Holistic Health Regeneration
for women at the threshold of midlife.
You deserve to get your health & vitality back. I help high-functioning women move from survival mode into self-trust, vibrant health & emotional wellbeing — so you can live the next phase phase of your life more present, calm and focused, and meaningfully productive.
You’re here if you want to slow down as you enter midlife to step off the auto-pilot after years of over-functioning and chronic stress.
You have a sense that reconnecting with your body will help you restore lasting health and a sense of wellbeing, and improve the quality of life.
Welcome.
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COACH l EMBODIMENT GUIDE l SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
Hi, I’m Katarina Hunter,
I believe that change, healing and growth isn't about optimising your health and routines or managing your stress better –- it's about slowing down enough to come home to your body, reconnecting with your needs, joy and desires, and learning to live from a place of inner safety — so that your health becomes a foundation for living a meaningful life, not something to consume or obsess about.
We cannot treat stress-related health problems without taking into account the entirety of a person's nervous system. When I started working with an embodiment coach, there was something profound happening when I was working with my own nervous system. It’s like I was finally coming home by being in my body. It felt safe, grounding and empowering. This was the missing piece.
I've spent over 8 years working with smart, capable professional women whose lives look successful on the outside but feel hollow, depleted and disconnected.
If you've been stuck in this survival mode for years (or decades) your body is probably saying ‘no more’ to the over-functioning and hyper-resilience that once made you successful. If you're done being everyone else's stress absorber and consuming wellness fixes and hacks that leave you feeling frustrated and stuck in the cycle of stress-overwhelm-exhaustion, you're in the right place.
My mission is to help you become more present, grounded, centred and regulated, so you can tune into true health and cultivate true resilience – de-prioritising quick fixes, and finding your way back to the innate wisdom already living in you.
Start here:
Calm the Overwhelm:
Free monthly gathering for women with somatic practice, holistic health coaching and community connection for women who want to slow down and step off the auto-pilot - to help your body reduce its chronic stress load.
Join me to learn simple, effective embodiment skills and nervous system regulation tools for slowing down just enough to safely turn down the false alarm in your nervous system, feel more grounded, centred and present in your day.
What women who attended have said:
‘ What really surprised me was how being guided to look into the distance and noticing the response in the body looking away from the screen gave my nervous system almost an instant relief. The simple practice Katarina shared were wonderful and I was able to feel more settled.’
— Becky
‘The session was great. One thing that stood out for me was how quickly I felt the response in my body through the eye-orientating practice and the sight brain connection. Katarina led us through a couple of practices and in under 30 minutes I could feel the change in my nervous system.’
— Maria L. Monserrate
‘What stayed with me most was how effective the session was without being overwhelming or complicated. Katarina has a natural ability to hold space in a way that feels both supportive and empowering. I left feeling more regulated, clear, and centred, and I could still feel the benefits unfolding for days afterward.’
— Masha M.
‘After the somatic practices that Katarina guided us through in the session, I noticed how things had slowed down for me and my awareness of my body and surroundings felt sharper. I appreciated the value of pausing for a few moments to simply be, because even though I already know how important and helpful rest is, I often prioritise other things on my 'to do' list.
— Ali
Decode Your Exhaustion:
A 1:1 personalised self-assessment and 90-minute session with an integration plan to stop your body’s energy leaks and traps.
You get to finally stabilise your nervous system, ease the pressure your body has been under, get clearer about your self-care need, and step into the path of accelerating your body’s return to vitality.
Free Resources
Calm Your Nervous System Using Your Sight
A 15-minute eye-orienting somato-sensory practice to cultivate felt sense of safety and calm chronic stress activation.
Where you look affects how you feel. We are going to be looking around the environment and stimulating our visual sense -- at the same time we are activating neural synapses within our brain.
Find a quiet space, listen in and tune into your environment to notice the regulating effects on your body, your nervous system state and your mood.
Navigating Silent Burnout: Women’s Hidden Struggle
Blog post
Do you find yourself going through the motions of your successful life while feeling increasingly hollow inside? Your friends call you resilient, your colleagues depend on your reliability, and everyone assumes you've got it all together. But inside, you're disconnected from what you actually feel or need.
But here's what makes this particularly challenging for high-functioning women: we've learned to override our body's signals. We've become so skilled at pushing through that we literally can't feel when something is wrong. We don't notice the early signs because we're disembodied.
Why Thinking Feels Safer Than Feeling
The Sensitive Professionals Podcast Interview
So many of us have learned to survive by staying in our heads - overthinking, analysing, planning, staying one step ahead. But what gets lost when thinking feels safer than feeling?
In this podcast interview we talked about why the mind starts to feel safer than the body – especially for sensitive women – and what it takes to gently come home to yourself.
Beyond People Pleasing
LinkedIn Live Dialogue
When ‘being nice’ starts to cost you your health, relationships and authenticity. Exploring the lesser-known nervous system survival strategy that shows up as being endlessly accommodating, agreeable, and emotionally attuned… until you’re burnt out, resentful, or quietly disappearing from yourself.
4 Major Signs You're in Need of a Regulation Reset
‘Overwhelm’ is a consistent feeling in your day to day life.
No matter how much you try to organise, delegate or meditate, you can't seem to get out from underneath the feeling of being buried under all you have to do and that you'll never truly be able to learn how to relax or rest. Life feels like the same damn thing after another and you wonder if you'll ever feel ‘caught up’.
You're having trouble identifying and communicating what you need.
You know you don't feel good, but you're not sure what to do about it. You recognise you need a change, but you don't even know where to start. Maybe you've experienced a big shift in your life recently or things have been building up over the years, but you know you don't want to move forward like this.
‘Body, what body?’
You may recognise you have something connected to your head that’s been carrying you around all these years, but you don’t have a physiological connection and sensory reference for what that means. You feel disconnected, distant, or completely cut off from the experience your body is having, and the aches and pains that seem to be growing more present by the day you either ignore or push through.
Even the word ‘boundaries’ makes you feel sick, let alone the thought of setting them.
You know you need boundaries and you're starting to feel resentful of all the time and energy you give to others but have no idea how to put all the information you've read about on Instagram and in self-help books, into action. You know you can't keep operating at this level of over-giving and over-functioning but can't seem to figure out how to stop this runaway train...
Of course, when your nervous system is stuck in chronic survival mode, that permission to hold your boundaries feels elusive and threatening.
Instead of saying no or enough, staying with yourself when disappointing others, you end up locked up in the same loops of over-giving, saying yes when you mean no, appeasing and people pleasing - - and feeling drained, anxious and disconnected.
It's not your fault. And it's not due to a lack of knowledge, either.
It's your nervous system trying to protect you in the best way it knows how.
But it's ready to learn a new strategy, don't you think?
If you want a safe space to explore how to get out of survival mode and back into alignment so you can actually live the full, complex, evolving life you were meant for - and in your body - Join my free monthly gathering for women with somatic practice and holistic health coaching to help your body reduce its chronic stress load.
CLIENT WORDS
What becomes possible.
‘I’ve been seeing a doctor for ten years for my Hashimoto’s, taking so many supplements and medication and nothing has helped my autoimmunity calm down as the work we have done on discharging stored stress and nervous system regulation…
‘I am amazed how stuck emotions in my body were causing this. I feel better, I sleep better, I don’t overeat, I don’t feel anxious anymore.’
- Nicola
‘I could never have imagined how just by bringing my attention to and noticing my body sensations for the first time was already going to bring me shifts in how I felt.
‘It feels like being home and safe in my body for the first time.’
- Michaela
‘We've barely scratched the surface and I am already seeing a huge difference in myself just after two weeks…
‘This feels like a huge cloud is lifting because in the past, despite eating well and exercising, I have found it really hard to shift anxiety and fully recover from burnout.’