Shape Shift 

Shape Shift is not your traditional program for achieving goals, another thing added on your to-do list or about going through the motions. 

It’s here to rewire you at an identity level so that you crave what truly serves you. You have a crush on your own life.

This is a system designed to reprogram what you think you’re capable of on the levels that actually matter.

A 3 month program that will then become a lifetime.

You know what to do but aren’t doing it.

This is for you if you’re a woman on the other side of 35 who from the outside, have a great life. 

And yet you have a secret goal or vision for yourself that’s at times a flicker of inspiration but more often, a nagging anchor of a dream draining your verve.

When you make progress, which is often - you can't figure out why you keep self-sabotaging when you really, truly want this for yourself.

There’s a battle raging in your head in which you want more, but in that moment of choice, you can’t quite get yourself to do it. 

Maybe it’s starting your novel, ordering the salad, saying no to the volunteer gig you know you truly don’t have time or energy for, or passing on the wine to get a good sleep.

These things should be SO EASY for someone like you and yet…? 

Yes mindset, yes movement, yes to a library of personal development books - you have all the tools! You’re ready to commit to yourself in a deeper way. 

For you, it's less about self-control and more about self-authority. 

Here’s what you can expect when you join Shape Shift

More often than not, you'll go from... 

• White-knuckling your way through your evenings as the cheese and crackers call your name…to being immensely satisfied with a ginger tea and your book.  

• Secretly seething when you see an old acquaintance from high school get published… to being genuinely inspired.

• Thinking I’ll start over tomorrow. Overindulging then dealing with the remorse hangover that lingers into the next day…to being a take-it-or-leave-it person when it comes to sweets.

• Staring into your closet lamenting about what to wear...to enjoying getting dressed and feeling comfortable and stylish in all your clothes.

• Resenting your husband because he didn’t notice you’ve released 10lbs!...to being so self-assured, YOU don’t even notice he didn’t notice.

Imagine that you (yes YOU) could...

• Experience your body as a beautiful vessel that exists to experience life regardless of the scale number
• Vivify your deepest desires so that your energetic baseline is motivated
• Eat only when you’re hungry, stop at enough and choose foods that serve you?
• See any self-judgement or criticism as benign or even hilarious
• Do mindset work, go to the gym, write that book, have the tough conversation, NOT because it’s the “right” thing to do but because it’s simply who you are and you genuinely WANT to.

Mindset & Embodiment

Mindset

In Shape Shift I’ll help you understand yourself - why you do what you do. 

You’ll learn how to relate to the parts of yourself who want to stay the same, the parts that are scared; who have so much evidence you can’t do it. Your current identity LOVES this old story.

We won’t chastise or ignore these parts of you. You’ll learn how to access the wisdom there and this integration process will catapult your success. 

Embodiment

I’ll teach you how to process your emotions so that they don’t subconsciously run your life through “self-sabotage.” You’ll also learn how to relate to them differently so that instead of avoiding negative emotion, you USE it to take action in your life.

Join the new paradigm

We can’t change what’s outside of our awareness. It’s time to deconstruct invisible, often internalized structures that keep us small and distracted. 

Loving your body and wanting to change it.

Loving yourself and wanting to be different. 

These are not paradoxes. 

Everything we do inside this program is a bold expression of our unwavering wholeness as a worthy human being. 

The old paradigm tells us we need to feel terrible about ourselves in order to change. We know differently.

You are worthy of your dreams and your dreams are worthy of you.

What you’ll learn

Inside the Video Training Series:

Module 1: Cultivate Awareness

First you’ll get clear on what you TRULY want and learn how to infuse that goal with desire so it doesn’t feel like another “should” in your life but fills you with aliveness. 

Then we’re shifting gears, focussing on WHO you need to become in order to make that goal inevitable - merely days on the calendar.

We’ll be dropping self judgment to create self-awareness, uncovering the patterns and constructs you’re unconsciously living.

Are you...

• An all-or-nothing person?
• Someone who can’t follow through?
• Someone who needs a glass of wine or a bag of chips to unwind and relax?
• Requiring your body to release 20 lbs before you're "deserving" of buying new clothes?

We must make these constructs known so we can uncover what those parts of you truly need, validate them and then let them go.

Only from there, can we then connect with an irresistible future and construct your new identity.

Module 2: Embody Your New Identity

You’ll learn specific rituals and practices to overcome our brain’s natural tendency to be negative.

Together we’ll navigate common obstacles so you can follow through, acting from this new identity even on days when you want to say, ah screw it.

You’ll learn specific embodiment sequences to generate motivation and determination on demand.

Instead of doubting you’ll ever get there...tap into commitment.

Instead of fearing you won’t keep the weight off...double down.

Say goodbye to guilt about overeating the night before and hello to curiosity, compassion and resilience.

Module 3: Take Aligned Action 

Learn how to challenge your capacity so that you live your life from your new identity more often than your old identity.

Resistance is part of the process of change, so we work WITH it not against it to generate willingness to workout, put the fork down and pass on dessert. 

When you usually say...

• I need a break
• It’s too hard
• What’s the point?...

You'll use a specific repeatable framework to regulate your nervous system so that you can think at your highest level and keep going. 

Module 4: Transform Into Your New Identity

This is the final release of any old identities:

• All or Nothing Person
• People Pleaser
• Perfectionist
• Emotional Eater
• Fun Party Girl
• Starts But Doesn't Finish Person

We'll rewrite your inner narrative around weight, food and self-authority and calibrate your nervous system to your new identity to avoid "Success Intolerance" in which your brain diminishes your progress or rewards your success with food and overeating.

You'll also learn and how to handle it when you slip back into the old identity after a poor night’s sleep so that you can get back on track quickly.

This is for you if...

• You’re a person who values personal development and in your heart of hearts, you know you’re capable of being the best version of yourself, in the body that matches how you feel on the inside. 

• This is a priority for you right now. You’re ready to dedicate time, money and effort into yourself because even though it feels indulgent to do this for yourself, you know you’re worth it; that your future self is cheering you on to go for it. 

• You’re ready to release old patterns - what’s not getting you closer to what you want and who you want to be.

• You’re willing to challenge your old self concept of someone who just struggles with negativity, following through, or being too tired and busy.

• Staying exactly the same one year from now is more painful than making change.

• You’re curious how a supportive community of women going through the same process could help you and have an inkling it’s the thing you’ve needed and didn’t even know it.

Here’s what’s included:

• Weekly LIVE 60 - 90 Min Identity Calls to get Coaching with Paula

  • Recordings will be sent to you if you can't be there live

• Lifetime access to The Shape Shift Video Training Video Series with ongoing updates.
  
  

• Shape Shift PDF Workbook

  • Practices, tools and concepts to accelerate your learning and identity shift
    
    

• 90 Min Monthly Guided Workshops with Paula

  • to engage in the material by doing somatic embodiment, visualizations and exercises together. Here we make the esoteric, practical.

  • This is great for anyone who tends to put off the exercises in the workbook and wants a sacred spot on the calendar to actually get it done.

  • For those of us who find it more fun being guided rather than doing everything solo, you’ll love this.

  • Get inspired, support your nervous system and stay on track.

  • These are recorded so that if you miss it, you can be guided through the workshop at your own convenience, pausing or watching at x1.2 speed to take as much time as you need.
    
    

You’ll walk away with...

An identity shift.

Go from thinking you’re a failure and feeling frustrated because you just can’t figure it out to feeling the energy pouring back into your life, invigorating everything within you and around you.

Once you learn this process, you can use it over and over to redesign your identity again and again. It’s a lifeline from mundanity.

Your Guide

Let me tell you a little about me and how I got here. 

Many years ago I hired a life coach (this was when it was still pretty obscure and weird unless you were Madonna). Think going to therapy in the 80’s.

Anyway, it really helped me understand myself and started me on a path of repairing the low fat dieting/body image damage that was the late 90’s/early 2000’s. 

Then I spent a small fortune on coach training and certifications and have spent the last decade helping other women who got off course with food and their weight and want to feel good in their bodies.

My work is here to help you transform; to make any change that seems unchangeable to you. Because it’s not whether the transformation is happening — it is. You are reborn every single day. Instead of struggling against it, I’m here to help you understand it and to learn to work with it.

My methods are based on cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), neuroscience, embodiment coaching (somatics), with a dash of shadow work and ancient wisdom. 

I live in a majestic part of the world called Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada with my husband and two little kids.