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Nicole Siegel, CSB® & Somatic Educator online and in Austin, TX She has now returned to her home state of Texas.

Nicole Siegel
CSB, Doula, Postpartum Healer, Trauma-Informed Professional

Nicole is a certified sexological bodyworker, doula, postpartum healer, and the founder of Body Compass. Nicole helps her clients find comfort in their body, attunement with and clarity in their desires, and confidence in their decisions and boundaries. She acquired her certification as a Sexological Bodyworker at the Sea S

chool of Embodiment in England, UK. She is trained under Continuum Doulas (Frome, UK) as a birth doula, a special framework providing more holistic and complete birth support. She has studied with Ellen Heed, Joseph Kramer, Betty Martin, Robyn Dalzen, and Dee Larsen. She incorporates trauma-informed and client-led bodywork into her sessions to aid her clients to find pleasure and empowerment in their relationship to their body, sexuality, self, and, ultimately, vitality in life, love, relationships, and work. She is a lifelong devotee to her pleasure, and as such spent the last 5 years in Europe exploring permaculture initiatives in Portugal, alternative communities in Spain, and the passions and delights of the UK. She has moved from a career set on feminist foreign policy and economics to birth and sexuality work.

06/25/2026
06/08/2026
If you've ever found yourself reading the books, booking the therapy, sending the articles, and hoping something finally...
06/07/2026

If you've ever found yourself reading the books, booking the therapy, sending the articles, and hoping something finally lands in hi —
This is for you. 🌿

There's a pattern that shows up in so many of the women I work with. They are the ones holding the relational container. Tracking the emotional temperature. Initiating the conversations. Doing the reaching.

And they are exhausted.
Not because they don't love their partner. They love them completely. But somewhere along the way, loving completely started to mean doing it all.

Here's what I want you to hear: overfunctioning isn't love. It's anxiety with good intentions.

When you overfunction, your partner doesn't have to feel the gap. They don't have to reckon with what's missing, because you're already filling it. You're so busy managing the relationship that neither of you gets to find out what would happen if you stopped. 🌿
And the hardest part? It often looks like you're the committed one. The one who cares more. The one keeping things together.

But what it's actually doing is keeping both of you from the truth of where you are.
Your partner has their own work to do. That work belongs to them. And no amount of your effort, insight, or love can do it for them — it can only delay the moment they have to meet it themselves.

Letting go of the overfunctioning isn't giving up on your relationship. It's finally giving it a chance to be real. 🧭

If this is landing somewhere in your body right now, I'd love for you to explore what it looks like to put your own compass first.

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