Malka Ceh, PhD, MSc, cNPA

The Science and Art of Conscious Rebellion

Outsmarting Your Biology

Personal Development for Smart Women

Your nature is not your destiny.

Your mental traits and behaviors may seem vague and elusive, intangible forces that come and go without logic or structure. They may feel like fog, sabotaging your potential and making you feel like a passenger in your own mind. But they can be understood and recoded. I'm here to explain a scientifically grounded viewpoint: your biological default settings were molded by evolution not to ensure your subjective well-being, but to serve genetic transmission.

Your cognitive and behavioral patterns were designed by your ancestral and immediate history to serve your genes. By learning this biological language and understanding the "why" behind the "what", you gain the power to override the defaults and design a life of your own.

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The Story About The Genetic Scripts Ru(i/n)ning Your Life (And How to Rewrite Them)

You are, by evolutionary design, a sophisticated survival machine. The drives, fears, and "gut feelings" you experience aren't there for your fulfillment; they are ancient lines of code written to preserve and propagate your genes. These five myths feel true, but they are actually evolutionary lures designed to keep your genes in the game.

Get the Myths (and the Real Story)

Evolutionary Programming: The Foundation of Your Experience

Your biology sets the terms you play on.

From your career and relationships to your health and focus, inherited patterns shape every bit of your life. Learning to navigate these biological foundations turns evolutionary traps into fuel for growth. Strategic cognitive competence is the groundwork for lasting autonomy and ownership.

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The Daily Default: Designing Your Internal Architecture

Emotions are your inner weather. There’s no such thing as a day without weather, but you may not notice it until it turns unpleasant. Emotional health feels like relocating to a more livable climate or learning to dress for the one you're in. It also means knowing how to sail with the wind when it changes.

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Health Goals: From Battle to Rhythm

The difference between struggling with healthy habits and maintaining them lies in your affective, cognitive, and behavioral patterns. Understanding your biological programming allows you to smooth the path. Shift the evolutionary forces at the root, and change becomes less a matter of willpower and more a matter of momentum.

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Relationships: Dancing with Significants' Biology

Relationships are the centerpiece of life’s ballroom, your most essential dance partners. Sometimes they move with grace, sometimes they miss a beat and land on your toes. Learning to synchronize your biological rhythm and theirs helps you stay in step, even when the music changes without warning.

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Professional Success, Biologically Speaking

Career success isn’t shaped only by what you know. It depends far more on how you relate to others, move through pressure, read a room, and respond when things feel frayed. Biology shapes the way you build relationships, navigate challenges, and manage the subtle balance of expectations. Mental competence is what allows you to carry all the moving pieces with steadiness and clarity.

Family Bonds: From Pain Points to Harmony

Family patterns are like old hand-me-downs. They might still fit, but that doesn’t mean they suit you. Mental growth lets you tailor what you’ve inherited, turning outdated habits into more intentional and connected relationships. It’s not about erasing history, but about deliberately unpicking what no longer works and stitching together a way that does.

Modern Parenting: Holding It All Together

Your parenting instincts were shaped for simpler times, slower days, and many hands. They weren’t built to meet the modern sky-high expectations. You need tools to adapt your inherited responses to today’s complex realities, so you can meet the chaos with steadiness, presence, and a little more peace of mind.

What’s Here for You

Psychoanalysis and Coaching

Through personalized one-on-one work, I help you tune your mental system to better serve your goals, values, and everyday life. Rather than aiming for quick fixes, my approach focuses on cultivating a sustainable inner rhythm that helps you think clearly, feel fully, and move through life with intention.

Online Classes and Workshops

Serious change begins with understanding. My classes and workshops offer thoughtful, structured ways to sharpen your mental awareness and knowledge, and apply them to real-life situations. Each program is built on an evergreen curriculum designed to support slow, steady, and lasting growth.

Personal Profile Assessment

Your personal profile provides insight into how your mental system is wired and how it shapes your experience and behavior from within. Grounded in affective science, this clinical assessment unfolds through a structured conversation. We explore your unconscious patterns that shape your mood, motivation, achievement, relationships, and well-being.

Reflective Groups and Forums

Progress accelerates when you engage with others. These small, structured groups provide space to analyze patterns, test new perspectives, and exchange insights. Guided by affective science and structured dialogue, you'll explore everyday patterns and practice new ways of thinking, relating, and doing.

Malka Ceh

Emotional competence with science and strength.

I work at the intersection of science and everyday life. My background is in evolutionary anthropology, psychotherapy science, and psychoanalysis. I’ve spent years (and continue to) studying how emotions are built, what they’re formed for, and how they shape the way you live.

I don’t promise quick fixes or overnight transformation. Emotional growth is a slow, often uncomfortable process. It happens through deliberate work: examining yourself closely, facing truths you'd rather avoid, breaking through resistance, and repeating what doesn’t come naturally until it finally does. I help women who value in-depth insight and want to build lasting systems rather than temporary detours.

I offer psychoanalysis and coaching, host groups and workshops, and lead science-based classes to help you understand yourself and others more deeply, and to support a steady and coherent way of living and relating.

About Me

Hear from Experiences

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“The idea that emotions aren’t built to make you happy but to help you survive really clicked for me. It made sense immediately, even though I’d never looked at it that way. Now, when I feel sadness, I see it as my mind telling me to pause and reassess. It’s taken the guilt out of feeling certain things and freed me up to just do what needs to be done.”

- Daniela

“I used to think emotions were random or just in the way—like, why bother with anger or frustration? But realizing that emotions are signals designed to guide me was a game changer. For example, I learned that my anger usually means I feel blocked. Just naming that has helped me tackle situations at work with way more clarity and control.”

- Andrea

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

“The idea that emotions aren’t built to make you happy but to help you survive really clicked for me. It made sense immediately, even though I’d never looked at it that way. Now, when I feel sadness, I see it as my mind telling me to pause and reassess. It’s taken the guilt out of feeling certain things and freed me up to just do what needs to be done.”

- Daniela

“I used to think emotions were random or just in the way—like, why bother with anger or frustration? But realizing that emotions are signals designed to guide me was a game changer. For example, I learned that my anger usually means I feel blocked. Just naming that has helped me tackle situations at work with way more clarity and control.”

- Andrea

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

“The idea that emotions aren’t built to make you happy but to help you survive really clicked for me. It made sense immediately, even though I’d never looked at it that way. Now, when I feel sadness, I see it as my mind telling me to pause and reassess. It’s taken the guilt out of feeling certain things and freed me up to just do what needs to be done.”

- Daniela

“I used to think emotions were random or just in the way—like, why bother with anger or frustration? But realizing that emotions are signals designed to guide me was a game changer. For example, I learned that my anger usually means I feel blocked. Just naming that has helped me tackle situations at work with way more clarity and control.”

- Andrea

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

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