Most of us are walking through life on autopilot, body’s here, but we’re not actually in it. We miss the signals, override the cues, and wonder why we can’t trust ourselves.
Presence isn’t some big spiritual thing. It’s practicing coming back to your body, over and over, until your nervous system learns it’s safe to stay.
If you want to go deeper and build real capacity for regulation (not just moments of relief), my 10-Day Vagus Nerve Reset teaches you how to actually listen to what your body’s been trying to tell you.
L!nk in b!o or comment VAGUS. Let’s build that foundation.
10/24/2025
Healing happens through small but mighty shifts. Intellect can’t take you there, the body can. Check out my 5–Day Burnout Rebellion for three small but mighty practices per day.
L!nk in b!o or comment BURNOUT
10/23/2025
No one needs to tell you how to move but there are tools to help tune in to yourself. Check out my 10–Day Vagus Nerve Reset to get better acquainted with your nervous system. L!nk in b!o or comment VAGUS to start today.
10/22/2025
The nervous system can’t change from where it wishes it was, only from where it actually is. Accuracy is the foundation of transformation. Check out my 7–Day Somatic Self and dive deeper. L!nk in b!o or comment SELF
10/20/2025
I see more and more people burning out BECAUSE they’re trying to heal. It’s time to bring it back to the basics and keep it simple. Check out my 5-day Burnout Rebellion for simple yet mighty tangible tools! L!nk in b!o or comment BURNOUT
10/20/2025
Not pictured: me actually working—though it barely felt like work. Presenting at the National Women’s Bar Association Summit meant spending time with some of the most remarkable women I’ve ever met.
Pictured: Cannon and me squeezing in enough adventures to make our arms sore and our sides hurt from laughing.
10/19/2025
The vagus nerve is sensory afferent meaning the bulk of the communication through that communication superhighway is coming FROM the body TO the brain. So “fake it til you make it” can actually work.
Learn how to tap in to your somatic self with my 7-day intro course! L!nk in b!o or comment SELF
10/16/2025
This isn’t a trend. It’s a trap—for your stress response.
Check out my 10-Day Vagus Nerve Reset for an excellent dive into the nervous system!
L!nk in b!o or comment VAGUS
10/16/2025
If this hit something in you — start simple.
My 10-Day Vagus Nerve Reset gives you 2–5 minute daily practices to soothe and strengthen your system and reconnect to your body.
No fluff. No “just think positive.” Just science-backed regulation.
You can start today —> L!nk in b!o or comment VAGUS
10/15/2025
Check out my 5–Day Burnout Rebellion for five days of actionable steps to discharge energy and reset your system.
L!nk in b!o or comment BURNOUT
10/13/2025
Your body IS giving you signals—you just learned to interpret familiarity as safety.
The work isn’t fixing your nervous system. It’s befriending it and learning to listen.
Want to learn how to distinguish between the two? L!nk in b!o → The Somatic Self
10/12/2025
Regulated doesn’t mean calm. It means connected.
Not the absence of big emotions, but the presence of connection—to yourself, to your body, to what’s actually happening in the moment.
There are three pathways to get there, and most of us have only been taught one (if that). We override, push through, or white-knuckle our way to “fine” instead of actually finding our way back to ourselves.
Real regulation is felt. It’s the difference between shutting down your anger and actually metabolizing it. Between numbing anxiety and learning what it’s trying to tell you. Between performing okay and actually being okay.
If you want to experience what it feels like to come back to yourself in your body—that’s exactly what we do in The Somatic Self. L!nk in b!o or comment SELF
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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
