Hi! I'm Nicole Coutts!
Calm Expansion™ · Embodied Wise Woman Authority
Calm Expansion™ didn’t begin as a brand or a business idea.
It emerged through lived experience.
After more than two decades working as a naturopath, mind–body practitioner, healer, leadership coach, and business owner, I reached a point where I could no longer separate health from leadership, or personal wellbeing from business success.
They were deeply and unmistakably connected.
Calm Expansion™ came to life when I finally integrated all the identities I had lived and embodied for years into one coherent way of working.
How Calm Expansion™ Was Born
I first developed what would later become my A5 Activation Framework after healing my own PTSD in under six months.
At the time, PTSD, chronic stress, and burnout were widely considered long, drawn-out recoveries, often something people learned to manage, rather than fully resolve.
My own experience challenged that narrative entirely.
Over the years that followed, life continued to test and refine this work.
Multiple house moves in a short period, rebuilding my business during lockdowns, and navigating perimenopause and menopause all placed significant stress on my nervous system, body, and sense of identity.
Each phase became an opportunity to deepen, test, and evolve the framework, first with myself, and then with hundreds of women.
What truly surprised me was what I began to see when I looked back over 25 years of business highs and lows.
There was a clear, undeniable pattern
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My business didn’t only respond to strategy or effort, it responded to what was happening internally.
My emotional state.
My energy.
My beliefs about myself, money, and my work in the world.
At times, I had unconsciously sabotaged growth.
At other times, expansion occurred with ease — even when I wasn’t trying.
Once I saw this pattern, I couldn’t unsee it.
So I tested it deliberately.
I began by rewiring my beliefs around self-worth, money, past failures, and my role as a leader. I simplified my strategy and followed what felt clear and aligned, rather than forcing action.
The result?
A 73% increase in income in 30 days.
When I applied the same principles with clients, they experienced similar outcomes, increased income, new clients, and unexpected opportunities.
What deepened the insight even further was this: some of these clients weren’t working on their business at all.
We were only addressing stress, burnout, and nervous system overload using the A5 Activation Framework, and yet their businesses began to grow. Marketing strategies that had previously failed suddenly worked. Clients appeared “out of the blue”.
That was the missing piece.
When stress recovery, belief work, energetic alignment, purpose, and grounded strategy are integrated, expansion becomes natural.
That integration is what became Calm Expansion™.
The Foundation of My Work
I have been in private practice as a naturopath and mind–body practitioner for over 25 years, facilitating thousands of one-to-one sessions, predominantly with women.
Early in my career, I realised something critical.
What most of my clients needed wasn’t another supplement, protocol, or instruction to “relax”.
At the core of almost every challenge I saw, physical symptoms, emotional struggles, confidence issues, or life dissatisfaction, was an overloaded brain and body. Sometimes from major trauma. Often from years of accumulated, everyday stress.
What women needed was:
- Support to release stress from the body
- Healthy emotional regulation
- Resolution of unconscious patterns driving behaviour and self-pressure
- A return to ease, calm, and inner safety
From that state, confidence returned.
Clarity emerged.
Choices became conscious rather than reactive.
And possibility reopened.
This insight led me on a two-decade journey of continued education, certifications, and international study in mind–body medicine, nervous system regulation, subconscious re-patterning, behavioural change, coaching, and human potential.
These learnings — combined with the principles of naturopathy, form the foundation of my A5 Activation Framework, addressing transformation across the physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual levels.
My Professional Experience & Approach
I bring Embodied Wise Woman Authority to this work.
With over 25 years of professional experience, I support women in midlife, particularly business owners and self-employed women, through burnout, trauma, hormonal transitions, identity shifts, and leadership recalibration.
Since 2011, I have facilitated workshops, programs, and transformational experiences both online and in person, helping women move beyond cultural conditioning, over-responsibility, and self-pressure, and into lives and businesses that feel meaningful, sustainable, and true.
My work integrates:
- Nervous system and subconscious regulation
- Somatic and embodied practices
- Purpose and passion alignment
- Energetic and emotional pattern recognition
- Grounded, relevant business clarity and strategy
I’m known for seeing what others miss, the deeper patterns, internal states, and misalignments that quietly block clarity, confidence, and expansion.
I don’t push clients into action before they’re ready.
And I don’t leave them floating without structure.
Instead, I restore calm first, so clarity can land, purpose can reveal itself, and aligned action becomes obvious.
Why Calm Expansion™ Works
Expansion doesn’t come from pressure.
It comes from calm, clarity, purpose, and aligned action.
Calm Expansion™ is not about hustling harder or escaping your life.
It’s about expanding within it, in a way that honours your body, your nervous system, your wisdom, and the stage of life you are in now.
This work isn’t theoretical for me.
It’s lived, tested, refined, and embodied.
And it’s what I now guide other women into, safely, sustainably, and with deep respect for who they are becoming.
A full list of my professional qualifications can be found on Calm Expansion Breakthrough Session page.
