Center for Self Relational Study
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This is a common struggle for many ambitious empaths, but itâs often hidden.
We quietly take more trainings, earn more certifications, and work harder to build our skills, hoping that one day weâll finally feel safe being seen, heard, and fully expressed.
But we never quite arrive there.
Not because we lack knowledge or ability, but because a wounded part of us is still carrying the fear, shame, rejection, or judgment from the past.
No amount of external achievement can heal an internal wound.
This is where somatic work becomes so powerful. It helps create corrective experiences at the nervous system level, allowing us to build a new and embodied relationship with the parts of ourselves that learned it wasnât safe to be fully expressed.
This is my passion working with ambitious empaths who are no longer satisfied with success alone and are ready to feel free to be themselves.
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06/16/2026
At my high school reunion, a friend told me he remembered me as someone who was always positive, radiating with a big smile on my face.
I smiled and thanked him.
Then I found myself sitting with a surprising realization.
That is not how I remember myself at all.
What he remembered was true.
I did smile.
I did laugh.
I genuinely loved being around people.
But what he couldnât see was that there were moments when I was barely holding on to life.
And that is something many ambitious empaths know well.
We often learn how to hold two realities at the same time.
We can deeply enjoy the people we love while quietly carrying pain.
We can be the one encouraging others while privately questioning ourselves.
We can appear confident, capable, and resilient while feeling overwhelmed inside.
Many ambitious empaths become masters at this.
Not because they are pretending.
Not because they are fake.
But because somewhere along the way, they learned that their struggles were best carried alone.
So they adapted.
They became strong.
Helpful.
Positive.
Reliable.
They learned how to keep moving forward no matter what was happening inside.
The smile was real.
The pain was real too.
Looking back, I can see that younger version of myself with so much compassion.
She wasnât hiding because she wanted to deceive anyone.
She was surviving the best way she knew how.
Today, I know that healing is not about becoming more positive or trying harder to hold it all together.
It is about creating enough emotional safety within yourself that you no longer have to hide parts of your experience.
It is about allowing your joy and your struggles to belong.
Your strength and your vulnerability.
Your light and your pain.
Because wholeness is not choosing one over the other.
It is having the courage to hold both.
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How many people would describe you as âalways positiveâ while having no idea what youâve carried inside?
We climb mountains.
Not because anyone asks us to.
Not because there is a prize waiting at the top.
But because something inside us keeps searching.
Searching for peace.
For freedom.
For a deeper sense of home within ourselves.
And yet, standing here, looking over everything weâve accomplished, we may still find ourselves wondering:
âWhy doesnât it feel like enough?â
This is the paradox of the ambitious empath.
We learn how to achieve.
How to lead.
How to carry responsibility.
How to be strong for others.
But somewhere along the way, many of us forget that the heart isnât nourished by achievement alone.
The heart longs for something different.
To exhale.
To stop proving.
To put down the weight of being everything for everyone.
To rest in the truth of who we are beneath all the roles, expectations, and striving.
Because our worth was never waiting at the next summit.
It has been walking beside us the entire way.
And perhaps the greatest success is not becoming more.
Perhaps it is remembering ourselves.
Here.
Now.
Under the vastness of this sky.
With nothing to prove.
And nowhere else we need to be.
High achieving empaths thinking is overrated.
If you are trying to solve anything through thinking you are underutilizing your innate body intelligence.
80% of information comes from the body to brain
20% of information comes from brain to the body.
So take time to sit just with this. Be present to what arises and let go of thinking đ
Its bodyâs intelligence that knows and has solutions that you are seeking for.
When you come back to your body through your senses you begin to connect with everything that is present đ.
And in doing so clarity arises and answers appear from heart centered and embodied way of being.
That is when you are in alignment with your soul.
Body knows more than your mind.
Many ambitious empaths get stuck in overthinking, which leads to overwhelm and burnout.
Weâre taught to use our minds to solve problems. Thatâs a masculine way and not our way.
Calm, ease, confidence and clarity donât come from thinking harder.
They come from slowing down and fully engaging the body and letting the mind rest.
We find them by doing something fun, playful, and pleasurable that connects us back to ourselves.
Only then does the mind become clear, and the solutions are suddenly right in front of us.
So go doodle without trying to make anything good. Be like a child again and play.
Go roller-skate. Go ice skating. Roll in the mud. Dance for no reason.
Just stop trying harder!
Connection is built through a well-regulated nervous system.
A system with the capacity for kindness, softness, patience, compassion, and tenderness.
If you didnât consistently experience this growing up, your system may not fully feel safe being seen, heard, and known.
Because being fully seen can feel like a threat to connection.
And connection is what helped you feel safe.
So itâs only natural to struggle with authenticity and full self-expression, because both require visibility.
Healing begins when we learn how to show up for these parts of ourselves and create safe connection within.
If you want support and guidance, reach out to me.
DM âTogetherâ and letâs set up a call to talk.
The part of you that you are running away from is often the part holding the information that can change the course of your life forever.
So turn toward the part youâve been ignoring and avoiding.
I know itâs hard, which is why we need guidance. Healing these parts of ourselves is not something we were meant to do completely alone.
Reach out if youâre ready to heal this part of yourself and transform your life.
DM Together if you want to set up a 45mins Self-Discovery Call
Stop running away from the ânot good enoughâ part of you.
I know it hurts to meet that part.
But thatâs often the very place where your authenticity, expression, and power have been hiding.
Stop đ Pause and do nothing
This is greatest challenge for an ambitious empath
I dare you to do it and share it with us.
Itâs time to reconnect with your gifts and your power.
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