HEY THERE
I’m Alyssa. I’m glad you’re here. This page shares a little of my journey — not as a highlight reel, but as an honest unfolding of how I learned to listen to my body, my nervous system, and the quiet truth underneath it all.
This Is How I Arrived Here
My path has been shaped by listening recently— often after my body asked me to slow down.
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I have spent over two decades in corporate environments, primarily in technology, transformation, and change roles. From the outside, it looks like success. From the inside, my nervous system was adapting constantly. I was capable, high‑functioning, and largely disconnected from my body.
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In 2015, the loss of my mother created the first deep rupture to my safety. In 2018, another pivotal experience quietly dismantled the identity I had been living from. What followed was not a dramatic reinvention, but a gradual remembering.
I began exploring conscious awareness work, starting with Conscious Parenting by Dr. Shefali as I realized my kids were taking the brunt of my uncertainty and fear. I learned how to reparent myself through them and move through other modalities, I was in search and over time each new experience offered insight, yet I often found myself moving in and out of anxiety.
Awareness was expanding faster than safety. Searching externally and taking extreme actions was not the answer.
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I decided to not leave my current livelihood behind. I stayed — and learned to inhabit it differently and start a new journey inward.
When I Learned to Listen to My Nervous System
In 2023, I completed a mindful business coaching certification through Mindvalley. It helped me bring more humanity into leadership, decision‑making, and work — but something essential was still missing for me. I was making peace with my present moment in work and life but it was not until 2024 when a missing piece revealed itself.
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Learning that a family member was living with a shutdown nervous system reframed everything I thought I understood about behavior, capacity, and healing. In the calling and determination to help them, I naturally was helping myself in the endless searching I did online.
Book after book and endless ads trying to help me with my searching, I began to recognize how much of my own life had been shaped by subtle survival states — hidden beneath competence, productivity, and resilience.
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This was my true introduction to nervous system work.
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Not as a concept. Not as a method. But as lived understanding.
"The gentleness was not a limitation. It was the medicine."
When the Body Felt Safe
I found Spinal Flow Technique as I was beginning to understand the basics of my nervous system — not before. In all the searching I found so many modalities to help; somatics, chiropractics, yoga, network spinal, spinal flow, etc.
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By then, I knew my system was not asking for more effort, insight, or intensity. It was asking for safety. Spinal Flow Technique and somatic exercises met me gently. There was no force, no emotional excavation, no requirement to be ready for transformation. Even though I was so used to transformation in my day-to-day, my body wasn't ready to take the jump and take huge risks.
These modalities respected the body’s innate intelligence and capacity for change, allowing stored stress and protective patterns to unwind naturally through the spine.
The gentleness was not a limitation. It was the medicine.
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In 2025, a Spinal Flow certification was the calling— not as a pursuit, but as a continuation of what my body already trusted and how I new I could help those that I loved.
FINDING GOLD
Finding Gold felt like it has been there since I can remember, but it wasn't until I could define it from an internal perspective not an external one.
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It is not a method to fix or optimize. It is a philosophy and a lived practice rooted in remembrance.
Finding Gold exists for moments when safety returns to the body, clarity returns to the mind, and self‑trust becomes quiet and steady.
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It is not something to strive for. It is something to uncover, we are looking within.
Finding Gold's Philosophy
You are not broken.
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You are not behind.
You are not missing anything.
The gold you are searching for already exists within your body, awareness, and lived experience.
Finding Gold is a mirror — not a guru.
It is a place to remember what has always been here.
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~ Alyssa
