Shelley Hoffos

Portrait of Shelley Hoffos, coach at Rooted Heart

Helping women build a loving relationship with themselves so they can create a life that reflects who they truly are.

Through coaching, community, and embodied practices, I help women reconnect with themselves, trust their inner wisdom, and begin making everyday choices from a place of love rather than fear.

This isn’t about becoming someone else. It’s about remembering who you’ve always been — and having the courage and grace to live as that woman.

The Heart of My Work

I believe the relationship you have with yourself shapes every part of your life.

It influences the choices you make, the boundaries you set, the relationships you create, the dreams you pursue, and the way you move through both ordinary days and difficult seasons.

A loving relationship with yourself isn’t measured by how you feel about yourself on your best days. It’s reflected in the small choices you make for yourself every ordinary day.

The way you speak to yourself when no one else is listening. The moments you honour what your body needs. The boundary you choose to keep. The rest you allow without guilt. The courage to tell the truth. The grace to begin again.

Before we change what you're doing, let's change the place within you that is making the decisions.

Because when that inner relationship begins to change, your outer life begins to reflect it.

A Philosophy of Living

I don’t believe life is about becoming someone else. I believe it’s about building a loving relationship with the person you already are.

Every woman deserves to feel safe within herself. To trust her own voice. To honour her own needs. To know her worth has never depended on how much she gives, achieves, or sacrifices.

Many of us have learned to survive by putting ourselves last, silencing our intuition, disconnecting from our bodies, or believing our value comes from what we do rather than who we are.

Awareness is where transformation begins. We cannot change what we cannot see. When we become aware of our patterns, fears, beliefs, and the ways we’ve learned to protect ourselves, we create space for something new.

Love is more than an emotion. Love is how we speak to ourselves. Love is the boundaries we create. Love is the courage to tell the truth. Love is resting without guilt. Love is asking for help. Love is forgiving ourselves when we fall. Love is choosing, again and again, what honours who we truly are.

I believe the body is wise. When we slow down enough to listen, it gently guides us toward what we need.

Healing isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence — meeting ourselves with honesty, compassion, and curiosity, especially on the days that feel difficult.

Transformation happens in ordinary moments: one courageous conversation, one deep breath, one loving choice, one boundary, one quiet moment of remembering what truly matters.

These moments become a life.

Transformation happens in ordinary moments.

My Story

I didn’t set out to teach women how to build a better relationship with themselves. I set out to heal my own.

For much of my life, I believed that if I could just become more — more confident, more successful, more certain — then maybe I would finally feel enough.

Like many women, I spent years looking outside of myself for the answers, trying harder, giving more, and believing that peace was something I would eventually find.

But life has a way of inviting us into deeper lessons. Through seasons of heartbreak, motherhood, uncertainty, rebuilding, and profound personal growth, I slowly began to realize something that would change my life forever: I didn’t need to become someone else. I needed to come home to myself.

My path has taken me through yoga, meditation, Reiki, breathwork, sound healing, coaching, and years of personal exploration. Each practice offered something meaningful, but none of them were the destination. They were different paths leading me back to the same place: a more loving relationship with myself.

As that relationship deepened, everything around me began to change. I trusted myself more. I created healthier boundaries. I listened to my intuition. I made choices that reflected who I truly was instead of who I thought I needed to be.

Then came a moment that changed everything. After a serious accident in which I nearly lost my life, I was left with an overwhelming sense that my life carried a deeper purpose — that there was still more for me to do.

That experience didn’t leave me wanting to live in fear. It left me wanting to live with intention. It deepened my commitment to creating spaces where women can reconnect with themselves, hear their own inner wisdom, and remember the strength and love that have always been within them.

My Approach

My work is personal, reflective, practical, and embodied. We don’t only talk about what needs to change; we pay attention to the inner place your choices are coming from and practise living differently in real life.

Depending on what will genuinely support you, our work may draw from coaching conversations, guided reflection, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, nervous system practices, visualization, Reiki, sound, or other embodied tools.

The modality is never the point. The point is helping you hear yourself more clearly, strengthen self-trust, and integrate what you’re learning into the way you actually live.

This work holds two things at once: courage and grace. Courage to make the uncomfortable choice when it honours who you are. Grace to meet yourself with compassion when life is messy, when you need rest, or when you begin again.

Ways to Work With Me

Women's Circle Journey

A live, closed 12-week online journey for women who want to reconnect with themselves while being supported by the same group of women each week. Through reflection, conversation, guided practices, and a shared philosophy of living, we explore awareness, compassion, courage, and integration together.

$777 + GST, or 3 monthly payments of $277 + GST.

Private Coaching Journey

A personalized 12-week one-on-one journey for women who want deeper support. Together we explore the relationship you have with yourself, the patterns shaping your choices, and the practical changes that will help your life feel more peaceful, purposeful, confident, and authentic.

$2,222 + GST, or 3 monthly payments of $797 + GST. Single sessions $185 + GST.

A Few Things I Believe

  • The relationship you have with yourself shapes the life you create.
  • Awareness creates choice.
  • Love and boundaries belong together.
  • Courage and grace can exist at the same time.
  • Your body and inner state offer meaningful information when you learn to listen.
  • Self-compassion does not mean avoiding hard things; sometimes love looks like compassionate discipline.
  • You don’t have to become someone else. You can become more fully yourself.
  • Transformation happens in ordinary moments — one loving choice at a time.

A Personal Invitation

If something you’ve read here feels familiar, you don’t need to have every answer before you begin.

Sometimes the beginning is simply noticing that something inside you is asking for your attention.

I’d be honoured to walk alongside you as you build a more loving relationship with yourself and create a life that reflects who you truly are.