8Ma Space
I spent over fifteen years in business operations - working inside companies, managing complexity, holding responsibility across teams and decisions. I was good at it. I was also, for much of that time, running at a level of internal urgency that I did not fully recognise as unsustainable.
What I thought I was doing was staying sharp. What I was actually doing was carrying a kind of constant alertness that never fully settled - even when things were going well, even when there was no immediate crisis. High performance had become its own form of pressure.
The shift came gradually. I started paying attention to what was happening in the body during moments of stress - not as a theory, but as something I was experiencing directly. I trained in psychosomatic coaching and then in money coaching, and what I found was that both pointed to the same thing: the patterns that keep people stuck are not located in the mind alone. They are held in the body, in the nervous system, in the habituated ways we respond to threat and uncertainty.
I created 8Ma Space as a place for people who are functioning well by every external measure but are carrying something internally that they have not been able to fully name or resolve. It is not therapy. It is practical, body-informed work - the kind of work I wish had been available to me when I needed it most.
