LEADING LADY ~ mentorship for change

The work underneath your insights.

For women who have done the work.. and are ready to bloom.

"You're supposed to be the Leading Lady of your own life, for Christ's sake."

KATE WINSLET — THE HOLIDAY


You know exactly what to do.
And still you don't.

You are competent. Capable. Respected. You've done the work, therapy, books, journaling, the courses. You over-analyze your every move, steadily striving to become somebody else.. who? You're not quite sure who. The best version of yourself, regulated, healed. That person that is worthy, who belongs, who has arrived, who is finally enough.

Yet, when it really matters, your body still flinches and braces the same way. You are handling your patterns, but in triggering situations you realize you haven't really changed them.

Insights don't go deep enough to change your patterns and reactions. We need to go to the parts of you that formed before you had words for it. The work I offer is in the subconscious mind, the collective unconscious, beyond the ego. We change the stories you were handed before you were old enough to question them. These beliefs that you hold about yourself and others are not permanent. You can choose what to believe.

YOU FEEL

Externally capable.

Internally exhausted from carrying too much.

YOU ARE

the one people can lean on..

You have learned not to lean back.

YOU'VE TRIED EVERTHING

Understanding it. Reframing it. Willpowering past it.

And it comes back.

YOU WANT

To be the version of you that is ready to bloom

Always. Not just when it's safe.

THE WORK

Not just in the mind.

The place below where insight reaches.

Most approaches work at the level of understanding, catching yourself and trying again. Over and over. The patterns that keep you stuck were not formed through thinking and they will not change through thinking. They were formed through experience, through the body, through a younger version of you who learned something as fact before she had the language to question it. Who embodied the handed-down truths of generations before her.

What makes this work different is that it includes all aspects of your incredible self at once, mind, body, spirit, soul, energy, relationships, environment and purpose. We work at the level where the pattern actually lives, in lived experience and body sensation. A lot of women are afraid of what they'll find in shadowy memory lane. However in every fairytale, the forest is where the heroine finds herself. We need to venture into your unique forest, find your personal keys and wounds. The mentorship is highly personal and will address your specific needs.

01

THE BODY FIRST

The body is our entry point. Through the Body Wisdom process we set your own intuitive wisdom free. All body sensations are valuable information, and often the only truth. We slow down enough to receive what the body is already saying.

For many women the body is a dangerous place, and real resistance to being embodied shows up. We lovingly find our way through that.

02

CHILDHOOD HEROES

The parts of you that hold you back are not saboteurs as some call them. People-pleasing, controlling, judging, procrastinating.. they are childhood adaptations to your environment, AND THEY KEPT YOU SAFE. Now, they are often loyal employees of yours, exhausted, still doing a job from thirty years ago because you haven't told them the danger is over.

We meet them, thank them, and change them. Effectively and with love. Not through hours of meditation or catching yourself, but quite immediate.

03

GOING BACK TO WHERE IT STARTED

Every adult pattern has a younger origin. Every part was formed to protect a younger version of you that did not feel safe. You are coping, but might suffer from flashbacks, or reactions and personality traits that no longer feel aligned.

We travel through time together, finding the versions of you that are stuck in memories that have not been processed. We attend to them, and bring them home. We cannot change what has happened, but we can change how it is affecting you now.

04

THE TRUE YOU BLOOMS

You are already your true self. She is hiding underneath your beliefs, patterns, doubts and trained personality traits.

Gently we uncover her. With every belief changed, every part transformed, every memory reconsolidated.


She emerges. She is beautiful, powerful, breath-taking in her nature. She is you.

A few words on memory and trauma. Memory is malleable, which means that memories change slightly each time the brain retrieves them, memories can also be implanted or changed. In this process it doesn't matter if what comes up has really happened, if you don't quite remember or are not sure. The process works anyway, because the experience at the sensation level is what we are working with. We treat everything that comes up as valid and important, we don't judge, or debate the truth.

Trauma-reactivation is real. Clear Beliefs is a trauma-informed therapeutic approach that ensures your safety.

MEET MAIKE

Maike Bäcklin, trauma-informed coach and founder of Leading Lady, Althea Anima

I shifted from understanding my patterns to outgrowing them permanently.

Trauma-informed therapeutic coach by the Clear Beliefs Institute · Sustainability engineer · Equestrian · Mother · Writer · Mentor Coach for students at the Clear Beliefs Institute

I have walked this path.

I survived a difficult childhood involving emotional and physical violence, through hyper-sensitivity, intelligence and achievement. As teachers saw me and encouraged me, school became my way out. I became a civil engineer in sustainability, built a career in the public construction sector, married a good man, saved carefully. From the outside, everything worked. On the inside, I was performing, and felt like I was acting it all. I didn't know that it wasn't normal to constantly feel unworthy, drained, anxious, like an outsider and imposter.

I became a mother with the best intentions of providing my children with a safe home. However everything unresolved in me rose to the surface. My childhood memories were triggered and overrode my nervous system. I became my childrens threat, my yelling, my rage, my instability. I refused to pass on this generational trauma, but didn't have any tools not to, and I collapsed. After therapy, parenting courses, hours of meditation and pq-reps.. I was better at handling it all. But I hadn't changed. Not really.

I found the Clear Beliefs Methodology, and it felt like I had been accepted to Hogwarts. I learned inner tools for changing myself and others at a core level. As my inner landscape changed, my outer reality adjusted itself. It feels like magic, it looks like magic. I only believe in it because I can see and feel the change in my own life so drastically, and in the lives of my clients.

Today I live in a lovely house by a river in Sweden with my darling family. My kids are happy, free to be kids. I have a loving husband, a palomino horse, two cats, a big garden and the life I once longed for. I coach a small number of women who are ready for change. Most come through referrals. If you found your way here, welcome!

What shifts when the pattern no longer runs you.

You shift from understanding your patterns to changing them permanently. Instead of trying to outsmart yourself, you change your automatic reactions to work in your favor.

You know what is yours to carry and what is not, and you live it with ease.. You set boundaries that are firm, calm, and you do not feel the need to explain yourself. Before responding, you check in with yourself first, is this really a yes?

You stop hiding parts of yourself in order to stay acceptable. You feel an innate belonging and self-love that is deeper and more stead-fast than anything the external world could offer you. And yet, you feel more love in your relationships without abandoning yourself to get it.

You let go of memories that have quietly haunted you. You stop wishing things would have been different. You forgive, most importantly yourself.

You begin to live as the Leading Lady of your own life. You take responsibility, you take action, you allow yourself to rest. A quite yet un-mistakeable leadership pulses through you, and though you no longer require others approval, it is impossible for others not to notice.

FROM THE WORK

What women say after.

JANA

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

I had practiced yoga, mindfulness, and self-healing for years. I knew on some level that I was enough. But I couldn't hold it when life tested me. Working with Maike, we uncovered the deeper story from childhood that had been running my life. And together, we were able to release it. The anxiety lifted. The relationships changed. Even when a recent ending happened, I could feel the sadness without collapsing into it.

MONIKA INNES

“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.”

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.

ANNETTE HOERMAN

“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.

It can be painful going into deep emotional states, but the sessions with Maike make 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 reparenting 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.

ANNA FROM POLAND

“I highly recommend working with Maike to anyone seeking an authentic, empathetic, and deeply attentive guide on their personal inner development journey.”

Working with Maike was an exceptional experience for me. She is an extremely intelligent, perceptive, and sensitive Woman – a unique combination of an analytical mind, deep emotional awareness, and an artistic Soul. Her way of thinking is fast, comprehensive, and insightful, yet always filled with gentleness and empathy.

During our work together, I felt safe and fully supported. Following her voice and guidance, I had the sense of going deeper and deeper within myself, while Maike, with her characteristic subtlety, gently accompanied me on that inner journey. Her observations and questions are precise, almost “laser-like,” yet always kind and respectful.

I also had the opportunity to observe Maike as a student – deeply engaged, curious, and open to her own growth. She is a person of exceptional intelligence, empathy, and attentiveness, who beautifully combines the power of the mind with the depth of empathy in her work.

I highly recommend working with Maike to anyone seeking an authentic, empathetic, and deeply attentive guide on their personal inner development journey.

SARA TAUBERMAN

"Going through trauma therapy is mentally intimidating, but Maike made me feel safe"

Maike has helped me release my old mental blocks that have been limiting me every day. She has helped me forgive myself, find inner strength, let go of the past, and look at situations and people in a new way that is sustainable for me.

Going through trauma therapy is mentally intimidating, but Maike made me feel safe, she is a very warm person, she guides in a caring way and is so supportive.

So happy and grateful that I sought help from Maike.

SYBILLE LÜHR

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THE HESITATION

The part of you that isn't sure.

That hesitation is not a problem to overcome. It is one of your childhood heroes doing her job — protecting you from another disappointment, another thing that promised change and didn't deliver it.

Give her a voice. Let her speak. Feel what she wants you to feel. And then, underneath the hesitation, notice whether there is a quieter knowing.

"In the movies, we have the Leading Ladies, and we have the best friends. You, I can tell, are a Leading Lady. But for some reason, you're acting like the best friend."

ARTHUR ABBOTT — THE HOLIDAY

You do not need certainty. You need willingness. There will come a time, when it is your time too bloom.

And then I will be here.

the container

Six months.

Deep, permanent change.

LEADING LADY PROGRAM DETAILS

  • 12 private sessions — 90 minutes each, booked at your convenience over 6 months

  • Ongoing voice message support between sessions

  • Clear Your Beliefs audio journey by Lion Goodman included

  • Work that reaches the level where the pattern was formed at all levels of psyche

  • All sessions held with the highest integrity and confidentiality

$3,700 USD

Payable in full or in three instalments

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

Maike Bäcklin is a certified trauma-informed therapeutic coach by the Clear Beliefs Institute from teacher Lion Goodman.

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