Your posture isn’t just about how you look. The position of your head on your spine directly affects your vagus nerve, and most people are living in constant low level dysregulation.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to feel what’s actually happening in your body so you can catch these patterns before they keep you dysregulated all day.
✓ 7 days, $47
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11/08/2025
You’re not lazy. Your nervous system learned that performance keeps you safe—so it gives you capacity for what’s imposed, but shuts down when it’s something you actually want.
You can’t think your way out of functional freeze. You have to teach your body that choosing for yourself is safe.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to feel what’s happening in your body so you can start recognizing when you’re frozen, and build the capacity to choose.
Regulation isn’t about calming down, it’s about getting so present your nervous system has to drop the spiral.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to build that presence so you can interrupt the stress cycle before it takes over.
✓ 14 lessons, $47, lifetime access.
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11/06/2025
Regulation isn’t about being relaxed. It’s about being present, even with what’s uncomfortable.
When you actually drop into your body, you feel what’s been there the whole time. That’s not wrong. That’s awareness.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to build capacity to be present with what’s actually in your body, not numb to it, not avoiding it, but with it.
✓ 7 days, $47, lifetime access
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11/05/2025
You’re not broken for feeling nothing when something big happens. Your nervous system is protecting you from overwhelm by turning down the volume.
But if you’re numb all the time, if you’re watching your life instead of living it, you need to teach your body it’s safe to feel again.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to come back into your body and rebuild your capacity to feel, starting with the smallest sensations.
✓ 14 lessons, tangible tools, $47
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11/04/2025
Most people don’t realize how much control they have over their nervous system when they actually know how to feel what’s happening in their body.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to recognize these signals so you can regulate on purpose, not by accident.
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11/03/2025
You’re not choosing what’s best for you. You’re choosing what your body recognizes.
Grounded teaches you how to actually feel what’s happening in your body so you can start recognizing when you’re choosing familiar over safe, and build new patterns from there.
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11/02/2025
Your nervous system doesn’t need calm. It needs balance, left and right brain working together, logic and feeling integrated.
When you can actually feel what’s happening in your body while staying present enough to make sense of it, that’s regulation.
Grounded teaches you how to build that balance, so you’re not stuck ruminating in your head or lost in dissociation.
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11/01/2025
The problem isn’t the thoughts. It’s how much weight you give them.
Grounded teaches you how to notice what’s happening in your body without the narrative your brain automatically attaches to it, so you can feel without spiraling.
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11/01/2025
I’m that pressure, give me my tens.
11/01/2025
The opposite of believing the world is inherently dangerous isn’t trying to convince yourself it’s inherently safe.
It’s knowing the world has both, and building the capacity to discern which one you’re actually in right now.
But you can’t discern if you’re not present. And you can’t be present if you can’t feel what’s happening in your body.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to come back into your body so you can actually tell the difference between real threat and old patterns running on autopilot.
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10/31/2025
Your nervous system can stay calm when you’re ignoring red flags, because that pattern is familiar. And it can light up with anxiety when you finally start choosing what you actually want, because leading with your actual self is unfamiliar.
The problem? Most people can’t tell the difference. They feel the activation and assume they need to stop.
Grounded: A 7-Day Course for Building Body Awareness and Emotional Literacy teaches you how to feel what’s in your body and name what you’re feeling, so you can tell the difference between a real warning and your nervous system catching up to growth.
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In 2004 I was in bad shape - mentally, physically, and spiritually. I spent months in and out of specialists offices. A syrinx, a cyst in the spinal cord, was found. I was diagnosed with three bulging discs, degenerative disc disease, and sacroiliac joint dysfunction. I suffered from anxiety and bouts of depression and my coping skills were limited.
There came a moment that my only thought was ‘I just can’t do it anymore’. I’m a lifelong learner and researcher by nature so I began doing my homework. I learned everything I could about healing the body through exercise. Implementing fitness into my life was quite literally the first thing I ever did for my own good. In 2009 when I graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College I knew where my path was headed. I obtained my 200+ hour Professional Certification of Personal Training. I started helping others heal their bodies through exercise and fell in love with the profession.
While I loved working with people, there were aspects of the fitness industry that are not in the best interest of humans. I knew that the process of getting better, being happier, and living healthier wasn’t just about food and exercise; in fact, I quickly learned that food and exercise are small components on the path to your most vibrant self.
In 2014 I began studying cutting-edge techniques of world renowned Holistic Health Practitioner & Certified Nueromuscular Therapist Paul Chek. I obtained my Holistic Lifestyle Coach Certification combining an intensive study of the relationship between food and lifestyle habits and the tools to recognize and create practical ways to imply lifestyle changes. I learned and understand the important roles that sleep, food quality, stress reduction techniques, and movement play in improving our lives. As well as the importance of practice methods to make real life, long lasting change.
In 2015 my son and greatest teacher, Cannon Cobb, was born. It was like the callouses of my heart were rubbed raw. Becoming a mother revolutionized how I understood life. I don’t believe you have to become a mother to get there, I believe I had to become a mother to get there. I realized I did not want my son to grow up to one day give me a mothers day card thanking me for sacrificing myself - I want my son to grow up to one day give me a mothers day card thanking me for showing him how to live, for being the example.
Over the next five years I was married and divorced, twice.
I trained to become a DONA Certified Doula and a Pregnancy & Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist.
I completed my 200hr Register Yoga Teacher Training (after a decade of teaching and practice), Reiki Practitioner level 1 & 2, and a 300hr Yoga Psychology certification. These were the greatest self-studies of my life. I learned the healing power of yoga, meditation, and breath-work. I knew people needed more than just help with calories, nutrition, and lifestyle changes. I learned how to help dig deeper, uncover and heal the emotional and psychological issues that may have caused health issues and disordered eating in the first place.
I begun studying under my teacher Heather George, Doctor of Chinese Medicine to complete my Yoga Health Educator & Therapist training to become a Certified Yoga Therapist. This training has given me one of my most cherished gifts - the healing power of touch. I look forward to being a lifelong student to these healing modalities.
Redefining myself has been an integral part of my health journey.
Redefining what a good mother is, a successful practitioner is, what healthy means… to me.
I’ve learned to find ease within the discomfort, to be vulnerably authentic, and become rooted in my practices. I’ve learned to love myself through radical self-acceptance not in spite of my imperfection but because of it. I’ve found generational and childhood trauma healing through the parenting of my son and reparenting of myself. I’ve released guilt and shame (over and over again, almost daily) and judgement (of myself and others). I am cultivating a life I am proud of.
I am proud to say that while I am still a work in progress, I have a healthy mind, body, and spirit. I’m not afraid to step off the well worn path of ‘supposed tos’, unspoken rules, and just getting by.
Wanna come with me?
With love,
Melissa
Credentials:
WVWC Bachelor of History
200+ Hour Professional Certificate of Personal Training
