I’m Meryl…
… and I’m here to help you reconnect with your body, own your desires, and unapologetically choose pleasure every damn day.
Through a nervous system-based approach to healing, we’ll explore how safety, connection, and regulation are the foundation for deep intimacy and mind-blowing pleasure. Because when your body feels safe, desire can finally flow.
We’re taking it back to the Body
Our bodies were built to remember. We call it muscle memory and say “it’s like riding a bike,” but the depth of our bodies’ memory goes far beyond that. Somatic coaching invites you to tap into the wisdom of your incredible body.
Your body is trying to save your life.
True, enduring healing means we have to rewire the ways we’re subconsciously reacting the world around us. And we need to give our bodies a reason to believe we’re safe enough to do that now. This is where experiential, relational coaching comes in.
Experience unconditional acceptance and secure attachment
Feel, name, understand, and communicate emotions
Deepen awareness of all the ways your body communicates with you
Tap into your intuition and connect to your sense of self
Redefining Intimacy
Intimacy is the safety you feel in emotional connection—the deep exhale that says, I am safe here. It’s built through trust, attunement, and the freedom to be fully seen and accepted as you are.
The magic of Experiential, Relational Coaching
Together we will co-create a totally safe, accepting, and non-judgmental space for us to experience intimate connection. The containers that I build with each of my clients are a reflection of them and their needs, and they all feel a little different. What they have in common is that they account for everyone’s boundaries which allows us to feel safe at whatever depth our authentic connection exists.
Regulation
Your nervous system is the foundation of how you experience the world and your connections. I work with the body’s natural rhythms to help regulate your nervous system, using somatic practices, breathwork, and mindful touch to shift from survival mode into a state of ease. When you know how to bring your system into safety and balance, your capacity for intimacy expands, pleasure deepens, and connection becomes effortless.
Somatic Awareness
Your body is talking, are you really listening? You know when you’re hungry, horny, or tired. What about getting triggered, boundary crossings, or “do I like this?” Most of us spend too much time stuck in our heads, overanalyzing and disconnected from what we feel. It’s time to tune into your body’s signals, honor what it needs, and trust its wisdom—because pleasure, safety, and connection all start inside you.
Pleasure.
Pleasure is a vital part of our well-being. Beyond sex, it’s about how you move through the world, how you savor, how you receive. To truly experience pleasure, we need to be present in our bodies and free from the barriers that block us, like stress and shame. Tap into your innate capacity for pleasure in a safe environment where you can explore what feels good for you. And create a life infused with play, aliveness, and deep, embodied pleasure.
Know Thyself
You’ve likely noticed that “a part” of you wants something that seems conflicting or wrong. We innately feel into different facets of ourselves, which is where somatics intersects with Internal Family Systems. Using IFS-informed parts work, we will create a new understanding of your inner world, bring your scared and shamed parts to safety, and discover a more compassionate, harmonious way of relating with yourself.
Be Thyself
No more shrinking, shapeshifting, or filtering yourself to fit someone else’s expectations of how you should be. Finally unlearn the stories that have kept you small and step into deep self-acceptance. Being yourself—fully, authentically, messily—is the sexiest thing you can do. And being accepted and loved in your full, authentic messiness is how you learn it’s okay to be exactly who and how you are.
Show Thyself
Authentic connection isn’t just about being yourself—it’s about bringing that self into relationship with courage and clarity. Here, you’ll learn to express your needs and boundaries with honesty while staying open and attuned to your partner. Communication becomes an act of love, where you can honor your truth without disconnecting from theirs. The deepest, most fulfilling intimacy comes in seeing, knowing, and loving each other well.
Why Meryl?
You might wonder how a person becomes qualified to do this kind of coaching and that’s a great question. Here’s more detail on my origin story.
As a coach, the most important thing to know is my approach to the work.
First, I believe in working with what is. Growth and healing doesn’t mean changing your personality and everything about yourself. It sometimes feels like your life needs a major overhaul, but most of the time the pathway to personal happiness and pleasure is about making small choices for big change.
Second, I don’t do toxic positivity and sometimes things just suck. There’s nothing I can do about the oppressive systems under which we live - capitalism, patriarchy, systemic racism, classism, and all the rest. What we can do is learn to regulate ourselves in a dysregulated world and find our pathways to pleasure and joy in a radical act of defiance of the systems.
Third, I believe in evidence, and pleasure is my religion. I take a science- and nervous system-based approach to healing through the lens of sexuality with a little garnish of your spiritual practice of choice. Whether we’re discussing the vagus nerve or the full moon, I will only offer you practices and exercises that I believe in based on their efficacy in my own and my clients’ experiences. Take what you want, and leave what you don’t.
Lastly, I’m not in the business of yucking anyone’s yum; if it gives you pleasure, I love that for you. Whatever your desires are (seriously, whatever they are) we can understand and accept them, and learn about ourselves through them.
