CENTERED

Freedom from Fawning through

Nervous System Tools & Somatic Healing

with Elisha Tichelle

A 6-week course to explore the nuances of how Fawning interacts with your stress responses and habitual patterns and to learn practical Somatic tools for healing and coming home to your CENTER!

What if I told you that Fawning is more than just being a “people-pleaser?"

And that this pattern harms you and your relationships?

When the nervous system operates in Fawning, you trade self-acceptance for perceptions of safety, validation, and belonging.

A big part of Fawning is holding the needs and feelings of others over your needs, choices, capacity, and truth to create belonging and connection. Because, as a little one, connection was the epitome of safety. But Fawning keeps you following and fearing rejection and abandonment.

Fawning is NOT biologically wired into your survival systems; it is the legacy of patriarchy.


When you work on your Fight, Flight, and Freeze patterns through the nervous system, you can come from maladaptions into adaptions. There are helpful scenarios in life where you need these stress responses!


But your Fawning maladaptions have no “adaptive” states.


Fawning doesn’t serve you and most certainly doesn’t serve your THRIVING.

And fawning patterns can keep you exhausted and depleted.

Fawning can also amplify your inner imposter feelings, block your intuition, leave you always second-guessing yourself, and prevent you from moving forward on that worthiness meter!

Fawning can look like...

  • Always anticipating what everyone else needs
  • Ignoring the cues from your body
  • Fear of disappointing others with your choices
  • Playing small to not “rock the boat” and never following through on that creative or fun impulse
  • Not sharing what’s going on in your life because you prefer to hear about and support everyone else
  • Holding back from asking for support/help
  • Having several bouts of burnout each year
  • Feeling dissatisfied in your relationships
  • Disconnection from yourself
  • Being not sure of what you want/need
  • Avoiding discomfort by not speaking up or setting boundaries

The list could go on and on, because while your fawning patterns and behaviors are unique to you, they are ultimately pointing you deeper into places in your nervous system that lack safety and aren’t able to be with your true POWER and AUTHORITY.

Because until you can fully belong to yourself and be empowered within your own nervous system, fawning will always play a part in your relationships.

Here’s the thing...

Having healthy, fulfilling relationships is an innate and essential part of the interconnectedness of our human nature.

So, how do you make bids for authentic connections with others without going into fawning?

Because we ALL need to be able to make bids for authentic connections.

You need to be able to reach out to someone and say,

“Hey, I would really like to connect with you. Can we talk?”

But if you don’t know how to clean up your fawning patterns, the only ways you can try to get your connection needs met are…

  • to move out of your own center
  • to dissociate from your body
  • or to have to create internal tension to push/pull against another (me vs. them)

So, if you want to feel good about making bids for connections that are clean and clear and actually allow you to feel held, seen, supported, and loved, it’s time to clean up the fawning!

Regardless of whether you call yourself a “good girl” or even identify as a “people-pleaser,” fawning patterns are pervasive and operate within us on many levels, influencing:

  • Personal relationships
  • Professional relationships
  • Communal relationships (family/friends)
  • And also larger systems within society

Even if your personal fawning patterns aren’t fully affecting all 4 of these areas, they are most likely affecting at least 2 because fawning is systematically created and conditioned within us as a product of Western culture.

So, even if this fawning conditioning wasn’t an overt part of your family of origin, it was part of your educational culture and part of your social culture.

After working with hundreds of individuals on their fawning patterns and being invited to teach quite a few masterclasses on this topic for years, I know it's an essential part of the work we are doing in this life. And it’s clear that NOW is the time for a fuller dive into this subject.

In CENTERED, I am bringing together years of insight from what I observed and tested, as well as the questions I have been asked repeatedly, so that you can get deeply into your healing work and take the next step in your journey of empowerment.

Healing the Fawning pattern is part of the core healing needed to become sovereign, healthy, and available to Life!

Enough of us must heal our fawning patterns and fear of power to bring about the necessary changes in the world we want to see unfold.

With the inheritances of distortions around power, as well as conditioning about who and what we get to be…it's no wonder we aren’t clear, centered, or living at our full capacity.

This is why you feel unable to take the necessary actions to create what you want in the world or live in the way that is most right for you.

Right now, you are CHANGE AGENT the world and your community needs!

Your center is also the home your creative voice, inner child, and exiled parts are seeking! This center cannot be inhabited with so much energy “stuck outside” of you.

Maybe releasing the old imprint of power and creating a new center seems simple enough, but it is a profoundly courageous act of liberating the ties that bind your authority and inviting a deeper relationship to Sovereignty.

This personal change sends ripples out to impact the larger collective.

Healing Fawning allows the needed LIFE FORCE in your body to meet the needs for change (personally, communally, and collectively) from a connected and centered place. Being centered also allows you to meet, hold, and harmonize the dysregulation for the changes to occur.

Whether it's about people-pleasing, boundary-setting, claiming your worth, or honoring your contribution, it is time, Dear One, to no longer let fawning keep you dimmed, small, and bound!


Are you ready???

Let’s do this, together!

Join me for a 6-week journey into…


CENTERED

Freedom from Fawning through

Nervous System Tools and Somatic Healing

This course is for you if:

You have recognized that people-pleasing patterns do not serve you and realize that you can’t be who you truly are if something doesn’t change, but you don’t know what it is that actually needs to change.

You don’t know how to meet the demands that everyone else places on you, and it’s making you feel bitter, but you are uncertain how you could stop overgiving and still feel OK.

You are continually falling into cycles of burnout, and even when you put some boundaries in place and try to get a little bit of time for yourself, it’s not long before you quickly hit the ground running and crash again.

Even though you say you want to be supported, you tend to rush to make sure everyone else knows that you are there to take care of them because you would rather hear about everyone else’s problems/issues rather than talk about anything going on with you.

Even when you establish boundaries, they mostly serve as rules for behavior and don’t actually make you FEEL any better. They may look different from the external, but you don’t feel more supported or nourished by them - you aren’t receiving at a deeper level.

You are used to being ok when everyone else is ok (anxious attachment), and it feels really overwhelming to think about WHO you are underneath all the roles and everything you do for everyone else.

You often struggle with naming what you want or how you feel because you are constantly checking in with everyone and everything else first, to the point that you become confused about what your own needs/desires even are.

Your relationships feel unsatisfying, and sometimes like the only way to be your true self is to be by yourself because it feels like there is a conflict between choosing yourself or choosing others, and you wonder if your relationships would even survive if you weren’t holding it all together.

You sometimes secretly feel selfish for choosing yourself and worry about what you do or say being taken the wrong way because you are afraid of being misunderstood or someone thinking that you don’t care.

But when you begin to heal your fawning patterns, you can TRUST your connection to yourself at a deeper level and are able to bridge the connection from self to other with newfound ease and fulfillment!

There is no longer a conflict between choosing self or choosing belonging and connection with others because you have healed the nervous system threat that keeps your fawning patterns in place.

You are able to both give and receive support with clarity while acknowledging your needs and boundaries as well as your desires for authentic connection.

And as you learn to feel at home and secure with who you are, ultimately, this increases your capacity to nurture others and find fulfillment in your relationships within partnership, family, community, and service in the world!

More of what you can experience as you heal your fawning patterns:

  • Developing new somatic capacities for navigating boundaries, triggers, and difficulty in shifting fawning
  • Breaking up with people pleasing/imposter syndrome/shadow warrior patterns
  • Strengthening the vagal nerve to clear your distortions related to fawning
  • Building the ability to be with discomfort in your Doral Vagus System especially when you have to disappoint someone or have a difficult conversation
  • Learning new pathways to disrupt your reactionary patterns and habits
  • Increasing your ability to return to your Center when in discomfort
  • Expanding the embodiment of your personal power and authority
  • Deepening your listening to yourself and trust in your body!

Healing from fawning begins by...

  • Recognizing the full scope of this pattern and how it is running your threat response/neuroception in all relationships
  • Understanding how your unique patterning shows up in your daily life and what it's creating (or blocking)
  • Learning to find and deeply connect (and return) to your Center somatically
  • Recognizing that it all comes back to your level of EMPOWERMENT

And this is precisely what we will explore in our time together through CENTERED!

The Centered course will…

  • Explore the Fawning pattern from a Nervous System, Somatic, and Polyvagal Theory lens
  • Provide understanding about how Fawning behaviors develop
  • Look at how your stress responses of Fight, Flight, Freeze are being used by your Fawning patterns to keep you revved up, stressed out, and collapsed
  • Show you how Fawning impacts your nervous system regulation
  • Give you the tools to break through the Fawning patterns
  • Guide you to reconnect with yourself and deepen your self-compassion
  • Teach you practical tools to advocate for yourself
  • Offer where to begin & tools for Recognizing Fawning (Always the Nervous System)
  • Demonstrate basic practices for identifying and working with your personal Fawning patterns and tendencies
  • Help you identify Fawning in your relationships and how to clean up boundaries

"I've tried therapy, psychiatric drugs, as well as filling my life with doing. Elisha was the first person that led me further into myself by making friends with the messiness instead of trying to dismember it."

~ Edy, Teacher & Artist

NOTE: The LIVE Sessions for this course have concluded, but the replays can still be purchased in self-study format.

What's Included with CENTERED:

  • 6 LIVE 90-min Teaching Calls
  • 6 Guided Lessons
  • Transcripts of all live calls
  • Handouts and Worksheets for deepening
  • 2 LIVE 90-min Q&A and Support Calls
  • Library of Recorded Practices for Ongoing Support
  • Lifetime access to all Classes and Materials

Course Dates:

November 14 - December 19, 2024

Exchange:

$297 USD

Format:

  • You will receive weekly lessons, including video/audio, transcripts, handouts, and guided practices to support the application.
  • The course happens LIVE on Zoom, and the content is facilitated via the Thinkific platform.
  • This round of the CENTERED course is taught live by Elisha Tichelle and Megan Moore.

Live Sessions:

  • Teaching Call 1 - Nov. 14 @ 6pm CST
  • Teaching Call 2 - Nov. 21 @ 1pm CST
  • Teaching Call 3 - Nov. 25 @ 1pm CST
  • Teaching Call 4 - Dec. 2 @ 6pm CST
  • Q&A Call 1 - Dec. 5 @ 6pm CST
  • Teaching Call 5 - Dec. 12 @ 1pm CST
  • Teaching Call 6 - Dec. 16 @ 6pm CST
  • Q&A Call 2 - Dec. 19 @ 12pm CST
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"Elisha is, legit, one of the best-kept secrets in empowering human potential and leadership mastery. I feel like I will be, not only forever changed by her work but forever sustained… these teachings will never leave me. If you’re called to say yes, don’t waste your time deliberating, every human is ready for this work, but those who are being called to work with Elisha are the lucky ones who will be cared for, seen, and supported along the way in her masterful blend of guidance to inner freedom."

~ Kari, Embodied Leadership Coach

About your teachers:

Elisha Tichelle is a sacred life mentor and embodiment coach for visionaries, creatives, healers, and coaches. As the Priestess behind the Leader, Elisha creates space for sacred leaders to experience the embodiment of their Essence, allowing them to trust their power, create their sacred service to have a greater impact in their communities, and authentically express their truth. As an oracle of Divine Feminine wisdom, Elisha’s mission is to help create a new cosmology for humanity by reclaiming our sacred nature and knowing ourselves as the holy ground.

Through Sacred Soul Somatics, Elisha weaves her 20+ year career as a tenured professor of somatics and dance with Breathwork, Energy work, intuitive channeling, and transpersonal psychology for a whole system approach to healing and transformation. As a professor, Elisha was an embedded faculty member in the Arts and Design Research Incubator with her research into somatic interventions for trauma and stress.

Elisha works 1:1 with high-capacity leaders to evolve their nervous system and soul embodiment. Through group programs, she trains coaches, healers, and mamas in cutting-edge nervous system and energy somatic techniques to revolutionize their lives and their service.

Megan Marie Moore is a Priestess, Ceremonialist, and Minister who leads Sacred Soul Somatics and works with nervous system healing as a path for Embodied Spirituality. As a Hearth Tender, Megan creates deeply supportive experiences to open the body and sensory system so that the wisdom of the heart can be felt and known.

Megan has been working intimately with Elisha for 15 years and now serves as a co-teacher and mentor in the nervous system expansion and training programs of Elisha Tichelle & Co. and facilitates the Embodied Community.

Megan is a Certified Heroine's Mystical Journey Facilitator, Certified Breathwork Practitioner, and Certified Movement Analyst. She also holds a degree in Kinesiology and an MFA in Dance & Movement, as well as training in massage, bodywork, yoga, and other somatic practices. Megan is an ordained Interfaith/Interspiritual Minister through One Spirit Seminary.

We are delighted to bring you this practical and potent six-week course!


CENTERED will help you find Freedom from Fawning by exploring the nuances of how fawning interacts with your stress responses and habitual patterns.

Join us to learn practical Somatic tools for healing and coming home to your CENTER.


Let’s do this, register now!

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a certification program?

No. CENTERED is not a modality training or certification. This course is geared towards your personal healing and transformation, and the content may not be used in any format other than your individual self-work. If you find that you desire to teach or use this work professionally, please reach out to Elisha directly to discuss options for training at contact@elishahalpin.com.

Is there 1:1 support in this program?

CENTERED is a group program, but there will be opportunities to have your individual questions answered for support during the Q&A sessions. Separate from the CENTERED course, you can choose to work with Elisha 1:1 in a variety of ways here: https://elishatichelleandco.as.me/schedule.php

How long is access?

You will have lifetime access to all class recordings and materials as long as your payments are completed.

What if I can’t come to the classes LIVE?

All sessions in the course are recorded, with replays available within 24 hours. So while it's great to have you live with us whenever possible, it is not necessary to receive the full benefits of this work!

What if I have questions not addressed here?

Email support@elishahalpin.com, and we will be happy to answer your questions!

"Learning from Elisha is like having your inner 150-year-old Wise Woman speaking to you with love, care, and knowing, telling you what you desired to learn with every ounce of your being. It's like learning from someone who knows you at a level you didn't think was possible for another person to know what you need for the next step in your expansion. I've never trusted anyone as much as I trust her: she's fierce when I need it. She's always kind and loving in her fierceness. Knowing her has redefined integrity for me--I didn't know what was possible until she showed me."

~ Rose - Somatic Writing and Creation