You've been holding it all together.
You're allowed to put some of it down.
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I work with women who have that eldest daughter energy. You know the kind. The reliable one, the one who did everything right, who holds it together for everybody and can't remember the last time she asked for something.
I'm a burnout coach, and the work is slower than that probably sounds. We start with your body, because it's been keeping score the whole time. Then we build a pace that follows your actual rhythms, the season you're in, where you are in your cycle, and how you're wired to spend energy in the first place.
Most burnout advice hands you a bubble bath and a boundary script. We go after the reason you keep overriding yourself, and what changes once you stop.
A little about me
SEASONAL LIVE ROUNDS
The Rooted Space
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Next round:
Autumn Exhale, October 14 to 18
A 5-day seasonal nervous system space. Simple and actually doable.
You've probably saved a few somatic practices. Maybe tried one once. Maybe not. Because life is a lot, and slowing down is weirdly hard.
That's exactly why I made it. Not another thing on your to-do list, just a space to come back to yourself for ten minutes a day.
It runs a few times a year, and each round follows the season we're actually in, so what we work with in autumn isn't what we work with in winter.
Wherever you are right now
Four ways in, depending on how much you have in you right now. Start with the reading if you're just curious. Start with five days if you're tired of waiting for a better week.
The Rooted Rise Substack
FREE| BIWEEKLY
Essays about burnout, cyclical living, and the quiet cost of being the dependable one. Free, every other week, and a decent place to start if you just want to know whether I make sense to you.
The Rooted Space
GROUP | NEXT ROUND · OCT 14–18
Five days of actually doing it, ten minutes at a time, with a small group of women doing the same. For when you've read enough and you want to feel something shift.
Rooted Mapping Session
1:1 | 75 MINUTES
Seventy-five minutes on one thing you can't see clearly. You bring the knot, we find the thread, you leave with a next step instead of a reading list.
The Rooted Season Mentorship
1:1 | FLEXIBLE & ONGOING
Months, not minutes. For when the problem isn't one decision, it's the whole pace you've been keeping, and you want someone alongside you while it changes.
Hi, I'm Alysha
I'm the eldest daughter. The one who read the room before she spoke, who got told she was so mature for her age like it was a compliment and not a job description. So I said yes before I'd finished hearing the question, and kept a running ledger of what everyone else needed without ever putting myself on it.
Then January 2024. Years at a company acquired twice, layoff after layoff, absorbing more work each time because that's what I do. And then my body stopped negotiating with me.
In the stillness afterward I found my body again, after ignoring it almost my whole life. That's the work now. Not fixing women who were never broken, just helping them stop overriding themselves.
