ROOT
from scattered to rooted:
a 4-week journey to feel more grounded, present and connected to yourself
NEXT COHORT STARTS 22 SEPT
You've built a beautiful life across borders.
So why does it feel like you're a ghost walking through it?
You make it look easy. You navigate your career, international reloactions and holidng the family together. From the outside, it looks effortless.
Inside, you are peddling at 100 miles per hour just to keep afloat.
Your mind is often racing, juggling countless invisible details, whilst willpower keeps you going.
You feel constantly braced, ready for impact. Tight jaw and hips. Shallow breath. Hunched shoulders. Even when you try to relax.
You don't need another app or check-list that feels like an addition to your to-do list.
You need a safe, quiet space where your nervous system learns it is finally safe to land.
Are you ready to reclaim your ground and find yourself again?
Do you find yourself perpetually braced for impact? Noticing a tight jaw, tense shoulders shallow breathing, even when trying to relax?
Do you want to feel physically present in your own home? Sitting at dinner and feeling genuinely there?
Do you carry a quiet sense of being rootless? Living across cities, roles and expecations and longing for a place you can finally drop your armour and belong?
ROOT is an intimate, 4-week journey created for global citizens, parents and high-functioning professionals ready to stop operating in survival mode and plant deep roots.
Over 4 live sessions together, we move through:
Unbracing the body: understanding chronic tension and stress and learning how to gently find our ground again.
Somatic practices: simple, daily practices that signal safety to your nervous system so it knows you have arrived.
Embodied belonging: start building a felt sense of home inside your own skin, no matter how many times you change cities or roles.
What changes when you ROOT
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A Quiet, Settled Body: Wake up with an unclasped jaw, deep breathing, and a nervous system that no longer operates in baseline panic.
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Real Relational Presence: Sit on the rug with your kids or at the table with your partner and feel completely, somatically there.
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The Freedom to Truly Rest: Enjoy an open weekend without feeling guilty or needing to prove your worth through output.
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An Unshakable Internal Anchor: Carry a deep feeling of home inside yourself that stays reliable, regardless of external chaos.
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Grounded Authority: Step out of white-knuckle over-functioning and lead, create, and set boundaries from a relaxed, steady center.
You become unshakeable. Whatever life brings.
I'm Sarah Grosso
I'm an anthropologist (PhD, London School of Economics), counsellor (MBACP, SGfB) and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I have lived and worked across multiple countries whilst raising a family.
I specialise in helping internationally mobile professionals, nomads and leaders move out of high-functioning survival and build an unshakeable feeling of home within.
ROOT
Practicalities
Schedule
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4 weeks early evening starting week of September 21.
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Final date confirmed once the group has been formed.
What we will cover together
Week 1: Planting roots.
Understand your nervous system’s response to transition and learn grounding and orienting tools you can easily integrate into your daily life.
Week 2: Mapping your anchors.
Using anthropological insights to identify what "home" actually means to your body and psyche.
Week 3: Befriend your nervous system.
Mapping your inner landscape to help you build self-awareness and understanding so you feel less overwhelmed and more organized and oriented.
Week 4: Integration and Nesting.
Creating your personal guide so that you can continue to build resilience and self-compassion.
Your Registration Includes
· 4 x 90-Minute Live Sessions: Intimate, small-group clinical space for deep work and connection.
· Weekly Guided Audio Practices: somatic exercises to use between sessions.
· The ROOTS Guide: A workbook to help you map your progress and record your "anchors."
· Private Facebook Group: Direct access to a supportive group of fellow travelers.
Investment
ROOT workshop series - €200 (Includes 20% VAT).
Please note that although the workshops are informed by therapeutic, trauma-aware practice, they are eductional and are not therapy. For therapeutic work, you are welcome to reach out to me for individual or couple counselling.