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You already know what you feel. You've just gotten disturbingly good at overriding it.
You call it "handling it." Your body calls it something else.
The Heartbeat of
working Steady
“Before working with Tricia through her Steady Foundations method, I felt drained. All my decisions were coming from a place of fear, worry, or overthinking every angle. Tricia has helped me realize where it was all coming from and how to process it. She showed me how expensive it is to constantly give my energy to every situation that asks and now I'm able to use it towards career and personal growth. If you're constantly searching for peace, Tricia can show you where to find it." -M. Huff
This work restores inner relationship first, so outer relationships can change.
Knowing what to do isn’t enough because if it was, real change would be easier.
Here is the bridge between knowing & doing.
A more connected world starts with people who know how to stay connected to themselves.
Most people start at The Oak Institute with a single experience — they're done depending on the external world to tell them if they're okay.
What follows is generally a four-movement arc:
Realization "Oh… this feeling means something."
Relationship "I can listen to this. And trust it."
Rooting "My life is organizing around what feels true."
Responsibility "I start shaping my life to support what I know."
“But if I stop people-pleasing, will I lose connection?”
“No. You’ll finally experience real connection. This is the bridge work from performing connection, to actually living it.”
Start here.
Steady Landing
Notice what's actually yours — and how you're wired.
Together, we’ll gently untangle questions like:
Is this anxiety or intuition?
Is this obligation or desire?
Is this caretaking or self-erasure?
Is this connection or performance?
Is this peace or suppression?
We can use Human Design as a reflective tool to help you reconnect to your body, your truth, and your own way of knowing, if that’s part of your language.
60 minutes. $111.
Steady Foundations
Not every instinct is yours. Some are inherited, absorbed, or built for survival. This is where you learn the difference.
Inside this 6-month small group container, you’ll:
reconnect to yourself emotionally and learn to trust your body’s signals
understand the patterns shaping your relationships — attachment, over-functioning, people-pleasing, self-protection
practice honest connection, boundaries, and community without abandoning yourself
This work is slow, human, and relational. Less performing. More belonging.
6 months. Small cohort. Monthly 1:1 included. $222/month.
Steady Ground
Practice staying connected to yourself while in relationship with others.
This is where the work gets lived — not just understood.
Inside this 4-month small group container, you’ll:
notice your patterns in real time instead of only after the fact
practice honesty, boundaries, repair, and vulnerability in relationship
build the capacity to stay grounded, connected, and fully yourself around other people
Witnessing is part of the medicine. Relationship is the testing ground.
Deeper and more experiential than Foundations, this space helps new patterns become real-world ones.
6 months. Small cohort. Optional 1:1 support. $333/month.
Steady Path
Stop outsourcing your knowing.
This is for people who already understand their patterns and are ready for something deeper: living from self-trust instead of constantly searching for certainty, permission, or the “right” answer.
Inside this 9-month small group container, you’ll:
deepen your relationship with your own inner knowing
practice staying grounded without over-relying on external guidance
explore the deeper relational and spiritual work of becoming fully yourself
These are the deeper practices my own teacher gave me — practices I could only truly receive once I stopped needing someone else to tell me who I was.
This is less about finding the map. More about learning to trust the part of you that already knows how to walk.
9 months. Small cohort. Monthly 1:1 support. $444/month.
About Tricia
I didn't start here. Almost nobody does. If any of this sounds familiar, it's because I lived it first.
The Job Nobody Handed Me
For the first twenty-one years of my life, I held both sides of my family together. Nobody handed me a title. Nobody asked. I just knew — the way you know things nobody taught you, because someone has to, and it fell to me.
The Breaking Point
Then I became a mother, and had a full nervous breakdown. What used to work, stopped working — and I realized what I'd called "doing things differently" was the same story, just in different clothes.
That gap — between "I've got this handled" and "I'm actually okay" — is where this work comes from.
The Expulsion
Later, I studied under a direct student of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. She expelled me. Best thing anyone's ever done to me.
The Oak Institute is space to hear yourself again. A community built on clarity, clean communication, and relationship skill-building. Simple practices that help you trust what you hear.
Self-trust isn't the goal. It's the system we build together.
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