When Insight Isn’t Enough to Change How You Actually Respond
Intentional Healing is embodied emotional and spiritual work for people who understand their patterns yet still feel overtaken by them in real time.
You may be in the right place if…
You are reflective and self-aware. You may have explored therapy, contemplative practice, or personal development. You understand yourself intellectually yet under stress, intimacy, or uncertainty, familiar reactions still take over. You can see what is happening, but that understanding has not reliably translated into choice when it matters.
Why understanding alone doesn’t change patterns
Most persistent patterns are not the result of a lack of insight.
They emerge from internal responses that were learned early and continue to activate automatically.
When the body does not register enough internal permission or steadiness to respond differently, it defaults to what it knows regardless of intention, values, or awareness.
This work focuses on engaging those responses as they arise, so change becomes embodied rather than effort driven.
How this work is different
This is not talk therapy, coaching, or symptom management.
The work centers on direct engagement with internal responses in the body, in real time — so they can reorganize rather than be analyzed, overridden, or managed.
The approach is informed by Indigenous Andean lineages from Peru and Ecuador and supported by formal mindfulness and meditation training, not as ideology, but as practical structure for lived change.
A contained first step to understand what’s actually getting in the way and what kind of support is appropriate.
Hi, I’m Iris Rivera.
I work with people who are done understanding themselves and are ready to experience change in real time in the body, not just in insight.
My work integrates ritual, routine, and contemplative practice, drawing from Indigenous Andean lineages of Peru and formal mindfulness and meditation training. The focus is grounded, ethical inner work that supports real shifts with compassion and clear boundaries.
Why This Work Creates Change
Many people understand what needs to change, yet their body, emotions, and daily choices do not follow.
Mental effort alone does not resolve this gap.
This work addresses how change becomes embodied through the consistent use of rituals and routines that meet people where they actually live in their nervous system, habits, and decision-making.
What Clients Notice Shifting
Over time, clients commonly experience:
More ease and internal space
Increased clarity without mental spinning
Greater flexibility and emotional fluidity
Fewer reactive or unhelpful choices
Confidence in which routines and rituals to use, and when to use them
A steadier ability to move forward with compassion and firm boundaries
These shifts reduce confusion and internal conflict, allowing daily life to feel more coherent and self-directed.
Gateway 0 exists to provide initial grounding, orientation, and clarity before any deeper work begins.
It is the appropriate place to start.
* This work is not for people who are unwilling to be guided or who are not serious about sustained recovery and responsibility for change.