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With John & Linda El-Mokadem

You understand your patterns. Now change who's running them.

You've spent years being the capable one everyone depends on. We help you see the story you've been living from, and start directing your life again.

Free six-part video series · One short video a day · No meditation experience needed

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Is this you?

From the outside, it all works. Inside, you know there's more of you.

You're not broken, and you're not in crisis. You have a growing sense you're living a smaller version of what's possible.

01

You can explain your patterns

People-pleasing, overthinking, holding back. You know exactly why you do them. You still do them.

02

You keep all the wheels on

Family, work, everyone's plans. The time that's yours goes to things you feel you should do.

03

Life has handed you a turning point

A diagnosis, a divorce, a loss, the children leaving home. You want to look at you, as well as what happened.

04

You're waiting for the right time

For things to settle. For permission. For life to change first, so you can.

If you're in crisis, or in the very early days after a loss or diagnosis, this may not be the right step yet. Tell us where you are and we'll be honest about what would help most.

You've already done the work

So why does the old pattern keep coming back?

THERAPY

It helped you understand the past

Getting it off your chest mattered. Going over the same ground also kept you in the same loop, with today looking like more evidence of yesterday.

RETREATS & COURSES

They gave you a high

You came home lighter and clearer. Then the same people, the same routines and the same expectations pulled you straight back.

HOW WE WORK

Built so change lasts without us

We use the past only to show you the loop you're in. Then we help you reshape your life around who you're becoming, and give you the tools, biofeedback and community to keep going on your own.

Why nothing has changed yet

Your mind already knows. Your body is still living the old story.

The way you see yourself shapes your choices, what you say yes to and what keeps happening. Insight helps you see that story. Practice teaches your body the new one is safe. We work with both, so change lands and stays.

SEE IT

The story you've been living from

How it shapes your choices, your relationships and what keeps happening in your life.

UNDERSTAND IT

What the old you has been doing for you

Every pattern is protecting something: safety, love, worth or belonging. Once you see what, you can stop fighting it.

LIVE IT

Practise the new you until it's familiar

Guided meditation, rehearsal and live biofeedback, so the new way of being feels like home before you need it.

"The body is always protecting someone. The question is whether it's protecting who you are today, or who you used to be."
John, writing on the Breakthrough That Substack

This is exactly what our free video series walks you through, one short video a day.

Watch the free series

Ways to work with us

Choose how deep you want to go.

Every path uses the same work: insight to see the story, embodiment to change it. The difference is the setting and how much time you have with us.

FOR YOU IF

You know the change you want, and something keeps pulling you back. You'd like to do this work with John and Linda, alongside a small group going through it too.

WHAT'S INSIDE
  • → Live group sessions with John and Linda
  • → Guided meditations to rehearse the new you
  • → The Shift Community, during and after the cohort
  • → Module 1 free, so you can try it first
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Not sure which fits? Start with the free series and we'll help you find your next step.

Change you can see

Watch your body settle into something new.

During sessions, simple sensors show your brainwaves and heart rhythm as you meditate. When they settle into coherence, your body is no longer on guard. That's when it's most open to change, and you learn how to find that state again on your own.

20+years guiding change
APApeer-reviewed research, 2020
2lived journeys behind the work
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Client shifts

"Something shifted in me this week. I feel hopeful again. Clearer. More connected to what's possible."

Stef · after five days on retreat

"What John and Linda are uniquely good at… was their merging together of both science and spirituality. I came away from the retreat excited about and committed to my own life's joy."
Rachel FarleyHolistic Therapist & Mother
"I have completely 100% changed my outlook on life. I see everything differently and most importantly I feel like a completely new person."
ReeceDJ & Music Producer
"Bringing the knowing of that vision into my body so it is now real for me. Today. No need to wait."
NicolaEntrepreneur
"They have showed me how to engineer hope and live in love. Don't overthink, just go. It will be the best thing you've ever done."
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Your guides

We're John and Linda.

After seven years of chronic fatigue, John's recovery came through insight. It led to a peer-reviewed study and more than 20 years of guiding change.

Years later, Linda's journey through stage four cancer treatment showed us what insight alone couldn't: the power of feeling, practice and rehearsing who you're becoming. When you work with us, you get both halves.

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Free six-part video series

Finally understand why you haven't changed yet.

You've read the books. You know your patterns. In six short videos, John and Linda show you what's been keeping them in place, and the first steps to change who's running your life.

Trailer video (the planned VSL)
  1. 01Why understanding your patterns hasn't been enough
  2. 02What the old you has been protecting
  3. 03Why your body holds on to who you used to be
  4. 04Why your old life keeps pulling you back
  5. 05Why real change can feel so tiring
  6. 06How to start directing your life
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