COME ALIVE!

Get ready to embark on a transformational
journey with the Come Alive course

January 8 – February 18

Course fee: $149 (Early bird price of $99 through October 31)

Come Alive Course

Do you feel muted (dead) inside regardless of what you have accomplished or acquired? Do you miss the joie du vivre (the joy of living) you once felt as a child regardless of your circumstances? If so, you have landed on the perfect place.

January 8 – February 18

Course fee: $149 (Early bird price of $99 through October 31)

The Come Alive Course Offering

Get ready to embark on a transformational journey with the Come Alive course – the ultimate guide to unleashing your inner potential! We’ve all heard the age-old advice to “look within” to discover ourselves, but let’s face it, it’s not as easy as closing your eyes and taking a few deep breaths. When you try to peer into your inner world, it often resembles a tangled jungle of thoughts and emotions, right?

In today’s fast-paced world of “bigger, faster, more,” we’re all seeking quick fixes. If you’re looking for a course promising instant productivity, organization, confidence, or a personal rebrand, you’re barking up the wrong tree. There are plenty of courses out there for those needs, but here’s the catch: most of us have deeper desires that can’t be solved by simply tidying up our external lives. It’s like renovating your house when the foundation is crumbling beneath you.

Now, let’s get real. Have you ever felt like you’ve followed society’s checklist for success – the right schools, the right degrees, the right career, the right home, the right social status – and yet, something profound is still missing? Do you sense that you’re destined for more than your current existence? Are you trapped in a never-ending cycle of exhausting, stress-inducing work in the hope that someday you’ll attain your dream life? Do you feel like there’s a gaping chasm between how the world perceives you and how you perceive yourself?

If you’ve nodded in agreement to any of these questions, you’ve landed in the right place. And if you’ve emphatically said yes to all of them, well, don’t even think twice – enroll in this course immediately! Why, you ask? Because our marvelous minds are wired to handle a lot, but they’re also experts at self-sabotage, doubt, and yes, mind games that hold us back from reaching our full potential. Still skeptical? Google it. Numerous studies reveal that a whopping 80% of our thoughts are negative, and 90% of them are on an endless loop. In simpler terms, our minds are like washing machines churning out negativity, causing us to distrust and question everything.

Our brains are wired to protect us from danger, whether it’s real or imagined. While this is fantastic when you’re about to be run over by a car or plummet off a cliff (real danger), it’s not so great when you’re on the verge of trying something new or letting someone in (perceived danger). So, here’s my fervent recommendation: shake up that ever-doubting mind of yours and take a fearless leap into this course!

In the first half of our six-week Come Alive course, you’ll learn how to rise above the weight of life’s burdens and reconnect with your inner star – that inner flame extinguished long ago (for most of us, before age seven). In the second half, we’ll guide you on a journey to live, love, and create from your truest core – paving the way for lasting contentment, genuine freedom, and boundless inner strength. You, my friend, deserve nothing less! It’s time to Come Alive! 🌟

Weekly Focus

Week 1: Mind Detox

We’ll kick off the course with a week of detoxifying our minds because the mind, as resourceful as it is, is also our biggest saboteur. Understanding the difference between our thoughts and awareness can lead to tremendous inner power and freedom. You will be given the tools you need to optimize your hardest working organ while not letting it get in your way.

Week 2: Heart Detox

Our hearts, also often referred to as our inner child, needs our love, attention, acknowledgement, and care. We often task our hearts with what our souls should manage and lead, therefore leaving it feeling confused, overwhelmed, lonely, and unseen. This week you’ll learn how to take care of your beautiful heart, create much needed boundaries for it, and teach it how to welcome all feelings.

Week 3: Body Detox

We all know we need to eat well, sleep well, and exercise but many continue to ignore and abuse their bodies by dragging it through whatever we may be going through – stress, overworking, insomnia, etc. In order to become truly aligned with our bodies, we need to shift our relationship with our only (sacred) vessel through this life. This week is all about accepting and loving your body regardless of your health, size, and age.

Week 4: Play

Multiple studies have shown the benefits of playing as adults. We stop playing as early as age nine and the lack of play leads to much of the mental health challenges we face as adults. Playing literally changes the neural pathways of our minds leading to much joy and contentment. This week you will learn how to identify your play personality type and play like your life depends on it – because it does!

Week 5: Finding Your True North

Now that we have learned how to take care of our minds, hearts, and bodies, we need to align them with our souls and let it lead the way. Our souls are our unique signatures in this universe but we’re also very connected and interlinked with everything else within our universe. This week you will gain a clear understanding about the difference between soul and spirit and how the two need to dance together for us to realize our greatest potential.

Week 6: (Re)Writing Your Story

The beauty of doing the work of the past five weeks is that you have cleared your slate, so to speak, to (re)write your life’s story as you wish. We often hear “follow your dreams” but we’re rarely shown how to do so. This week, you will be guided through a proven method to discovering your raison d’etre (reason for being) in order to live a powerful and rich life of your own design.

About Your Coach

Shirin Etessam is an entrepreneur, seasoned media executive, and transformational speaker. She has produced films, original television series and specials, created several companies, and led campaigns for some of the world’s most recognized companies (ABC, CBS, Discovery, BBC, Facebook, Apple, Intel, Virgin, and many more). A proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Shirin founded OML TV, a popular platform dedicated to streaming and curating quality, queer female, video content and OML Originals, a female led production company telling diverse female stories through a vast spectrum of film and television genres. Shirin is also a regular contributor to Rolling Stone and Forbes. Today, Shirin guides seekers in her six-week program, Come Alive! This online course is based on Shirin Etessam’s book, FREE TO BE; A Six Week Guide To Reclaiming Your Soul and offers an intimate, practical and immersive experience toward self actualization. She lives in Marin County, California, with her wife and two children.

Praise For FREE TO BE

Marianne L Wilman

The author takes us on her powerful post break up journey of spiritual exploration. She asks "Why is it in school, they teach you math, science, history, English, and sometimes physical education, but little about mental, emotional and spiritual health?" Her book thoughtfully fills in many of those gaps and gives us the benefit of all her exploration. We're left with many resources, a six week series of exercises, and most powerfully of all an authentic and honest story of her own awakening.

Lili

Fantastic, thoughtful and easy to follow guide. Kept me intrigued throughout and it really worked for me. So appreciate this guided journey!!! Highly recommend!

Katherine W. Williams

Free to Be is an accessible and refreshing approach to self-improvement. The six week course is simple and easy to follow, while at the same time providing a meaningful and effective strategy for mental wellness. Or soul wellness!

Bronwyn Saglimbeni

I was blessed with an advance copy of this book, and love the way Shirin lays out a path back to sanity. Our souls are weary these days, and we desperately need guidance and a map back to our deepest desires. Brava to Shirin Etessam for writing something so beautiful and so urgent.

Cherie Healey

Deeply moving, Shirin opens the book by sharing her story of disconnection from her own soul and writes with such commitment to bring us back to ourselves. It's wonderfully actionable and I started to see and feel results in just one week. This book cuts through the chaos of our fast paced lives and makes it easy to find peaceful ground again.

Katie B

This is a must-read! Reading Free to Be, I was taken on a an eye, heart, mind and soul opening journey to transformation. And each page incites immediate impact. The tools and techniques offered by Shirin were easy to understand, exciting to get rolling on, and enabled change the first day I opened the book up. Highly recommended!

Carla roley

Despite the title, this is not your typical self-help read. Etessam writes with humor and authenticity, sharing hard earned knowledge and tangible strategies to, well, a fuller, more intentional and healthy life. No fluff, from a relatable straight shooter with a laid out path for getting out of your own way. Really, this is a must read.

The OG gp

I was so overloaded with work and life that I never gave my soul a second thought until I read this book. Within the first week of following Shirin's exercises I started disconnecting from all of my stress-inducing screens and reconnecting with the joy and wonder of daily life. I've even started playing the piano again. Thank you for the restart!

JTizzle

This book helps its readers live more fully from the soul. I am thoroughly enjoying the format of reading one chapter per week and the bite-sized exercises that can fit into even the busiest of lives. The author clearly has dug deep in her own journey and we are fortunate she is sharing the immense wisdom and insight she has gained as a result with us all.

LS

A highly recommended book for everyone who wants to live a fulfilled life by breaking free of personal limitations. Shirin provides practical exercises over the course of this book and offers clear guidance. It is truly a must-read as it is timeless and the lessons can be carried on and on. For anyone who is looking to improve their lives positively and seeking personal and professional growth, Free to Be is essential. The writing is very clear and to the point. I feel very privileged to be able to read an advance copy and grateful for the author’s wisdom and insights.

Lisa

"Free to be" is all about recalibrating to your truest, highest self. Well written and thoughtful with applicable exercises to find your true North. It's a book I'll revisit every year.

Jennifer France

Free to Be: A Six week guide to Reclaiming Your Soul, is a beautifully written guide that has helped me to reconnect with my authentic self. It has reminded me to reconnect with my intuition and inner light. I found the author outlined her course in simple and easy steps. The book definitely helped me change my perspective on life - for the better.

Joseph Malgarini

This book could not have come at a better time. While many, if not all of us, are dealing with the cacophony of modern life (social media, the onslaught of negative news, fractured relationships), this book offers a plan for relief and a chance at "reclaiming your soul." Written in a week by week (6 of them) format, it illustrates segments of the collective malaise, and offers clever exercises for each week. Ms. Etessam's writing style is pithy, cogent, with a kick-in-the-butt sense of humor. I highly recommend "Free to Be" to anyone trying to gain control over their life and emotions. It's a worthwhile read.

Carla roley

Despite the title, this is not your typical self-help read. Etessam writes with humor and authenticity, sharing hard earned knowledge and tangible strategies to, well, a fuller, more intentional and healthy life. No fluff, from a relatable straight shooter with a laid out path for getting out of your own way. Really, this is a must read.

Dr. Laura McCormick

Once I started Free to Be, I could not put it down!!! Estessam delivers so much gold in one book. The content of Free to Be is wise, scientific, personal, and instructive/practical. Her style of writing is playful, clever, and incisive. I have never read a book that was so soulful and profound and yet so unexpectedly funny. Her journey and culmination of this work is a gift to us all.

Andrew Matthews

Only half way through Part One and I am really enjoying the core message of this book! Often times we get stuck in our daily lives with work, life, responsibilities etc and lose track of what’s really important. This book does an amazing job at giving me tangible ways to pause and reflect internally throughout the day.

Marianne L Wilman

The author takes us on her powerful post break up journey of spiritual exploration. She asks “Why is it in school, they teach you math, science, history, English, and sometimes physical education, but little about mental, emotional and spiritual health?” Her book thoughtfully fills in many of those gaps and gives us the benefit of all her exploration. We’re left with many resources, a six week series of exercises, and most powerfully of all an authentic and honest story of her own awakening.

Gina Pell

CONTENT CHIEF, THE WHAT LIST

“I never gave my soul a second thought until I read this book. Within the first week of following the exercises I started disconnecting from my stressful screens and reconnecting with the joy and wonder of daily life.”

Amy Parker

CHIEF EXECUTIVE

“Shirin offers a fresh, actionable way of thinking about spiritual wellness and has created a playbook for finding your True North.”

Gregory S Williams

AUTHOR

“An illuminating guide to soulful insight, clarity and purpose!”

Regina Buckley

PRESIDENT, GUARDIAN NEWS & MEDIA (US)

What a great book for creating a support system to a more mindful life. The vulnerability that Shirin brings as she shares her own experience is the bedrock of the book, lending a safe and supportive air to the reader’s journey. The exercises can be deeply introspective, or playful, and are sometimes both at once…with something for everyone.

Traci Möller

CONTENT STRATEGIST

In German we say, “das Ziel ist der Weg.” It translates to, “the goal is the journey.” And I am thankful to Shirin for taking me on this journey … her journey. I’m grateful for the clarity, the process and the pragmatism. Whether you have faced a setback or are looking for a way to reset, Shirin’s process and weekly exercises are essential tools to help achieve a whole life.

Darrah Maclean

BRAND STORYTELLER

Reading FREE TO BE helped me slowly untangle all the false stories I’d been telling myself for years, so that I could truly rewrite my narrative in a way that feels true to me. So often, I bail out on self-help books before I ever make it to the payoff. But this process spoke to my soul’s desire to live my life authentically, wholly and full of play.

A Course For The Ultra Busy

Many people believe that in order to work on ourselves, we have to dedicate large amounts of time and go elsewhere (retreat, therapist’s office, monastery, ashram, etc) in order to do so. That belief hinders many to do the work of the work. The Come Alive course is intentionally designed with the time-starved person in mind so you can integrate it easily into your daily life whether you are a busy parent, an entrepreneur, an executive, and/or have to work on-site.

Course Includes

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A copy of FREE TO BE

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A downloadable workbook

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Daily exercise videos

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Special Guests

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Ability to connect with others in the course

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Weekly one hour live webinars with Shirin Etessam

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Access to our resource library of inspirational music, videos, and podcasts

COME ALIVE!

Course Offering

January 8 – February 18

Course fee: $149 (Early bird price of $99 through October 31)