Hi, I’m Lynn, the seasons series is my Love letter to amazing women and collaborating all that the same time.
This is a WSJ Magazine style interview. If you’re new here, the Seasons Series is my way of tracking how women move through life in cycles unlike our male counterparts.
On a very snowy afternoon, when spring feels lightyears away, I interviewed Megan Sherer.
What is early spring energy? It’s about women coming back online. More breath, more truth, more you. This is YOUR reminder that regulation is nice, but aliveness is better.
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.
What’s trending in her world? Megan says it’s time “not to calm down. Women need to be able to express themselves and not contain their emotions.”
Her ideal client – any good-girls who have tried everything and are still disconnected. Her clients crave embodiment. Maybe you, too, have read the alllll books, gone to Therapy and still wants to be in her body even more.
Go to books- Pema Chadron- When Things Fall Apart & Bell Hooks-All About Love.
A Travel girlie– when Megan She lands in Ireland she MUST get her toes in the the sea first thing. Although she doesn’t eat a big breakfast in the US, Megan loves Irish breakfast sausage as a way to indulge.
What’s in your bag? Megan travels with a journal everywhere (same, girl, same), all of her supplements so she feels good on the road regardless of layovers & a hydrating-plane-air-resistant lip butter.
After years of healing from chronic illness, eating disorders, heartbreak, and Trauma herself, Megan discovered a profound truth: the goal isn’t to stay calm — it’s to feel alive. Her philosophy helps people move from over-regulation and emotional numbness to embodied safety, expression, and purpose.
NYC, LA, Ireland, the PNW—those are 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.
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.
Megan: Nature!!! It’s without a doubt my favorite and most reliable regulator. 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. Movements like dancing, shaking, or rebounding can be a great way to amplify that energy.
Somatic practice helps us listen to our bodies and internal Wisdom.
My LLC is technically Redwood Leadership named for the Coastal Redwoods I hiked 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.
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.
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!
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.
🌱Spring Energy Check ✨
March 21 · Equinox
Where are you holding back when it’s time to step forward?
What part of you wants to be seen, not fixed?
What strength are you underestimating as you begin again?
Spring means moving toward what’s alive within you.
Book your Spring Energy session today & listen to a free spring visualization on a walk.
