Yvette Puchert Life Coach

Yvette Puchert Life Coach Helping women calm their nervous system, release limiting beliefs and reconnect with their true selves, through coaching, breathwork and Reiki. Yes!

I am a passionate transformational Life Purpose and REBT Life Coach and Reiki practitioner with a unique career trajectory. After working in marketing for several decades, I realised my true calling was to help people transform their lives and discover their life purpose. This realisation came after years of searching for my own sense of purpose and feeling unfulfilled in my life and work. Through

my own personal journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth, I discovered the power of life coaching and Reiki as tools to help others connect with their inner selves and live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. As a certified life coach and Reiki practitioner, I guide my clients through the process of self-discovery, helping them uncover their unique gifts, passions and talents, and aligning them with their true purpose. My approach is holistic and personalised, tailored to each individual’s needs and goals. Often our inability to access our joy and life purpose is based on our irrational core beliefs which drive and define everything we do or don’t do. I have helped a number of clients overcome obstacles and transform their lives, finding greater happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. My passion is helping others awaken to their full potential and live their best lives with joy, authenticity and purpose. If you're ready to take the first step towards discovering your life purpose and transforming your life, I am here to guide you on your journey.

I want to close this week with something I find quietly extraordinary about the body.It keeps everything. Not to punish....
07/08/2026

I want to close this week with something I find quietly extraordinary about the body.

It keeps everything. Not to punish. Not to hold you back. But because it learned, very early, that remembering was the thing that kept you safe.

The mind is designed to integrate, to make meaning, to build a coherent story that allows life to move forward. And it does this well. Impressively well. The body serves a different function. It is the archive. The record keeper. The part of you that stores not the narrative of what happened but the felt experience of it - the physical memory of what danger felt like, what safety felt like, what it cost to be in certain situations and what it felt like to survive them.

This is not a flaw in the design. It is the design. The difficulty is that the archive does not automatically update when the narrative does. When the mind has made peace with something, the body may still be holding the original experience - unchanged, unprocessed, waiting.

This is why something you thought you had moved on from can arrive in the body,
unexpectedly, with its full original force. Not because you haven't healed. Because the archive has not yet received the evidence it needs to file that particular memory differently.
What I find, in this work, is that the most important thing is not to fight the archive. To
understand it. To bring it the experiences it needs to update - slowly, safely, at the pace it can trust.
The body is not your obstacle. It is your most faithful record of everything you have survived.

That deserves a great deal of respect.
If this week has named something you recognise, I would love to hear from you.

07/08/2026

Everything starts to make a little more sense.

Why you struggle to fully relax.

Why your shoulders stay tight.

Why you replay conversations.

Why it’s hard to trust that things are actually okay.

It isn’t because you’re negative.

Or overthinking.

Or looking for problems.

It’s because your body learnt that staying alert was the safest way to move through the world.

When the nervous system has spent a long time expecting criticism, conflict, unpredictability, or emotional pain, it doesn’t simply stop scanning because your circumstances have changed.

It waits.

It watches.

It prepares.

Not because it wants to keep you stuck.

Because it wants to keep you safe.

Healing isn’t asking your body to “just let it go.”

It’s gently showing your nervous system, again and again, that this moment is different from the ones it had to survive.

And little by little, your body begins to believe it.

I’m Yvette. I help people who are used to holding everything together reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and gently shift the patterns keeping them in overdrive through somatic work, coaching, breathwork, and Reiki.

04/08/2026

You can know the relationship is over.

You can know you’re safe.

You can know you are enough.

And still…

your body hesitates.
It braces.
It waits.

Not because you haven’t healed.
Not because you’re doing it wrong.

Because your body heals through experience, not explanation.

Each time you pause instead of push through.

Each time you stay instead of leave yourself.

Each time your body experiences safety where it once expected danger, that gap becomes a little smaller.

Be patient with the part of you that is still catching up.

I’m Yvette. I help people who are used to holding everything together reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and gently shift the patterns keeping them in overdrive through somatic work, coaching, breathwork, and Reiki.

30/07/2026

Something I have been thinking about this week.
The exhaustion that comes from being split between what you know and what you feel. Between the version of reality your mind has accepted and the version your body is still living in.

The mind says: this is safe. I have worked through this. I understand it. It is in the past.
The body says: I am not sure. Something about this feels familiar. I need to watch.
And the woman in the middle of those two realities has to navigate both of them simultaneously.

To show up, to function, to be present; while something underneath is running a completely different assessment of the situation.
I think this is one of the least acknowledged forms of exhaustion in high-functioning women.

Not the exhaustion of doing too much. The exhaustion of the internal split. Of holding two contradictory experiences of reality at once and having to function across both of them.
What helps, in my experience, is not trying to close the gap by force. Not telling the body it is wrong, or trying to think your way into feeling differently.
What helps is understanding why the gap exists. Knowing that the body and the mind genuinely operate on different timelines and that both are doing their jobs. That the body's insistence on watching, on staying ready, on not quite believing that this time it is different, this is not a malfunction. It is loyalty. And loyal things do not respond to force. They respond to evidence.
Enough experiences of safety. Enough moments of genuinely different. Enough time.

30/07/2026

The mind and the body are not always living in the same moment.
The mind has moved on.
The body is still watching.
Not because there is something wrong with it. Because it is waiting for enough evidence to believe that moving on is actually safe.


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29/07/2026

This is not anxiety. This is not a failure to move on.
This is your nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do - staying alert to something that once mattered, even when your mind has already decided it is over.
The body does not update through understanding. It updates through experience. Through enough moments of genuine safety that it starts, slowly, to believe things are actually different now.
You are not stuck. You are in the part of the process that understanding alone cannot reach.
That is where this work begins.

29/07/2026

I want to name something that I think causes a particular kind of suffering, because it adds shame to an experience that is already hard enough.

When the body responds to something from the past - when a tone, a dynamic, a moment triggers something that seems to belong to a different chapter entirely, the story most people tell themselves is that they should be over this by now. They have done the therapy. They understand where it comes from. They have made peace with the narrative of it. And yet here it is again, as present and physical as it ever was.

The shame of that is real. The sense of having gone backwards. The quiet despair of thinking: how long is this going to keep happening?

What I want to offer is not reassurance that it will stop. I do not know when it will stop for you, and I think false timelines cause their own kind of harm. What I want to offer is a reframe.
The body is not living in the past. It is protecting you from something it has not yet received enough evidence is safe to release. It is doing its job with extraordinary diligence, using the most sophisticated threat-detection system available to it, based on the best information it has.
The work is not to override it or shame it into compliance.
The work is to give it enough experiences of genuine safety that it starts, slowly, to update.
That is a different kind of work than most people expect. And it is the only kind that actually changes anything at the level where it needs to change.

28/07/2026

The body does not experience time the way the mind does.
The mind processes, understands, files things away. The body holds them until it has enough evidence that things are genuinely different now.The reaction that feels disproportionate is not evidence that you haven’t healed. It is evidence that the body is still waiting for something the mind has already accepted.
That distinction changes everything.

27/07/2026

The monitoring. The editing. The split second decision in every conversation about how much
to let show.
This is not weakness. It is what happens when the full version of how you feel learned early that it wasn’t entirely welcome.
You adapted. Brilliantly. The way you always do.
But adapting has a cost. And part of that cost is the slow forgetting of what it feels like to be in a
room without managing yourself inside it.
That is what this work gently reaches for.
Not unboundaried oversharing. Just the quiet experience of not having to perform okayness
quite so hard.

27/07/2026

Something I find myself coming back to often, because I think it gets misunderstood in ways that cause real pain.

When the body responds to something in a way that seems disproportionate to the moment, the tendency is to interpret that as evidence of failure. Evidence that the work hasn't been effective. Evidence that something is still deeply wrong.

I want to offer a different interpretation.
The mind and the body do not move on from things on the same timeline. The mind processes through understanding through making sense of what happened, building a narrative around it, integrating it into the story of who you are now. And it can do this relatively quickly. Insight can arrive in a single conversation.
The body processes differently. It does not respond to narrative or understanding. It responds to experience. To the slow accumulation of moments where it expected one thing and found another. Where it braced for danger and encountered safety instead. Where it held on, cautiously, and discovered that letting go did not end the world.
That process cannot be rushed. And until it is complete, the body will continue to respond to echoes of the original experience, not because it is broken, and not because the healing hasn't worked, but because it is simply operating on its own timeline.
The tone of voice that sends you somewhere you thought you had left. The dynamic in a room that puts you on alert before you have had time to think. The response that your mind watches with a kind of bewildered frustration, knowing it is disproportionate and unable to stop it. This is not you failing to heal. This is you healing at the pace the body actually heals.

Understanding that, really understanding it, is often the thing that allows the process to soften.

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