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Self-Led &
Sovereign
A 6-Week Founding Intensive
So you can stay fully yourself in your relationships, trust your own voice, and experience connection that doesn’t cost you who you are, through hypnotherapy, breathwork, and nervous system training.
Self-Led &
Sovereign
A 6-Week Founding Intensive
So you can stay fully yourself in your relationships, trust your own voice, and experience connection that doesn’t cost you who you are, through hypnotherapy, breathwork, and nervous system training.
Not just in romance. (though yes, definitely in romance too.)
Because here is the thing...
how you show up in one relationship is how you show up in all of them.
Your nervous system does not compartmentalize. If you shrink, over-explain, people-please, or go quiet in love, that same pattern echoes with your mother, your boss, your friends, and even the waiter when they get your order wrong.
This work changes the pattern at the root.
So you can finally set a new standard, for love, for life, for how you allow yourself to be treated.
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You are self-aware. Intelligent.
Reflective. Exhausted.
You’ve done the therapy. Read the books. You understand your attachment style, your childhood wound, the exact moment things go sideways. You have done the work.
And then your mother calls and your whole body shifts before you even say hello.
And then your partner goes quiet and suddenly you are three hours deep into decoding what that means.
And then your boss or client dismisses your ideas in a meeting and you spend the rest of the day managing the fallout inside your own head.
It’s not a knowledge problem. Your nervous system has been running this pattern for years and doesn't care how much you understand it.
So it shows up like this:
You overthink small changes in tone and spend hours trying to decode what they meant.
You replay conversations afterward, rewriting what you should have said.
You start negotiating with yourself, maybe I’m asking for too much, maybe I should just chill, maybe I should be easier to be with.
You soften your needs. You stay agreeable. You stay low-maintenance.
You notice red flags and talk yourself out of them because you don’t want to be dramatic.
You wait. You hope. You adapt. And once you’re attached, your standards quietly start to slide.
And it’s not just in romance.
It’s the way you manage your tone with your parent so they don’t get upset.
It’s the way you take on everyone’s emotional labor because conflict feels worse.
It’s the way you over-explain to avoid being misunderstood.
It’s the way you don’t even give your opinion on where to eat, because somewhere along the way, you learned that your preferences created problems.
You are not confused about what you want. You are exhausted from the constant internal pressure to keep everyone happy.
And then later, alone, when you are calm again, you think: Why didn’t I say what I needed? Why didn't I set boundaries? Why am I so anxious about this?
You’re not incapable. You just couldn't access your power in that moment.
When attachment activates, you don’t lose intelligence. You lose access to yourself. Your decisions start coming from fear of loss, fear of being too much, fear of rocking the boat.
That is the real pain.
You’re not confused about love and connection. You’re exhausted from the constant internal math of: How do I keep connection without becoming too much?
And deep down, you already know the truth. You don’t need more insight. You need inner safety, so you can stay connected to yourself while love is happening. You need to stop living below your own standard.
Imagine what it feels like to finally stand in your power.
Imagine
...staying grounded even when emotions
rise, because you know how
to come back to you.
Imagine
... noticing someone pull back and not spiraling, not chasing, not collapsing into stories. Just pausing. Staying steady. Trusting yourself.
Imagine
expressing your needs clearly and calmly, without guilt, without over-explaining, without making yourself smaller so they’re easier to swallow.
Imagine
trusting your inner truth even when someone else is uncertain, because their uncertainty no longer gets to define you.
Imagine what it feels like to finally come home to yourself.
Imagine
...staying grounded even when emotions
rise, because you know how
to come back to you.
Imagine
... noticing someone pull back and not spiraling, not chasing, not collapsing into stories. Just pausing. Staying steady. Trusting yourself.
Imagine
expressing your needs clearly and calmly, without guilt, without over-explaining, without making yourself smaller so they’re easier to swallow.
Imagine
trusting your inner truth even when someone else is uncertain, because their uncertainty no longer gets to define you.
In this version of your life:
Love feels steady instead of chaotic.
Connection feels mutual instead of anxious.
You can say “this doesn’t work for me” and stay regulated.
You stop performing for closeness.
You stop accepting hot and cold as if it’s just how love is.
You stop abandoning yourself to keep someone near.
You feel your emotions without being ruled by them.
You set boundaries from self-respect, not fear.
You communicate from groundedness, not urgency.
You become the safe place you were always looking for.
And from that place , the kind of relationships you want don’t just become possible. They become the only kind you’ll settle for.
Because you’ve set a new standard. For love. For life. For yourself.
Introducing...
Self-Led & Sovereign
A 6-Week Founding Intensive in nervous system regulation, subconscious reprogramming, and embodied self-leadership.
Introducing...
Self-Led & Sovereign
A 6-Week Founding Intensive in nervous system regulation, subconscious reprogramming, and embodied self-leadership.
This program helps you interrupt the pattern of self-abandonment and build genuine inner security, not as a concept you understand, but as something you actually feel in your body.
You will learn to regulate your nervous system, hold your standards, and stay connected to yourself during relational intensity. Relational intensity includes romantic connection, family dynamics, motherhood triggers, friendship ruptures, and every moment you’ve ever given yourself away just to keep the peace.
So you can express needs without guilt. Respond instead of spiral. And choose from self-trust instead of fear.
And because this is a Founding Beta, you are not joining as a passive participant. You are joining as a Founding Member.
Your voice matters. Your lived experience shapes the framework. You are part of building the container that becomes the full 6-month ecosystem.
This is a rare seat. More intimacy. More access. More co-creation.
Awareness alone does not override dysregulation.
You can understand your patterns completely and still get pulled into them the moment something triggers you.
That’s because your patterns don’t live in your mind. They live in your body, in your nervous system, and deep in your subconscious programming.
That’s exactly why this program combines three tools
that work beneath the level of insight:
01
Hypnotherapy:
Reprogramming What’s Running in the Background
Most of us don’t consciously choose to people-please, shrink, or abandon ourselves. We do it automatically, because it’s what we learned to do to feel safe, to be loved, to belong.
Those are subconscious programs. And talking about them, while helpful, doesn’t always change them.
Hypnotherapy works by guiding you into a deeply relaxed, focused state where your conscious mind steps back and your subconscious becomes open to new input. In that state, we can gently replace the old belief , “I have to be agreeable to be loved”, with something true: that you are worthy of love exactly as you are.
It’s not magic. It’s neuroscience. And it creates change that holds , because it’s working at the level where the pattern actually lives.
02
Nervous System Training:
Building Safety in Real Time
Your triggers don’t care about the relationship title. The same activation that happens when a partner goes quiet also happens when your mother criticizes you or your boss dismisses your idea.
This program trains your body to stay self-led anywhere closeness, conflict, or uncertainty shows up. Not by managing your reactions after the fact, by building a regulated baseline so the reaction is different from the start.
03
Breathwork:
Discharging What the Body
Has Been Holding
Breathwork is one of the fastest ways to move your nervous system out of survival and back into safety. It works directly with your physiology to release stored stress, open your chest, and restore a felt sense of calm in your body.
It’s not just relaxation. It’s nervous system reset.
Together, these three tools don’t just teach you what’s happening.
They change what your body does when it’s happening.
What changes when you become Self-Led & Sovereign
You recognize dysregulation early, before it turns into a spiral, and you know exactly how to come back to center.
You communicate clearly and directly, without over-explaining, proving, or making your needs smaller so they’re easier to receive.
You set boundaries with steadiness, without guilt spirals, without second-guessing, without abandoning yourself afterward.
You trust your internal authority, even when someone else is uncertain, inconsistent, or not ready.
You feel steady in love and in life, because your nervous system becomes a place you can rely on.
You stop choosing from fear of loss and start choosing from self-trust.
You raise your standard, for how you’re treated, for what you accept, for the life you build.
The Ripple Effect
The same self-trust that stabilizes you in love stabilizes you in every area of your life. You stop shaping your life around approval and start shaping it around alignment. That is The Self-Led Standard.
01
In your relationships beyond romance:
Less people-pleasing and resentment. More mutual respect and honest communication.
Less emotional over-functioning. More clean, reciprocal energy.
02
In your career:
Stronger voice. Clearer decisions. Better leadership. Less performing for validation.
03
In your relationship with money:
A clearer sense of your worth. Comfort receiving. Ability to hold more without self-sabotage.
04
In your body:
Better sleep. Less chronic tension. More intuitive self-care. Fewer stress-related symptoms.
When you stop abandoning yourself, you stop leaking energy.
And your whole life starts to rise to meet the standard you’ve set.
What’s included in
Self-Led & Sovereign
no. 1
Weekly Live
Group Sessions
One live session per week, alternating between teaching and embodiment work. Teaching sessions break down how your nervous system works, why you respond the way you do in relationships, and what actually creates lasting change. Embodiment sessions are where you practice it, in real time, with guidance. This is not passive learning. You will leave each session with something you can use that same day.
no. 2
Private Resource Library
Every month you receive two recordings added to your private library: one guided relational repatterning hypnosis and one nervous system regulation breathwork session. The hypnosis recordings work directly with your subconscious to update the beliefs driving your patterns, things like needing to be agreeable to be loved, or that your needs are too much. The breathwork recordings help you reset your physiology when stress or activation has built up in your body. Both are yours to return to between sessions and beyond the program.
no. 3
guest speaker sessions
Group members receive access to curated guest speaker sessions covering Human Design and a range of evidence-informed tools designed to support meaningful personal transformation within a supportive community container.
no. 4
Weekly Integration Prompts
Each week you receive a short set of prompts designed to help you apply what you are learning inside the real moments of your life, not in a protected bubble. These are not journaling exercises for the sake of it. They are practical, specific, and built around the exact situations that tend to activate you most.
no. 5
Shannon GPT Support
Shannon GPT is an AI tool trained in the language and frameworks of this work, available to you between sessions. When something gets activated in real time, when you are about to send a text you will regret, when you are spiraling at midnight and need to come back to yourself, Shannon GPT is there to help you work through it. You are never alone between sessions.
no. 6
Private Telegram Community
Access to a private community of women doing this work alongside you. This is not a social media group. It is a contained, intentional space for real conversation, honest sharing, and the kind of support that comes from being around women who actually get it. Connection here is part of the healing.
no. 7
Private Hypnotherapy Sessions with Shannon
Three private one-on-one hypnotherapy sessions with Shannon, available in person or online. These sessions go deeper than what is possible in a group setting. Shannon works directly with the specific subconscious patterns, memories, or beliefs that are most alive for you, creating targeted shifts that accelerate everything else in the program.
no. 8
Weekly 1:1
Check-In Calls
A thirty-minute private call with Shannon each week to track your progress, work through what is coming up, and make sure you are integrating the work in a way that is actually landing. This level of personal support means nothing slips through the cracks.
what clients have said:
Join as a Founding Member
tier 1 | Core
1 live group session per week (teaching + embodiment, alternating)
Private library: 1 guided relational repatterning hypnosis + 1 nervous system regulation breathwork per month
Curated guest speaker sessions
Weekly integration prompts
Shannon GPT in-between support
Discord community access
6-Month Regular Price: $4,800
Founding Price: $1,200
Flexible payments available
through Afterpay
tier 2 | VIP
1 live group session per week (teaching + embodiment, alternating)
Private library: 1 guided relational repatterning hypnosis + 1 nervous system regulation breathwork per month
Curated guest speaker sessions
Weekly integration prompts
Shannon GPT in-between support
Discord community access
plus vip only support:
3 private hypnotherapy sessions with Shannon (in person or online)
30-minute 1:1 check-in call per week
6-Month Regular Price: $7,200
Founding Price: $1,997
Flexible payments available
through Afterpay
If you enroll in the full 6-month program within 30 days of completing the beta,
you’ll receive a full credit toward the program, at either tier.
Our Promise to You
I am so confident that if you show up and do the work, you will feel the shift.
Here is what I ask: attend the first two live sessions and complete the assigned practices. Give your nervous system the chance to experience something different.
If within fourteen days you genuinely feel it's not a right fit, email us. Your full investment will be applied as a full credit toward any future program or 1:1 support. I stand behind this work completely. The only thing I ask is that you show up for yourself first.
No pressure. no hoops, just a commitment frm us that your growth is the only thing that matters here.
Meet Shannon Rodriguez
Clinical Hypnotherapist • Breathwork Guide • Somatic Coach
I want to tell you something I don’t share in my credentials.
For years, I was a chameleon in relationships.
If he liked fishing, I liked fishing. If he was into CrossFit, suddenly I was into CrossFit , even though I always left feeling sore, stressed, and quietly resentful of how much I’d twisted myself to fit.
I wouldn’t give my opinion on where to eat. I wouldn’t say what I actually wanted. I kept myself agreeable, easy, low-maintenance , because somewhere deep down I believed that having needs would cost me love.
In friendships, I’d give and give and give until I had nothing left, and then wonder why I felt so empty. I’d be the one who always checked in, always showed up, always made it work , and I’d never once ask for the same in return. I didn’t know who I was, because I’d spent so long becoming whoever I thought someone else needed me to be.
It wasn’t until I found hypnotherapy that things actually shifted.
Not because I finally understood my patterns , I’d understood them for years. But because hypnosis helped me reach the place where those patterns actually lived: in my subconscious, in the deep beliefs I’d formed as a little girl about what I had to do to be loved, to be safe, to belong.
Beliefs like: be agreeable. Be perfect. Don’t rock the boat. Your needs are too much.
Hypnotherapy helped me rewrite those. And when the subconscious program changed, my relationships changed. My standards changed. My entire relationship with myself changed.
I became someone who knew what she wanted, and said so. Someone who could feel her own edges and hold them with warmth instead of guilt. Someone who stopped shrinking and started taking up exactly the space she was always meant to take.
I built this program because I know what it’s like to understand your patterns and still feel stuck in them. And I know that the missing piece is almost never more insight , it’s nervous system safety and subconscious reprogramming.
That’s what this container is built to give you.
This is for you if…
You’re self-aware and high-functioning, but your nervous system still panics when connection feels uncertain.
You know what you need, but struggle to say it clearly in the moment without over-explaining or apologizing.
You often realize afterward that you abandoned yourself to keep the peace.
You overthink small shifts in someone’s energy and try to manage outcomes so you don’t get rejected.
You want secure, mutual love, but you keep getting pulled into anxious relationship patterns.
You’re ready to stop understanding your patterns and start actually changing them.
You’re ready to set a new standard, and live it.
This might not be for you if…
You’re looking for a quick fix without practicing the tools.
You want communication scripts without nervous system work.
You’re not ready to be honest with yourself about the patterns you’ve been repeating.
You’ve already paid the price of staying the same.
Every time you override your truth to keep connection, your nervous system learns the same lesson again:
My needs are dangerous. My voice creates distance. Love requires me to disappear.
That lesson compounds. It shows up louder every time the stakes get higher. It costs you the most when you care the most.
And here’s the thing about waiting , it’s not neutral. Every time you choose the pattern over yourself, it gets a little more grooved in. A little more automatic. A little more like just… who you are.
But it is not who you are. It is what you learned. And what was learned can be unlearned.
Now is the time , not because you’re broken, but because you’re ready. You’ve been ready. You just needed a container that actually works at the level where the pattern lives.
This is also a founding beta, which means early access, tighter proximity, and a rare opportunity to help shape the future six-month ecosystem.
It’s time to stop accepting less than you deserve, and start living The Self-Led Standard.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions you might
be sitting with
What if I’m not currently in a relationship?
Perfect. This work isn’t dependent on having a partner. You’ll build inner security in your relationship with yourself first , and that becomes the foundation for every relationship that follows.
What if my biggest triggers are with family or as a mother, not in dating?
Yes. This applies directly. Romantic relationships are often the loudest mirror, but the same nervous system patterns show up with your mother, your children, your friends, and at work. You’ll practice becoming regulated and self-led in the relationships that matter most to you.
What if I’m in a relationship and my partner isn’t doing this work?
That’s common. This program focuses entirely on what’s in your control , your nervous system, your standards, your communication, your ability to stay self-led. When one person shifts, the whole dynamic changes.
I’ve done therapy and it didn’t fully change things. Why would this be different?
Therapy is powerful. But many women still find themselves stuck because the missing piece is nervous system repatterning and subconscious reprogramming , not more insight. This container is built for the moment activation happens, not just the understanding of it afterward.
What even is hypnotherapy? Is it like stage hypnosis?
Not at all. Clinical hypnotherapy is a guided, focused relaxation state , you are always aware, always in control. It simply allows your conscious mind to relax enough that your subconscious becomes open to new beliefs. Think of it as updating the software that’s been running in the background your whole life.
I’m worried I won’t have time.
This is designed to be livable. The goal isn’t to add more to your plate , it’s to change what you do inside the moments you’re already living.
This is your seat at your own table.
Not his table. Not your family’s table. Not the one you’ve been sitting at sideways for years, making yourself smaller so everyone else could be comfortable.
Your own.
The version of you who knows what she wants, and says so. Who feels her own edges and holds them with grace. Who can be fully present in love without disappearing into it. Who doesn’t just understand her worth, but lives from it.
She’s not someone you become.
She’s someone you come back to.
This is your initiation into
The Self-Led Standard.
A new standard for how you love. How you lead. How you live. How you allow yourself to be treated.
Not perfect. Not rigid. Not closed.
Sovereign. Enroll in Self-Led & Sovereign.
Become self-led. Set the standard. Come home to yourself.
This is your initiation into
The Self-Led Standard.
A new standard for how you love. How you lead. How you live. How you allow yourself to be treated.
Not perfect. Not rigid. Not closed.
Sovereign. Enroll in Self-Led & Sovereign.
Become self-led. Set the standard. Come home to yourself.
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