Lifeworks of Maine

Integrative Coaching for

Autonomic Balance

 

Heather MacDuffie MSW PhD

 

Restoring Rhythm. Rebuilding Ease. Reclaiming your Life

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Restoring Rhythm. Rebuilding Ease. Reclaiming your Life 〰️

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Welcome

Human beings are rhythmic, relational organisms. Our breath, heartbeat, attention, digestion, and emotional life are shaped by the autonomic nervous system — especially the vagal pathways that help us feel safe, connected, and capable.

When these rhythms fall out of sync, life becomes harder.

I help people reorganize their internal rhythms using a combination of Polyvagal-informed coaching, rhythmic supports, vagal stimulation practices, and the natural spiral of calming → processing → transformation. This approach is grounded, paced, and deeply respectful of how the body finds its way back to coherence.

What I Offer

Individual Coaching

Strengthen internal steadiness, reduce overwhelm, and cultivate vagal-supported rhythms that build resilience.

Couple Coaching

Discover how Polyvagal states influence communication, conflict, and connection — and learn to co-regulate with more ease.

Rhythmic Supports

Sound-based, bilateral, and vagal-enhancing tools that encourage autonomic balance and help the body recalibrate from the inside out.

Who Comes to This Work

People who feel:

  • chronically overwhelmed or burned out

  • easily overstimulated

  • disconnected from ease or clarity

  • caught in old patterns of reactivity

  • unsettled after difficult life experiences

  • unable to recover from stress as they once could

This work is for anyone whose autonomic rhythms need support — including those who identify as trauma survivors, without foregrounding trauma as the center of the work.

Begin Your Spiral Toward Flourishing

 
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