Coaches use deep listening skills, authentic curiosity, unconditional compassion and illuminating questions to help guide clients toward clarity, understanding and action. Working in coaching is an invitation to explore who you are, deeply and truly. There are a few different ways to work together, depending on what is most supportive for you and your current path. In addition to optional recommended resources, I may also provide you with homework (soulwork) assignments, depending on what you’re needing. Every coaching program is customized to the individual and their needs. I coach women and women-identifying folks around motherwound and grey area drinking recovery.

That’s up to you. While I offer a few different coaching options (one time sessions, a group program and multi-month 1:1 coaching) it’s important to know that lasting change takes time, consistency, understanding and practice.

Please remember: there are no hacks when it comes to physical and emotional sobriety. Often when it comes to making whole-hearted life changes, slower is faster.

If you feel called in to do this work, I encourage you to reach out. Often times we get sucked back into the same patterns and do not trust ourselves to do what we know, deep down, is best for us. Any time is a good time to start examining patterns, habits and coping mechanisms that are holding you back - much like other transformative times in one’s life, there will never be a perfect or right time. There will always be an upcoming event or holiday, but you will never, ever, get today back.

Yes. Sobriety or sober curiosity is often a meeting point for me and the people I work with, but not always. I also work with highly sensitive individuals who have a deep desire to be seen, felt, heard and understood. Often many of the underlying challenges that drinkers face are the same that non-drinkers also face, they just manifest in different ways. Underlying many of our maladaptive behaviours and coping mechanisms is a deep and pervasive mother wound.

That’s okay. I believe the growth path starts when we decide to make a change, not on the last day you’ve drank. Working together in mentorship, we uncover the why’s behind your desire to drink, the triggers and how to make more empowered decisions.

I can’t. I can’t make your decisions for you. I guide and support you along your journey. Part of the path of sobriety is taking radical responsibility for our own actions, from a place of love and compassion. We quit drinking as an act of love, not an act of punishment. We work together to cultivate your self compassion, self understanding and self care to go from the mindset of “I can’t drink anymore” to “I don’t have to drink anymore”

It isn’t. And while there tends to be overlap in the things we talk about and what you might talk about in a therapy session, there are some distinct differences. Therapy often focuses on the past while coaching focuses on the present and the future. Also, I do not diagnose conditions, but will provide referrals to paraprofessionals when appropriate. I believe that receiving multi-faceted support during our journeys is always beneficial in gaining a greater understanding of ourselves, our past and our inner world.

It’s likely the kind of coaching that makes you feel a bit nervous and expansive. The subject that pains you but will also set you free if it weren’t the focus of so many of your thoughts. Most of the people I work with come for a variety of reasons, but the main ones are sobriety, motherwound healing, exploring high sensitivity and grief.