Clara
She came for business coaching, but what she really needed was permission to stop pretending — and finally choose a life that felt like hers.
Clara* came to me wanting to grow her coaching business.
She called herself a burnout coach. I discovered she had been a social worker.
We initially worked together for 90 days… but we didn’t actually spend much time on her business.
Because I could see she was struggling with something much deeper…she thought she had a physical health problem.
Clara also often told me she was scared of showing up online.
So instead, we worked on her fears and her nervous system, and her relationship with rest.
She loved the idea of long, peaceful baths… but could never quite bring herself to have them.
As we explored this, we discovered why…..she used to hear her father beating her mother while she was in the bath.
Her body had learned that relaxation wasn’t safe.
We worked gently through that fear and then I helped her understand her anxiety for her daughter, weren’t hers to carry.
By the end of our 90 days together, Clara felt lighter, happier, and deeply connected to her husband again. What she thought was a physical health problem was actually a practical issue, she needed to move her daughter from the room she shared with her husband to her stepdaughter’s room. Her daughter was five and didn't need to sleep in the same room as them and could share a bedroom with her stepsister. She was so relieved to regain her sex drive and discover it had always been there, just blocked by all her anxiety.
Clara* did work with me again on her business a year later and I encouraged her to go Live often. She is stunningly beautiful but didn't feel it. She worked with me for 8 weeks on her business where I taught her all about the 8 energy patterns that I mention in my best selling book Dancing with Darkness.
Clara* though I could see struggled with investing in her business and what she had to do to build a business.
In the 8 weeks we worked together and I asked her how she thought a successful business looked like, she would say taking client calls from the beach.
I could see she really didn't have a clue how to build a business and that she wasn't passionate about it.
In the 8 weeks, I did ask her how her life was when she was a social worker. She said it was good although she became burnt out. She explained to me that's why she became a burn out coach.
I asked her “What are you passionate about?”
What do you really want to do”
I left her with this question.
A few months later after she stopped working with me for the second time, she emailed me to tell me she no longer is building a coaching business. She never was an entrepreneur, she finally admitted that. She could see she was trying to live a fantasy and that she actually loves being a social worker.
🩷This is what I do.
I help women slow down so they connect to what they REALLY want to do.
I help high-achieving women slow down enough to hear their truth — to remember who they are and why they’re here.
Because when you align with your true purpose, this is living a fulfilled life 🩷✨
*Means fictional name but is a real person who wishes to remain anonymous
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