Welcome to the Unbound Path
BREAK FREE. COME ALIVE. LIVE UNBOUND.
If you've felt stuck, numb, or like life is happening to you instead of for you—this isn't a mindset problem. It's a disconnection from your most powerful guide: your body.
The life you're craving? The one where you feel alive, confident, and free?
It's not years of therapy away. It's not another self-help book away.
It's one decision away: to finally listen to what your body has been trying to tell you.
YOU'RE NOT BROKEN. YOU'RE JUST DISCONNECTED.
You've probably been in traditional therapy. Maybe for years. You've gained awareness, unpacked your childhood, learned all the coping skills.
But here's what nobody tells you: Talk therapy keeps you in your head. And your head is where you're already stuck.
The real issue?
You can't think your way into better boundaries
You can't analyze your way out of people-pleasing
You can't logic yourself into trusting your instincts
Because the answers aren't in your thoughts. They're in your nervous system.
Your body already knows:
When someone is draining you (that tightness in your chest)
When you're overriding yourself (that pit in your stomach)
When something is actually aligned (that exhale of relief)
You've just been trained to ignore it.
The Path to Freedom starts in your Body… Feel it, honor it, and watch it transform.
SOMATIC COACHING:
WHERE YOUR BODY LEADS, BREAKTHROUGH FOLLOWS
This isn't traditional talk therapy. This is somatic work—a body-based approach that works directly with your nervous system to create actual, lasting change.
Here's what makes it different:
→ We don't start with "what's the problem"
We start with what's happening in your body right now. Because your nervous system holds the patterns that your brain keeps trying to think around.
→ We work with sensations, not just stories
Instead of rehashing the same issues, we pay attention to tension, impulses, and what your body is trying to tell you. That's where the shift happens.
→ You learn to trust yourself again
Not because you've analyzed everything perfectly, but because you've reconnected to your most reliable guide: your own internal knowing.
→ Sessions happen how they need to happen
Virtual, on hiking trails, longer intensives — we work in whatever way serves your process best.
This is for you if:
✓ You're a high-achiever who's tired of being walked over
✓ You know you need boundaries but can't seem to set them
✓ You've done years of therapy and you're aware but not changed
✓ You're done analyzing and ready to actually feel different
✓ You want to trust yourself without second-guessing everything
WHY YOUR BODY HOLDS THE ANSWERS YOUR BRAIN KEEPS MISSING
Your nervous system developed its patterns long before you could talk about them.
That's why you can know intellectually that you deserve boundaries, but still feel guilty when you try to set them.
That's why you can understand logically that someone is draining you, but still can't bring yourself to walk away.
Your body learned these responses as survival strategies. And your body is where they need to be updated.
In somatic work, we:
Listen to what your body is communicating through tension, sensations, impulses, and emotions
Work with your nervous system directly instead of just talking about what you think you should do
Build new patterns that feel safe and aligned, not forced or controlled
Trust what emerges from your body's wisdom instead of overriding it with "should"
This is how you stop managing symptoms and start actually changing from the inside out.
Guiding Principles
The Body Holds the Answers
Your body is always communicating through tension, sensations, emotions, and impulses. Instead of labeling them as "good" or "bad," we learn to listen. Every signal carries information about what you need, what feels aligned, and where you're ready to grow. When you trust what your body tells you, life stops feeling like something to manage—and starts feeling like something to experience.
Boundaries as Self-Respect in Action
Boundaries aren't walls—they're clarity. They're how you communicate what honors you, what drains you, and what deserves your energy. Learning to set boundaries is learning to trust your worth. It's saying: my energy is sacred, and I get to choose where it flows.
Self-Trust Over Self-Control
Control is fear disguised as discipline. Real transformation begins when you stop forcing yourself to fit old patterns and start trusting your internal timing. The more you listen to your natural rhythm, the less you need to manage yourself. Self-trust is the ultimate freedom.
ABOUT ME
I’m Lydia Van Clief, LPC, LAC — therapist, somatic coach, and founder of The Unbound Path.
After nearly a decade in clinical work, I found my voice — and my freedom — in nature. Now I help others do the same: reconnecting to their bodies, their truth, and the aliveness that’s been waiting underneath all the noise.
Because when you learn to listen to your body, it will always lead you home.
STOP TALKING ABOUT CHANGING. START ACTUALLY CHANGING.
You've spent enough time in your head analyzing what's wrong.
Your body already knows what you need.