Be A New Story:
Recapture Your Creative Life
“My heart wants roots. My mind wants wings. I cannot bear their bickerings.”
— Yip Harburg
A 3 or 6 month transformational coaching program for creative souls being stifled in their personal or professional lives to come face to face with their authentic self-expression.
If you want more in life: to feel more, be more, know more, do more, grow more. . .and you have tried “everything out there” to heal, yet you’re still bickering within yourself, or you’re afraid to be in your body and express yourself fully, this may be the program for you.
Be A New Story is for those who are ready to encounter and move through inner walls, demons and monsters that have been holding them back, so they can turn the page, begin again and live out the story they are called to!
But it is not for those who are looking for someone else to fix them and who aren’t ready to take responsibility for making real changes in their life to achieve their dreams.
If your heart is bold. . .and your mind is open. . .I can help you create inner safety and security, so you can be free to express all of yourself in the world.
Julie Kerr, Writer, Director & Creative Consultant in Oakland, CA
“I feel really good now having completed our work, and I know what God’s calling me to do. Talking about my life in metaphors is powerful and helped me understand my life better. It’s an easier way to deal with the stuff I have to deal with. What I like is that it’s staying in the present and looking to the future.”
Linds Guinan in the San Francisco Bay Area
“I have truly enjoyed working with Kelsay! She has been a huge help to many techniques and tools I use on a daily basis. We have worked on many topics surrounding my life inclusive of adoption, career changes, and relationship dynamics. Her work has taken me out of my mind and back grounded into my body. Her kindness and openness to investigate and articulate finding strategies to ease fears, anxieties, and trauma informed responses has been a life saver. I have enjoyed dancing, drawing, and visualizing my tools as she creates a safe container to play, probe, and practice these skill sets. This is my second year working with her, and I am so immensely grateful!”
Leela Davis, Creative Wellness Coach in Bremerton, WA
“Kelsay is a grounded coach who has caught my shine many times to reflect it back to me to my own surprise, revealing to me a picture of myself that I would have difficulty seeing without her lens. She pinpoints the key truths and has helped me further define and strengthen my message through the myriad of tools and processes available through this program—feeling into a question through movement, engaging through the driving passion through drawing, or drilling down beyond the surface response to a niggling question through free-writing and deep inquiry. Having a safe place to be and express one’s dreams and confusions is paramount when starting any monumental project like starting a business. I deeply appreciate the great attention to detail and supportive, grounded and heart-centered accepting presence of Kelsay.”
Rebecca Eckland, Author, Athlete & Soul-based Coach in Reno, NV
“Kelsay helped me reconnect with my body and the story that resides within me. I not only discovered this deeply ingrained need for balance in all aspects of my life, but something unexpected surfaced: this incredible love of dance and movement because of the graceful pivots it allows us. I want so badly to pivot in real life too. But it starts in the soul, mind and body. I can move forward and backward, and I can turn. This helped me to really see that I can own this journey and make it my own.”
Mia Lee, Intuitive Journey Guide
“How many breakthroughs can you have with one coach? Apparently, as many as you can handle. I did the personal empowerment program with Kelsay and 4 months after our last session, I’m launching my healing arts business. I’d had the intention for some time but didn’t know what I was missing to get started. Working with Kelsay created the foundations I needed to establish around spiritual and energetic sovereignty, self-possession, and other equally powerful realizations. She is a skillful, empathetic coach with an impressive range of knowledge, tools and exercises. I obviously recommend working with her.”
Dream it!
The dreams we had growing up may become trampled, suppressed, destroyed or forgotten over time. . .especially if they are creative, sensitive or compassionate in nature.
A true calling echoes back! I can help you to hear that call again and get reacquainted with what your dreams look like now.
Unearth it!
We will excavate any internal blocks that have been getting in the way of constructing your dreams before now.
I support you to mine, define and re-root your personal mythology and lineage, so you can continue to develop your own resources as you go on in your journey of self-discovery and self-growth!
Create it!
Once you know your inner desires and how to be resourceful, we can begin the deep soul healing of embodying what you want to have happen now!
Having a different model to work with and someone to inquire alongside you can be beneficial in bringing about the transformation you need to make your dreams a reality!
How does it work?
My work focuses on uncovering deeper layers of the self, redefining the roots and foundation of each individual’s own self-expression, and recapturing their creative life for inner healing and wholeness. I help people experience safety within themselves, increase their capacity to feel and experience more in life, and live easefully with less overwhelm, stress and anxiety, so they are free to express who they are in the world, go after their dreams and expand what they think is possible.
Each 90 min. session includes a blend of. . .
Creative Expression
Self-reflective writing, poetry, dialogues and/or some other form of creative expression. We will choose the creative outlet together based on what is arising for you in each session.
The creative time allows you to explore an intention, desire, challenge or situation and communicate what is inside of you using external forms of expression. Often, if it’s difficult to speak about a subject, drawing or writing can yield new insights.
Photo Credit: Stephanie Mohan of Creative Portraiture, March 2024
Embodiment
Movement can be as simple as laying down and breathing, or as enlivened as freeform dance. I offer guided meditations, visualizations, or themes for you to begin and then allow your own intuition to move you in whatever ways feel good for your body.
I support you in discovering what it has been carrying and guide you to express what comes up in your exploration through shapes, gestures and sounds.
Photo Credit: Stephanie Mohan of Creative Portraiture, March 2024
Healing
I hold space for what you would like to have happen in each session and invite the symbols and images inside of you to come out and play!
Your personal material is a foundation for uncovering what is underlying or blocking your progress. Transformational coaching can help to integrate different aspects of the self and invoke changes at an organic and rich level for your emotional wellness, soul alignment and healing.
Whether it’s:
Living into the next chapter of your life, so you can have all that you’ve been desiring. . .
Unleashing your trauma, so you can live your full potential. . .
Being more productive in completing your creative projects. . .
Having accountability for nurturing your soul’s journey and tending to your own wants and needs. . .
Gentle self-discovery of all the layers that make you who you are. . .
Authentic connections and full self-expression for personal growth. . .
When you have become a new story, you will have embodied resources to help you remain grounded, supported and to celebrate living your best life on your own terms!
Marissa Subia, Writer & Editor in Richmond, CA
“I’m so grateful to Kelsay. She was so calm and kind as she walked me through observing, understanding, and expressing myself. Through her coaching and the resources she shared with me, I unlocked the inner stability I’ve been looking for practically my whole life. Life is never certain, but I’m a whole lot more confident about living now.”
Christina Gerber, Intuitive Healer at Crystalline Channel in Marin County, California
“Kelsay puts her heart into her work and is committed to co-creating dynamic change for her clients, allowing them to embody their most brilliant selves. She has such subtle exploratory beauty and divine inspiration!”
Jackie Moy, Spatial Story Designer and Founder of Fantasy Funerals in Oakland, CA
“I had a real breakthrough after our session today. I had an informational interview that made me realize something I don’t want to do. I feel a renewed commitment and focus to my life’s work and feel like its path is fully revealed to me. The filter that was holding me back is gone!!!! Maybe not forever. But I feel so much more comfortable. Thank you so much for the change you have brought to my life.”
Emily Kuenstler, Fine Artist in Point Reyes, CA
“Kelsay Elizabeth Myers is an inspiring expression of healing trauma and creativity…unblocking creative endeavor and improving self-image. Our work together this past year jettisoned some important healing, as well as entrepreneurial completion. [It] has created tangible results. So transformational working with you…and the Cap T Truth of human shared traits that perhaps creates a respectful, soul-based paradigm that doesn’t leave a client like me feeling broken-so-fix-me! I am frankly extremely pleasantly surprised, as I have tried other coaching/classes/therapies. Thank you, Kelsay!”
Lara Clarke, Ecologist & Federal Interagency Coordinator in Twentynine Palms, CA
“I felt seen and honored during these online sessions with Kelsay. She brought a calm, witnessing presence. When we finished our sessions, I had learned to make the shift even when I was moving alone. Kelsay accepted whatever my busy mind brought into the session and skillfully guided my focus toward the body and emotions. She brought a generous flexibility, and we worked with whatever came up as it came up. I would start talking about a challenge at work and then quickly expand into the whirl of anxiety around family relationships, pandemic isolation, overwhelm, and my own reactions to the challenges. Through movement and drawing, we could find a single story I was telling myself that made everything more difficult. Then we could remake the story.”
Meet Your Coach
Kelsay Elizabeth Myers, MFA, RSME
Photo Credit: Stephanie Mohan of Creative Portraiture, March 2024
I’m a published author, Certified Transformational Coach and Expressive Arts Practitioner and Registered Somatic Movement Educator living in Marin County, CA. I offer integrative trauma resolution, mental health, and personal empowerment coaching for bold hearts on the road to transformation, embodiment and self-expression.
As Founder of Dialogical Persona Healing Arts, I use cutting edge transformational programs that help people to dance, define and dream their future, so they can have more confidence, trust and personal power in life. I won Pacific Sun’s Best Life Coach award in the 2024 “Best of Marin County, CA” special feature, the Larkspur Business Person of the Year in 2024 on Alignable and was also a 2024 Emerging Scholar Award recipient from The Arts in Society Research Network, among other awards for entrepreneurship, creativity in mental health and leadership.
With dual M.F.A. degrees in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College of California and Certification as an Awakened Life Coach and a Tamalpa Institute Life/Art Process® Practitioner, I have 14 years of experience teaching, researching and collaborating in integrative somatic trauma therapy modalities, identity and ways of understanding the self, what makes a meaningful life and using the arts for personal and social transformation.
If you’re interested in personal empowerment programs with me, let’s talk. I offer FREE Express Yourself Connection Calls to explore ways that you might benefit from transformational coaching and expressive arts!
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