IT’S TIME TO STOP BEING EVERYONE ELSE’S STRESS ABSORBER.
I help high-achieving women in midlife move from survival stress and coping mode to vibrant health, emotional balance and inner peace.
Find freedom from chronic stress, exhaustion and over-functioning through nervous system healing -- so you can take up space, build your self-trust and tune into true health.
I’m so glad you’re here.
You’re here if you want to slow down as you enter midlife to navigate the bigger changes going on in your life but you need help to stop stress manifesting in your body, draining your energy. You’re tired of external fixes and surface-level solutions that leave you feeling hollow inside.
You’re at the backend of an exhausting career feeling numb, fatigued and lethargic. Looking for change but struggling with underlying chronic stress, anxiety and feelings of overwhelm from years of working over capacity.
You’ve realised that you've been looking for answers outside of yourself all the time. You just know deep inside that it's time to look within, but you need help as you don't know how to come back to yourself and where to start, without losing everything you’ve worked so hard for.
If this is you, I see you and I understand how you feel. I’ve been there! You’re not broken and I’m glad you are following your deeper sense! You’re in the right place.
Welcome.
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH COACH
EMBODIMENT GUIDE
NERVOUS SYSTEM HEALING
SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
Hi, I’m Katarina Hunter.
I believe that you can live the next phase of your life from a place of inner peace and focus, meaningfully productive, grounded in your body’s innate wisdom, living sustainably within your energy and capacity.
Achievement doesn’t have to come at the cost of your health, quality of life and wellbeing. And it if has, it’s not your fault! The culture and systems that we live in keep us and our nervous systems permanently on high-alert. And we haven’t been modelled how to take care of ourselves, build ecosystems of care and connection that nourish us back to health, and how to tend to our needs.
It’s no wonder we are silently burnt out, and feel like something is ‘off’. The constant pressure demands that you disconnect from yourself so you can keep up. We are conditioned to ignore our body and to override exhaustion with our the power of the mind.
Midlife has a way of showing that we can’t keep going in that same pace, ignoring your body, as you may have in previous decades. Your stress-related symptoms are messages from the body, saying ‘no more’ to the hyper-resilience and over-functioning that once made you successful.
And then we are fed wellness ideas that if only you work on your motivation, your mindset, exercise more, eat healthier - that you will somehow be well. So instead of wellness bringing you home to yourself (your body), we become obsessive or fear food or we feel like our bodies are fragile. That’s wellness getting in the way of living. So you keep searching for the perfect technique to manage better what is essentially a dysfunction and an overwhelmed and depleted nervous system.
We have to strike a balance and instead find wellness by returning to being in relationship with your body so you can finally inhabit it, be at home in your core true self.
Felt sensation is the doorway into our bodies and emotional trauma and conditioned thinking need to be addressed in the body if we are to heal and grow. Return to safety to stabilise the nervous system is essential if we want to have capacity for the big things in life.
I’m a certified, trauma-educated Integrative Health Coach & Somatic Practitioner with 8 years experience of working with women’s embodied wellbeing 1:1 and in groups, and over 20 years of being on my own healing journey. My pain and passion are both rooted in childhood where the seeds were planted for my deep interest in searching how we, humans and women in particular, truly heal and change. I wish someone gave me what I know today, back then, and spared me the chronic health issues, the anxiety, the emotional pain and the internal struggle I experienced.
What makes my practice different:
Addressing the root causes of chronic stress and it impact on your body, not just managing symptoms
Nervous system healing through regulation and body-mind integration that don’t require rehashing trauma
Integrative nutrition to eliminate hidden stressors in the physiology focused on replenishment and food as joy, without restrictive dieting, punishing fasting routines or harsh cleanses
Cultivating embodied boundaries and reclaiming anger and emotional processing as a natural source of personal power, authentic expression as well as strong and healthy immune system
Restoring your body’s innate healing capacity and stepping into your agency instead of relying on endless external fixes.
I offer somatic therapy, embodiment and integrative nutrition health coaching via 1:1 sessions online. I also offer free monthly gathering for women with somatic practice and community connection.
Start here:
Calm the Overwhelm. Reduce Your Body’s Chronic Stress Load.
Free monthly gathering for high-functioning women, with guided somatic practice, holistic health coaching and community connection for high-achieving women who want to discover practical tools to start creating space and ease in your body and life.
Join me to start slowing down enough to safely turn down the false alarm in your nervous system, calm the anxiety underneath the over-functioning, and feel more grounded, centred and energised 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. Calm the Chaos.
A 1:1 personalised self-assessment and 90-minute session with a integration protocol ‘Nourish’ 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 Might Need of Nervous System Healing
‘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 — then 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, holistic health coaching and community connection 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.’