A pause for women who are successful on paper but feel exhausted in real life.
Designed to help you reset how you live and work so you return clearer, steadier, and better supported.
Your hormones using functional medicine
Burnout through cycle literacy
Ambition without self-abandonment
Home with a 90-day plan
Feel better. Work smarter.
Each day is designed to support your body with the right balance of restoration, education, and integration.
Nothing is rushed. Nothing is over-scheduled.
Michelle Desouza
Founder, Same Skin
Michelle leads the entire experience from curating each sabbatical using her decade-long career in private aviation and luxury travel to guiding integration long after guests return home.
Same Skin was born from her own journey through burnout, loss, grief, and hormonal change alongside the pressure to keep performing at the expense of her health and relationships. What she shares here isn’t theory. It’s lived experience. The same approach that helped her live better, work smarter, and sustain ambition without losing herself.
Dr. Francis
Integrative Medicine Physician
Dr. Francis is an integrative medicine physician with over 35 years of experience as a naturopathic doctor, chiropractor, and acupuncturist. She played a pivotal role in Michelle’s return to health when nothing else was working.
Through years of close collaboration, she helped untangle burnout, hormonal imbalance, and chronic stress by rebuilding health in a way that supported performance, relationships, and long-term vitality. Dr. Francis oversees all clinical care, diagnostics, and protocols, bringing deep medical expertise alongside grounded, real-world guidance.
Known to many as the Rock ’n’ Roll Doctor, Dr. Francis has traveled globally with some of the world’s most iconic musicians, helping artists like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bruce Springsteen, and Metallica repair, recover, and refuel through demanding schedules and high-pressure lives. Her approach is holistic, practical, and deeply human designed to support real people living full, complex lives, not perfection.
The Same Skin Clinical & Ancestral Tech Team
A trusted group of guides and practitioners personally vetted through years of working alongside Michelle during periods of high performance, career evolution, grief, and growth. This team includes energy workers, intuitive practitioners, and lineage-based healers rooted in traditions such as Reiki, Akashic work, and astrology. Their work complements clinical care, integrating ancestral modalities with modern frameworks to support clarity, resilience, and long-term performance without sacrificing health or quality of life.
From nutritionist-designed meals to doctor-led workshops and grounding rituals, every element is intentionally curated so you can step out of constant decision-making and fully exhale.
Your sabbatical includes intimate sessions with local artisans and a Same Skin ritual box to support integration long after you return home.
Every Cyclebreakers Sabbatical guest receives one-on-one clinical care, hands-on bodywork, and post-sabbatical support.
Designed for women who want maximum privacy, depth, and long-term support.
Limited early access
Our complete core experience offered to early supporters
A connected, communal experience
Shared accommodations with full programming and clinical support
Perfect for traveling with your best friend, sister, mother, or partner.
Designed for women who want maximum privacy, depth, and long-term support.
Our most comprehensive experience
Private room accommodations with the full clinical and integration arc
Designed for women who want maximum privacy, depth, and long-term support.
Getting real answers about your health shouldn’t take months.
But for many women, it does. Appointments are hard to get. The process is slow. And when you finally sit with a doctor, the focus is often on symptoms instead of what’s actually driving them.
It brings clinical access, education, and integration into one cohesive experience so you spend less time waiting and more time understanding how your body works and what it needs.
Think of it as months of appointments, conversations, and trial-and-error condensed into one intentional experience.
Clarity without the runaround
Education, access, and real-time application
Support that doesn’t disappear
Our lead practitioner has spent over 35 years supporting bodies under extreme demand from touring musicians to high-pressure executives and creatives. This work is grounded in decades of real-world practice and offered exclusively within the Cyclebreakers container.