There are many ways to practice the way you want to feel. This work offers gentle practices and insights for nervous system safety, emotional resilience, and everyday moments of joy.
We do this through tools like:
• guided meditations • breathing • EFT tapping • creative reflection • play • and more!
What type of support are you looking for?
• Support navigating emotions or life transitions?
→ 1:1 Coaching
• Creative ways to reflect and reconnect with yourself ?
→ Workshops
• Gentle reminders of wonder and joy in everyday life?
→ Love Letter Club
These personalized coaching sessions blend:
• nervous system support
• emotional resilience practices
• EFT tapping
• creative reflection
These sessions are a time to slow down, reconnect with your body and inner voice, feel seen and supported. They are powerful in helping you practice relating to life in new ways.
These are creative, experiential workshops exploring emotional resilience and nervous system awareness through guided meditations and visualizations, and then achoring it with creative practices like journaling and art.
Upcoming themes include:
• Future Self
• Happy Place
• Inner Child Creativity
A monthly snail-mail reflection designed to support steadiness, creativity, and joy.
Each letter includes thoughtful reflections, prompts, and creative embellishments. It's a small reminder in your mailbox to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.
Available as:
• single letters
• gift-able bundles
• monthly subscription
Workshops
Go into greater depth on the upcoming workshop - Future Self and Creativity.
Our next Live Virtual Workshop is all about connecting to the Future Self. We'll do a guided processes together and also have time to create and journal any insights so you can carry this new resource with you!
It will be a 75 min Group Call, via Zoom.
Sunday, March 8th, 2026 at 11:30 am Pacific / 2:30 pm Eastern
$37 per person. You are welcome to invite friends! We have limited space, because I want to keep it intimate, but if there's extra interest I'll be hosting another workshop soon.
How Does Creativity Support Emotional Resilience?
Creative practices help us access parts of ourselves that thinking alone cannot reach.
Writing, drawing, and reflective prompts allow emotions to move through the body and mind in a gentler way.
Creativity can support emotional resilience by helping us process experiences, reconnect with curiosity, and imagine new possibilities for the future.
This is why creative reflection is woven into many of the workshops and practices shared here.
Link to Blog / Youtube
1:1 Coaching Sessions
Coaching sessions are a powerful way to create shifts in your life.
I use a combination of breathwork, tapping, somatics, reflection, and other tools I've gathered along the way: models, paradigms, processes, to meet you where you are at and help you connect with more lightness, clarity, and empowerment.
I offer 60 minute and 90 minute sessions. 90 minute is great for your first session and if you have deeper content you want to dig into. 60 minute is great for deep work as well.
$150/60 min
$200/90 min
What Is Nervous System Regulation and Why Does It Matter?
Nervous system regulation refers to the body’s ability to move between states of stress, rest, and engagement.
When the nervous system becomes overwhelmed by chronic stress, it can feel difficult to access calm, creativity, or emotional balance.
Practices like EFT tapping, mindful awareness, and creative reflection can help the body gradually return to greater steadiness.
These ideas are central to the work explored through coaching sessions and workshops.
*Link to blog category*
Love Letter Club (snail mail magic)
I'm SO excited about this club.
These letters are so full of love and delight. They are designed to bring you a bit of joy and magic each month. Whether that's to inspire your own creativity, or simply to give you a loving reminder of your worthwhileness.
I have limited subscriptions available, but I'm starting founding members at $19/month for a subscription.
Or a bundle of 6 (6 months) - $102
Or a full year! (12 months) - $180
These make a fabulous gift for loved ones.
Letters go out on the 3rd Thursday of each month.
*I require 1 month notice for cancellations.
Why Do Micro-Moments of Joy, Wonder, and Delight Matter?
Small moments of joy help the nervous system experience safety, curiosity, and connection.
Many people imagine that joy arrives in big, life-changing moments.
But psychology and wellbeing research suggest that our sense of happiness is often shaped by much smaller experiences — brief moments of curiosity, connection, beauty, or delight.
These small moments of joy can gently signal safety to the nervous system and remind us that life contains meaning, creativity, and possibility.
Over time, learning to notice and appreciate these micro-moments can shift how we experience everyday life.
This idea is part of the inspiration behind the Love Letter Club — small reflections arriving in your mailbox as a reminder to pause, notice, and reconnect with simple moments of wonder.
OR
Short answer
Micro-moments of joy help signal safety to the nervous system.
Why this matters
Our nervous systems are constantly scanning for cues of danger or safety.
Small moments of beauty, curiosity, or delight can gently tell the body that it is safe enough to soften, connect, and regulate.
Over time, noticing these moments can help build emotional resilience.
Practice
Pause and notice something beautiful around you for 10 seconds.
It might be:
sunlight on a wall
the sound of wind in the trees
the warmth of your tea
Let yourself simply notice it.
What this work is ALL about:
Many people are waiting to feel better.
Waiting until they’re fully healed, less messy, more confident, or more certain about what comes next.
But life rarely pauses while we figure everything out.
Practicing Living Joyfully is about building small practices that help life feel softer and more alive, even while things are still unfolding.
Because joy isn’t a reward. It’s a practice.
One of my favorite models to work with is: Calm -> Create -> Connect
These three ingredients can be used as steps:
1. Calm - calm your system (thoughts, feelings, body, and breath) by doing nervous system-friendly activities
2. Connect - connect to yourself through questions, awareness, guided meditations
3. Create - create from this place of calm connectedness. This is a way to fill your cup! To nourish yourself.
Calm - Connect - Create
Simple, repeatable, actionable.
I love this because it's specific enough to be clear.
Broad enough to allow room for PLAY.
You might even realize this is a pattern in the things that fill your cup:
A Yoga class will help you calm down through breath and the container of the space: the music, smells, ritual of it. It will help you connect with yourself through the words the teacher uses as well as the movements: heightening your awareness of your body and the sensations there in. Create - it will create a new thought, a new sense of "ah", and inspire your actions and behaviors moving forward. This is especially helpful when a teacher encourages you to have a clear takeaway from the time on the mat.
About Makayla
Hi! I’m Makayla.
Through coaching, workshops, writing, and creative projects, I explore how nervous system awareness and creative reflection can help us navigate the beautiful and ridiculous complexity of being human.
From the Blog
Recent articles exploring nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, creativity, and wellbeing.
• Creative Journaling for Emotional Resilience
• What Is Nervous System Regulation?
• How EFT Tapping Helps Anxiety
• How to Practice Joy When Life Feels Overwhelming
Each month (or as I feel inspired) I share reflections and small practices for nervous system care, emotional resilience, and creative self-reflection.
Subscribers also receive early access to workshops and events!
"Love is our true reality; fear is something our minds have made up."
- A Mini Course for Life
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