Rita Palumbo
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If you are here from a podcast, an article, or a friend who thought of you — I'm glad you came.
The most helpful place to begin is with a short practice. Fifteen minutes, guided, designed to bring you back to yourself. Below is how to get it, and a few doors to what comes next when you're ready.
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"She didn't disappear. She's been here the whole time, underneath the competence, the capability, every role you've been performing so well. She's been waiting."
A guided practice that meets you where you actually are. Breathwork, a somatic body scan, and a return to who you were before you learned which parts of yourself were acceptable.
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I am an aerospace engineer at the European Space Agency, a somatic self-leadership coach, and the founder of The Self-Led Woman. Every morning, before I open a single email, I sit in meditation for twenty minutes. That is not a contradiction — it is the whole point.
My work is helping high-achieving professional women stop performing confidence and start inhabiting it, through the nervous system, not through more strategy.
PhD Aerospace Engineering·European Space Agency·Yoga & Embodiment Teacher·Meditation Practitioner
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