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Free live event · With Dr Selen Atasoy

The Awakening
Woman

When losing your footing is not collapse but initiation.

The Awakening Woman is for successful women at a major life turning point. You’ve built a life that looks good from the outside. Inside, something no longer feels right.

You are ready to stop controlling, analysing and overriding yourself. The Awakening Woman is an invitation to step beyond the life you were taught to perform — and begin living from your unscripted self.

A life that feels as good as it looks.

Thursday, 22 October 2026

8:30–10:00 pm UK time

Live online · 90 minutes · Free

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A new map for your next chapter

What you’ll leave with

This is not simply a conversation about why you feel stuck.

By the end of our 90 minutes together, you will have a new way of understanding the stage of life you are entering and what may be required to move through it.

A new map

Understand why the way you have made things work until now may not be enough for what comes next.

Clarity about what keeps repeating

See why you can understand your patterns and still fall back into controlling, analysing and overriding what you feel and know.

A first experience of inner authority

Begin listening to your instinct, intuition and body—not as things to explain away, but as sources of guidance you can learn to trust.

A different way forward

Explore what it could mean to build a life that feels as good as it looks, without giving up your ambition, intelligence or power.

Not less ambition.
Not less intelligence.
A better relationship with yourself.

The aim is not to manage your life better. It is to stop overriding the part of you that already knows what is true.

When knowing is not enough

You understand yourself.
So why do the same patterns return?

Maybe you’ve done the therapy, meditation, retreats or inner work. You understand your patterns.

And yet, when life becomes uncertain, you still find yourself controlling, analysing, anticipating and taking too much responsibility. You talk yourself out of what you feel. You override what you already know.

Understanding a pattern is the first step. Insight does not automatically lead to change.

The possibility is not simply to understand yourself better. It is to stop treating your own inner knowing as something to overrule.

The invisible conditioning

The Strong
Woman Spell

I call this way of functioning the Strong Woman Spell: the particular cultural conditioning we live in that teaches women to succeed through an overdose of intellect, through the traditionally masculine qualities of our psyche.

Achievement. Control. Hyper-responsibility. Self-sufficiency. Holding everything together. These very qualities helped you succeed in life — and they can become the very qualities that keep you stuck, or even suffocate you, in the next stage of your life.

Strength is not the problem. The problem begins when those capacities become the only ones you trust.

The answer is not to abandon the qualities that made you successful. It is to stop asking them to carry your entire life. It begins with breaking free from the Strong Woman Spell — and letting the rest of your intelligence return.

Instinct. Intuition. Embodiment. Desire. Imagination. Life force.

The work is not to become less powerful. It is to recover the parts of your intelligence that have been left out.

The turning point

Maybe you feel stuck.
Or maybe life has cracked something open.

Burnout. Divorce or a relationship rupture. Motherhood. Grief. A health crisis. A career transition. Therapy. A spiritual or psychedelic experience.

Or simply the moment you realised: I cannot keep living in quite the same way.

A turning point can feel disorienting because the old map has stopped working before the new one has appeared.

The Awakening Woman is an invitation to begin discovering that new map — the map of your unscripted self.

Sometimes losing your footing is not simply collapse.
Sometimes it is initiation.

What opens up on the other side

The unscripted self.

No affirmations. No empowerment clichés. No new prescription for the woman you should become.

Instead, you reconnect with the innate intelligence and the deepest power of your own psyche, so you stop managing your life and start inhabiting it.

And what opens up on the other side of the conditioning is what achievement alone could never give you:

Freedom that does not need permission.
Joy you do not have to earn.
Power that is self-sourced.
A deep satisfaction with your own life.
And the capacity to finally feel, and enjoy, your own experience.

Beneath the performance lives a woman who has never had the chance to live her own life. Your unscripted self is not a better version of you. She is the real one.

When you break free from cultural conditioning — and from generational patterns that were never truly yours — this is what becomes possible:

You feel alive again

Your zest for life returns — aliveness stops being something you remember and becomes how your days feel.

Sovereign inner authority

You are in touch with what is true for you, and it leads your choices — no longer overruled by expectation or obligation.

The deepest, wildest power of your psyche

Instinct, intuition, desire and imagination come back into relationship with your intellect, instead of running your life on analysis alone.

A life that feels as good as it looks

Joy and freedom are no longer ideas you admire from a distance. They are how it feels to live inside your own life.

This is not a fantasy. It is what remains when the spell lifts.

Inside our 90 minutes together

What if your next chapter requires a different kind of intelligence?

In The Awakening Woman, through depth psychology, embodied experience and the ancient myth of Inanna’s descent, we will begin deprogramming your mind from cultural conditioning — recovering instinct, intuition and the deeper intelligence of your psyche.

Why insight isn’t always enough

Understand why knowing the origins of a pattern does not necessarily free you from repeating it, and what another level of change requires.

The Strong Woman Spell

Recognise where control, achievement, analysis and hyper-responsibility have become an invisible operating system in your life.

The turning point as initiation

Explore what changes when you stop asking only, ‘How do I get back to normal?’ and begin asking what this moment may be inviting you into.

Another source of intelligence

Experience what it means to bring instinct, intuition, embodiment, imagination and life force back into relationship with your intellect.

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From control to inner authority

You won’t just think about this.

The Awakening Woman combines teaching, depth psychology, myth, guided reflection, embodied experience and live dialogue.

Inner authority means being able to hear what is true for you and let it matter in your choices, rather than always deferring to expectations, obligations or what looks right to everyone else.

My intention is for you to experience, even briefly, the difference between analysing your next step and listening to your instinct, intuition and body. Not abandoning your intellect, but no longer asking it to decide everything alone.

Your host

About Dr Selen Atasoy

Neuroscientist · Therapist · Founder of MeTruely

Selen Atasoy, PhD, is a neuroscientist and therapist whose work sits at the intersection of consciousness, neuroscience, depth psychology and embodied transformation.

For more than a decade, she researched the nature of consciousness across the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and UNSW, studying altered states through psychedelics, meditation, sleep and anaesthesia. She is the originator of Connectome Harmonics, a framework for understanding brain dynamics and consciousness.

Wanting to understand not only the brain but the deeper movements of the psyche, Selen went on to train as a therapist, with work drawing on Gestalt psychotherapy, Jungian and depth psychology, dreamwork and embodiment.

Her work today brings these worlds together: science and soul, intellect and intuition, consciousness and the body.

But this work is not only academic for her. Selen knows from the inside what it means to reach a point where the intelligence that made you successful can no longer take you where your life is asking you to go next.

Through MeTruely, she helps women break free from inherited and cultural conditioning, reclaim their sovereign inner authority, and reconnect with the aliveness, freedom and deeper power of their unscripted self.

Your invitation

You’ve built a successful life.
Now, what would make it feel truly yours?

If you are at a major turning point and tired of controlling, analysing and overriding yourself, accept the invitation to step beyond the life you were taught to perform — and begin living from your unscripted self.

You will leave with a clearer understanding of where you are, a first experience of trusting your inner authority, and a sense of what to do next.