About Carpe DM

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My name is Dave Maples — Certified CTI, Energy Codes® Coach and Facilitator, co-founder of Driving Awareness, and a passionate advocate for mental health awareness, personal authenticity, and embodied presence.

After more than two decades as a leader in the corporate world, I stepped away from the fear, shame, and guilt-based golden handcuffs that were slowly degrading my physical health, ability to generate and appreciate states like joy, love, and fulfillment. 

This led me to confront a more fundamental truth: many of us, unintentionally, through our conditioned reactions, perpetuate conditions of self-suppression, unhealed trauma, and the pressure to appear “fine.”

Through breathwork, we naturally disengage from the mind-focused regretful past or worst-case-scenario future, which resonates with our conditioned guard rails and built-in negativity bias, creating guilt, shame, stress, and anxiety. This stimulates our fight-or-flight response, releasing chemicals and stressing our physical, mental, and emotional systems beyond their intended time and purpose. 

By being embodied in the breathwork, we bring our awareness to the only time there ever is, the present, “The Now”. Slowing our brain waves into the alpha state, in conherence with the body’s natural frequency, automatically activating our parasympathetic (our healing and restorative) nervous system.

Vulnerability is strength, embodiment is intelligence, and healing begins when we stop suppressing and start acknowledging ourselves. Our work is rooted in the understanding that self-regulation and emotional generation are not just possible — they’re innate. They’re cultivated through breath, presence, and the courage to turn inward, regardless of external circumstances.

I was blessed and honored to learn and be certified in “The Energy Codes” system as a coach and facilitator directly from the creator and author, Dr. Sue Morter. Dr. Sue’s “Energy Codes” system serves as the fundamental breathwork and embodiment practice incorporated into my coaching programs. 

This system is designed to get beneath the story of our lives and the symptoms they create, most commonly known as stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, and chronic fatigue, just to name a few, to the root cause of these limiting conditions. Leading to not solving anything, instead dissolving the root cause of the symptoms themselves, leading to healing on all levels by allowing the body’s systems to “flow” as designed.

From community gatherings and breathwork sessions to immersive workshops and one-on-one coaching, I facilitate spaces where people can safely access what they’ve ‘learned’ to avoid: their authenticity, their emotions or feelings, their gut/intuition - all information that has the power to enslave us or empower us, depending on whether we acknowledge it or not.

We are here not to fix, but to feel. Not to escape, but to embody. Because the shift from self-suppression to self-generation isn’t a surface-level adjustment — it’s a transformational way of showing up in your life, for yourself authentically and unconditionally.

If you’ve made it this far, we are destined to speak; make it happen sooner rather than later.

With Gratitude,

Dave Maples

david@carpeDMlife.com
805-320-3265