Helping burned-out working moms recover the energy they need to get unstuck.

Your life the way it is—do you feel like you “just can’t” do it anymore?

Is the first thing you think when you get off work or wake up Monday morning “I can’t do this anymore.” This is what burnout feels like. It feels like being done—a Sunday evening dread about having to go to work the next morning kind of done; an I’m so exhausted by the time I get off work that all I want to do is lay on the sofa and binge Britbox kind of done; an I’m so distracted by my anxiety that I can inhale a whole box of cookies in under 5 minutes without realizing it kind of done; an I’m so depleted that I melt down over small things and snap at the people I love most kind of done; an I feel hopeless and depressed because I just can’t see how things could ever be different kind of done. An I don’t have the energy to care anymore, kind of done. An all around I’m just done, kind of done.

That’s how lots of us feel.

You’re not alone. Really, truly—you are not alone.

There are so many of us who are going what you’re going through (how about every working mom as a starting place?) We get our college degrees and set out to climb the corporate ladder, starry-eyed with aspirations of promotions, raises and accolades. Along the way we pick up a spouse (and his needs), buy a house (and take on its needs), have a kid or two (and take on their needs), all the while working every working day, year after year except for a few weeks of company-allotted time off. We find ourselves in our 40’s and 50’s with thinning hair and flabby midlines putting SO MUCH PRESSURE on ourselves to do better at work and in life, thinking that we’re the problem—we’re either not doing enough or not doing it good enough or even worse that we’re not enough. But it never seems to make a difference does it? Then one day it all just gets to be too much, and something happens that pushes us over the edge—our neck starts hurting when we just finished rehabbing our shoulder; our boss says that yet again the company is strapped and the average raise is 1%…for the fourth year in a row; our now-ex-spouse sends yet one more unnecessarily rude text when we’re only trying to do what’s best for our children—and we realize that we just can’t keep living our lives this way. That’s when we realize that we’re burned out.

And you didn’t do anything wrong.

You’ve just been putting your head down trying to be the very best mother, wife, friend, employee you can be. You’ve just been doing what your parents raised you to do, and what the women around you are doing, and what society expects women to do. So we give and give and give, to our kids, to our spouses, to our friends, to our families, to our jobs. And the result is that we don’t have enough left for ourselves.

And help is only a Zoom call away.

Aren’t you ready to get your spark back? More than ready? Aren’t you ready to have energy left at the end of the day to go to the gym, or play with your kids? Energy to roll around with your cute boyfriend or take an art class? Energy to build the marketing funnel for your fledgling online business? Energy to leave the pint of ice cream in the freezer and the bottle of wine in the pantry? (An energized, fulfilled and joyful woman has less need for them!) You are, aren’t you? We both know it.

We’ll work together to get your spark back. We’ll start small, because a burned out working mom doesn’t have much energy. What she needs most is more time to rest, so that she can begin to get her strength back, and then importantly avoid depleting this newfound strength.

Our first goal is freeing up time for you to rest.

  1. We’ll tap into your network—friends, family, community businesses—to lighten your load at home.

  2. We’ll prioritize the remaining demands on your time, and move as many as we can to the parking lot.

  3. We’ll assess the resources available to you to support you, including paid and unpaid time off, support groups, and mental health professionals.

  4. We’ll begin to incorporate restorative and forward-looking habits into your day to start to bring awareness to your values, needs and dreams.

You’re ready to spend your time doing less of what drains you, and more of what lights you up. You’re ready to work with a life coach who helps burned out working moms get their spark back.

The logistics are simple, because burned out working moms need simple.

  • One up-front payment of $1,000.

  • One coaching session (1hr) per week for 12 weeks.

  • Email support in between.

You’re ready to spend your time doing less of what drains you, and more of what lights you up. You’re ready to work with a life coach who helps burned out working moms get their spark back.

Your coach in a nutshell

Make that a coconut shell, because Kaua’i is my favorite place on earth after Homer, Alaska. In fact once our Ladybird group coaching community has outgrown our digs here in Oregon, we’ll be expanding our in-person retreats up north…and southwest. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

I’m one of those people that trains to do something, lacks the confidence to do it, goes back to training thinking it will build confidence, and so on and so forth for years because the truth is that a diploma is a necessary but not sufficient condition for confidence. (Uh oh, was that a little math that just slipped out? Randomly, I have an undergraduate degree in math and a graduate degree in applied statistics. Also, I have a pi tattoo on my left shoulder which was my 25th birthday present to myself. I think it’s cool, but unfortunately so do old men (“So…do you like math?” ) so mostly I keep it covered by up t-shirts. I’m 45 now, and thanks to the math degree I’ve build a successful career in health insurance.)

So…back to having had lots of training. The downside for me is that it’s taken forever to start my coaching business. The upside for you is that I’m highly trained having completed coach training with Tiny Habits, Mentor Agility, Powered by Love, and Beautiful You. Between these four programs I have a foundation in general life coaching (Beautiful You) with specializations in ADHD (Tiny Habits), Autism (Powered by Love’s Values Integration Training), and Trauma-informed Coaching (Mentor Agility).

Creativity comes into my coaching because I’m an artist—a writer, actually, who’s taken up the hobbies of painting, photography and poetry to support my writing—and over the last year I’ve realized how much my creativity supports me in my own self-coaching and conversely how much my self-coaching supports me in my creativity. It’s a rich, holistic, unique, rewarding and colorful way to go about personal growth, and I want to share it with you.

How to work with me

All of my clients begin as members of my Facebook group. It’s free to join, we just ask that you come with a supportive attitude and a spirit of curiosity. Invitations for Zoom group coaching sessions and 2-day intensives along with logistics and pricing will be posted in the Facebook group as launch day approaches.