what is the MyShelle Method
What Is the MyShelle Method?
The MyShelle Method helps women build a supportive bond within their bodies co they can be themselves and create a life that feels safe, connected and truly their own.
We start at the roots... the body itself.
The foundation of the Myshelle Method is "body first" with a somatic and neurodevelopmental approach designed to support nervous system stabilization.
It brings together body-based contact, sensory awareness, primitive reflex integration, education, and coaching to explore the physical patterns beneath emotional and behavioural reactions.
Rather than only asking, “How can I stop reacting?” the method also asks:
What is happening in the body before the reaction?
What has the body learned to do automatically?
What kind of support might help the body respond differently?
This changes the focus from correcting yourself to developing a more supportive relationship with yourself.
From this stability within your physical yourself we evolve emotionally and intellectually as we fill in the gaps.
The Philosophy
Mothering the Nervous System
Mothering the nervous system is not about being a parent.
Mothering the Nervous System is the philosophy at the heart of the MyShelle Method.
It means learning to respond to your body with awareness, contact, support, and attunement instead of continually trying to correct, pressure, or override it.
It is about learning how to nurturing and care for your body with patience, consistency, curiosity, and love.
Here we learn to offer that support to ourselves.
Here we learn to offer it to someone we love.
And sometimes we need to receive that support from a trained practitioner.
No matter where you begin, the goal is the same, to help your body develop a greater sense of stability so that healing, growth, and connection can unfold from a stronger foundation.
Many women have learned how to care for other people while ignoring their own signals. They may suppress their needs, tolerate discomfort, push through stress, or criticize themselves when their bodies do not cooperate.
Mothering the Nervous System begins when you start nurturing yourself and stop treating your body as something that must be controlled. Focusing on curiosity, compassion, and awareness we start building a deeper relationship within through what the body is communicating.
It starts with the bond.
The bond you build within yourself becomes the foundation for the bonds you build around you.
The 3 Dimensions of Development
The Internal Safety Map
The Attachment Safety Map
The Attachment Safety Map
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.
The Attachment Safety Map
The Attachment Safety Map
The Attachment Safety Map
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.
The External Safety Map
The Attachment Safety Map
The External Safety Map
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.
Foundations of the Myshelle Method
Somatosensory Bodywork
Somatosensory refers to the way the nervous system receives and processes information from the body.
This includes touch, pressure, body position, movement, boundaries, internal sensation, and orientation in space.
Somatosensory bodywork uses intentional contact and sensory input to support greater body awareness and organization.
Sessions may include rhythmic compression, body mapping, two points of contact, movement observation, breath awareness, and other individualized practices.
Contact is adjusted according to your comfort, consent, responses, and needs.
For coaching sessions this is taught as a self help application and is a main part of the practice before receiving from a practitioner.
This is not simply something being done to your body. It is an opportunity to develop a clearer relationship with what your body is experiencing.
Neurodevelopmental Primitive Reflex Integration
Neurodevelopmental Primitive Reflex Integration
Primitive reflexes are automatic movement and survival patterns that support early development.
They influence movement, posture, sensory processing, feeding, orientation, bonding, protection, coordination, and responses to stress.
As development progresses, early reflex patterns generally become part of more mature movement and response patterns.
When reflexive patterns remain strongly active, they may continue to influence how the body responds to movement, touch, stress, relationships, and the surrounding environment.
Primitive reflex integration is used within the MyShelle Method as one lens for understanding automatic physical patterns. It is not used to reduce every emotional or behavioural experience to one reflex.
