From Stress to Clarity.

From Reactivity to Alignment.

Experience rREST—a neuroscience-based, trauma processing method trusted by soul-led women to release emotional patterns, reduce anxiety, and reclaim the power to live on purpose.

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Hi, I’m Dr. Cindy Sholes, neuroscientist, transformational guide, and the founder of Mindwave Institute.

If you’re here, chances are you’re feeling the weight of anxiety, overwhelm, or the constant drive to succeed only to find yourself burnt out, reactive, or disconnected from your deeper self.

I want you to know there’s another way. I use a powerful method called rREST, and that’s rREST with two R’s. It stands for Rapid Reprogramming of Emotional Stress Technique.

rREST helps clients release subconscious patterns that keep them stuck in stress and self-sabotage so that they can reconnect with clarity, peace, and the power to create lives they truly love.

After just a few sessions, many clients tell me that they feel lighter, clearer, and more emotionally free than they have in years.

For lasting change, I offer packages. that pair rREST sessions with inner development practices from my Sage Mind Generator program.

So your transformation doesn’t just stick, it deepens.

So whether you’re ready to dive into your healing, or if you’re still exploring what support might look like for you, I would love to meet you.

Click the button below to schedule a free soul strategy session. Together, we’ll explore the most aligned next steps for you. If you’re already clear, you’re welcome to book a rREST session and begin right away.

Your peace, your clarity, your power are already within you. Let’s help you remember.

Do You Feel Overwhelmed by Anxiety, Stress, or Exhaustion?

If you’ve been the strong one—reliable, nurturing, and high-achieving—only to feel depleted or disconnected from your own joy and purpose, you’re not alone.

Many of my clients come to me feeling stuck. Anxious. Burned out. And deep down, they know: something has to change.

It’s not your fault. Your brain has been shaped by stress, trauma, and patterns from the past. But you don’t have to stay stuck there.

I want you to know there’s another way — through trauma processing and healing the roots of your stress and self-sabotage with rREST®.

What is rREST?

rREST® (rapid Reprogramming of Emotional Stress Technique) is a neuroscience-based method that helps release the hidden stress patterns that fuel reactivity, self-doubt, and overwhelm. Integrating Medical Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Emotional Technique, Guided Imagery, and Mindfulness, rREST resolves emotional triggers at their origin—so you can respond with clarity, confidence, and ease.

Benefits Include:
✔️ Heal emotional triggers at their root
✔️ Rewire limiting beliefs at the subconscious level
✔️ Reclaim your energy, intuition, creativity, and JOY!

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Hey, I wanted to explain what rREST does in terms that you will respect and understand.

Every time you react strongly, like frustration, embarrassment, or self-criticism, your brain is running an old program. It’s a program that was built to protect you when you were younger. That program lives deep in your subconscious mind, mostly in your limbic system, in your cerebellum, and it fires automatically before your logical brain even gets a chance to vote.

In neuroscience, we call this a memory trace or an engram, and it’s not a bad thing. It’s just outdated code that your brain never got around to debugging.

In a rREST session, we find where that code first got written, when those neurons first fired together and wired together. Then, using specific techniques, we help your brain reprocess that pattern by linking it up to the prefrontal cortex, the part that is handles logic, reasoning, and choice.

The result? The same situation might happen, but your emotional brain doesn’t get hijacked by your logical one anymore. You stay calm and clear and in control because your brain has literally rewired the old loop. That’s rREST, neuroscience for emotional optimization.

Meet Dr. Cindy Sholes

The woman behind a neuroscience-based technique that targets the root of stress.

I’m Dr. Cindy Sholes—a neuroscientist and transformational guide. I created rREST®, a proven method for reprogramming emotional stress at the subconscious level.

Through my approach, I help women identify and heal the root causes of perfectionism, anxiety, and chronic overwhelm. After each session, my goal is for clients to feel a sense of calm and clarity, connect with their purpose, and experience life as a flow of fulfillment and creative energy.

When you stop managing symptoms and begin the trauma processing work at the root, your life shifts for the better, and everything else follows through.

Let’s Identify and Heal the Root of Your Self-Sabotage and Limiting Beliefs

1-on-1 rREST® Breakthrough Session

(In-person or virtual)

rREST® uses neuroscience, medical hypnotherapy for anxiety, and neuro-emotional techniques to release stress patterns at the subconscious level. In these sessions, you’ll heal the roots of anxiety and limiting beliefs, restoring calm, clarity, and joy while strengthening your emotional resilience.

Sage Mind Generator Program

(8-week transformation)

This 8-week journey rewires the thought patterns behind self-sabotage and builds mental resilience through neuroscience-based coaching, hypnotherapy for anxiety, and Positive Intelligence practices. Awaken your Sage Mind to lead your life with calm, clarity, and confidence.

rREST Transformation Series

(10 private healing sessions)

Embark on a guided 10-session journey to release deeply held stress patterns, reprogram limiting beliefs, and restore inner balance. Through neuroscience-based hypnotherapy and the rREST® method, you’ll integrate lasting emotional healing and align with calm, clarity, and purpose.

Free Soul Strategy Session.

If you’re unsure where to begin, start with a free Soul Strategy Session. In this 1:1 conversation, I’ll help you quiet the noise, access clarity, and uncover your next aligned step—so you leave inspired, empowered, and confident about what comes next.

Whether you’re local to the San Francisco Bay Area or connecting from across the world, healing is available to you.

🧭 In-person sessions near Menlo Park, CA

🌐 Virtual sessions available globally

Healing Stories from Women Who Found Their Flow

“Having my own very busy legal practice on the East Coast, I have been working with Dr. Cindy online for the past six months with amazing results. Running a business on your own comes with its own wonderful opportunities and challenges. It is nice to work with a practitioner who not only is respectful and understanding, but incredibly impactful. The rRest work with Dr. Cindy is unconventional and at the same time hugely effective. What takes years and months with coaches and other professionals, takes days/weeks with Dr. Cindy. "

“I was dealing with anxiety/panic attacks but did not want to take medication if I could solve the problem another way. Dr. Sholes was recommended by my doctor. I knew nothing about Neuro Emotional Technique prior to my first visit but have found it to be extremely effective. She is incredibly insightful and has managed to get to the source of my anxiety in a short time. I am fascinated by her approach and love the results. I am grateful to have her as a resource.” I am super grateful that just a couple of sessions with her healed the root causes of his anxiety and stress. Thank you Cynthia, you are a miracle worker!”

"Both my daughter and I were a little skeptical before our first visit, but I am so impressed with the turnaround for my daughter. It's as if her potential is finally unlocked and she's no longer standing in her own way! The first competition after seeing Dr. Sholes, she scored a Platinum on her solo and got 3rd overall of soloists in her age group."

"I am amazed by the results I have seen in my wife since she has been coming to Mind Wave Institute. I feel like I have the old Suzanne back but SUPERCHARGED. We are able to work happily and easily together in our family business. And, because of her newly energized contribution, we are seeing even greater success in our already successful business! She says that now that the blocks have been removed and the depression lifted, she is able to be more present and joyful with life."

"For 3 months prior to seeing Dr. Sholes, I was having severe insomnia. I tried OTC medications and herbs but there was no significant relief. I started to get results with Cindy after the first visit. Now my sleep has been restored."

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You don’t have to stay stuck in stress or overwhelm.

Let’s work together to release stress, overcome anxiety, and build emotional resilience.