Held by Shawna

Held by Shawna Stop numbing. Start living. I help midlife women find presence, joy & themselves again. Hypnosis • Breathwork • Parts Work •
Somatic healing

This is why sleep can feel so off in perimenopause…As estrogen and progesterone shift, melatonin production and timing c...
04/17/2026

This is why sleep can feel so off in perimenopause…

As estrogen and progesterone shift, melatonin production and timing can get disrupted too. That’s part of why you might feel wired at night, wake up at 3am, or just not get that deep, restorative sleep anymore.

The good news is your body still knows how to make melatonin.

Light exposure in the morning and evening helps regulate your circadian rhythm, which directly signals when melatonin should rise and fall. And hypnosis has been shown to calm the nervous system, reduce nighttime cortisol, and improve sleep quality by working with the unconscious patterns that keep you alert.

It’s not just about forcing sleep. It’s about creating the conditions where sleep can happen again.

If this is where you’re at, comment “sleep” below and I’ll share more about the HELD coaching sleep program 🤍

04/13/2026

Playing small, ignoring your dreams and desires, ignoring signs and symptoms from your body, procrastinating, feeling disconnected, lonely, defensive…. This workshop is for you.

Comment ME or send me a DM and I send you the link to join this free value packed session on shame in midlife.

Join the free community and get access to the replay and past sessions on Anxiety in Perimenopause, Microdosing in midlife and Perimenopause hormonal myths. Stick around for sessions on marriage in perimenopause, caring for aging parents, labs to run in midlife for optimal health, sleep and circadian rhythm and more!!
All free when you join.

Share this post with a friend and join the community together!

If this lands for you, come join me inside The Held Sessions, my free midlife community, and save your seat for my live ...
04/12/2026

If this lands for you, come join me inside The Held Sessions, my free midlife community, and save your seat for my live workshop on midlife shame.

Comment SHAME and I’ll send you the link to join for free 🤍

Join me for our first solo session where I talk about shame in midlife, where it comes from, how it shows up in our phys...
04/07/2026

Join me for our first solo session where I talk about shame in midlife, where it comes from, how it shows up in our physiology and how to move through it.

April 28th at 12pm EST inside the Held Sessions midlife community.

This Session is part learning, part practice and all authentic.

Share this post with your midlife mama pals and grow together.

Comment SESSIONS or DM me for the link to join free.

Midlife hormone shifts can be debilitating. Impacting your mood, your sleep, your energy, your brain, maybe even your sa...
03/19/2026

Midlife hormone shifts can be debilitating.
Impacting your mood, your sleep, your energy, your brain, maybe even your sanity.
I’m not going to promise that breathwork and nervous system regulation is a magic pill that can bypass all of your symptoms but it can be an incredible ally in supporting your mood, your energy and even your digestion and hormones.
My intention with tools like the Held Portal breathwork, the Held Sessions -midlife community, and my 1:1 sessions is to offer you strategies to become your best version of you during this time…and to do it in good company.

Try the Held Portal for free by commenting HELD below and come join us this Tuesday at noon to discuss how your gut health is contributing to your symptoms (even without gut symptoms). Commend SESSIONS or just DM me anytime to learn more.

03/17/2026

💗Choosing to be authentically me (yes even when it’s f*cking hard)
💗Being a safe person and parent
💗Inner child breathwork
💗Somatic parts work
💗Learning how to play (even when THIS is f*cking hard)
💗Asking for what I want (oof)

What did I miss?
How are YOU honoring little you?

Let me know below and comment HELD to try inner child healing for free for 7 days.

You’ve been listening to all of the podcasts, your IG feed has more health experts than you have friends, yet you still ...
03/12/2026

You’ve been listening to all of the podcasts, your IG feed has more health experts than you have friends, yet you still don’t have a gut health action plan?
I see you and this is the chat for you.

Come have an honest conversation with me and Natasha Cook CNP about what’s working, what’s trending, and what we should focus our energy on.

Natasha is a friend and a holistic nutritionist, mom and entrepreneur that helps women cut through the chatter on gut health and hormones so they can get real results.

During this chat, we’ll go deeper into the social media headlines we’ve been seeing and provide clarity on things like:

❓How does gut health really impact our hormones?
❓Is eating more protein really going to solve all of my problems?
❓What is the estrobolome?
❓and, most importantly, what should I actually spend my time on?

Join us inside the Held Session community for midlife women and save your spot for free. Join live to ask questions and get answers on the spot or drop your questions in our community chat and Natasha can answer the on the call.
Comment SESSIONS for the link to join us!

03/10/2026

One small shift can completely change how life shows up for you.

Instead of scanning for what’s wrong, start looking for what’s good… and what’s possible.

Your brain starts noticing more of it.
Your nervous system softens.
Life begins to feel different.

This simple practice has been a total game-changer for me, and it’s something we work on inside my month-long coaching containers.

If you want to expand your overall sense of joy and possibility…

Comment JOY or send me a DM and I’ll share the link to a free discovery call. ✨

03/06/2026

Human connection is what we want and it doesn’t come from being perfect.
It comes from being human.
We’re wired to read each other’s emotional states anyway. People can usually feel when someone is nervous, unsure, excited, emotional… even if it’s not said out loud.
So when someone names their experience or checks in with the people they’re talking to, it actually builds trust. What’s happening internally matches what’s expressed externally. That congruence is something our nervous systems LOVE. We relax when someone is real.
And you just heard me say “like” about a dozen times in this video.
Some might argue that this is just a lack of skill. And maybe it is. But I personally prefer it.
So many videos right now are so clearly AI or someone reading from an AI script. Perfectly polished. Perfectly packaged.
But when someone is too polished, it often creates distance. It starts to feel like a performance instead of a relationship. I am personally SO attuned to this.
And this isn’t just about speaking on a stage or posting online. This is relational life.
A lot of us learned somewhere along the way that if we could just be good enough… polished enough… perfect enough… we could avoid pain. Avoid criticism. Avoid rejection.
But when we’re always performing, we also avoid real connection.
Because connection requires congruence.

Especially in midlife, authenticity stops being optional. Eventually the body just doesn’t have the capacity to perform anymore.
And in this super divisive, consumerist, and often lonely digital world we’re living in right now, we need women to have the courage to speak up.
And to do so with the confidence that their humanness is more than enough.
I have work to do on this too but this is my invitation for you to show up imperfectly and authentically as an act of rebellion and see what happens.

03/05/2026

Actionable tools, circadian strategies, hypnotic inductions, breath and nervous system regulation….to finally get you to sleeep.
DM for details.

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