About
The Motion of Gratitude™

We built this because
we needed it first

The Motion of Gratitude is a nervous system-informed wellbeing company built around one idea: that lasting change starts in the body, not the mind. We work with individuals ready to come back to themselves, and organizations ready to build the kind of culture that actually holds.

What we believe
Regulation before reflection. Always.
How we work
Science-grounded, human-first, body-based.
Who we're for
The capable ones who've quietly lost themselves.
What we build toward
A life you're actually living — not watching.
Why We Exist

Gratitude is not a thought. It's a state the body learns to inhabit

The Motion of Gratitude™ was founded on a simple but radical premise: that most gratitude practices fail not because people don't try hard enough, but because they start in the wrong place.

They start in the mind. With lists, with affirmations, with the cognitive effort to notice what's good. And for a nervous system in survival mode — which describes most of us, most of the time — that effort goes nowhere.

We start in the body. With breath, with regulation, with the physiological conditions that make presence and gratitude not just possible, but natural. That's The M of G Method. And it changes things.

Most people don't need more information about gratitude. They need a body that feels safe enough to receive it.

Two tracks

Individual transformation and organizational wellbeing — each grounded in the same Method

One Method

Regulate, Reconnect, Remember, Return — the sequence that makes change real

Two founders

A husband and wife team whose skills were built for exactly this work — together

One belief

That every person has the capacity for a life they're genuinely present to

How It Started

It started with one person disappearing from her own life

Before motherhood, Shannon had built the kind of career that told her exactly who she was. She was highly coachable, externally driven, and exceptionally good at what she did. Success had a shape she understood — and she fit it perfectly.

Then she chose something different. Consciously, intentionally, and with her whole heart — she stepped away to raise her children.

What she didn't expect was how completely she would lose herself in the process. Her oldest was two and a half. Her youngest was eight months old, deeply sensitive, and inconsolable to everyone except Shannon. There was no off switch, no handoff, no moment to step away and remember who she was outside of what she was giving.

She had wanted this. She still wanted this. And she felt like a shell of herself. One night she was venting to Matthew about everything that felt wrong. He said — you need to be more grateful. She was furious. And then something inside her said — he's right.

What happened next surprised her. It wasn't the practice itself that shifted things. It was a moment when she felt gratitude in her body rather than thought it in her head. That difference changed everything. She spent years learning why — and then she built a Method around it.

The high-achieving years

A successful career built on external validation and knowing exactly who she was — until she consciously stepped away to raise her children and discovered she didn't know who she was without it.

The moment something shifted

Not a crisis. Not a rock bottom. Just a stillness — a breath that landed differently — and the first experience of gratitude that wasn't a thought but a physical sensation.

The years of learning why

Trauma-informed breathwork training. Mindfulness practice. Applied positive psychology. Somatic study. Building the scientific foundation to understand what had happened — and how to make it repeatable.

The Motion of Gratitude™ is born

Shannon and Matthew build the company together — her method and deep expertise in the practice, his strategic and financial mind — with a shared conviction that this work belongs in every kind of room.

The People Behind the Work

Two founders. One mission

Shannon and Matthew Missimer built The Motion of Gratitude™ together — each bringing a distinct background, a distinct role, and a shared belief in what this work can do.

Shannon Missimer, Co-Founder of The Motion of Gratitude
Co-Founder & Method Creator
Shannon Missimer
Co-Founder · The M of G Method · Coach & Facilitator

Shannon's work lives at the intersection of academic research, lived experience, and the deep human need to feel seen. She created The M of G Method by mapping her own journey into a framework others could return to — a consistent roadmap for the parts of life that don't come with directions. What she does in a room — virtual or in person — is create the conditions for felt safety. She finds words for the experiences people carry but can't articulate. She holds space for the parts of a person's story they usually keep hidden from the world. And she takes profound pride in both. At the heart of everything she does is a single belief — that every person is worthy of choosing a life of their own making. The Motion of Gratitude™ is the vehicle she built to help them get there. She limits her one-on-one coaching practice to five clients at a time because depth requires it. And she brings that same intentionality to every keynote, workshop, and group she facilitates — whether the room holds ten people or a thousand.

  • Applied Positive Psychology Certification — The Flourishing Center
  • Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator
  • Mindfulness Practitioner & Integrative Wellbeing Coach
  • Creator of The M of G Method® — Regulate, Reconnect, Remember, Return
  • Keynote speaker and full-day workshop facilitator
  • Veteran program facilitator — Bellacatio nonprofit partnership
Matthew Missimer, Co-Founder of The Motion of Gratitude
Co-Founder & CEO
Matthew Missimer
Co-Founder & CEO · Organizational Health & Financial Strategy

Matthew is the co-founder and co-creator of The M of G Method, bringing over 20 years of financial industry experience to the work of building organizations where people and performance genuinely thrive. He built and ran a successful financial planning firm serving more than 300 clients — and made a conscious choice to step away from that chapter to pursue a more human way of supporting individuals and organizations with their financial and operational health.

His understanding of financial dysregulation — organizations spending from fear, running on autopilot, disconnected from what their numbers mean for their people — is woven into the methodology itself. That perspective is part of what makes The M of G Method what it is. In 2025, Matthew began serving select organizations as a Fractional CFO and COO, bringing that same whole-person philosophy into the operational and financial heart of the organizations he works with.

  • 20+ years in the financial industry
  • Founded and ran a financial planning firm — 300+ clients served
  • Fractional CFO and COO — serving select organizations since 2025
  • Co-Founder and CEO, The Motion of Gratitude™
  • Organizational lead — all TMOG corporate partnerships and engagements
  • Co-facilitator of The Expanding Capacity Program and keynote co-presenter
Built Together

What it looks like when two people build something they both believe in

Shannon holds the people. Matthew holds the system. Together they hold the work.

The Motion of Gratitude™ runs on two tracks — individual transformation and organizational wellbeing — and those tracks exist because Shannon and Matthew's backgrounds were built for exactly one of each. There's no gap between the method and the business because the two people leading them speak the same language about what the work is for.

They're also married. Which means every decision about the company is also a decision about a life — and they don't separate those things. That integration is part of what makes the work credible. They're not teaching presence. They're practicing it.

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Shannon holds the people

The facilitation, the one-on-one coaching, the breathwork, and the human side of every room she enters.

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Matthew holds the system

Corporate relationships, financial strategy, organizational health, and the architecture that lets the work scale.

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Together they build the culture

Every keynote, every corporate session, every major client engagement — they're in the room together, bringing the full range of what the company is.

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The work reflects the life

They built a company around the idea that wholeness is possible. They're not just selling that. They're living it — together, intentionally, and with a lot of breathwork along the way.

What We Stand For

The beliefs that shape everything we do

These aren't values on a wall. They're the convictions that shape every session, every container, every corporate program we deliver.

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The body leads

Lasting change doesn't start with a decision or a reframe. It starts with a nervous system that feels safe enough to be different. We work with the body first — always.

02

Sequence is medicine

The order of the Method isn't incidental. Each phase creates the conditions for the next. We don't skip regulation to get to gratitude. We earn gratitude through regulation.

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You already know

We don't teach people who they are. We create the conditions for them to remember. The knowing is always already there — underneath the noise, the performance, and the pace.

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This work belongs everywhere

In boardrooms and veteran programs. In coaching containers and team retreats. In the lives of high achievers and anyone who's quietly lost the thread. Wellbeing isn't a luxury offering. It's a human one.

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Trauma-informed is not optional

We work with real people carrying real histories. Nervous system-informed practice isn't a specialty we offer to some clients — it's the floor beneath everything we do, for everyone.

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Integration is the work

A session that changes nothing on a Tuesday is a missed opportunity. We design everything toward integration — toward a practice that becomes part of how you actually live, not just how you feel in the room.

Where to Begin

The work is real. The door is open

Whether you're here for yourself, for your team, or because something on this page named an experience you didn't have words for — there's a place for you in this work.

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