Thrive in your body, your desires, your life.
I help women who do it all move beyond burnout, reconnect with the parts of themselves that have been quieted, and awaken energy, desire, and aliveness in every part of life.
How SomaShift Can Support You
I support women who are exhausted by chronic stress, burnout, anxiety, and persistent physical symptoms. These struggles often come from long-held stress patterns and trauma, keeping the nervous system stuck in fight, flight, or freeze. I help women move beyond surviving and into Chronic Thriving, feeling aliveness, connection, and ease in their lives.
I guide women around intimacy challenges, especially when shame, performance, or overriding their own needs get in the way. Everything I’ve studied and trained in over the years is for one purpose: helping women step fully into their power, their pleasure, and their thriving.
In our work, we gently guide your nervous system out of old stress patterns, so your body doesn’t stay stuck in fight, flight, or freeze.
Sessions give you space to notice what your body has been holding, and to let those survival patterns complete, so you can experience more ease and energy.
Rather than forcing change, we work with your body’s natural rhythm, so you can feel more steady, connected, and open to what you truly want.
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Emotional overwhelm and stress.
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Moving from survival mode to thriving.
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Life transitions — divorce, grief, aging, menopause, big shifts that stir everything up.
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Chronic symptoms — fatigue, migraines, gut issues, anxiety, emotional overwhelm.
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Emotional support — tending to the feelings you’ve had to hold in, so you feel lighter and clearer.
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Thriving — this is my specialty: helping you move beyond survival into more energy, ease, and aliveness.
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Reconnecting — with desire, pleasure, and intimacy.
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Rebuilding trust — with your body and create more fulfilling relationships, with yourself and with partners.
Each session is tailored to your unique needs, honoring your pace and creating a container of safety where transformation can naturally unfold.
This work doesn’t promise quick fixes or rigid outcomes. Instead, it’s a process of exploring what you truly want, your desires, purpose, and aliveness, and uncovering what may be blocking you from it. Change unfolds organically as we attend to your body, nervous system, and relational patterns, step by step.
You’ve built a life you’re proud of, the business, the career, the success. But your body tells a different story: fatigue, migraines, gut issues, anxiety, or the flatness in your desire. You’ve tried everything to fix it. Diets. Supplements. Self-care. Nothing brings lasting relief or real connection to yourself.
Your Pleasure, Aliveness & Reconnection
What if the missing piece is your pleasure, your turn-on, your sensuality, your aliveness?
This isn’t just about sex. It’s about reclaiming the part of you that feels, desires, and longs to be expressed, without performance, pressure, or outdated expectations.
This is the part of you that’s been ignored, shamed, or forced into doing what’s expected. When we reclaim it, everything shifts, your energy, your relationships, your sense of self.
Who This Is For
You are a woman who:
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Has invested in therapy, coaching, or healing modalities that were supportive, but you’re still craving something deeper, something that lasts
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Is successful on the outside, often the one others rely on, yet quietly carries stress, anxiety, or a body that won’t fully settle
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Deals with persistent challenges like exhaustion, tension, gut issues, migraines, or low energy, even after trying to “fix” them
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Finds intimacy or relationships more about showing up for others than feeling fully present, free, and connected yourself
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Longs for more energy, ease, and a sense of being at home in your body and your life, not just in fleeting moments
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Is ready to reconnect with your body, explore your desires and purpose, and finally understand what’s been standing in the way
Expected Changes / What You Might Notice
After working together, clients often notice:
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Greater ease and vitality in daily life
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Feeling more connected to their body, emotions, and pleasure
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Reduction in chronic stress, tension, and physical symptoms
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Improved clarity in navigating relationships and intimacy
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Ability to respond rather than react to stress and overwhelm
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Increased sense of aliveness, energy, and alignment with purpose
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Through this work, you’ll gain insight into your desires, uncover what truly matters to you.
Offerings
Consistency is really helpful for the nervous system. Regular sessions allow your body and nervous system to gradually learn new patterns, integrate shifts from each session, and support lasting change. Sporadic sessions don’t give the same opportunity for this kind of steady progress, and consistent work also helps you notice subtle changes in your body, energy, and emotional regulation.
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Consistent Care: For the best support and momentum, I recommend meeting four times a month, though two sessions a month can also work well. Sporadic sessions aren’t ideal, since consistency is what helps this work take root and bring lasting change.
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Investment: $600/month | 4 sessions per month | 55 minutes each
This work is a 3-month commitment, giving us the time and space to go deeper together and create real shifts. Other session arrangements, including biweekly options, may be available, please inquire to see if it’s a fit. -
Format: In-person or virtual
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A starting point to explore and reconnect with your body, emotions, and relationships.
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Supports sustainable shifts in presence, awareness, and connection, rather than rigid or unrealistic goals.
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Most clients work with me for 6 months or more to deeply integrate these shifts and build lasting alignment.
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Limited spots available to ensure each client receives intentional guidance.
Entry Point: Complimentary consultation – (30 min)
What might be waiting for you? If you’re ready for change, or craving something deeper, let’s find out.
Curious about what could open up for you? If you’re feeling the pull for something different, or simply longing for more, we can explore it together.
How to Work With Me
I offer sessions both in person in Escondido, CA, and virtually for your convenience.
(858) 800-8014
What a Session Looks Like
We sit together and talk, like in talk therapy. But I’m also paying close attention to your nervous system as we go. If I notice a small change in your breath, posture, or tone, I’ll ask you to pause so we can explore what your body might be trying to tell you.
We focus on what’s happening right now: the sensations, emotions, your story, and the ways your nervous system is responding, often without you even realizing it.
Each session is shaped by what you need. I use different tools and gentle practices depending on what fits you. You might do some gentle movement, work with boundaries using yarn, or notice how your body reacts when you say something true out loud.
This approach helps your nervous system find safety and regulation, which is the foundation for healing and feeling more connected in your body and life.
The Approach: Somatic Experiencing + VITA Method
This is a therapeutic approach focused on nervous system healing. I don’t diagnose or treat medical conditions. I do not diagnose mental health conditions. What I offer is a way to understand your body’s signals so long-held tension and patterns can begin to shift.
Somatic Experiencing® (SE™)
a body-based approach to healing trauma and chronic stress. At its core, it’s about helping the nervous system complete responses that got stuck during overwhelming experiences, things like fight, flight, or freeze.
Instead of focusing only on the story or talking through what happened, SE guides a person to tune into your body’s sensations, impulses, and internal rhythms. This gentle attention helps the body process what's unresolved, restore balance, and build more capacity for stress.
It’s not about reliving trauma, it’s about listening to the body in the present, noticing what’s happening now, and allowing the nervous system to gradually find safety and regulation again.
The VITA Method
VITA brings together embodiment, neuroscience, emotional awareness, and conscious sexuality. It supports reconnection to pleasure, desire, boundaries, and aliveness, especially for those who’ve felt shut down, numb, or disconnected.
This part of the work honors that pleasure isn’t a luxury. It’s part of how we heal.
The sessions I offer aren't about pushing you to open up or revisit the hardest parts. It’s not about catharsis or rehashing the past. It’s about going slow, noticing what’s here now, and letting your body guide the way.
You don’t need to be ready to “do the work.” You just need to be willing to pause and get curious. That’s enough.
This therapeutic process is about being in relationship with your body’s signals, noticing things like:
• physical sensations (tightness, stillness, warmth)
• emotions that might be just under the surface
• unconscious survival patterns (like shutting down, tension, or people-pleasing) A few of the core tools that guide this process:
• Pendulation: gently moving between a challenge and something more resourced or neutral
• Titration: exploring things in small, manageable pieces
• Resourcing: identifying internal and external supports that feel steady
• Choice + consent: nothing happens without your clear “yes,” and we go at your pace.
Your nervous system needs safety, space, and time to shift. Think of it like dipping your toe in the water, not jumping into the deep end. That slow, steady pace is what creates lasting change. Sometimes it’s just a 1% shift, but those small shifts add up. We all want to feel better now. But if we push too hard, too fast, the system can shut down, leading to more anxiety, more overwhelm, or collapse. So yes, “slow is fast.” Because that slower, attuned pace? It actually gets you there. That’s the kind of work I do. Gentle. And truly effective.
Angela Rivero