About Melissa:
Meet Melissa Crook
Thought Leader, Speaker & Creator of the FEEL Framework
Melissa Crook believes every woman is worthy and valuable because of who she is, not because of how much she does, accomplishes, or gives to everyone else. And she gets to choose.
As the creator of the FEEL Framework (Finding Empowerment Embracing Layers), Melissa helps women come back to themselves; to get curious about who they are underneath the roles, expectations, and stories they've spent years carrying.
She states states that “I didn't create the FEEL Framework because I had mastered all of this. I created it because I had to learn how to do it myself.”
Through practical questions, honest conversations, and applicable tools, Melissa helps women embrace all the pieces and parts of themselves, identify what genuinely nourishes them, understand what they value, recognize where something may be out of alignment, and build the self-trust to make choices that honor who they are.
Melissa doesn't believe women need another person telling them who they should be or what they should do. Her work gives women a framework for asking themselves the questions that help them reconnect with what's already within them, and decide for themselves what they want to do with the answers.
The 3 Pillars that drive this work for her, and her truest desire for all women is that they come away from their time with her believing:
You're Worth All of It.
You're Valuable Because of Who You Are, Not What You Do.
You Get to Choose.
The Woman Behind the Work
A woman in her 50s, wife to her best friend Brady, and mom to three grown daughters, Melissa brings her own lived experience to everything she creates. She knows what it's like to spend years living from roles, expectations, and what everyone else needs, and what it takes to begin getting curious, unlearning old patterns, trusting yourself, and choosing differently.
Melissa describes herself as passionate, driven, loyal, fierce, and brave. She believes deeply in justice, mercy, equality, empathy, and women supporting women.
Outside of her work, she loves traveling to new places, sunsets over the ocean, time in the mountains, cheering for the her favorite college teams, along with the 49ers, Dodgers, and watching the Olympics, especially track.
Meet the FEEL Framework
Finding Empowerment Embracing Layers
This FEEL Framework is designed for your engagement. Questions for you to ask yourself so you can find the answers within you, not be told what the next “right” thing to do is. You get to learn and decide that for yourself.
How would I describe myself? Not what do I do, who am I? What are my character traits, the adjectives I’d describe myself by?
Prioritizing Self Care - am I doing this?
Confidently Setting Boundaries - what does that look like? Do I know what it means?
Taking Care of Your Emotional Health as much as Your Physical Health - Have I ever considered this or made that connection?
Supporting Yourself & Other Women Unapologetically - what does this mean to me?
Coming Back to Your WHY and Your VALUES - do I know what those are and is my life a reflection of them?
Living Out of Your Own Expectations - do I decide these or am I allowing others to define this for me?
Accepting the Layered Aspects of Yourself - are there areas/seasons of my life I have a hard time accepting? Am I carrying any fear, shame, or regret that needs to be healed or addressed?
Living out FEEL - How Does it Affect Your Relationships - Starting with the relationship with myself? Am I currently doing this, or is this an area that requires more exploration and/or support?
5 Activities That Nourish You - answering this will be a gateway to what self care can look like for you, what you value, and areas you may need some boundaries to make space for these things
5 Words for How You Want to Feel in the Next Six Months - does your life currently reflect a calendar and decision making that will allow you to reach this? If not, are you ready to start shifting so you can?
These are the questions to consider and topics you can think about in order to start applying the FEEL Framework to your own life. We hope that you find this helpful and that this information provides you with a way to actively engage with us the FEEL Framework yourself.
You Get to Choose Where You Begin
Melissa wants you to always remember this. “I created FEEL because I don't believe you need another person telling you who to be or what you should choose. Sometimes you need the questions, resources, support, and space to get curious enough to hear your own answers.”
Resources that make up the Embracing Layers Network, Home of The FEEL Framework
Empowerment Sessions with Melissa
Workshops Led By Melissa
Cohorts facilitated by Melissa
Keynotes by Melissa
Embracing Layers Unapologetically Book Clubs
The FEEL Podcast
The Embracing A FEEL Fueled Life Online Course Series
Together We FEEL Women’s Panel Show
The Embracing Layers Substack Community