If you’re new here, welcome 🌱 The Seasons Series explores how women move through cycles in our bodies, our work, our Relationships, and the places that shape us.
This installment feels like shaking off a long winter coat and remembering you have a body underneath it. Enter spring, somatics, and Megan Sherer who reminds us the goal isn’t to stay calm but to feel alive.
Megan Sherer is a somatic therapist, writer, and embodiment mentor guiding a new generation of women beyond healing — into full aliveness. For over a decade, Megan has helped thousands of clients and students reconnect with their bodies, Emotions, and innate self-trust.
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Her philosophy helps people move from over-regulation and emotional numbness to embodied safety, expression, and purpose. Megan’s work bridges clinical depth with soulful Wisdom, weaving somatic Therapy, hypnotherapy, Yoga, Meditation, eating psychology, and energy medicine into a grounded, holistic approach to transformation.
NYC, LA, Ireland, the Pacific North West, wildly different frequencies. If you think somatically, how does your body respond in each place? Where do you soften, where do you armor up, and where do you feel most like yourself? I’ve lived in London, SF, NYC, and now PA, so I’m always tracking this.
Megan: I Love that you address the different frequencies, because this is exactly how I experience it. It feels like different versions of me get to come alive in each of these places.
When I’m in LA, I get to be deeply tapped into my sense of community and wellness.
When I’m in NYC, I feel creative, energized, motivated and alive. Lots of exciting collaborations tend to happen for me there.
The PNW feels like my grounding place. It’s where I grew up, and the climate feels most familiar and soothing to my nervous system, so I feel incredibly restored having a home base there.
And Ireland – that one is hard to put into words. It’s where my mom is from, so I feel a deep ancestral connection to the land and culture.
And every time I’m there, it feels so deeply healing to my soul. I also love that I get to lead women’s retreats there and introduce others to this special place! I feel like myself in all these places in unique ways, and have always said that I would live in at least five places at once if I could.
I ask the next two questions of everyone—I can’t wait to hear your answers. What is your one high cost splurge on wellness?
Megan: Honestly, I’d say my home! I am deeply impacted by my environment and surroundings, and I feel much more regulated when I have a comfortable and beautiful home environment.
What is your low cost wellness must have?
Megan: Nature!!! It’s without a doubt my favorite and most reliable regulator. I go on an hour long walk every single day, and make a point to spend extended time in nature whenever possible. Spring is about enjoying all the beauty outside. Even if it’s pouring rain, I’ll get outside for a few minutes just to breathe in the fresh air.
How can somatic therapies help you embody the spring seasons, in this case.
Megan:
Somatic practice helps us to be with what is. And a big part of the human experience is transitions. But we’re often so disconnected from our bodies and from nature that we don’t slow down to honor those seasons and cycles. Whether it’s the transition from winter to spring, or from a relationship to a breakup, or moving locations, our bodies deeply feel these changes and it benefits us to tune in and honor that. So for spring, I really like to think about how we can clear space and take advantage of our increasing energy. When spring rolls around, our bodies are ready to stretch and “come out of hibernation” so to speak. Incorporating movements like dancing, shaking, or rebounding can be a great way to amplify that energy. And doing a little internal “spring cleaning” can also be helpful. Just like you’d clean out your closets, what thoughts, emotions or beliefs are you still holding onto from old seasons that could use a refresh? Somatic practice helps us listen to our bodies and internal wisdom.
My LLC is technical Redwood Leadership for my love of the Coastal Redwoods in Marin County. I love the two ecosystems of the tops of the trees and then the bottom is completely different. You have pictures on your website in a forest. How does Spring feel in nature to that relates to your work?
Megan: Spring to me always feels very optimistic. There’s a sense of hopefulness that anything is possible with so much of the year still ahead of us, and the daylight steadily increasing. Your analogy of the trees is so important though, because so often we’re only focused on what we can see on the surface, or our conscious thoughts and desires. I call it the “top of the iceberg”. It’s only about 5% of the equation of creating transformation in our lives.
The other 95%, the bottom of the iceberg, includes our subconscious beliefs, habits, and identity, as well as our embodied experience.
Spring is a great time to look at what’s going on beneath the surface and tend to that, so that you can see the external things that you desire “bloom” later in the year.
Readers, if the intro doesn’t say enough about Megan’s abilities already, I want to dig into all of her knowledge, passions and talents. I should have started here. Can you share more about hypnosis and how you can unearth the humanness of your client while rewiring our fears? I am clairvoyant and see images or messages but this skill feels so out of reach. How do you access new methods into your practice?
Megan: I’m someone that believes there isn’t a one size fits all approach to Growth, transformation, or healing. Some individuals benefit greatly from a modality, while others won’t. I’ve explored a lot of modalities over the years based on my own curiosity, and have stuck with the ones that I’ve seen the greatest success from. Hypnotherapy is a tool I use with many of my clients when we’ve identified a limiting belief or pattern, but have struggled to identity and rewire the root cause. It’s a lot less “woo woo” than you’d think. We’re just going into a state of deep relaxation in order to bypass the conscious mind, and access the thoughts, emotions, memories and beliefs stored beneath the surface (sometimes even preverbally!).
I don’t reveal anything to my clients that wasn’t already there, or that they weren’t ready to access. I just guide them to the answers already inside of them, and help them make sense of what we find. At our core, we all have fears around our worthiness and desires to be loved and accepted. Most of our wounding starts there. When we can repattern it from the inside first, the outside begins to follow suit. It’s pretty amazing! Whether they’re looking to have more loving relationships, a healthier body image, or more confidence in themselves, it often starts with the same core wounds.
I adore all of the pics of you in a forest on your website. My LLC is technically “Redwood Leadership “ named for my love of the Coastal Redwoods in Marin County. I love the two ecosystems of the tops of the trees and then the bottom is completely different. How does Spring feel in nature to that relates to your work?
Megan: Spring to me always feels very optimistic. There’s a sense of hopefulness that anything is possible with so much of the year still ahead of us, and the daylight steadily increasing. Your analogy of the trees is so important though, because so often we’re only focused on what we can see on the surface, or our conscious thoughts and desires. I call it the “top of the iceberg”. It’s only about 5% of the equation of creating transformation in our lives. The other 95%, the bottom of the iceberg, includes our subconscious beliefs, habits, and identity, as well as our embodied experience. Spring is a great time to look at what’s going on beneath the surface and tend to that, so that you can see the external things that you desire “bloom” later in the year.
