Welcome to The Good Muck.
A space where all parts of you are welcome, where you can show up exactly as you are.
Where we create the change you desire from the inside out. So it lasts.
A virtual practice using clinical hypnosis, breathwork, sound, and yoga nidra:
for those who are stuck in patterns they recognize but can't change.
The change you want lives deeper than you think.
I’ve been exactly where you are. Knowing something has to change — has to give.
Thinking the answer will be found in the new routine, the new city, the new job, the new career.
“If I could just…”
But with every external change: the same patterns return. The stress, the chronic tension, the busyness, the 1 AM panic, the meltdown over a single typo in a 30-page document, the shutdown, the collapse.
I know how exhausting that is. I was stuck too. For a long time.
But the cycle you’re in isn’t a character flaw. It isn’t failure. And there is nothing wrong with you. You’re simply trying to create change from the outside, when lasting change is created from within.
The good news is you can change. Using neuroscience to go forward by going inward.
And that’s what we do at The Good Muck.
BEYOND THE CONSCIOUS MIND
Why this practice works when everything else has a ceiling.
95% of your thoughts, habits, patterns, and beliefs reside in the subconscious mind. Everything you've tried so far to create change has been working with the other 5% — the logical mind, the thinking one.
The change you want simply doesn't live where you've been looking for it.
And because the brain can’t distinguish between real and imagined. Because neurons that fire together, wire together. We can use clinical hypnosis, sound, breathwork, and yoga nidra to access where it does live, directly. Strengthening new patterns deliberately, repeatedly, on purpose.
Working with the brain. Not against it.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE PRACTICE
For decades, I was stuck in the same pattern.
Do something because someone told me to. Realize I was unhappy. Go do something else because someone told me to. That’s how I ended up going from budding opera singer to poli sci nerd to corporate litigator. It’s also how I ended up bedridden and broken. My body was screaming. And I wasn’t listening.
By the time my third health crisis rolled around I had tried everything: diets, routines, blowing up my life, pushing through, thousands of dollars in private bodywork. And yet I always ended in the same place of collapse and shutdown.
Then the real shift happened. I stopped focusing externally and started focusing inward. Through clinical hypnosis, sound, breathwork, and yoga nidra, I began to find my way back to myself. To a rich, full life. On my own terms. Not anyone else’s.
And now I help others do the same -- find their way out of the patterns that have kept them stuck, and move forward.
Caitlin Fahey, CCHt
Certified Clinical Hypnotist | Sound, Breathwork & Yoga Nidra Facilitator
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What happens when someone actually goes into the muck.
“Before working with Caitlin, I was feeling incapable of living my “big” full life. After our second session I felt a stronger, embodied sense of what being grounded actually feels like in my body, and that stayed. Now I find myself subconsciously choosing better habits, even when dysregulated. More presence. More self-trust. The energy Caitlin brings to each session is thoughtful, expansive, refreshing. I felt completely safe to be vulnerable, which made the work that much more powerful and impactful. I always feel so seen in her presence.”
WORK WITH ME
Three ways to go inward.
Every path uses the same four practices: clinical hypnosis, sound, breathwork, and yoga nidra. What changes is the container and how much direct support you want.
THE GOOD MUCK GROVE
A place to not do this alone.
Monthly Membership | Live Group Classes + Audio Library
Clinical hypnosis, breathwork, sound, and yoga nidra. To move through the muck, together.
Where the nervous systems in the (virtual) room experience the power of co-regulation. Where you can join from your bed, your couch, wherever you actually are.
Founding member rate for first 22 people: $22/month | Cancel anytime
THE MUCK TAPE
The next best thing to 1:1 work.
Custom Clinical Hypnosis Audio Recording
A custom clinical hypnosis recording built entirely from your own language, your own imagery, your own inner world. Daily practice, on your own time, from your own bed. To create change that actually sticks.
Beta pricing: $111 | Includes reflection form and 30-minute session
THE MUCK TO MOMENTUM
The most customized work.
4-Week 1:1 Container
Four 1:1 clinical hypnosis sessions, Grove access, a custom Muck Tape, and WhatsApp support between sessions — because change happens outside of session too. In the real world, in real time. A personalized protocol specifically designed to get you unstuck and moving toward what you actually want.
Beta pricing: $547 | Application required to ensure we’re the right match.
THE FRAMEWORK
How we work.
Three phases. Non-linear by design. A practice you return to.
NURTURE
Establish safety first.
Before anything else, you need to feel safe. Safe in your body. Safe to feel.
When the nervous system doesn’t feel safe, it clings to the familiar pattern — regardless of whether that pattern is still serving you. It stays activated. Fight, flight, or freeze. Reacting from fear responses. Like a fire alarm ringing even when there’s no real fire.
We restore safety first. Through clinical hypnosis, sound, and yoga nidra. Nothing lasting can shift without this foundation.
UNLEARN
Go where the patterns actually live.
Through breathwork and clinical hypnosis, we intentionally slow the brain waves down to enter altered states of consciousness. To access the subconscious directly: the place where the patterns actually live.
Everyone unlearns differently. For some it’s a sudden realization. For others something more subtle: a weight lifting, a little more room to breathe. You may simply notice you’re reacting differently.
Where once you shut down, you now have the capacity to move through.
RETURN
Come back to yourself.
Light yet grounded. Deeply connected to your own innate wisdom. Trusting your body to provide answers.
This is a return because we’re going back to who you actually are. Before the conditioning. Before the survival scripts had to form.
A return to who you were before everything and everyone got in the way. That person was always there. We’re just clearing the path back.
You may find yourself in all three phases at once, or re-routing back to Nurture when life asks more of you. That’s the practice at work, in real time.
WHERE TO BEGIN
Your First Step Inward. The Future Self Session.
A free guided clinical hypnosis and journaling protocol for the ones who want change but can't seem to close the gap between here and there.
You've been here before. The moment right before sleep where your thoughts begin to drift. The outside world fading when you are engrossed in a movie or book.
That's trance. Where the conscious mind goes offline, the subconscious opens and your mind is more receptive to change.
It's where we dream. On purpose. With intention. Where we make the future feel like a memory. Because your brain can't tell the difference between real and imagined.
When you experience your future self in that state, your brain and body begin to treat that version of you as familiar. Known. Safe. And familiar is where aligned action comes from.
INTO THE MUCK
The blog.
Stories and science for the subconscious.
