
Where Neuroscience meets nurture
I help people rewire their nervous system default.
Nervous System Stabilization (Somatic Sensory Reflex Integration) In-Person & Online Coaching

Nervous System Stabilization (Somatic Sensory Reflex Integration) In-Person & Online Coaching
Are you being who you think you are…
or doing life on your nervous system default?
What if your identity wasn’t just mindset ~
but coded in movement…
and what your body is accessing automatically is
on default.
AND we can CHANGE it.
If something in you knows there’s more to why you are here ~ your soul purpose,
BUT your body hasn’t caught up yet ~
this is for you.
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Your body may be holding more than you realize.
You may know how to keep going.
You may know how to be capable, responsible, productive, helpful, and composed.
But underneath all of that, your body may still be bracing.
You may feel it in your jaw, shoulders, breath, abdomen, hips, sleep, movement, or ability to fully settle.
You may stretch, rest, meditate, receive massage, or tell yourself to relax—only to find that the same tension returns.
The MyShelle Method offers a different experience.
Rather than asking your body to let go, we begin by giving it something it may not have had enough of:
Clear, predictable, respectful support.
Through somatosensory bodywork, nervous system education, and guided self-practice, the MyShelle Method helps you reconnect with your body, recognize your boundaries, and expand your capacity to receive support without losing yourself.
Many people are deeply self-aware.
They understand their patterns.
They know why they react the way they do.
They have talked, analyzed, journaled, learned, and tried to change.
But the body may still respond before the conscious mind has time to intervene.
The MyShelle Method offers a non-verbal way to work with the patterns that words alone may not fully reach.
You do not need to explain everything before you begin.
You do not need to have the perfect language for what you are experiencing.
Your body is already communicating.
The MyShelle Method integrates practitioner bodywork, nervous system education, coaching, and self-application within one connected process.
During bodywork, you experience what it feels like to receive support from another person while remaining connected to your own body, boundaries, and choices.
Through coaching, you begin to understand the patterns your body may be expressing through tension, breathing, movement, emotions, habits, and relationships.
You are also taught simple practices to use between sessions, helping you continue the work for yourself rather than relying on the appointment to create every change.
The practitioner experience helps your body receive.
The coaching helps you understand.
The self-practice helps you integrate.
Together, these elements help the MyShelle Method become more than something that happens on the treatment table. It becomes a way of recognizing your needs, supporting yourself, receiving from others, and staying connected to yourself in everyday life.

In-person The MyShelle Method™: Somatic Sensory Reflex Integration
1:1 Nervous System Bestie Online Somatic Coaching (includes the Online Community)

Self to Self
Clients learn to build internal safety, body awareness, emotional clarity, and embodied self-trust.
Offered through online coaching. The client starts to self-support, and trust their own body.
Overall Self-trust
Results include:
Improved body awareness, emotional awareness, internal stability, and self-directed care.

Self to Loved Ones
The work supports healthier patterns of connection, belonging, co-regulation, and relational safety with children, partners, parents, and close loved ones.
Offered through one on one consultations, group workshops in-person or online. The client learns to experience safe connection with children, partners, parents, or cl
Self to Loved Ones
The work supports healthier patterns of connection, belonging, co-regulation, and relational safety with children, partners, parents, and close loved ones.
Offered through one on one consultations, group workshops in-person or online. The client learns to experience safe connection with children, partners, parents, or close loved ones.
Deep-Seated Belonging
Results include:
Improved co-regulation, relational attunement, family bonding, intimacy, and capacity to give and receive support.

Self to the World
Practitioner-led sessions provide a safe, professional environment where clients can experience respectful support, consent-based touch, and a new relationship with receiving help from others.
Offered through in-person body work sessions. The client learns to experience safe, structured support from a practitioner outsid
Self to the World
Practitioner-led sessions provide a safe, professional environment where clients can experience respectful support, consent-based touch, and a new relationship with receiving help from others.
Offered through in-person body work sessions. The client learns to experience safe, structured support from a practitioner outside the immediate family or intimate relationship system.
Trust in the External Environment
Results include:
Improved capacity to receive help, relate to external support, soften protective responses around authority, and build confidence in the outside world.
Join us and discover what MyShelle Method can do for you.

The process begins with supportive compression and predictable contact.
The body is given a clear sensory experience of containment—without being restrained, forced, or pushed.
This is where the body may begin to recognize:
I am being supported.
I do not have to create all of the pressure by myself.

Through somatosensory body mapping, you begin to notice where your body feels clear, distant, guarded, sensitive, connected, or difficult to sense.
This is not about judging what you find.
It is about developing a clearer internal relationship with your own body.

This can help you develop a clearer sense of where your body begins and ends, how one area connects to another, and how your body is organized from within.
Over time, you may feel more present in areas that once felt distant, disconnected, guarded, or difficult to sense.
The result is often a stronger internal sense of shape, direction, continuity, and personal boundaries.

As the work deepens, the body begins to explore larger relationships across the whole system.
You may become more aware of how the upper and lower body communicate, how the left and right sides work together, and how the front and back of the body support one another.
The work may also explore the relationship between your center and your outer boundaries, stability and movement, reaching and returning, and the difference between a healthy limit and a protective restriction.
A permission-based somatosensory session using somatic therapy such as compression, body mapping, Two Points of Contact, breath attunement, and supportive touch.
Learn the foundational practices you can use on yourself to build body awareness, self-support, and clearer internal boundaries.
Receive the work from a practitioner and learn how to continue the process between sessions.
Advanced education for practitioners who want to understand and apply the MyShelle Method professionally.
The MyShelle Method is not about pushing the nervous system toward calm.
It is about helping the body become more stable within itself.
Stabilization creates the foundation for:
Instead of asking your body to override what it is feeling, the work helps you become more aware of the signals that are already present.
The pauses matter.
The pressure matters.
The way contact begins and ends matters.
The body is given enough time to receive the experience before being asked to move on.

~ Michelle Carrie McDougall
A baby step in the right direction!
Community + online weekly coaching + a growing library of micro-classes and meditations to help you expand your nervous system capacity ~ one practice at a time.
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