Wise mare leading

A 13-week trauma-informed embodiment program for high-performing women ready to move from endurance to embodied leadership.

This journey is for intelligent, high-performing women who function well on the outside but feel pressure, over-responsibility, or quiet exhaustion on the inside.

Wise Mare Leading helps you shift survival-based patterns into nervous system regulation, inner authority, and sustainable leadership.

This is not about fixing yourself.

It is about integrating what you already know into embodied steadiness.

The End of Fixing. The Beginning of Wholeness.

I offer trauma-informed embodiment coaching for intelligent, high-performing women who are ready to move from endurance and over-responsibility into embodied leadership. Through nervous system regulation, belief work, and deep integration, you develop inner authority that does not rely on performance, hierarchy, or self-sacrifice.

Meet Maike

Transformational Coach • Sustainability Specialist • Horsewoman • Systems Thinker

For years, I built sustainable systems within public institutions.
Long before that, horses taught me nervous system safety, grounded leadership, and the quiet authority of the lead mare.

Today, I bring those lessons into my work with women.

Through trauma-informed coaching and embodied leadership practices, I help high-responsibility women move from endurance and overperformance into sovereign, intuitive authority.

The mare does not dominate.


She leads because she knows the path.

Wise Mare Leading is about remembering yours.

The Seven Gates of Wise Mare Leading

The Seven Gates use archetypal frameworks as psychological maps to identify survival patterns and restore embodied leadership in a grounded, trauma-informed way. Each gate addresses a different survival-based pattern that once kept you safe — but may now be limiting your leadership, relationships, and inner steadiness.

This is not self-improvement.
This is nervous-system recalibration and archetypal remembrance.

Length: 13 weeks
Format: Alternating 1:1 sessions and group calls
Includes belief work, somatic practices, embodiment rituals and real-life integration

0 The Call of the Wild Herd

Awakening the Instinct

We begin by listening.

Not to ambition.
Not to performance.
But to the quieter signal beneath it.

Through reflection and embodiment, you notice where you are leading from endurance — and where your body is asking for something different.

The mare lifts her head.
The journey begins.

1 The Gate of the Earth

Safety & Embodiment

Before a mare leads, she grounds.

We rebuild your relationship to the body as home.


You learn to listen to nervous system cues instead of overriding them. We listen to what you body is actually trying to tell you.

You begin inhabiting your life rather than managing it.

1:1 focus: body wisdom, somatic symptoms, resistance patterns.

Safety becomes internal.

2 The Gate of Nourishment

Mother Wound & Inner Security

Leadership cannot grow from depletion. We explore your relationship to receiving, being held, and self-soothing.


We begin healing the mother wound and build an internal sanctuary where your system can settle.

Safety no longer depends on performance.

1:1 focus: attachment to care, emotional regulation, ancestral patterns.

3 The Gate of the Power

Anger, Wealth & Clean Leadership

The mare does not bite without reason. We work with anger as information and power as life force — not control.
You examine suppressed rage, conflict avoidance, over-functioning, and distorted authority. You learn to say no without apology. To hold tension without fixing. To take up space without performance.

1:1 focus: boundaries, leadership patterns, money and visibility triggers.

Power becomes steady.

4 The Gate of the Herd

Love, Worth & Sacred Union

This is the gate of relationship.

Wounds from sisters, lovers, fathers, brothers — places you felt unseen or replaced.
We untangle attachment, comparison, and betrayal.

Self-love becomes staying.
Belonging becomes choice.
The inner masculine integrates as protection and devotion.

1:1 focus: attachment dynamics, sister wound, authority wounds, receiving.

Love becomes strength.

5 The Gate of Voice

Silence & Truth

Before the true voice emerges, we meet silence.

You practice embodied stillness and regulated expression.
You speak without over-explaining.
You meet the inner censor and the silenced child.

Your voice becomes clear.
Not loud. Not reactive.

1:1 focus: parts work around expression and fear of visibility.

6 The Gate of the Horizon

Discernment & Inner Knowing

This is the realm of perception.

You refine your ability to sense what is yours and what is not.


What drains you.
What aligns you.

We work with inner sight — visualizing your path, reading the field, sensing subtle shifts.


Intuition becomes clearer than noise.

The mare finds her way — even in fog.

1:1 focus: intuitive clarity, projection patterns, energetic boundaries.

7 The Gate of Wisdom

Alignment, Destiny & Trust

Here we zoom out, beyond survival, beyond wounds, bBeyond performance.

We explore your larger direction — the life that wants to move through you. Your highest dreams, your true potential, your natural scale.

Not fantasy or pressure - alignment. You learn to trust your path as it expands, to grow without abandoning yourself and to hold ambition without losing coherence.

The mare does not chase every horizon.
She walks the one that is hers.

1:1 focus: purpose, expansion edges, visibility fears, sustainable growth.

Trust becomes embodied.

Integration – Living the Frequency

The work slows.

We integrate into daily life:

Work.
Home.
Relationships.
Decision-making.
Rest.

You are not becoming someone new.

You are stabilizing into who you have always been.

1:1 focus: unresolved issues, new issues that arise, integration, manifestation & quantum leaping

Outcome

After 13 Weeks You Will:

By the end of Wise Mare Leading, you will not feel “fixed.”

You will feel steadier.

You will:

• Understand your patterns instead of being run by them
• Recognize when you are over-functioning — and choose differently
• Feel anger without fearing it
• Set boundaries without collapse or attack
• Experience love without abandoning yourself
• Trust your intuition without needing external validation
• Move from reaction into response
• Feel more at home in your body
• Stop outsourcing your authority
• Make decisions from clarity rather than urgency

Those who have passed through the gates

Jana

“For the first time in my life, I stopped twisting myself to be loved and began to feel whole in my own skin.”

When I began working with Maike, I had reached a real low point in my life. Yet another breakup left me feeling broken and unworthy, I felt so hopeless. I could see my patterns clearly — fear of rejection, fear of abandonment — and I kept shapeshifting into who I thought men wanted me to be in order to be loved. But it was never enough. Each ending left me feeling emptier and more convinced I wasn’t lovable as I was.

I had already been practicing yoga, mindfulness, and self-healing for years, and I knew on some level that I was enough. But I couldn’t embody it. I couldn’t hold it when life tested me. What I longed for was to finally feel whole in myself — not suppressing my needs, not bending myself out of shape — but truly living authentically.

Working with Maike changed everything. With her loving guidance, we uncovered the deep beliefs from childhood that had been running my life. And together, we were able to release them. The anxiety and pressure in my chest lifted. For the first time, I felt whole on my own -- it's hard to put the feeling into words.

The shifts in my life were immediate. My relationships began to change. Even when a recent breakup happened, I could feel the sadness without collapsing into despair. I no longer made myself smaller or twisted myself to be loved. Instead, I trusted that I am worthy of love just as I am — and that the right people will meet me there.

Maike’s work gave me the transformation I had been searching for, for years. If you’re ready to finally let go of the patterns that keep you stuck and discover your true worth, I cannot recommend her enough.

Monika Innes

“Maike’s calm presence made it safe to look at the places in me I had avoided for years.”

I had the opportunity to work with Maike for around three months, and it was a truly valuable experience. As a trauma-informed coach, she brought a level of presence that made it easy for me to feel safe and supported from the very beginning.

What stood out most was her intuition—she had a remarkable ability to sense what I needed, even when I struggled to express it myself. Maike helped me by asking the right questions and created space for anything that came up. She helped me gain more understanding of my feelings towards my parents and finally move forward with peace.

Her professional yet warm approach allowed me to explore difficult emotions without feeling overwhelmed. I would highly recommend her to anyone seeking trauma-informed support on their journey.

Thanks Maike :)

Annette Hoerman

“With Maike I could finally meet my deepest emotions without running away — and discover the strong, tender woman underneath.”

It can be painful going into deep emotional states, but the sessions with Maike made me understand how valuable it is (and necessary) to let me have those experiences. I feel completely safe with her. Her loving presence guides me into those moments when as a child I have felt alone, unseen, unloved. She makes me feel this pain instead of escaping in my mind and abandoning myself in this moment. She helps me uncover my true, vulnerable and strong self - the one that has been forgotten. These moments are magical, and they resonate long after the session when I reconnect with my inner children to understand myself on increasingly deeper levels.

The re-parenting helps me to grow as an adult as well, to be more of myself. Maike is an amazing guide, very gentle in her approach, and firm, too. When she feels there is more to look at, she will guide me there; she will ask the perfect questions and give me the space to explore my inner landscape.

Sara Taubermann

“Session by session, the heavy truths I’d carried for years began to loosen; I found my inner safe place again.”

I am so glad I sought help from Maike! She has helped me to face my mental barriers that have held me back for years. Thanks to each trauma therapy I have been able to let go of old truths and move on.

Maike had a very friendly way when she guided me through past traumas that have become truths, . She supports when it is hard, listens and clearly explains what is happening when it is difficult. Thanks to Maike I have found my inner safe place and been able to let go of old things that have haunted me for a long time.

Program Structure

• 13-week private & group embodiment journey
• Live guided group immersions
• Deep-dive 1:1 transformational sessions
• Somatic integration practices & applied leadership work
• Intimate, confidential, high-integrity container

This is coaching, not psychotherapy. If you are currently in acute crisis or require clinical trauma treatment, please seek licensed therapeutic support.

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If you feel something stir while reading this, trust it.

You do not need certainty.


You need willingness.

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Maike Bäcklin is a trauma-informed transformational coach and sustainability specialist supporting high-performing women in embodied leadership, nervous system regulation, and sustainable inner authority.

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