it maps the root of your stuckness and Shannon recommends the honest next step: The Aligned Work, The Whole Self, a reduced-rate path, or a referral to better-suited care.

Is this therapy?

This is not therapy. Shannon provides non-clinical coaching and somatic education. These services do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions and do not replace medical care or licensed psychotherapy. If you are in crisis, contact emergency or crisis services.“I came in burned out and skeptical. Shannon helped me see that my nervous system was running the show — not my lack of discipline. The shift in my capacity to lead and be present has been remarkable.”— SaaS Founder, The Aligned Work

Is the $99 call fee credited toward a program?

Yes. The $99 fee is credited toward any program started within 30 days. The call includes a written Baseline Map whether or not you continue with a program.

When do I pay the $99?

After the call. You book a time, take the 45 minutes, and pay then — Shannon reviews fit by talking to you directly, not by reading a form. Nothing is charged when you book, and the 30-day credit window starts from the call.

Is somatic experiencing® evidence-based?

Yes. Somatic Experiencing® (SE) has a growing body of peer-reviewed research supporting its effectiveness. Studies published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress and Frontiers in Psychology have shown SE reduces PTSD symptoms, with randomized controlled trials demonstrating significant improvements in trauma-related symptoms compared to control groups. SE is grounded in neuroscience, specifically polyvagal theory and the biology of the stress response.

Sources: Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2023
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Still have questions? Email Shannon directly. She responds personally.