End self-sacrifice and succeed without losing yourself
Eliminate self-sacrifice in a 12-week 1:1 intensive for executive leaders and entrepreneurs ready to succeed without losing themselves.
When Showing Up Feels Unsafe
You’re smart, capable, and highly driven. An executive leader or entrepreneur who holds everything together for everyone else. You built your career around purpose and excellence.
But when it comes to showing up, speaking honestly, being visible, owning your value, something stops you.
Your body reacts before you say a word: your chest tightens, breath shortens, your mind freezes. In a split second, you silence yourself.
You rewrite the email. Delay the conversation. Scroll past the post you meant to publish. Convince yourself it isn’t the right moment.
But deep down, you know this isn’t about confidence, skill, or strategy.
Being heard has never felt safe, because visibility has always carried risk.
This isn’t a strategy issue. It’s a survival response. What looks like inconsistency or imposter syndrome is often just your nervous system protecting you.
Maybe you were told you were “too much.” Punished for being emotional. Mocked for speaking up. Dismissed when you needed to be believed. Praised for being quiet and easy.
So you learned to stay measured, tidy, palatable. Helpful instead of disruptive. Supportive instead of bold. Neutral instead of truthful.
When Silence Becomes the Bigger Risk
The first time I told the truth out loud wasn’t in a therapy room or on a stage. It was in a courtroom. I was shaking, breathless, unprepared.
It didn’t feel like justice, it felt like grief, then relief. Because for the first time, I felt heard, seen, and believed. Not by anyone else, but by myself.
That moment became a turning point. I stopped performing and started telling the truth, even when my voice trembled. I raised my rates, let go of draining clients, and restructured my business to serve me, not just others. I began sharing my work, not to prove anything, but because my voice mattered, and I knew someone else needed to feel less alone.
Here’s what I know now:
You can make yourself palatable to others at the expense of being known to yourself. It’s not your fault, your nervous system wired you for survival. But the same wiring that once protected you is now caging your voice.
And when you don’t speak your truth, the cost is more than silence. It’s self-betrayal: leadership built on burnout, resentment, and performance. Work that looks polished but no longer feels like you
What’s keeping you stuck isn’t a lack of clarity. It’s a body that still remembers what it cost to be heard.
You learned early: stay quiet, stay safe. Be agreeable, be accepted. Be useful, be allowed to stay.
Now, that wiring shows up in your leadership:
- You hesitate to say what you actually mean
- You undercharge or overdeliver because doing less feels unsafe.
- You tone down your message to stay acceptable.
- You question your worth and your right to take up space.
- You compare your honesty to someone else’s polish and decide you’re not ready.
The more you manage perception, the more your voice disappears. The strategies that once kept you safe now dilute your presence. And without presence, your words lose weight, not because you’re wrong, but because your body doesn’t feel safe enough to stand behind them.
What This Is
Here’s why the advice hasn’t worked.
You’ve been told what to do and how to do it, but never why your body still says no. When visibility feels unsafe, no strategy will ever feel sustainable.
And this is where my work begins.
Not with more tactics or performance, but with the part of you that freezes when it’s time to speak, lead, or be seen. When your words are clear but your voice disappears; when you’re doing everything “right,” yet it still doesn’t feel like you, that’s the place we work from.
A 12-Week Intensive to Lead Without Self-Sacrifice
This isn’t a coaching program. It’s a restoration of your voice, safety, and capacity.
You’ll choose 2–3 focus areas that feel most alive, whether that’s communicating with authority, setting boundaries that support your nervous system, making decisions without second-guessing, or reclaiming the voice you’ve had to supress.
1:1 12-week immersive journey
Made for executive leaders and entrepreneurs who are done performing.
- Speak without bracing.
- Communicate without diluting.
- Lead without contorting.
- Succeed without abandoning yourself.
Together, we’ll identify the parts of you that were trained to stay silent and integrate them, so you can lead with depth, integrity, and impact.
We don’t bypass the emotional work, we integrate it with real-time action. We don’t revisit the past for catharsis, we stay present so you can move forward. We don’t script or polish, we strengthen the part of you that can speak clearly in the messy middle.
What You’ll Experience
We work together, in-session.
You leave each time with practical actions you can apply immediately to your work and life.
Our sessions blend simple body-based work, clear psychological insight, and honest real-time conversation, helping you move from bracing and holding back to speaking and leading with steadiness.
When your body feels safe enough to lead, everything begins to change.
“Working with Christina over the past year has been instrumental in my development as a somatic coach. Her steady support and expert guidance helped me grow in confidence and build a solid foundation for my practice. Christina has a unique ability to explain complex ideas clearly and gently, always leaving me reassured and empowered. She creates such a safe space, and her insight is spot-on. I couldn’t recommend her services more highly.”
— Laura Corrales, ICF Certified Somatic Trauma-Informed Coach | salltsisters.com
Reconnect
Reclaim your voice by uncovering what’s been held back.
Regulate
Restore safety to your nervous system so expression no longer feels like a threat.
Reveal
Get clear on what feels true for you, beneath the expectations and conditioning.
Realign
Shape your work and leadership around your values, your capacity, and what’s actually supportive.
Reclaim
Step into grounded expression and leadership that feels natural and sustainable.
What You Can Expect
- Weekly sessions with up to 3 hours of tailored support over 12 weeks.
- Deep emotional and body-based integration — without digging through the past
- Co-designed outcomes that support your leadership, capacity, and wellbeing
- Coaching to make decisions, set boundaries, and next steps that align with your nervous system
This isn’t a process you follow.
It’s a reconnection you embody.
Not wishful thinking, just what happens when your nervous system finally supports the truth of who you already are.
What Becomes Possible
When self-sacrifice stops, three core parts of your leadership shift.
Your voice feels free.
You say what you mean with clarity and conviction, without the internal backlash or second-guessing.
Your work feels authentic.
You lead and communicate from who you are, not who you’ve had to be. You show up without shrinking, overthinking, or managing yourself into safety.
Your leadership feels aligned.
You set boundaries, decisions, and goals from self-worth, not self-protection. Your work becomes a natural extension of your values, not a performance of them.
How do I begin?
If this feels aligned, you’ll complete a short form.
If accepted, we’ll have a brief call to confirm the fit, answer any questions, agree our schedule, and finalise payment and contracts.If you’re unsure whether you’re showing up from burnout, self-sacrifice, or hesitation rooted in fear, we’ll clarify that together on the call. You don’t need to have it all figured out before applying.
I take only a small number of clients through this work at a time.
It’s deep, and it requires presence on both sides.
If your voice still feels like a whisper and your truth feels dangerous… let’s change that.
Frequently Asked Questions
You’ve already invested time, energy, and effort into approaches that didn’t create the change you needed.
These FAQs give you straightforward, honest answers so you can decide whether this work is your next right step.
Designed for executive leaders and entrepreneurs who are done self-sacrificing or shrinking to stay safe, and who want to lead in a way that doesn’t cost them their wellbeing, their identity, or themselves.
The investment is £5,000 for 12 weeks of intensive, personalised support (up to 3 hours per week). Scholarships are available for those who need support with the cost, though places are limited and a waitlist may apply.
Yes. You can book a one-time, two-hour Breakthrough Intensive for £497. It’s a single session focused on one outcome that matters most to you. Ongoing work is only available through the 12-week intensive.
This work is for executive leaders and entrepreneurs who:
- take on too much and struggle to say no without guilt
- hold back what they really want to say in high-stakes moments
- overwork or overdeliver because doing “less” feels unsafe
- shrink or soften themselves to avoid being “too much”
- show up in ways that look successful, but don’t feel like them
- want success that doesn’t cost their health, identity, or personal life
- are done performing, but not done succeeding
This isn’t therapy, and it’s not traditional coaching.
It’s a supportive, practical process that helps you speak up, feel steadier in yourself, and lead without the stress or self-doubt that used to take over.
We don’t dig through the past, but we do work with the patterns that still affect how you show up today.
There are no scripts, no techniques to memorise, and nothing to perform.
It’s you, supported to show up as yourself, without tension or bracing.
This isn’t about going back through your past. It’s about how your body responds in the present, especially in moments where you speak, lead, or take up space.
You may already understand why you shrink, shut down, or push yourself too hard. But insight alone doesn’t create change, your body has to come with you.
This work bridges the gap between what you know and what you can actually live. It helps you change the patterns in your body that make expression feel risky, so you can show up without bracing or performing.