There is a wise voice whispering inside.
She believes that thrive is more than possible — 

it’s in your nature.

 

 

Hey lovely soul, glad to have you here.
I’m Maxine, an Embodiment Coach for women who are wanting a more compassionate and nurturing relationship with themselves.

My coaching practice blends of somatic processes, self-reflective inquiry, and nature connection. Our goal in working together is bringing you in coherence with your truth, and tending to the needs and desires that support your thriving.

Offering my services as a coach has come about through a long, ripening road of teaching yoga, training in Somatic Experiencing, caregiving, and offering nature inspired experiences. You can read more about my journey here –  it’s a story likely a lot like yours  full of “what am I even doing and why?” moments and returning to the golden thread of vision and heart over and over, and over. 

 

3 Ways to Work Together to Enrich Your Embodiment Journey:

The outer ring:
WILDERNEST MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP

The Wildernest is Maxine’s monthly membership hosted on Mighty Networks. Your subscription includes monthly live embodiment workshops and access to all previous replays, along with Maxine’s full guided practice library and a space for self-expression in our group forum. Subscription is $54/CAN per month with no minimum commitment for how long you stay. To read more and to join click below.

✺Join the Wildernest Here✺

The inner circle:
TEND, GROUP COACHING MEMBERSHIP

Tend is a 7 month coaching container for tending to the conditions that nourish your vitality. Your Vitality being the expression of your embodiment when life is moving through you in a self-nurturing, self-honouring way. We practice stripping away layers and getting down to the foundation of your desires, needs and values, and nourishing your body and spirit with somatic work, visioning, and coaching.  Tend includes access our Wildernest monthly workshops. 

To learn more about the next cohort of Tend click here

The Nurture Your Nature Mentorship

oooh this one. This option is for you if you’re seeking 6 months of steady, transformational, and compassionate mentorship. NYN is Embodiment Coaching to listen to your needs, desires and values. This is for alignment and devotion to your thriving. The women who have signed up for this have listened to inner callings and navigated deep shifts. Learn more here

Complimentary Application Call

TESTIMONIALS


I reached out to Maxine at the end of February of this year before our world turned upside down. I have known her for years to be a compassionate, powerful, determined and incredibly wise woman. I was looking for answers to “what comes next” in the wake of a very busy 3 decades as a single mother, full time frontline worker and a rather traumatic journey of personal challenges. I didn’t really know what to expect on this Nurture your Nature journey but I put my trust in her and the journey. We managed one in person meeting and then we were confronted with negotiating our new world (Covid-19) through online meetings.

My view of the first stage in nurture your nature is accepting and getting comfortable with where we are in the world and getting real with how we truly feel about ourselves (overall rather yucky to be honest). I felt very accepted and completely seen by Maxine and able to reach past my normal comfort levels and tap in to some very sad and uncomfortable past events living within me.   Her ability to use her training to help me feel and experience things beyond my consciousness slowly helped me see what I needed and wanted to move forward. Halfway through this time my father become critically ill and passed away leaving our family coping with loss and more lockdown challenges. I was able not only to cope but to honour and treasure his passing in a way that I would have never dreamed possible without Maxine’s help.

I found myself asking “what is holding me back” from letting go and stepping more fully in to life. I let go of a long time friendship that had been causing pain and sadness for years, this still hurts but also feels like a healthy decision. I walk every day and now try to experience it more, the trees, the birds, the sun and wind. When it is crazy hot outside I love to walk barefoot for a few blocks, I feel so connected, so a part of the earth. With her guidance I came up with a few goals and dreams, one is to walk the Bruce trail. A friend and I are doing it in 5 km sections whenever we have time free. The other is to stand beside women who have experienced pain and trauma and are wanting to get their lives back. A short time ago I was asked to be on our peer support team and have just completed the training. I hope that this will help me fulfill my need to be of service.   I am by no means free and clear of anxiety and depression but I feel hopeful and able to move forward instead of feeling stuck. I miss our weekly meetings but I know she is available for consults in the future and this reassures next that all will be well.

Thank you Maxine for your compassion, your trust in yourself for creating this program and following your own heart and dreams.

 

-Michelle Reedman, Paramedic, Dog Lover, Kickass Mother, Nurture Your Nature Client

TESTIMONIALS

What I loved about working with Maxine was how she changed my perspective on what doing the work can look like. She has empowered me to nurture self-compassion by learning to listen to the wisdom of my body and nourish the parts that feel numb or forgotten. 

 

Maxine has such a warm soul, she is always consistent in the way she shows up for you throughout her coaching process and beyond. Her natural ability to create such a safe and welcoming space through our online calls has shown me how to believe in myself and celebrate every opportunity when I remember to come back to what my body needs. 

 

When I first started the mentorship I was new to embodiment practices and I was drawn to the way Maxine reframes how to understand the response of our nervous systems. I also appreciated the way she guides you to reach for support from natural landscapes. Throughout our mentorship, she supported me through identifying my desires and realizing that I was desperately searching for external validation when what I was truly missing was an affirmation from myself that I am worthy of love.

 

 

The story I told myself was that I need to over-function and people please in my relationships in order to deserve love and belonging. Through many guided grounding practices during our calls and prompts through the journal workbook she shares with you, I experienced a profound shift in the way I notice my patterns change and in turn, my relationships slowly felt a weight lifted. I am constantly reminding myself to be aware of old patterns of fawning but I now know to not feel the pressure that I need to reach a certain point of healing to be worthy. I carry the practices and moments of kindness and compassion that Maxine shared with me for the rest of my life and I am so grateful that she created such a gentle but powerful space to grow into the woman I desire to be.

 

 

No matter where you are on your journey Maxine will support you, anyone who is curious to become more attentive of how to show up for themselves the way they do for others, will love this mentorship opportunity. Her wisdom and care to invite to the surface aspects of yourself that are craving attention and love will give you a beautiful foundation to continue the work even after the program ends.

 

Sharzard Gharabaghi, Graduate of Environmental Studies, Lover of Forests, Nurture Your Nature Client


I love to hangout in the space between your animal body and your meaning-making spirit;
The place where your body’s intuitive responses meet how you make meaning about your life and the world around you.

I truly feel there is so much choice here, in this space between, if only we can slow down just a little bit more to feel into it.

 

If you knew it was safe and there was plenty of time:
What you create?
What would you explore?
How would you express?

 

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What is Embodiment Coaching?

Embodiment Coaching helps you connect to your life as a body and engage with your life through the presence of your whole self. Those sensations in your belly, the buzzing in your throat, the peacefulness when surrounded by what nourishes you, all of this is information. Wise information from an intuitive place. Through Embodiment Coaching you learn techniques for connecting mind and body.

My approach is geared specifically to help women embody self nurturing through a combination of somatic, mindset, and nature connection practices, with a trauma informed and nervous system education background. In our Western culture, many of us feel disconnected from our bodies and from the power of the feminine: the flow of creative impulses and our innate cyclic rhythms. This disconnection can actually be a technique we develop to feel safer amidst distressing inner sensations. We push away vulnerability. We push away desire. Because at one time, these weren’t safe to feel. Instead of focusing on our own bodies and person, we have overactive minds, or we place all our attention on orbiting around the needs of others. We lose the ability to articulate our needs and desires and feel misaligned.

With my approach, I understand that connecting your body may feel like a not-so-cozy place sometimes. And yet, if we stay numb we miss out on harnessing all of the wisdom the body offers, using this wisdom to help transform our obstacles into fuel for growth. We lose out on intuition, creativity and the possibility to experience joy and beauty as a body.  We also miss a sense of belonging. We are more stressed, irritated, and less fulfilled. This is why I offer a combination of focusing in and out, using mind, body and nature connection practices, to develop skills for embodied living. Embodiment Coaching supports you experiencing life in fullness so that you can offer your empowered caring to this world with confidence and self-sustainability.  

Self Nurturing does not just mean resourcing on your own. Everyone needs support.  The most nurturing version of you stands with yourself in your times of need, helps you ask, and helps you receive.