Mind + Body sessions
1:1 coaching, movement optional
1:1 coaching for any transition: health, body, life or business. A space to work things out in your mind, with the option to move them through your body too.
Coaching for
Coach + Educator
You're allowed to change.You can trust what's stirring, even before it has a name.
Coaching for the messy part of becoming: outgrowing, shifting and moving through transitions in your body, your life and your business.
Start with a free 15-minute call, by Zoom or phone.
Photo slot: you, in a quiet, real moment
before you cut all your hair off, let's talk
Maybe you're here
"I'll just make it work."
- "I should be able to handle all of this."
- "It's just me."
- "Maybe if I just…"
- "Should I just cut all my hair off?"
You're highly capable. When something shifts in your body, your life or your business, you adjust, push through and keep going.
Over time, making it work can turn into holding it all together, and that can ask more of you than it gives back.
You don't have to hold it all together.
You don't have to figure it out alone.
You don't have to abandon yourself to build something that works.
you can trust the feeling that something is off, changing, or needs to change
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Photo slot: portrait
Hi, I'm Carissa.
I believe your gut feeling, your intuition, your inner knowing.
I know change from the inside: a decade-long health journey, outgrowing systems I grew up inside of, a business that stopped fitting who I was becoming, and plenty of relationship ups and downs. I know what it's like to be the one balancing every plate, and what it's like when they finally fall.
My life, business, marriage and health didn't take a 180 overnight. Yours might not either. Piece by piece, I decided what got to stay, what could stay if it shifted, and what could stay broken.
Here's what I know. You can trust that feeling that something needs to shift. You can do really hard things and come out the other side. You deserve to be witnessed, and to receive support at your messiest.
For 13 years I've helped people through change, first in movement and Pilates, now in coaching, leading with connection over correction. My hope is that you feel seen, met where you are, supported, and a little more connected to yourself each time.
Martha Beck Certified Wayfinder Life Coach
ICF-accredited coaching program
B.S. Psychology
Full STOTT PILATES certification
Business owner
13 years with clients
Carissa
What movement clients say
What movement clients say
"I have never felt so understood and seen by an instructor before."
Movement client, Google review
"She knows how to ask questions as you're moving that keeps you tuned into your body."
Movement client, Google review
"Some days I come in super stiff and tired, other days I'm super energetic, and each time she meets me where I am."
Movement client, Google review
How it works
A way of working that can change shape as you do.
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Connect
Come back to who you are now.
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Notice
See what's working and what isn't, without judgment.
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Align
Choose what fits this season and your real capacity.
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Adjust
Make small, intentional shifts, and realign again as life changes.
Every way of working with me follows this rhythm, at a pace that fits your body and your life.
Ways to work together
Start where you are.
you don't have to know what's next before you have support
Pilates can meet you before you feel "strong" or "flexible." Chronic illness support can meet you before every diagnosis is documented. Coaching can meet you before you've figured yourself, or your business, out.
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Visit the shopWhat becomes possible
You can likely keep making it work.
Another rebrand, another push, another season of holding it all together. Or you can slow down long enough to notice what you want now.
What could feel different
- Clear words for what feels off.
- Trust in your body, your business and your choices as they change.
- A pace that honors your body, mind, values and dreams.
- A life and work that feel even 1% lighter, and can change shape as you do.
Read along
Writing from the middle of change.
Each week on Substack I write about business, bodies and building a life that fits, so you feel a little less alone in it.
And every so often, a letter from me lands in your inbox: what's changing, what's new, and a little invitation to pause.
A note from me
I know how terrifying it is to let the plates you're balancing drop. How messy it is to stand among the pieces, and how tempting it is to pick them all up so everything looks okay for everyone else.
Outgrowing anything is beautiful and really freaking hard. It's often when we need connection most, and instead we blame ourselves. "I should just be able to handle it." "Maybe if I buy the right calendar." "Maybe if I organize my pantry into perfectly clear, labeled bins."
You get to decide what's yours to carry and what you want to put down. You can fall apart and be met with care.
Carissa
When you're ready
It's okay not to know what's next.
Start with a free 15-minute call. We'll talk about what's changing and see together which way of working fits, if any.
even good change is change, and change is messy
Before you go, a few questions for you
- connectWhat feels most like you right now?
- noticeWhat feels heaviest right now, in your body, your life or your business?
- alignWhat would make it feel even 1% lighter?
- adjustIf you wanted to, what's one small shift that could fit your week, at your real capacity?
No need to answer out loud. Sit with whatever comes up.