Sofia Health
Mary Meduna-Gross, Ph.D.
More You Mini-Retreat — An Evening Without Effort
Two hours on a Tuesday evening, in a small room, with other people who are also tired of pushing.
Not a workshop. Not a class you take notes in. There is discussion, there is instruction, and there is a fair amount of silence — the kind most of us have stopped making room for.
What happens
We talk about the habit of struggling: the pattern your nervous system learned so early it stopped looking like a pattern and started looking like personality. Most of the people in the room will recognize it before it is fully described. Then the SHIFT protocol. It is simple enough to learn in an evening and specific enough to use the next morning. You will practice it in the room rather than take it home as a theory.
And then quiet. Not guided, not performed. Just time that is not asking anything of you.
Who this is for
• You are capable, dependable, and running on reserve
• You have read enough and are ready to try something
• You are curious about what changes when you stop optimizing yourself
• You are done with self-improvement framing and would like something plainer
• You want to be around people who understand the pattern without needing it explained
You do not need to have trained with me, used MoreYou.app, or know anything about neurofeedback. Come as you are.
Practical details
Limited to twelve people. Wear something you can sit comfortably in. Doors at 6:15. Held at SolFlo in Wicker Park.
Registration closes when the room is full.
Mary Meduna-Gross, Ph.D. is the founder of PlenaVita Shift and a NeurOptimal® trainer in Wicker Park.
Less Struggle. More You.
Questions to mary@plenavitashift.com.
Leadership Presence Coach
Founder/CEO PlenaVita Shift
Most of the people I see are not in crisis. They are functioning. Meeting deadlines, taking care of other people, making decisions all day. And underneath that, running on reserve in a way they have mostly stopped noticing.
What I work with is the habit of struggling — a pattern the nervous system learned so early that it stopped looking like a pattern and started looking like personality. Effort became the way you do things. Then it became who you are.
Breaking that habit tends to happen in three places at once.
The nervous system comes first, because a system that stays braced cannot be reasoned with. NeurOptimal® neurofeedback gives the brain information about its own activity and lets it settle on its own. There is nothing to concentrate on and nothing to do correctly, which is exactly the difficulty for people who are used to being good at things.
Then the operating system — the interpretations running underneath the day, mostly unexamined. MoreYou.app is where that gets looked at, a few minutes at a time.
And then other people. The pattern is easier to keep when everyone around you shares it. Some of what I offer exists simply to put people in a room together who are willing to see it differently.
I came to this through three doors. Twenty years in education, where I watched capable people burn out doing work they cared about. A decade in school leadership, where I made decisions under pressure and learned what it costs to stay composed while doing it. And a master's in mental health counseling, which gave me the language for what I was watching but not the tool for it. The Gulf War came before all of it and taught me the same lesson earlier: a person can perform well for a very long time while quietly running out of room.
Functioning and being well are not the same. Knowing the difference is usually the beginning of something.
MoreYou.app and my writing at plenavitashift.com are both free. If you are not ready to book, start there.
Less Struggle. More You.