Ruth Shearer
Somatic Depth Coaching
You've built a successful life. But does it actually feel like yours?
You've achieved, performed and done what was expected of you. You know how to make things happen. But somewhere along the way, you may have lost touch with what you actually want, what matters to you, and what makes you feel truly alive.
Somatic coaching helps you move beyond understanding yourself intellectually, working with the body and your desires, to begin living in a way that feels genuinely your own.
Guided by 20+ years in finance leadership, and the work of coming home to myself.
The Body Knows What The Mind Has Talked Itself Out Of
If This Is You
You might:
• Achieve what you aimed for and still feel empty
• Hold everything together all week, leaving little energy for your own life
• Be relied on by everyone else, but struggle to know what you actually want for yourself
• Understand your patterns intellectually, but keep repeating them
• Find yourself saying yes when something in you wants to say no
• Feel disconnected from your body, desires or pleasure
• Long for deeper intimacy, connection, creativity - or simply to feel more alive
You don't need to identify with all of these. You may simply know that something in your life needs to change.
Why The Body?
Because the body often responds before the mind has caught up.
Your mind can explain, rationalise and make sense of almost anything. But your body can reveal what you may have learned to ignore.
The tension you carry. The emotions you hold back. The moments you contract or come alive. The desires you may have learned to silence.
When you begin to pay attention to these signals, you can develop a deeper understanding of yourself and make choices that reflect what you actually want.
The body isn't separate from your mind. It is part of how you know yourself.
When Thinking Isn't Enough
You can understand yourself deeply and still find yourself repeating the same patterns.
You can know exactly why you do something, yet still struggle to change it.
You can spend years making sense of your experiences without getting any closer to what you truly want.
Somatic coaching offers a different way in.
By working with the body as well as the mind, we explore what lies beneath the thoughts - the emotions, sensations, desires and responses that can be difficult to access through thinking alone.
What Changes
This work can create change in ways that are both subtle and profound.
You may find yourself:
• Clearer on what you truly want and more able to make choices that reflect it
• Expressing your needs and desires with greater confidence
• Experiencing more depth, intimacy and connection in your relationships
• Reconnecting with pleasure, creativity and a sense of aliveness
• Feeling more at home in your body, and more fulfilled in the life you're living
You have more capacity for life - and you feel more fully in it.
Somatic depth coaching is a different kind of coaching. It works with the whole of you - your body, mind, emotions, nervous system, desires and deeper sense of self.
My approach is grounded in VITA™ Coaching, a desire-led methodology developed by Layla Martin that integrates somatic embodiment practices, neurobiology, conscious connected breathwork and energy practices.
This is an active, experiential process. Alongside conversation, we use body-based practices to explore what arises. This might involve noticing sensations, working with emotions that have been difficult to feel, or connecting with desires you haven't yet acknowledged.
The work is tailored to you and we orient towards your goal or desire. We begin by exploring what you truly want for yourself and your life, and what may be standing in the way. From there, we follow what emerges, exploring the emotions, beliefs and deeper patterns that may be influencing your choices, and helping you to connect more deeply to what is true for you.
This work helps you learn to listen to your body again, so every part of you can move towards the life you truly want to live, and you can feel free to be more of who you truly are.
What Somatic Depth Coaching Is
What Somatic Depth Coaching Is
About Ruth
For two decades, I worked in senior finance leadership, leading teams, navigating demanding environments and carrying significant responsibility.
I knew how to achieve, perform and make things happen. I had built a successful career, and, from the outside, a succesful life.
But increasingly, I felt I was living in two different worlds.
There was the version of me that could excel in a high-pressure environment, and another part of me that longed for something more. More freedom, more connection, more pleasure. More life.
What I hadn't fully realised was how much of my own energy, creativity and vitality I'd learned to hold back. I was capable of so much, yet there were parts of myself I wasn't fully experiencing.
Through breathwork, embodiment and deep inner work, I began reconnecting with parts of myself I'd lost touch with.
I began to feel more of myself again.
It's been a journey of rediscovering my energy, my pleasure, my power, and the freedom to be more fully me. And it's a journey that continues.
Today, I bring together my leadership experience with the depth of somatic embodiment and my training in VITA™ Coaching, creating space for others to explore their own path towards greater freedom, connection and aliveness.
My work is about helping you reconnect with more of who you really are, and discovering the freedom to live from that place.
If that speaks to you, I'd love to hear from you.
Curious to Explore What's Possible?
A Journey, not a one-off session
Meaningful change takes time.
Our work together creates space to explore what you truly want, connect more deeply with your body, emotions and desires, and work with your nervous system to create meaningful, embodied change.
I offer three coaching journeys, tailored to your goals and the depth of transformation you're seeking.