“Inner Greatness is not something you can research, fake, copy, or buy. It is born from the meeting and loving the parts of you that hurt. It is the forged by alchemizing your own pain into gold.”
-Nica Roco
Hello, I’m Nica!
I am a recovered comfort zone addict. Before my awakening, I spent most days on my couch - numbing the extreme highs and lows of my emotions, and fear of rejection with alcohol, weed, food and Netflix. I had put myself aside to reach other people’s expectations. All I wanted was to feel safe and accepted - so I silenced and hid myself.
With the trauma that I was born into, I have every reason to be a victim and easily just blame the others and the world for my suffering.
Then in 2012 as I was about to leave New York, I realized that the trauma I’ve grown up with was not my choice and fault.
Yet, my suffering and pain were my responsibility to heal.
In the past 11 years of my healing journey (trying 100s of modalities, going to plant medicine ceremonies, escaping my emotions through intense workouts, natal chart readings, talk therapy, certifications, workshops, courses, etc) what I was truly working on within myself was to come back home and feel safe in my own body.
TO REST IN THE KNOWING THAT I AM ENOUGH.
AND I AM ALLOWED TO BE ME - IN EVERY MOMENT.
I AM SAFE TO BE FULLY SEEN AS I AM.
Always had been. It just took me time to believe it - to FEEL IT for myself. Because I feel and experience everything so intensely, I had to learn was to distinguish what is mine, and what is from others.
To know that my worth and value is not based on other people’s perceptions ; that as human beings - we are all equal.
Now, I’m living a life that makes my heart sing. I live from a place of my True Nature and I am moving towards dreams that are uniquely mine - always being guided by my body, emotions and intuition. I feel fulfilled with my life, and I know I am here to be in service to YOU, to help you remember and feel this FOR YOURSELF too.
To help you realize that the parts of you that you find most challenging are the ones that are offering you gift to get closer to you know yourself to be deep down.
Remember this - your highest potential is often disguised as pain.
Connect with your own body, and give yourself
permission to discover who truly are.
What if your pain is actually a portal for the life you are longing for?
Can you let yourself be curious with how it might fall to walk through it?
Are you ready to step into the space of believing that all your emotions serve as your messengers from life, and that your body is always doing its best to bring you back into balance?
Will let yourself be guided by your own Inner Knowing towards the direction of what your heart truly longs for?
Where the truest version of you is safe to be seen, heard and felt?
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BE YOU TOO.
If this resonates with you, and you feel ready to meet your highest potential, book our first conversation here.
There is nothing more fulfilling than realizing that you are at home with yourself in your own body and Being.
You are safe to embody your own power.
The world has a dream, and the only way to make this a reality is when EACH ONE OF US follows our hearts’ deepest longings and our own dreams.
Your external reality is a reflection of how you feel about yourself. It is impossible to create a life you are truly happy with, without realizing that to become the truest and most genuine version of you - you must accept learn to accept who you are - in all your shades, colors and flavors. (especially the ones you label as “bad”).
It took me 24 years to become aware of this, and when I did, I took responsibility for myself and faced all parts of me that I was desperately avoiding and rejecting.
I destroyed the shaky base of who I thought I was (what the world expected of me and how I felt the world from the expectations of others), and built a new inner foundation with who I knew myself to be (my True Self started to emerge).
I have dedicated my time and energy discovering who I am outside of society's expectations - to fully embrace who I am.
So I left the Philippines in 2016, I moved to Barcelona where I knew nobody.
Faced my own shame of finishing my studies at 28, got a masters degree in digital marketing (which was useless), got certified as a coach (2018) and started my own business (2020) because I knew I was not meant to work in an corporate setting, and I was done trying to fit into society’s expectations of me.
I wanted to do things differently, because I finally embraced the truth that I am different - not that I am more special than others. Simply that I am unique, and I knew that this was the path forward.
During this time, I had a tremendous thirst to learn and gather tools from the best mentors for healing and personal development (Dr. Srikumar Rao, Dr. David Hawkins, Steven Bartlett, Tom Bilyeu, Lisa Nichols, Michael Beckwith, Jim Kwik, Dr. Nicole Perreira (The Holistic Psychologist), Anodea Judith, and many more).
I only listen to people who have managed to embody and live what they preach about, and share it with others.
I found my first real love for a healing modality called Neo Emotional Release (created by David Manning), and I knew that this was the modality I wanted to dedicate myself to. It is a very deep and intuitive method that activates the self-healing intelligence of the body. This modality allows you to interact directly with your challenging emotions and traumas in a safe environment through vocal guidance and precise touch points to create shifts in your own consciousness.
Then I found Soma Mystica (created by Sigourney Belle), and I fell in love with Spinal Attunement, Self-holding Method, and went into the Magician Mentorship (shamanic spaceholding) directly under her for 8 months. As she was the only woman I met who was combining the principles of science and mysteries of magic while bringing it all back home to the body.
With how I hold my spaces, I have access to all the different tools I’ve learned in the past 11 years, and I add my own flavor to it by working with rapé (sacred tobacco), cacao, blue lotus and rose. I am more drawn to work with the subtler plants as opposed to the intense ones.
Right now, I am in the process of sharing more of my work and allowing myself to be fully seen in it. Accepting myself and loving myself more each day as I meet more of me too.
And if you got to this point, I hope this serves as a reminder that you too are worthy of living a life where you are truly you.
If I was able to do and be it, I know you can too.
WHEN DO I FEEL MOST ALIVE?
In moments of being fully myself.
Whether that’s meditation, physical training/movement (capoeira, dancing, yoga), prayers, singing and playing instruments, prayer, NER, SA, grounding, connecting with nature, silence, learning the language of my own body, journaling, and many more.
My soul also loves to learn new things! And I have a fondness for simple things like eating, connecting, having deep conversations with others.
WHAT HAS HELPED ME GROW?
It started with a choice of taking full responsibility of myself, continuously developing my self-awareness, and believing that that I could learn and unlearn anything.
A huge piece of that is also realizing that my body and this life contains wisdom that I must learn to trust and yield to.
In my journey, I have learned that this life force within me is greater than who I am, and I am learning to surrender to it daily.
