Hi, I'm Walaa

I help women stop abandoning themselves to stay loved.

Through The Cringe Method, we go to the root of the pattern, release it from the body, and build a life that is actually yours.

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MY STORY

I created The Cringe Method because I got tired of surface work.

I created The Cringe Method because I got tired of watching women do the work and stay stuck.

Not because they weren't trying but because the work they were doing was surface. Positive affirmations. Mindset shifts. Journaling prompts that asked how they felt but never asked why they kept doing the same thing.

Real change doesn't live there. It lives in the shadow. In the body. In the specific moment you feel the cringe and shrink anyway. In the patterns you inherited before you had words for them.

I've spent over a decade working with women in that deeper place. Using color therapy, sound healing, somatic work and honest conversation to reach what the surface tools can't touch. The results are not subtle they are real.

That is what The Cringe Method is built on.

"The results are not subtle. They are real."

Work With Me

Two paths. One direction.

The Self Abandonment Fix is where most women start. For deeper one-on-one work, see Solo Journey below.

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START HERE

The Self Abandonment Fix

6-Day Intensive | On Telegram | €240

A guided six-day intensive to interrupt the pattern of shrinking yourself. Daily prompts, voice notes, and embodied practice. Held inside a small private container on Telegram.


FOR GOING DEEPER

Solo Journey 1:1

One hour, one-on-one. We go directly to the root. Application and 15 minute Zoom interview required.

FAQ

Common questions.

  • Self abandonment is the pattern of overriding your own needs, truth, and desires in order to stay safe, loved, or accepted. It lives in the nervous system, not just the mind, which is why most cognitive approaches do not fully shift it.

  • The Cringe Method is a somatic healing framework created by Walaa Almuhaiteeb that identifies the specific shame response called the cringe as the root of self abandonment. It uses colour therapy, shadow work, and somatic tools to release the pattern from the body.

  • Colour therapy works with the nervous system through felt sense rather than thought. Each colour connects to specific emotional and energetic patterns in the body. In The Cringe Method, colour is used as the healing modality to release what the body holds after the pattern has been identified.

  • Walaa Almuhaiteeb is a somatic healing practitioner and mentor with over 13 years of experience helping women stop abandoning themselves. She is the creator of The Cringe Method and the author of Heal Yourself With Colour.

  • Therapy works primarily at the cognitive level. The Cringe Method works at the level of the body and the nervous system, where the self abandonment pattern actually lives. Many clients come to this work after years of therapy and find the shift happens faster because it addresses the root rather than the symptoms.

FROM THE BLOG

Recent writing.

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