Elias Pack

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Insightful… but still stuck in therapy and meditation?

If you understand your patterns but are still getting dragged around by them…

Your problem is not your mindset — it’s the pain of pushing through life with unmet needs and unfelt feelings.

And if you don’t want to white-knuckle it with yet another coping strategy...

You’ll need a reliable way to make your unconscious material conscious...

And an embodied process for dissolving the old pains and identities that don’t budge with conventional approaches.

Through Embodied Shadow Work, we stop trying to “fix” you.

Instead, we release what was never you to begin with.

So you can finally feel peace that isn’t fragile.
Confidence that isn’t forced.
Agency that doesn’t collapse under pressure.

Here’s what actually changes:

1️⃣ Overthinking loses its grip.
Self-criticism stops running the show.
You don’t have to “try” to love yourself — it becomes your baseline.

2️⃣ Your emotions stop feeling dangerous.
You build the resilience that real intimacy and creative success require.

3️⃣ You become a match for the life you want.
Not through manifestation hacks.
Through real shifts in how you feel and relate to the world and yourself.

Without masking your authenticity or spiritual bypassing.
We’re connecting to the inherent wholeness at the root of you.

79% of my clients report life-changing breakthroughs.

Like Vanessa — who released years of emotional chaos and now says,
“I feel in control. I know what I want.”

Loren — who stopped feeling “too much” and started feeling chosen.

Mary — who repaired a 20-year estrangement after therapy dead ends.
She calls this work “sorcery.”

If you’re done understanding your wounds…
And ready to stop living from them…

Book a call, and I’ll show you exactly how this works.

If you’re tired of performing, but can’t figure out how to finally relax into your natural confidence..

Your problem is not your mindset — it’s the pain of pushing through life with unmet needs and unfelt feelings.

And if you don’t want to white-knuckle it with yet another coping strategy...

You’ll need a reliable way to make your unconscious material conscious...

And an embodied process for dissolving the old pains and identities that don’t budge with conventional approaches.

Through Embodied Shadow Work, we stop trying to “fix” you.

Instead, we release what was never you to begin with.

So you can finally feel peace that isn’t fragile.
Confidence that isn’t forced.
Agency that doesn’t collapse under pressure.

Here’s what actually changes:

1️⃣ Overthinking loses its grip.
Self-criticism stops running the show.
You don’t have to “try” to love yourself — it becomes your baseline.

2️⃣ Your emotions stop feeling dangerous.
You build the resilience that real intimacy and creative success require.

3️⃣ You become a match for the life you want.
Not through manifestation hacks.
Through real shifts in how you feel and relate to the world and yourself.

Without masking your authenticity or spiritual bypassing.
We’re connecting to the inherent wholeness at the root of you.

79% of my clients report life-changing breakthroughs.

Like Vanessa — who released years of emotional chaos and now says,
“I feel in control. I know what I want.”

Loren — who stopped feeling “too much” and started feeling chosen.

Mary — who repaired a 20-year estrangement after therapy dead ends.
She calls this work “sorcery.”

If you’re done understanding your wounds…
And ready to stop living from them…

Book a call, and I’ll show you exactly how this works.

The stuck feeling isn't about your circumstances. It's about the emotions you haven't moved through yet. Every time you open yourself to feeling what you've been resisting, you allow that emotion to finally complete.

Because you're no longer avoiding actions that might make you feel that thing you didn't want to feel, you're free to choose new actions that grow your life, work, and relationships.

Early bird ends at midnight tomorrow, March 3!

If you schedule your application call by the end of Wednesday night, you qualify for this round of pricing.

Link in bio to schedule your initial call

For anyone that wants to receive more in life, work, and relationships…

Sender 🔁 Receiver

4 week immersion beginning March 21
In person
Saturdays 12-4
Pasadena

Many of what we call “personality traits” are actually coping strategies—adaptive ways we learned to survive when our needs were not consistently met.
Hyper-vigilance.
Self-reliance.
Control.
Always being the giver.
Difficulty receiving care, support, or pleasure without strings attached.

When needs are finally met—somatically, relationally, consistently—those strategies soften and fall away.

What emerges is not a new self, but a more authentic one with more:
Vitality
Sturdiness
Fullness
Freedom
Fulfilment
Playful flexibility
Resilience

A nervous system that expects support rather than bracing against disappointment

This 4 session workshop is about changing your relationship to receiving—so support no longer feels dangerous, conditional, or costly.

Are you ready to receive more from relationships and the world around you?

Join us!

Location
Inner Vision Psychotherapy
210 S Orange Grove Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91123

Early bird pricing ends next week! Link in bio to grab your spot 🕊️

𝕊𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 🔁 ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣

4 week immersion beginning March 21
In person
Saturdays 12-4
Pasadena

Many of what we call “personality traits” are actually coping strategies—adaptive ways we learned to survive when our needs were not consistently met.
Hyper-vigilance.
Self-reliance.
Control.
Always being the giver.
Difficulty receiving care, support, or pleasure without strings attached.

When needs are finally met—somatically, relationally, consistently—those strategies soften and fall away.

What emerges is not a new self, but a more authentic one with more:
Vitality
Sturdiness
Fullness
Freedom
Fulfilment
Playful flexibility
Resilience

A nervous system that expects support rather than bracing against disappointment

This 4 session workshop is about changing your relationship to receiving—so support no longer feels dangerous, conditional, or costly.

Are you ready to receive more from relationships and the world around you?

Join us!

Workshop Dates
Saturdays 12-4pm
March 21, April 4th, April 11, April 18th

Location
Inner Vision Psychotherapy
210 S Orange Grove Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91123

Hypervigilance has great branding — from the outside it just looks like drive.

But inside it's constant bracing. Tracking tone shifts, the subtle ways people pull back. Telling yourself you're just observant. Meanwhile your body is just trying to stay ahead of the drop.

And the painful loop is — the less you let people hold things, the less you know if they would. So you trust even less and just do it all by yourself.

You may recognize this pattern — and if you do, you know from experience that its difficult and slow to just try and "do it differently." Its too scary, and there are too many knee-jerk ways your body and mind avoid the vulnerability of being held.

In my experience, it is much faster (and much more painless) to change your emotional imprints around receiving first — to get your body to FEEL that being supported is just... normal.

That's what this video is about. And if you want to be led through it live, Katie and I are running a workshop in LA on exactly this. Link in bio.

chicken or the egg 🍳

Do you you feel uncomfortable when someone offers to treat you to something? Or when you charge for work you do? Or when you get a compliment? ...But you're not sure why?

Then and I have a workshop for you.

Sender→Receiver starts March 21 in Pasadena, CA.

But, early bird pricing ends much sooner — Link in bio to check it out.

Early bird price ends Feb 26! Sender→Receiver will be live in Pasadena. Link in bio to learn more 🔁

I used to think that if I was generous enough, people would meet my needs in return.

But the reality is, giving and receiving are not the same movement.

Meaning that, no matter how much emotional or financial support I gave to others, that wasn't going to start coming back to me just because I gave it in the first place.

Particularly because I was giving because I didn't feel I deserved to receive.

I felt like I had to earn things, or do penance for being unworthy, or whatever.

It took me many years to work through this unwillingness to receive. But at this point, I have collected and refined a few different exercises that I've found to be by far the most powerful for healing this painful relationship to receiving.

I use them all the time, because like me, so many of my clients tend to be over-givers, over-performers. People that try their best and are generous, but struggle to receive in return.

And if you relate and want to deepen your ability to receive, my good friend Kathryn from Inner Vision Psychotherapy and I (Elias) are holding a workshop just for you.

On March 21, we'll start a workshop over 4 Saturdays called Sender→Receiver in Pasadena, CA.

Click the link in bio to learn more (and grab the Early Bird price before Feb 26!)