Depth Work
Depth Psychology • Coaching • Writing
For people who understand their patterns but still find themselves repeating them.
Your Coach
About J. Mike Fields
Life coach, writer, and creator of Return to Self
J. Mike Fields is a life coach and writer with over twenty years of experience guiding people back to the Self, the one that was hidden away for safekeeping long before they had words for what was happening.
His work centers on the psychic defenses that quietly run people's lives, self-abandonment, shame, emotional avoidance, and people-pleasing, and on the somatic work that brings people out of the mind and back into the body, where the emotional world lives and where the return actually happens.
The Work
He works with clients through somatic bodywork and nervous system regulation, archetype exploration, shadow work, inner child work, reparenting and inner mothering and fathering, dream work, narrative rewriting, values clarification, parts work, grief work, and anger and rage work that restores the boundary of the Self.
Sessions move between the practical and the deep, building emotional capacity, teaching the difference between sensation, emotion, and feeling, working with the psychic defenses rather than against them, and helping people become the witness their younger self was always waiting for, so the parts that were exiled can finally integrate. A Home within can be built that no longer depends on performing, pleasing, or disappearing.
Return to Self
He is the creator of Return to Self, a private community where he writes daily deep dives into these patterns, each with a somatic practice to bring the work into the body. The completed series are available as ebooks: The Self-Abandonment Series, The Shame Series, and The Emotional Avoidance Series, available together as The Complete Collection, with new series added as they complete.
He also hosts The J. Mike Fields Podcast, and his writing reaches hundreds of thousands across social media.
His message underneath all of it stays the same. You were never broken. Every defense was once devotion. And it's your time now.
What I Coach People Through
Avoidance, procrastination, and functional freeze. Shame and the overly critical internal voice. Anxiety and emotional regulation. Grief. People-pleasing and boundaries. Attachment patterns in relationships, avoidant, anxious, or disorganized. Over-intellectualizing or over-feeling. Identifying sensations and emotions in the body, and the mind and body connection. Self-discipline, organization, and follow-through, including ADHD symptoms. Life transitions, finding meaning and purpose. Self-love, self-healing, and creating a stronger sense of Self. Discovering the Self and the disconnected parts of it.
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