Somatic Mind-Body Coach | Self-Trust & Leadership Speaker
Vanessa Sotomayor
Creator of The Worth Effect™
Helping ambitious women & leaders move from burnout and self-doubt to sovereignty and fulfillment.
Well Held Life Coaching
Welcome to Well Held
I’m so honored you’re here.
This is a space for women who have carried a lot.
Women who have held it all together for everyone else while quietly losing themselves in the process.
Women who are successful on paper…but exhausted underneath it.
Women who are tired of burnout, self-abandonment, over-functioning, and constantly second-guessing themselves.
Women who are no longer interested in simply surviving their lives.
This work is about rebuilding self-trust. It’s about creating safety within yourself.
It’s about learning how to listen to your body, honor your needs, and stop abandoning yourself just to keep the peace.
I help women, mothers, leaders, and high-capacity humans reconnect to themselves and create lives that feel more true, sustainable, and fulfilling from the inside out.
Well-Held is a space where you don’t have to perform, prove, or pretend.
Just support for the woman who is ready to come back home to herself.
Welcome back to YOU.
Services
1:1 Coaching
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Worthy Within Mentorship
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Clarity Call
Bespoke Leadership & Personal Growth Experiences
For individuals and organizations seeking a more customized, transformational approach to leadership, communication, emotional intelligence, somatic and nervous system awareness, emotional resilience, and sustainable success.
Vanessa offers private coaching, workshops, and consulting experiences tailored to the unique needs of each client, leader, and team.
These spaces are designed to support deeper self-awareness, authentic communication, sustainable leadership, burnout prevention, and lasting personal and professional growth.
Speaking
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About Me
Hi, I’m Vanessa.
I’m a somatic mind-body practitioner, speaker, and the creator of
The Worth Effect™.
After nearly 20 years in the corporate world, I walked away from the life that looked successful on the outside because deep down, I knew I was abandoning myself to maintain it.
What looked like everything falling apart was actually the beginning of me coming home to myself.
Now, I help women rebuild self-trust, reconnect to their bodies, and lead their lives from a place that feels grounded, honest, and true.
My work centers around self-leadership, emotional safety, nervous system and somatic awareness, and sustainable transformation from the inside out.
Through coaching, speaking, workshops, and intimate spaces for growth, I support women who are ready to stop over-performing, stop shrinking themselves, and start living like they matter.
Because they do.
You don’t have to become someone else to be worthy of the life you want.
You just have to come back to yourself.
With love,
Vanessa
A personal note...
Becoming a mother in 2019 changed everything.
For most of my life, I carried wounds so deep that motherhood didn’t feel like an option. I used to think, "Why bring a child into a world that hurt me so much?" When my son came along, I feared it would be the end of the life I knew…
But instead, it was the beginning of my healing.
He became the light that illuminated my shadows, the medicine that softened my heart, the love that brought me back to myself.
Through our bond, I’ve learned what it means to reparent the most tender parts of me, to rewrite old stories, release patterns, and break the cycles of fear, shame, and self-abandonment. He is my greatest teacher and my most sacred mirror.
Adrián, mi amor,
I do this for you, too.
So you’ll always know:
You are worthy.
You are enough.
You can do anything.
Your light is a gift, never fear it, never dim it.
Te amo con todo mi corazón,
Mamá
