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What Our Clients Are Saying:
As a social worker, I was trained to fix problems. Alice showed me how pathologizing that approach can be, and how much power there is in fully surrendering to a so called "problem" instead of fighting it. I discovered the intelligence within it, the care it was asking for, and the unmet needs underneath. It was beautiful to experience what real healing feels like without having to fix myself.
Laetitia Mentior, Social Worker - Belgium
“I didn’t want another thing to work on. I was tired of trying to improve myself and still ending every day feeling like I wasn’t enough. With Alice it was different. She didn’t give me more homework, she gave me relief. I stopped rewriting texts in my head, I stopped apologizing for every little thing, and I can finally breathe in my own skin. Honestly, it feels like I got my life back.
Mark Morales - Entrepreneur - Malta
This place can totally take care of your shaky heart. I was gently guided into feeling my deeper emotions, without being overwhelmed or retraumatized. That’s a really key difference. The peaceful environment the Inner Shift Institute provides totally allows for that inward reflection.
Lisa Spravka, Psychotherapist - USA
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The Safest Place to Do the Deepest Work
This is a 6-week live course for people who apologize for normal emotions, still wonder what’s wrong with them after many hours of therapy. It’s made to end the cycle of over-functioning and over- apologizing, so you can finally feel like a whole person, not a project.
You’ve journaled, meditated, had the hard conversations, been to therapy, maybe even had psychedelic experiences.
But you're still overthinking a lot of what you say.
Still exhausted from holding it all together.
Still wondering why you can help everyone else… but are still second- guessing yourself.
This course shows you what’s really been happening underneath it all and gives you the tools to finally stop abandoning yourself in the moments that matter most.
No more analysing your emotions.
No more asking, “What’s wrong with me?”
No more feeling like you’re too much and not enough at the same time.
This course is for you if:
- You hold it together for everyone, but struggle when it’s just you.
- You spend hours replaying one sentence you said in a meeting, a message, or a moment
- You’ve done therapy, retreats, psychedelics, coaching and still feel like something in you is broken
- You try to rest but end up scrolling, planning, or feeling like you need to earn it
- You give incredible advice but secretly feel like a fraud when it’s your turn to speak
- You’ve built a life that looks good from the outside, but inside you still feel not enough
- You can’t receive love, compliments, or payment without shrinking or overexplaining
- You apologize for having needs. Then spiral for hours because you even had them
- You’ve read every book, tried every tool, but still can’t turn down the voice that says, “You’re too much”
What you’ll get instead:
- A way to come back to yourself after spiraling without needing 3 days and a crisis call
- The ability to notice your inner critic in real time, and choose differently
- Tools that actually work when you're overwhelmed, not just when you're calm
- A body that no longer tenses up every time you make a mistake
- A way to receive appreciation, payment, or love without collapsing or deflecting
- Space between you and that voice that says you’re wrong for even having a feeling
- A grounded sense of worth that doesn’t disappear the moment someone’s upset with you
- A nervous system that knows how to return to safety without abandoning yourself to get there
- This isn’t about performing confidence. It’s about building the felt experience of being on your own side.
People Like You That We’ve Helped So Far:
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What You Get:
1. 6x live Zoom sessions starting on December 29th: Every Monday at 6pm CET, 5pm GMT, 12pm ET, 9am PST
3. 4x Live Q&As
2. Real-time practices to shift your internal reactions and inner voice
4. A group of people who feel like you do and aren’t pretending they don’t
5. Replays if you miss a session
FAQ
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP HOST
Hi, I’m Alice Smeets. For 15 years I’ve been creating spaces where people can be real with what’s inside. Most of the people who find me are the ones who hold everyone else together but don’t know how to hold themselves.
I’m the founder of The Inner Shift Institute, a photojournalist turned facilitator, and someone who spent years believing I had to earn every drop of love and rest.
I built this course because I got tired of watching brilliant, self-aware humans quietly buckle under an invisible rulebook that says they’re never enough.
This isn’t self-help and it isn’t about fixing you. It’s the one thing all the inner work didn’t give you: a way out of the loop that keeps you high-functioning on the outside and haunted on the inside.
