Hi, I’m Rachel Hardy – Somatic Coach, nervous system educator, and spiritual guide. I help high-performing, spiritually-attuned people who’ve done the work – therapy, mindset, shadow work, inner child, all of it – and still feel like something isn’t quite landing.
Maybe it looks like burnout. Maybe you feel wired but exhausted – like the gas and brakes are both stuck on at the same time. Maybe you’re in a “functional freeze” pattern.. showing up and accomplishing what needs to be done, but missing the connection to your vitality, creativity, and flow. Either way, it’s not just “stress”. It’s dysregulation.
When trauma is stored in the body, no amount of mindset work or journalling can fully shift it – because the old, stuck stress response is still running the show beneath the surface.
This isn’t a mindset problem.
It’s not about not “wanting it enough.”
It’s your nervous system doing exactly what it was wired to do: protect you from threat.
But now it’s time to rewire that pattern, so your system learns it’s safe to expand.
My Story (And Why I Do This Work)
I spent much of my life in that freeze state.
At fourteen, passionate to build a better world, I took off on a trip to do volunteer work in the Amazon Jungle. I came home sick – and never fully recovered (for a few decades, anyway).
What followed was thirty years of autoimmune illness (ME/CFS), clinical depression, medication after medication, and the kind of relentless self-management that left me exhausted and disconnected from my own aliveness.
And here’s the thing: I was still doing well on the outside.
I built and ran a thriving myofascial release practice in Los Angeles that helped hundreds of folks heal their bodies and recover from pain.
I trained in acting and spent years immersed in theatre, film, and telling stories that moved something in me. I explored every healing modality I could find. I was deeply devoted to my spiritual path. Externally, I was doing all the right things and doing them well.
But I was also constantly coping.
There was always an invisible weight I was carrying – one that others couldn’t see, but I couldn’t shake.
Everything changed in 2016, when I came off antidepressants and spiraled into the most intense, prolonged physical and emotional crash I’d ever experienced. It was dark – and it cracked something wide open.
I discovered the work of nervous system regulation and somatic trauma resolution.
Not just “try this technique” kind of work… but real rewiring, lasting trauma release, and reconnection to the body’s natural rhythms.
Over the next two years, I fully healed the chronic illness that had shaped my life since I was a teenager.
I got off every medication.
My energy came back.
I started to feel – maybe for the first time – what it was like to live in a body that felt good, safe… and free just to be alive without managing all the time
The Deeper Why
My clients are brilliant.
They’re entrepreneurs, creatives, healers, therapists. They’ve read the books. They’ve sat in ceremony. They’re not new to this.
But they’re still running survival responses that block their creative flow, intuitive clarity, emotional presence, and sense of ease.
They’re still experiencing over-efforting, under-receiving, or the kind of low-level burnout that doesn’t stop them… but does keep them from fully thriving – and from manifesting that next level of expansion that they can taste but is just out of reach.
That’s what I help with:
I guide people into real, embodied regulation… where you don’t just understand your patterns, you rewire them – for good.
Where you stop “managing” your body, and start partnering with it.
Where your spiritual knowing becomes lived experience at a felt-sense level.
Where your creative power to manifest all you’re here for becomes the way of being.
How I Work
My work bridges science and soul.
I’m a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® (SEP), trained in Dr. Peter Levine’s trauma resolution approach through Somatic Experiencing International (SEI). I’m also trained in Somatic EMDR through the Embody Lab and have completed extensive study in trauma-informed somatic modalities. With over two decades of experience in body-based healing, I now work virtually with clients around the world… blending guided somatic work, nervous system education, and spiritual insight to support deep regulation and the release of stored stress.
You’ll find me weaving nervous system education with astrological insight, coaching with deep somatic attunement, and spiritual guidance with grounded, real-life application. My work integrates both the science of trauma and the intuitive intelligence of the soul – including astrology, the Akashic Records, and embodied spiritual connection.
Because true regulation isn’t about stacking practices or techniques.
It’s about reorganizing your nervous system’s response to life – so that clarity, creativity, and presence arise naturally. Not because you’re managing your state every day, or doing all the practices to “regulate”… but because your body knows how to be in flow, move through stress, and return to balance: even under pressure, change, or uncertainty.
Living from Regulation
Today, I live in a body I trust.
I’m nine years medication-free (miracle, right there… as for most of my life, I couldn’t actually function without multiple meds, to manage both pain and my brain’s erratic wiring).
I get to help others reclaim their energy, clarity, and power.
And I travel the world full-time as a nomad, experiencing a level of freedom that I never would have dreamed would be possible in this lifetime.
It’s not perfect. It’s not linear.
But it’s real – and it holds.
(If you want to read the full story, my book is here – The Shape of Happiness. Part memoir, part medicine, for anyone navigating the impossible places).
Want to Work Together?
I work with a small number of private 1:1 clients and small group cohorts.
If you’ve done the deep inner work but are still bumping into invisible upper limits, I can help you release the patterns held in the body so you can create, lead, and live from a place of nervous system-rooted clarity, power, and freedom.
You can start by:
Drop me a note – let’s connect
Listen to the Podcast: Nervous System Alchemy
And if you’re not sure what’s right — just reach out.
I’ll meet you where you are.
xo
Rachel