Unlearning the Good Girl to Let Her Rest is a 90-minute somatic healing workshop for women who learned early to be strong, responsible, and self-sacrificing — and are now ready to stop earning rest and start receiving it. Using The Good Girl Unlearning – Let Her Rest as our foundation, this workshop explores how “being good” became a survival strategy stored in the body, not just a belief held in the mind. Together, we will gently identify the patterns of overgiving, over functioning, and emotional holding that keep the nervous system on alert.
Participants will be guided through reflective journaling from the Polarity and Power Workbook, embodied awareness practices, and a closing somatic rest meditation designed to help the body experience safety without effort. This is not a space to fix yourself or perform healing. It is a space to soften, listen, and begin unlearning the need to hold everything together. You are allowed to rest. You are allowed to be whole.
WHO THIS EVENT IS FOR
This workshop is open to anyone who recognises themselves in the pattern of always holding it together. It is for those who learned early to be responsible, capable, and emotionally steady for others, and now find it difficult to rest without feeling they need to earn it. It is for those who notice patterns of overgiving, overfunctioning, or staying internally alert even when there is no immediate demand. It is for those who understand that these patterns are not just thoughts, but responses held in the body.
You do not need to identify with the term “good girl” to be part of this space. The work speaks to anyone who has been shaped by expectation, self-sacrifice, or the quiet pressure to be the one who manages everything. If you are ready to soften your internal pace, listen to what your body has been holding, and begin relating to rest in a different way, this space will support that.
WHAT WE’LL COVER
This session is structured to move from awareness into direct experience, so insight is supported by the body, not left at the level of understanding alone. We will explore how patterns of being “good” were formed, and how they continue to show up as overgiving, overfunctioning, and internal pressure to hold everything together.
You will be guided to recognise how these responses are held in the nervous system, not just in thought, and how they shape your relationship with rest, safety, and receiving. Through reflective journaling, you will begin to identify your own patterns with clarity, using prompts that bring these dynamics into conscious awareness.
We will then move into simple embodied awareness practices that allow you to notice what is happening in the body without needing to change or fix it. The session will close with a somatic rest meditation, offering your body a direct experience of settling without effort, and introducing a different way of relating to rest that does not need to be earned.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Tamela Lyons-Price
Tamela “The Holistic Weaver” Lyons-Price is a Nervous System Regulation and Somatic Mind-Body Coach devoted to guiding women back home to themselves. Through her work, she supports women in gently releasing survival patterns, softening out of over-functioning, and cultivating deep self-trust and inner safety.
Rooted in her own healing journey, Tamela’s approach blends compassion with embodiment, helping women reconnect to their bodies and rediscover their authentic voice. She is the author of The Good Girl Unlearning: Let Her Rest and the creator of Unlearning the Good Girl Coaching, a transformative space where women unlearn conditioning and return to their truth.
Through somatics, breathwork, meditation, and sacred embodiment practices, Tamela weaves together experiences that support women in healing, rising, and remembering who they truly are.
