break free from survival mode
body-led support for moms of color ready to restore energy, rebuild calm, and reclaim themselves.
Survival mode isn’t just stress or burnout. It’s why you wake up exhausted, snap before breakfast, crash by 3PM, and stay up late trying to claw back time. Left unchecked, it impacts your health, your relationships, your joy, and your sense of self.
I help moms of color rebuild their energy, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with themselves so they can show up steady, joyful, and whole in both motherhood and womanhood.
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let's be real:
this isn't normal
Pushing through, self-care hacks, or waiting for the kids to “grow out of this phase” isn’t the only way to get through motherhood.
And you’re not the only mom craving energy, joy, and a sense of self again, but another morning routine hack or the perfect self-care day won’t fix this.
Get this: research shows depletion can last up to 10 years after giving birth. If your body is still depleted, disembodied, and your nervous system stuck in survival mode… no wonder you feel this way.
Here’s the cost: When survival mode runs the show, you lose more than sleep. You lose your patience, your health, your presence, and the parts of yourself that make you you.
It’s time to stop calling survival mode “just stress” and pretending you can mindset your way out of it.
the difference
Let’s stop pretending survival mode is just “mom life” or just the way things are in motherhood...
and choose the path toward steady energy, calm, and selfhood in motherhood.
Here’s the truth: most programs, therapy, or coaching skip the part that matters most... your body. They hand you mindset tools or self-care lists for more coping, but if your biology is depleted and your nervous system fried, those tools won’t stick.
That’s why my approach is different: I start where healing actually begins. With your body.
First, we replenish. Then we regulate. Only then do we do the deeper work of reclaiming your selfhood and sovereignty.
It’s time to stop surviving and start living motherhood and womanhood on your own terms... healthy, steady, nourished, and whole.
The 3 wins every moms gets here
Selfhood
You reconnect with who you are outside of roles, titles, and responsibilities.
Translation: You know yourself again — what you like, what you need, and what makes you feel alive.
Selfhood means: I know myself. I trust myself. I live as me.
Sovereignty
You take back authorship over your body, energy, and choices. You stop living by someone else’s rulebook.
Translation: You set boundaries without guilt, rest when you need to, and decide what your life feels like.
Sovereignty means: I belong to myself. I choose my own way.
Self-Reclamation
You take yourself back from survival mode. No more abandoning your own needs just to keep everything afloat.
Translation: You create rhythms and rituals that keep you centered — so you stop disappearing behind the noise.
Self-Reclamation means: I come home to myself, again and again.
See how it works
1k+
Women and moms of color supported through therapy and coaching
14
Years of clinical experience helping women thrive
90%
Of my clients say they feel more regulated, resourced, and seen after our first session
Years of becoming and being a mother myself; learning and unlearning
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You’re tired of being told to “just push through,” “try self-care,” or “think positive.”
I get it—because I’ve been there too.
I’m Vanessa Leveille: a therapist, coach, and mom who hit survival mode hard. I love being a mom, but I was so disconnected to myself. I was exhausted, reactive, and burning out, even though I “knew” all the tools.
Here’s what I learned: those tools don’t stick if your body is depleted and your nervous system is maxed. Healing has to start in the body.
That’s why I created my Body-Led Motherhood framework. It’s the process I used to restore my energy, reset my system, and reclaim my selfhood, and now I help other moms of color do the same.
Because you don’t just deserve to survive motherhood. You deserve to live it steady, rooted, and free.
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the full transformation
Rooted
Survival mode doesn’t have to be your baseline. Rooted is my 6-month, 1:1 support container where we do the deep work: replenishing your body, regulating your system, and reclaiming your selfhood.
This is where you stop running on fumes and finally feel steady, nourished, and whole. No more guilt spirals, no more “good enough to get by.” Just energy that lasts, calm you can trust, and a self you actually recognize.
Start here if you’re ready for private, personalized support to move out of survival mode—for good.
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Unearthed
get clarity. fast
When you’re stuck in survival mode, sometimes you just need someone to help you zoom out, name what’s really going on, and show you the next right step.
Unearthed is a focused, high-touch 3-hour intensive designed to reset your system, map out what your body actually needs, and give you a personalized path forward.
You’ll walk away with clarity, direction, and immediate shifts you can feel.
Start here if you’re craving answers now and need a reset that sticks.
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Vanessa helped me create a rhythm that actually works for me and my family. I’m finally learning to rest without guilt
and that doing nothing is doing something.
- Therapy client
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The real reason your self-care doesn't stick
Your body is depleted, your nervous system is dysregulated, and until you address that, no checklist in the world is going to land.
That’s why I created Regulate Like a Mother—a free guide that reveals:
- Why survival mode keeps pulling you back in
- The body-first step most moms skip (and why your nervous system needs it)
- How to start creating real capacity so your self-care actually works
Because you don’t need more hacks. You need regulation, replenishment, and a roadmap out of survival mode.
She helped me find myself beneath the chaos. Vanessa’s support was
the exhale I didn’t know I needed.
- Therapy client