Soft Reset

Reconnect with yourself and reach your goals with confidence, in harmony with your wellbeing

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8-week group journey

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Maybe you are going through a period of growth or change, and want to find a way to handle everything without always pushing harder?

Do you want to connect deeper with yourself, build nourishing routines, self-compassion, and self-trust, and embrace a softer and authentic way to lead your life?

If this is you, welcome to Soft Reset! 🤍

Soft Reset is for you if pushing harder is no longer the solution.

Do you recognise yourself here?

  • You are a woman in science who works hard for impact and excellence

  • You’re in a growth phase, facing an important challenge, or in between chapters

  • You’ve worked for too long feeling under pressure and guilty for taking time for yourself

  • You often feel mentally and physically drained

  • You long for rest, but feel guilty or lazy when you slow down

  • You want a softer pace without losing momentum or ambition

  • You promise yourself change, but struggle to follow through

  • You know what would help, yet something keeps blocking it

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"... I used to have a pattern where I resisted helping myself through moments I needed it most. I had tools, but I resisted using them, it felt like a hardening..."

Naomi

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The power of slowing down and connecting with yourself

Soft Reset is designed by a scientist who understands the challenges of highly ambitious professionals - often filled with pressure, stress, and overwhelm.

Because of that, I want to offer you a different, more aligned and intentional way to approach your life and career - starting from the body without forgetting the mind.

In Soft Reset we’ll explore a different relationship with yourself: one based on listening instead of forcing, on self-trust instead of self-pressure.

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What if success and fulfilment were not about doing more but about learning to balance rest with action, without guilt?

Many of the answers to our problems lie inside of us.
But to access them, we must pause and listen.

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What is the Soft Reset?

Soft Reset is a guided 8-week online group container for impact-driven women - scientists, consultants, managers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs.

Who are capable and self-aware, but who still struggle to slow down and lead their life from a place of ease and joy.

With this program, I offer you

A space to pause, get clarity on what you need, and learn tools that will help you embody a more harmonious and empowered way to lead through your life and career challenges.

Soft Reset will help you:

  • Connect with your body and understand its signals and needs.

  • Cultivate a feeling of safety and trust in yourself.

  • Implement new routines to replenish your energy.

  • Soften self-pressure and guilt.

  • Build confidence through self-compassion.

  • Create a sustainable rhythm to achieve your goals without burning out.

"... The program helped me to create a new relationship with rest; it showed me that when I rest, my thoughts are more clear, my work is easier and faster. I perform better when I am not tired....”

Rebeca, Researcher

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Soft Reset is not about learning concepts and moving on.
It is true inner work.

It is about landing in a safe and supportive space with other like-minded women and, together, build new routines and embrace more compassion and less guilt.

Join us to reconnect, listen to your needs, and face your challenging days with more awareness, ease and peace of mind in the middle of the chaos.

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THE TRANSFORMATION

What changes when you experience Soft Reset?

By the end of the journey, many women notice that:

  • They were more tired and dysregulated than they thought.

  • They are more aware of how they feel and what they need.

  • They feel more equipped to face their intense days with calm and focus.

  • They need a lot of self-compassion to support them as they build new habits and routines.

  • The body holds a lot of information about their needs and triggers; they just needed time to listen.

  • They can find and create moments to connect with themselves and notice the beauty in the chaos.

Soft Reset does not offer you a miraculous cure for your overwhelm.

It helps you create moments of rest and calm in the middle of your busy life and look at the chaos from a clearer and more grounded perspective. Challenges won’t disappear, you will just navigate them in a better way.

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ABOUT YOUR HOST

Hello! I’m Ana and I’m very excited to guide you in this Soft Reset.

I built this program from my own experience of over 18 years working in highly competitive research environments, where I learned in practice how to find focus, peace and calm in the middle of the chaos.

As I progressed in my science career, I gradually took on more responsibilities (from PhD student to post-doc to research manager) which often made me feel like I could not cope with the new demands I faced. But wellbeing was always a non-negotiable for me, as well as having fun doing my work.

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Throughout the years, I searched for support whenever needed and learned tools to help me self-regulate, handle stress, and set boundaries in challenging times.

I created Soft Reset because I know how much women with similar paths to mine need this. And because I believe so much in the power of science, I want to share with them all I’ve learned, so they can create the impact they ambition, in harmony with themselves.

I believe that every woman deserves more rest and to tap into their feminine energy - of being and feeling, of receiving, of nourishing herself - with enjoyment and presence and without guilt. And to recognise that it is not a barrier to the impact we want to create but rather what sustains it.

Soft Reset is for you if...

  • You feel ready to build new rest habits with consistency and commitment.

  • You feel ready to be more present in your body and listen to what’s within.

  • You want to feel confident and safe as you acknowledge and process your emotions.

  • You want to allow space for vulnerability and self-compassion instead of self-critique.

  • You want to believe you can have it all - rest, fulfilment, and ambition in harmony.

“... I learned to soften that resistance and approach it from a kinder, compassionate, more curious place, as opposed to a "fixing" one.... ”

NAOMI

Don’t join Soft Reset if…

  • You’re looking for a quick fix.

  • You like solving all your problems from your mind.

  • You feel you must always appear strong and unemotional to be respected.

  • You’re not willing to meet vulnerability with honesty.

  • You believe success only comes through sacrifice.

"... I finished the program feeling like, rather than having been given a "miraculous cure” for my overwhelming life, I was reminded of how I can create moments to connect with myself so I can notice the beauty in the chaos...”

Isabel C

This is a space for women in science - researchers, managers, freelancers, entrepreneurs - who are ready to relate to themselves differently, from a gentle and confident place, where strength comes from vulnerability, self-knowledge, and self-trust.

Kind Words from Participants

  • Overcoming the "miraculous cure”

    “I started the program feeling an urgent need to slow down and reset, but I became frustrated in the first few days because it felt like life wouldn't let me.

    The program helped me most with awareness (from week 1) and with prioritizing my body and mind's needs. Ana helped me find recharging "pockets" and create moments to find my ground.

    I finished the program feeling like, rather than having been given a "miraculous cure” for my overwhelming life, I was reminded of how I can create moments to connect with myself so I can notice the beauty in the chaos.”

    Isabel C

  • Facing our hardest reviewer

    During the program I realized that I must hear myself with more honesty. The program helped me to create a new relationship with rest; it showed me that when I rest, my thoughts are more clear, my work is easier and faster. I perform better when I am not tired.

    Each week’s theme was a new discovery for me, but in particular the self-compassion was very valuable. To realise that my hardest reviewer is me was shocking.

    Now I am working on being more kind with myself, support myself unconditionally and acknowledging myself for my small achievements. I believe this approach to life would make the world a better place.

    Rebeca, Researcher

  • I had tools, but I resisted using them

    “I used to have a pattern where I resisted helping myself through moments I needed it most. I had tools, but I resisted using them, it felt like a hardening. In this program, I learned to soften that resistance and approach it from a kinder, compassionate, more curious place, as opposed to a "fixing" one. I was able to access the meditations, tools, and guidance being offered more easily. Without judgment. This was also possible because we had a safe space to discuss as a group the challenges (and breakthroughs!) we were having, and it was really powerful to see that I wasn't alone in this journey to softening.”

    Naomi

  • Find better balance and peace within myself

    “When the world so many of us have lived in has been so dominated by masculine energy, it was so incredibly powerful to learn how I could lean into feminine energy to find better balance and peace within myself. Without it having anything to do with gender or sex. Thank you so much for this wonderful offering, Ana.”

    Naomi

The 8-week
journey

Soft Reset lasts 8 weeks, where the content explored in each week gently builds on the previous one:

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Week 1. Creating Inner Safety
Pausing, grounding, connecting with yourself

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Week 2. Rest & Energy Awareness
Understanding how to recharge your energy effectively

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Week 3. Self-Pressure & Guilt
Meeting your inner patterns with honesty

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Week 4. Your Cyclical Nature
Learn about your menstrual cycle and align your life and work with it

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Week 5. Emotional Awareness & Regulation
Practice feeling without overwhelm and learn self-regulation tools

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Week 6. Self-Compassion
Practicing acceptance and softening your relationship with yourself

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Week 7. Rest & Action in Harmony
Reflect on how to integrate more rest into your busy life and set intentions to keep working on your goals in a sustainable way

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Week 8. Reflecting on the key take-aways
from the program and setting intentions to continue your journey after the program.

Weekly content is released at the start of each week and designed to fit into your life.

You engage at your own pace, and we anchor what we learn through our messaging group and live sessions.

Instead of aiming to do everything, you’ll be invited to focus on what matters most for you and work from there.

Contents will remain available after the program.

Special guests

In this edition we will have the special contribution of

Sheila Habib - Menstrual Educator and Founder of Habibi Fertility

Sofia Alçada Batista - Emotional Release Therapist and Founder of O Projeto Humano

Who will facilitate live sessions in their areas of expertise and support you on their topics of expertise.

"... When the world so many of us have lived in has been so dominated by masculine energy, it was so incredibly powerful to learn how I could lean into feminine energy to find better balance and peace within myself. Without it having anything to do with gender or sex....”

NAOMI

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This program is designed to make you feel held and supported

What’s Included

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Weekly audio contents

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4 live group sessions
(opening + half-time check-in + integration)

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Booklets with background information and reflection prompts

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A private messaging group for continuous support, accountability, and connection.

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Guided practices
(meditation, breath, or movement)

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45 min 1:1 session with me for in-depth individual support during the program

“One of the most valuable things about Soft Reset was the community support and accountability.”

Isabel C

“Sharing with the other ladies, and reading their challenges, gave me different perspectives of the subjects. It also enhances the feeling that there is someone on the other side, I found it a truly “workgroup”. ”

R. Researcher

“I loved that the program was varied and so it could meet my needs in different moments or ways.”

NAOMI

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Location + Timing

Program Dates
The next edition will start on 28th September.

WHERE
Online

Group Calls
Four live sessions
(tentative Tuesdays,
18:00–19:00 WEST Lisbon time)

Limited spots available
This is an intentionally small group so that everyone feels seen and supported throughout the journey.

Enrollment Closes
27th September midnight Lisbon time.

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Investment

Payment plans available - just reach out if you want to split the payment in two or three parcels.

(Valid until 7th September)

Super Early Bird

special offer for waiting list members only

€429

(valid until 14th September)

Early Bird

€499

Full Price

€599

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FALL COHORT WAITLIST

Put yourself first
and join the Soft Reset!

Registrations for the fall cohort will open soon.
Please register your interest in this form and you’ll be informed as soon as registrations open.

For any questions, just send an email to hello@fireandflowbyana.com

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Here’s my gentle invitation to you

I am so tired of seeing so many women in science live exhausted, overwhelmed and disconnected from themselves. Working hard, proving yourself through your achievements, setting unrealistic standards, holding everything together and leaving yourself for last.

It’s time to end this! I know you know that you are immensely talented and you can do great things! But it’s still hard for you to take time to pause and take care of yourself without guilt. It always feels like rest comes last and you need to earn it. I know because I’ve been there myself.

Let me tell you what I’ve learned to tell myself: you are just a human, not a machine. You are doing enough, really great actually. You deserve to slow down without guilt, enjoy life more, be more compassionate, and really proud of who you are.

If you’re longing for a softer, more honest and whole way to live and lead, you’re very welcome here.