Body-Centered Education
for Burnout Recovery and Capacity-Building
Stay in your purpose without abandoning your body.
You do brave, brilliant work. Your body shouldn’t have to do it alone.
The systems you move through, Corporate, Academic, Artistic, Non-Profit, they all demand rigor without rest. Productivity without pause.
And if you’re a woman, femme-of-center, queer, or fighting injustices, the weight lands harder. The pressure is exhausting.
At EMBODIED PURPOSE, I work with high-impact professionals and ambitious change-makers like you to build the capacity to sustain your commitments without collapsing under them.
This isn’t therapy. It’s not just coaching. It’s embodied solutions to the patterns that drain your energy and disrupt your life.
Stop grinding past sleep, breath, and connection. Build the kind of resilience that holds you when the work is heavy and relentless.
This space is for you if...
You want to be successful at work without burnout.
You want to complete a dissertation or proposal without abandoning yourself or your community.
You’re tired of feeling stuck in your head.
You are ready to decode some of your body’s messages around stress and nourishment.
You’re ready to step out of the grind and into your own rhythm.
Let’s begin.
Embody your brilliance so your passions can thrive without collapse or compromise.
Together, we will develop practical tools for resilience, rest, and recovery so your unique nervous system can support the vision you’re bringing into the world.
What I offer
Education for your body with real solutions to the problems keeping you up at night.
I offer tailored body-based education and resourcing specializing in the following:
-
For high-impact professionals who...
Feel overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck in unsustainable work patterns that strain your focus, energy, and relationships
Keep pushing through tasks at the expense of sleep, movement, or meaningful connection
Carry responsibilities so specific or high-stakes that no one at work quite understands what you’re holding
Together, we’ll clarify your capacity, prevent burnout, and equip you with practical tools for resilience, rest, and recovery—all designed to help you lead with clarity, stay grounded in purpose, and maintain your impact over time.
-
For the overthinking and exhausted academic trapped in cycles of missed deadlines, unfinished work, and tension with professors and administrators
Designed with those of you in mind who are struggling with proposal writing or ABD (All But Dissertation), these sessions weave together structured academic support and body-based education to help you manage time, set and meet goals and finish that dissertation/thesis.
Because the Best dissertation is a DONE dissertation.
-
Transform academic struggles into personal resilience and insightful scholarship without losing your integrity and community connections.
Clarify your capacity, prevent burnout, and feel equipped with practical resources that keep you focused, resourced, and on task—because when your scholarship is an act of resistance, your body becomes part of the work.
-
Rebuild your relationship to nourishment—in all its forms, whether it is food, friendship, love, or self-compassion.
Together, we’ll explore how your body senses and responds to the world, uncovering what supports your nourishment and sense of belonging. This might include rest, relationships, food, or purpose. We’ll identify strategies for rebuilding your relationship to nourishment in all its forms.
-
Access more joy, safety and belonging with affirming care that honors your many layered life experience and addresses the toll of navigating discriminations linked to body and identity.
-
For creative artists seeking flow in their work and struggling with outside noise disrupting their focus and confidence.
Together, we’ll clarify your capacity and refine your vision, using body-based tools to support creative flow, regulate your nervous system, and reclaim agency in your creative life. You will learn to integrate resources into your daily life that help you stay focused, grounded, and creatively present.
My values:
Resilience-informed.
Identity and Body Affirming.
Culturally Humble.
No fixing. Just transformative resourcing.
1:1 Sessions
Individual support that fits your body and your life.
COMING SOON!
Small Group Workshops
Build skills in community, one embodied boundary at a time.
Stay in your purpose without abandoning your body
Body-Centered Education for Burnout Recovery and Capacity-Building
Forget to drink or eat all day?
Saying yes to tasks when your body is telling you no?
Forget to drink or eat all day? Saying yes to tasks when your body is telling you no?
Friendships drifting away due to low energy and zero time for play?
Friendships drifting away due to low energy and zero time for play?
Endless to-do-list keeping you awake at night?
Endless to-do-list keeping you awake at night?
-
Burnout happens when the environment you’re working in fails to respect your capacity and need for rest. The accumulation of weeks—or even months—spent studying, organizing within your community, or trying to bring a creative project to life takes a real toll. Sometimes, the very passion that fuels your work can clash with your ability to sustain it. This tension can lead to a slow erosion of your energy, often ending in a sudden crash. When you're operating under these conditions, the feeling of being overextended isn't just emotional—it’s real. And it affects everything: your mood, your capabilities, your relationships, and your body. Schedule a free consult and start getting the support you crave.
You do brave, brilliant work. Your body shouldn’t have to do it alone.
Have more questions?
Interested in working together but have more questions before signing up? Drop me a line and I will be in touch shortly. -micheal hooker, ph.d.
