About Marcia

I'm not here to fix you.
I'm here to walk beside you.

I'm Marcia Yateman — ABNLP Certified NLP Practitioner, Life Coach, songwriter, and the founder of Emotional Alchemy. But before any of those titles, I was a woman who had lost herself. And the journey back — through my own darkness — became the work I now share with you.

You were worthy before you ever had to prove it. — Marcia Yateman

The Dark Night of the Soul

The Season That Broke Everything Open

For years, I lived inside a life that didn't feel like mine.

I had built a business that emptied me instead of filled me. I was inside a relationship that drained the very essence of who I was. And underneath all of it — forty years of past hurts, self-doubt, and the exhausting, relentless need to please everyone else.

I was sleepwalking through my own life. Functioning on the outside. Fading on the inside.

They call it the dark night of the soul — and that's exactly what it was. A season where everything I thought I knew about myself, about God, about what I deserved — collapsed. Not gently. Not gradually. It came apart.

I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I couldn't pretend anymore that the life I was living was the life I was meant for.

And somewhere in that darkness — in the quietest, most honest moment I'd ever had — I heard it:

"To receive what I have for you, you have to empty your hands."

I had to acknowledge the cage. My own mindset. The beliefs I'd been carrying that were never mine to hold. And I had to find the courage — not all at once, but moment by moment — to let go.

The Awakening

What Came After the Breaking

The awakening didn't look like a sunrise. It looked like clearing.

I let go of the relationship. I let go of the version of success that was suffocating me. I let go of the story that I had to earn my right to exist.

And in that emptied space — that painful, holy, terrifying clearing — something began to return.

I found my voice again. Not the voice I'd been using to keep everyone else comfortable — but my real voice. The one that writes songs. The one that speaks truth. The one that says, "You don't need to be fixed — you simply need to be heard."

I rediscovered my voice as a songwriter. I remembered my calling as an emotional healing guide. I pursued my certification in NLP — not because I needed another credential, but because I wanted to understand, at the deepest level, how the mind creates the patterns that keep us trapped — and how to gently, powerfully, break them.

And from all of it — from the wreckage and the rebuilding — Emotional Alchemy was born.

What I Believe

My Core Beliefs

The quality of your emotions determines the quality of your life.

Not your circumstances. Not your bank account. Not what happened to you. Your emotions — and your relationship to them — shape everything.

Your past doesn't have to gatekeep your future.

The story you've been carrying is not the story you have to keep telling. You can turn the page. You can turn the pain into wisdom. You can begin again.

You don't need to be fixed. You simply need to be heard.

Healing doesn't start with a diagnosis. It starts with someone truly listening — without judgment, without an agenda, without rushing you to "get over it." That's the space I hold.

Your emotions are messengers, not enemies.

There are no bad emotions. Only messages we haven't learned to hear yet. Anger was your protector. Grief is love with nowhere to go. Anxiety is your nervous system asking for safety. When you learn to listen — everything changes.

You are a conscious creator.

You are not at the mercy of your life. You are a co-creator of it. And when you heal the emotional patterns that have been running the show, you step back into your power — not the power of control, but the power of alignment.

How I Work

My Approach

My approach weaves together three streams:

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NLP & Cognitive Repatterning

Neuro-Linguistic Programming helps us understand the language of the mind — the beliefs, patterns, and internal narratives that shape how you experience reality. Together, we identify the patterns that kept you stuck and gently rewire them at the source.

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Somatic & Nervous System Practices

Healing doesn't happen in the head alone. Your body holds what your mind has tried to forget. I use somatic practices and nervous system resets to help your body feel safe enough to release what it's been holding — sometimes for decades.

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Emotional Alchemy & Conscious Creation

When you clear the emotional debris, you don't just feel better — you reconnect with your own inner knowing, your sense of purpose, and the version of you that's been waiting beneath the weight. You become a conscious creator of your life, not a passenger in it.

This is not therapy in the traditional sense. It's deeper. It's the work of becoming who you were always meant to be — by meeting, honoring, and transforming every part of what you've carried.

Why I Do This

The Bigger Vision

I do this work because I know what it feels like to believe you're too much — and simultaneously, somehow, not enough. I know what it feels like to be the one everyone leans on while you quietly come apart. I know the exhaustion of performing a life that doesn't fit.

And I know what it feels like to come out the other side.

Not because I'm special. Not because I had something you don't. But because I was willing — finally, desperately, courageously willing — to face what I'd been running from.

That's the only qualification that matters. I've been in the dark. I found my way through. And now I hold the lantern for others.

We are walking each other home.

Training & Background

Credentials & Experience

ABNLP Certified NLP Practitioner — American Board of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Certified Life Coach
Over two decades of experience across business, counseling, and emotional support
Songwriter — including the motivational single "Wounded Warriors Way"
Author of 7 published books on emotional healing and personal transformation
Founder of Free Your Mind Care

But the most profound education I ever received didn't come from a certification. It came from the dark night of the soul — and the decision to walk through it instead of around it.

A Personal Note

If you've read this far, something in you recognizes something in me. That's not coincidence. That's the part of you that's been waiting — maybe for a long time — to be seen.

You don't have to have it all figured out. You don't have to be "ready." You just have to be willing.

However you found me — through YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or a moment of searching when you needed it most — I'm glad you're here.

You are not behind. You are not broken. You are not alone.

Let's free your mind, together.

— Marcia

I'm not here to fix you.I'm here to walk beside you.