Meet Melissa Crook: Thought-Leader and Creator!

Melissa Crook is a woman in her 50’s who currently lives in Fresno, CA with her best friend and spouse, Brady Crook. Melissa loves her family (including her husband and three grown daughters), traveling to new places, a beautiful sunset over the ocean, the mountains, the WSU Cougs, the 49ers, the Dodgers, and the Olympics (especially track). She’s passionate, driven, loyal, fierce, and brave. She believes in justice, mercy, equality, and empathy for ALL.

Melissa is available to speak to your group about our F.E.E.L Framework, tailored to your event's themes. From emotional leadership to women’s empowerment and values-based boundary setting, Melissa helps women embrace their beautiful and complex layers.

To schedule an empowerment session with Melissa, fill out our contact form here.

Melissa’s Story:

The month that I turned 50 and was 2 weeks into our latest move to Lubbock, TX, I ended up in the ER twice over a 10 day period with various symptoms, including racing heart beat, sky high blood pressure, and a bladder control issue. After scores of tests and a trip to the cardiologist, it was determined that outside of hormones due to menopause, there was nothing seriously physically wrong with me. There was however a serious issue with anxiety, codependency, performing and producing for approval, intrusive thoughts around health, and no peace or contentment despite my very faith based life.

Thus began my journey in connecting the dots to how unprocessed, denied, stuffed, dissociated feelings and emotions have a direct effect on our physical health and emotional and spiritual peace.  As I have traveled this healing journey since the Fall of 2019, I have learned so many things that I want to share with other women, hoping they can learn and be inspired to embark on their own health journey and desire to live their best, healthiest, most content life, and/ or avoid some of the mistakes I made, and put good practices into place now so not to find themselves in a similar situation to the one I found myself in in September 2019.  This is why I created The Embracing Layers Network: a space for women dedicated to finding empowerment, embracing layers, and the journey towards living unapologetically.

• Through our F.E.E.L Framework, I have created opportunities for women to live a F.E.E.L-fueled life through our online course, 1:1 empowerment sessions, in-person or virtual presentations, and book.

• On The F.E.E.L Podcast, I introduce listeners to people that I have various levels of relationship and association with who, in my experience with them, live out their best lives with true intent and health, in their own unique way.

  • I introduce each guest by their character traits rather than their accolades and experiences, to send the message that who we are and where our value is based is not in what we do, but what our character traits are and the value we were created with.

  • “What they do” is featured in the show notes and on the website.

I hope you will join me in starting your Embracing Layers journey today.