Embodied Integrity
Embodied Integrity
A 12-week Training in Presence, Responsibility, and Relational Leadership
This work is grounded in a simple truth: relationships stabilize when a man can stay present, regulated, and self-led under pressure
Embodied Integrity
A 12-week Training in Presence, Responsibility, and Relational Leadership
This work is grounded in a simple truth: relationships stabilize when a man can stay present, regulated, and self-led under pressure
A training and initiation for men who want to develop relational leadership by learning how to lead themselves
This work is grounded in a simple truth: relationships stabilize when a man can stay present, regulated, and responsible under pressure
Rather than offering advice or catharsis, Embodied Integrity provides structured training in emotional literacy, self-regulation, and embodied responsibility - so integrity becomes a lived practice, not just an idea.
This program does not promise to fix your relationship
It builds something more durable
Through consistent training, you develop the ability to stay present under pressure, take responsibility for your actions, and act from integrity rather than reaction.
Relational leadership isn't a personality trait. It's a capacity built through practice.
This program does not promise to fix your relationship
It builds something more durable
Through consistent training, you develop the ability to stay present under pressure, take responsibility for your actions, and act from integrity rather than reaction.
Relational leadership isn't a personality trait. It's a capacity built through practice.
This Journey is For Men Who Recognize Themselves Here
You may recognize yourself here if any of this feels familiar:
✔ You shut down, get defensive, or go quiet when emotions escalate
✔ You care deeply about your relationship, yet feel overwhelmed by conflict or intensity
✔ You want to be a steady presence, but notice old patterns take over under stress
✔ You struggle to name what you’re feeling beyond “fine,” “frustrated,” or “angry”
✔ You want to lead with integrity, but aren’t always sure how to do that in real time
✔ You're tired of repeating the same dynamics and want practical tools to respond differently
Embodied integrity is not for men who:
✕ Want to vent about their partner without examining their own role
✕ Expect support without responsibility or follow through
✕ Prefer secrecy, omission, or indirect communication
✕ Seek reassurance or validation instead of practice and training
✕ Are unwilling to stay engaged when discomfort or pressure arises
Embodied integrity is not for men who:
✕ Want to vent about their partner without examining their own role
✕ Expect support without responsibility or follow through
✕ Prefer secrecy, omission, or indirect communication
✕ Seek reassurance or validation instead of practice and training
✕ Are unwilling to stay engaged when discomfort or pressure arises
You want to grow - not by controlling the situation or managing your partner - but by learning how to stay grounded, honest, and accountable when it matters most.
Mistakes are expected. Avoidance is not.
Integrity is built through practice, in relationship, over time.
Embodied Integrity is a structured journey that moves from awareness to practice to lived change
Embodied Integrity is a structured journey that moves from awareness to practice to lived change
Embodied Integrity is a structured journey that moves from awareness to practice to lived change
Over 12 weeks, you will experience a gradual shift from reacting automatically to responding with presence, clarity, and responsibility. The work is cumulative - each phase builds capacity so integrity becomes something you embody, not something you try to remember under stress.
Insight into how the past shaped your patterns is paired with real-time practice - developing steadiness, emotional literacy, and follow-through that translates directly into your relationship. Change happens through lived experience, not analysis alone.
This is not about emotional intensity. It’s about building capacity.
Over 12 weeks, you will experience a gradual shift from reacting automatically to responding with presence, clarity, and responsibility. The work is cumulative - each phase builds capacity so integrity becomes something you embody, not something you try to remember under stress.
Insight into how the past shaped your patterns is paired with real-time practice - developing steadiness, emotional literacy, and follow-through that translates directly into your relationship. Change happens through lived experience, not analysis alone.
This is not about emotional intensity. It’s about building capacity.
Over 12 weeks, you will experience a gradual shift from reacting automatically to responding with presence, clarity, and responsibility. The work is cumulative - each phase builds capacity so integrity becomes something you embody, not something you try to remember under stress.
Insight into how the past shaped your patterns is paired with real-time practice - developing steadiness, emotional literacy, and follow-through that translates directly into your relationship. Change happens through lived experience, not analysis alone.
This is not about emotional intensity. It’s about building capacity.
Somatic
Learning to recognize and regulate what’s happening in your body so you can stay grounded under pressure
Somatic
Learning to recognize and regulate what’s happening in your body so you can stay grounded under pressure
Somatic
Learning to recognize and regulate what’s happening in your body so you can stay grounded under pressure
Relational
Understanding patterns that show up n connection, conflict and repair, and practicing new ways of engaging
Relational
Understanding patterns that show up n connection, conflict and repair, and practicing new ways of engaging
Relational
Understanding patterns that show up n connection, conflict and repair, and practicing new ways of engaging
Narrative
Identifying the stories you operate from and expanding choice in how you interpret and respond to experience
Narrative
Identifying the stories you operate from and expanding choice in how you interpret and respond to experience
Narrative
Identifying the stories you operate from and expanding choice in how you interpret and respond to experience
Archetypal
Recognizing larger patterns of masculinity, leadership, and responsibility that help contextualize change without shame
Archetypal
Recognizing larger patterns of masculinity, leadership, and responsibility that help contextualize change without shame
Archetypal
Recognizing larger patterns of masculinity, leadership, and responsibility that help contextualize change without shame
The 12-Week Training Structure
The 12-Week Training Structure
Embodied Integrity unfolds across three intentional phases. Each phase builds on the last, gradually increasing your capacity to stay present, grounded, and responsible in real-life relational moments.
This is not a content-heavy program. It is a practice-based training designed to integrate into your actual life and relationships.
Embodied Integrity unfolds across three intentional phases. Each phase builds on the last, gradually increasing your capacity to stay present, grounded, and responsible in real-life relational moments.
This is not a content-heavy program. It is a practice-based training designed to integrate into your actual life and relationships.
Phase I: Stabilizing the Nervous System (Weeks 1-4)
Foundation & Self-Leadership
The first phase focuses on building awareness and stability. You’ll learn how your nervous system responds to stress, emotion, and conflict - and how to slow down reactivity before it takes over.
Focus areas include:
Emotional and somatic awareness
Identifying default patterns (shutdown, defensiveness, avoidance)
Grounding practices that support steadiness and presence
Developing basic emotional literacy
This phase creates internal stability required for integrity to be possible under pressure
Phase I: Stabilizing the Nervous System (Weeks 1-4)
Foundation & Self-Leadership
The first phase focuses on building awareness and stability. You’ll learn how your nervous system responds to stress, emotion, and conflict - and how to slow down reactivity before it takes over.
Focus areas include:
Emotional and somatic awareness
Identifying default patterns (shutdown, defensiveness, avoidance)
Grounding practices that support steadiness and presence
Developing basic emotional literacy
This phase creates internal stability required for integrity to be possible under pressure
Phase I: Stabilizing the Nervous System (Weeks 1-4)
Foundation & Self-Leadership
The first phase focuses on building awareness and stability. You’ll learn how your nervous system responds to stress, emotion, and conflict - and how to slow down reactivity before it takes over.
Focus areas include:
Emotional and somatic awareness
Identifying default patterns (shutdown, defensiveness, avoidance)
Grounding practices that support steadiness and presence
Developing basic emotional literacy
This phase creates internal stability required for integrity to be possible under pressure
Phase II: Building Relational Capacity (Weeks 5-8)
Containment, Responsibility, and Repair
In the second phase, the work moves into relationship. You’ll practice staying present with emotional intensity - your own and others’ - without collapse, control or withdrawal.
Focus areas include:
Relational patterns and attachment dynamics
Masculine containment and emotional responsibility
Clean communication and repair
Leading through action rather than explanation
This phase strengthens your ability to remain grounded in connection, not just on your own.
This phase also invites men to examine the ways they regulate stress, emotion, and intensity outside of relationship - including the use of substances, compulsive behaviors, and lifestyle habits - with the goal of building awareness and responsibility.
Phase II: Building Relational Capacity (Weeks 5-8)
Containment, Responsibility, and Repair
In the second phase, the work moves into relationship. You’ll practice staying present with emotional intensity - your own and others’ - without collapse, control or withdrawal.
Focus areas include:
Relational patterns and attachment dynamics
Masculine containment and emotional responsibility
Clean communication and repair
Leading through action rather than explanation
This phase strengthens your ability to remain grounded in connection, not just on your own.
This phase also invites men to examine the ways they regulate stress, emotion, and intensity outside of relationship - including the use of substances, compulsive behaviors, and lifestyle habits - with the goal of building awareness and responsibility.
Phase II: Building Relational Capacity (Weeks 5-8)
Containment, Responsibility, and Repair
In the second phase, the work moves into relationship. You’ll practice staying present with emotional intensity - your own and others’ - without collapse, control or withdrawal.
Focus areas include:
Relational patterns and attachment dynamics
Masculine containment and emotional responsibility
Clean communication and repair
Leading through action rather than explanation
This phase strengthens your ability to remain grounded in connection, not just on your own.
This phase also invites men to examine the ways they regulate stress, emotion, and intensity outside of relationship - including the use of substances, compulsive behaviors, and lifestyle habits - with the goal of building awareness and responsibility.
Phase III: Embodied Relational Leadership (Weeks 9-12)
Integration & Application
The final phase focuses on integration and application. You’ll refine how you show up during conflict, transition, and responsibility - where integrity is most tested.
Focus areas include:
Responding rather than reacting during conflict
Setting and holding boundaries with clarity
Choosing integrity over approval
Integrating leadership principles into daily life
By the end of the training, integrity is no longer conceptual - it is something you’ve practiced repeatedly and know how to return to.
Phase III: Embodied Relational Leadership (Weeks 9-12)
Integration & Application
The final phase focuses on integration and application. You’ll refine how you show up during conflict, transition, and responsibility - where integrity is most tested.
Focus areas include:
Responding rather than reacting during conflict
Setting and holding boundaries with clarity
Choosing integrity over approval
Integrating leadership principles into daily life
By the end of the training, integrity is no longer conceptual - it is something you’ve practiced repeatedly and know how to return to.
Phase III: Embodied Relational Leadership (Weeks 9-12)
Integration & Application
The final phase focuses on integration and application. You’ll refine how you show up during conflict, transition, and responsibility - where integrity is most tested.
Focus areas include:
Responding rather than reacting during conflict
Setting and holding boundaries with clarity
Choosing integrity over approval
Integrating leadership principles into daily life
By the end of the training, integrity is no longer conceptual - it is something you’ve practiced repeatedly and know how to return to.
Program Structure
Program Structure
Embodied Integrity is a 12-week, practice-based training designed to integrate into real life and real relationships.
The structure balances consistency, accountability, and intentional challenge - creating a container that applies enough pressure to promote growth while supporting nervous system regulation and integration over time.
This work is built on the understanding that men build strength and steadiness through clear structure, accountable practice, and consistent follow-through.
Embodied Integrity is a 12-week, practice-based training designed to integrate into real life and real relationships.
The structure balances consistency, accountability, and intentional challenge - creating a container that applies enough pressure to promote growth while supporting nervous system regulation and integration over time.
This work is built on the understanding that men build strength and steadiness through clear structure, accountable practice, and consistent follow-through.
Duration and Rhythm
12 weeks total
Weekly live group sessions (90 minutes)
Sessions are held online via live video (Zoom)
The steady weekly rhythm provides both containment and momentum, allowing capacity to build gradually through practice.
Duration and Rhythm
12 weeks total
Weekly live group sessions (90 minutes)
Sessions are held online via live video (Zoom)
The steady weekly rhythm provides both containment and momentum, allowing capacity to build gradually through practice.
Live sessions
Focused teaching on the week’s theme
Guided somatic and relational practices
Structured reflection and inquiry
Orientation toward real-life application
Sessions are designed to be challenging without overwhelming, emphasizing presence, responsibility, and action rather than performance or emotional catharsis.
Live sessions
Focused teaching on the week’s theme
Guided somatic and relational practices
Structured reflection and inquiry
Orientation toward real-life application
Sessions are designed to be challenging without overwhelming, emphasizing presence, responsibility, and action rather than performance or emotional catharsis.
Practices Between Sessions
Between sessions participants engage in:
Short, repeatable embodied practices
Awareness exercises that build emotional literacy
Reflection prompts and real-world relational experiments
These practices introduce manageable, intentional pressure - the kind that strengthens regulation, self-trust, and follow through over time..
Practices Between Sessions
Between sessions participants engage in:
Short, repeatable embodied practices
Awareness exercises that build emotional literacy
Reflection prompts and real-world relational experiments
These practices introduce manageable, intentional pressure - the kind that strengthens regulation, self-trust, and follow through over time..
Format Overview
Live, online group training
Clear expectations and weekly rhythm
Practice-based learning
Application in real relationships
Integrity-centered container
Embodied Integrity is challenging by design, training men to build strength and relational capacity by meeting pressure, recovering, and integrating over time.
Format Overview
Live, online group training
Clear expectations and weekly rhythm
Practice-based learning
Application in real relationships
Integrity-centered container
Embodied Integrity is challenging by design, training men to build strength and relational capacity by meeting pressure, recovering, and integrating over time.
Community & Accountability
Embodied integrity may include an optional, moderated community space to support accountability and integration between sessions.
This space is intended for:
noticing patterns and reflecting on practice
Reinforcing responsibility and consistency
Supporting momentum between sessions
Community & Accountability
Embodied integrity may include an optional, moderated community space to support accountability and integration between sessions.
This space is intended for:
noticing patterns and reflecting on practice
Reinforcing responsibility and consistency
Supporting momentum between sessions
Embodied Integrity is challenging by design, training men to build strength and relational capacity by meeting pressure, recovering, and integrating over time.
What You Will Leave With
By the end of embodied integrity, you will have developed:
✔ Greater capacity to stay present under pressure
You’ll be more able to notice activation, slow down reactivity, and respond with intention rather than defense of shutdown.
✔Expanded emotional literacy
You’ll have clearer language for what you’re feeling and the ability to communicate it without explanation, blame or collapse
✔ Embodied self-regulation skills
Practical tools for grounding yourself and recovering when stress, conflict, or intensity arises.
✔ Accountability for impact and behavior
A practiced ability to take responsibility for your actions and their effects without minimizing, justifying, or outsourcing blame.
✔ Cleaner relational communication
Greater clarity in how you speak, listen, set boundaries, and engage in repair.
✔ A lived sense of integrity
Alignment between your values, your body, and your behavior - especially when it’s uncomfortable.
These are not abstract insights. They are capacities built through practice, repetition, and accountability.
These are not abstract insights. They are capacities built through practice, repetition, and accountability.
These are not abstract insights. They are capacities built through practice, repetition, and accountability.
Clarification of the Work
Clarification of the Work
This is not therapy
This is not therapy
Embodied Integrity is a structured training and initiation that draws on somatic, relational, narrative, and archetypal frameworks to support embodied learning and relational maturity
Embodied Integrity is a structured training and initiation that draws on somatic, relational, narrative, and archetypal frameworks to support embodied learning and relational maturity
Clarification of the Work
This is not therapy
Embodied Integrity is a structured training and initiation that draws on somatic, relational, narrative, and archetypal frameworks to support embodied learning and relational maturity
A new way foward begins here
Embodied Integrity is for men who want to lead their lives and relationships with greater presence, responsibility, and steadiness.
If you’re tired of repeating the same patterns and are willing to practice integrity as something lived - not just understood - this work may be for you.
If this resonates, you’re invited to join the interest list below.
Welcome, I'm
Adena Altschul, Ph.D.
I am a psychologist and relational alchemist who brings trauma-informed relationship models into lived, embodied practice through a framework I call Relational Alchemy.
My work blends trauma science, somatic intelligence, intuitive knowing, and relational energetics to support deeper connection, embodied truth, and real relational change.
Welcome, I'm
Adena Altschul, Ph.D.
I am a psychologist and relational alchemist who brings trauma-informed relationship models into lived, embodied practice through a framework I call Relational Alchemy.
My work blends trauma science, somatic intelligence, intuitive knowing, and relational energetics to support deeper connection, embodied truth, and real relational change.
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