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I see you.
Always doing the
“next right thing.”
You’ve checked all the boxes. Collected all the generally & readily accepted markers of a successful life. The fancy degrees hanging proudly on your wall. The impressive resume lines and lengthy LinkedIn bios. The accolades and the bonuses you’ve worked your tail off for.
You’ve probably build a life that “looks great on paper.”
And yet, you find yourself asking “Is This It?”
Now, you’re curious about what lies beyond myths like balance and perfectionism and hustle and grind and the ever-elusive, always exhausting, never-ending hamster wheel of rushing, goal crushing, and “having it all figured out”?
A life where YOU define success and meaning. A life where the intentional choices you make are yours. Where your life on paper aligns with your birthright gifts and a sturdy, unshakeable core of confidence and trust in yourself, your longings, your choices, and your own honest inner voice.
Because you are so much more than your life on paper.
In our 1:1 work together, my aim is to create a container for your self-inquiry, your growing self-understanding, and your deepening self-compassion. To become a mirror that will offer you another reference point for what's possible in your work and life and how it all fits together. Combining practices from time-tested wisdom traditions like meditation and contemplation with easy-to-use, research-backed, evidence-based mindfulness & stress management tools, you’ll cultivate an inner core of calm, move through obstacles, and claim your natural strengths, inner wisdom, & wholeness.
Here’s How We’ll Work Together:
My 1:1 programs run for 6-months.
I can guarantee you that there are no quick fixes, no 3-step magic makeovers, no “one-and-done” solutions to becoming more of who you really are (before stress, before hustle culture, before everyone else told you who you should be). 6 months is an ideal amount of time to make real change, to dig deep, and to put new mindful skills into practice. Clients often stay on longer than 6 months, continuing at our weekly pace or for monthly maintenance. Our work together is about empowering you with the tools of self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-understanding so that eventually, I promise, you won’t need me anymore.
Each session begins with a meditation, reflection, breathing exercise, or relaxation practice to ground our time together.
If you want to change the way you feel, embodiment is key.
We can’t just talk about the tools of inquiry and understanding or of stress management and mindful awareness or growing self-compassion or relaxation or “work/life balance” or moving through obstacles or unsticking stuck inner narratives about “the story of me”or even cultivating your strengths. We have to practice it — which is how we begin each session.
We use regular written reflection tools to track not “progress,” but your unfolding.
We’ll use these to collect real data points about you and your life and what we’re working on together. Because what we can see, we can name, and what we name we can begin to shape and cultivate and grow and even change. You’ll leave our time together with a written record of your story, as you rewrite it.
We meet via zoom, most weeks.
Weekly, live1:1 coaching calls via zoom anchor our time together. And it’s where you take the information and knowledge I share with you and apply it to your own lived experience to transform it into deep wisdom for yourself.
We begin each session with practice and then we move into conversation and application of the tools and techniques we’re learning together into the real life wild of your life.
These sessions are both strategic and practical. And also the chance for you to regularly create and hold sacred non-judgmental space for yourself each week. And I say most weeks, because life happens and schedules change and sometimes the work lends itself to a “week off” to integrate a particular understanding.
Your private client portal supports you in between our zooms (& beyond).
If you like “homework” — working with me might very well be for you. What we do once in a while (like a weekly coaching call) is awesome. But what we do all the time is what really matters. Your private client portal will be a curated & custom space filled with recorded audio meditations & breathing exercises, restorative yoga and relaxation videos, questions for reflection, your assessments, and other resources (books we’ll read together, podcasts to share, and more) to deepen our work together.
I create a completely custom experience for you.
In addition to your curated collection of practices and resources on your private client portal, I curate this experience just for you. Everyone has different learning styles and I create a space for you to trust your own.
My 1:1 work is the opposite of a self-improvement plan. This is about uncovering, remembering, and reclaiming the wholeness of who you really are.
This might be for you if
you’re ready for —
A Healed Relationship To Time :: Breaking Up With Rushing, Cultivating Presence & Trusting the Timing of Your Own Life.
How much of our lives are spent rushing around feeling like we’re always behind where we should be?
Like there’s never enough time? Like we’re barreling through the everyday just to crash at the end of them or race to the weekend?
Or quite simply, how much of our days are spent multitasking and in many places at once (on the phone, ordering the groceries, daydreaming about a vacation sometime somewhere, all well in the zoom meeting about something completely different) – without actually being present with what (and who) is right in front of us.
If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re actually doing what you say you’re doing. Or if you’re really where you say you are. Talking to the people you’re actually with … well, this 1:1 work was MADE FOR YOU!
New models for growth, productivity, and success.
If not, “hard work,” then what? If not a straight & narrow, box-checking path,” then what?
We’ve spent our whole lives being told to put our heads down and work hard. To do what it takes and sleep when we’re done.
We’ve followed straight & narrow, linear paths and corporate ladders to “success.”
And yet.
We know that hard work for the sake of working hard grinds us down, wrings us out, and hardens US too.
What would it feel like to create a new vocabulary for productivity? For your contributions? For doing your good work in the world? For success?
What would it feel like to “work gently?” TO balance out all that effort with a sense of ease?
More Rest. Less Burnout. A Self-Regulated Nervous System. Real Tools to Restore Yourself. And the Ability to Relax Into Your Life.
When I meet people, they’re usually tired.
Maybe on the brink of burnout.
Or just wanting to feel more energy.
And it’s impossible to do the deep work of becoming ourselves – being who we truly are, who we came here to be - when we feel like we’re barely keeping our heads above water.
For an engine to run smoothly (that’s you, dear one) - we have to fill the gas tank. It’s time to take deep and good care of ourselves.
Our 1:1 work together is all about investing in your own energetic reserves.
I operationally define burnout as “continually asking ourselves to give what we no longer have left to give.”
And if you’re still reading this, if you’ve made it this far – I know you’ve probably got your own working definition of burnout too!
My work often begins with burnout recovering and teaching you real and wise and actionable strategies for burnout prevention going forward.
It’s about gaining clarity around your real priorities. Refining the skill of wise discernment: what’s important v. what just seems urgent, what you’d choose to focus on, not what you “should.”
JOY. Resilience. Hardwired Happiness. A Stockpile of Good. Contentment. Presence.
Our work together is less about editing out the “bad habits” or chasing yet another “self-improvement plan” than it is about doubling down on the good.
About starting with the wild premise that YOU, right now, are actually enough.
And beginning to work with the raw materials of your life as it is, in this moment, to cultivate a wellspring of good.
We’ll activate neuroscience-based practices of taking in the good and shifting otherwise fleeting nice moments into hardwired happiness, an underlying hum of feeling settled and even and grounded in your days, and a deeper capacity to access the positive in any moment.
Or to put it simply: this month is all about finding the JOY, the fun, the levity, the lightness, the laughter, the adventure & spontaneity we’re usually so busy we either miss or feel like we don’t have enough time for.
Trust Your Inner Wisdom. Let Go Of Old Story Lines That No Longer Serve. Claim Your Strengths & Come Home To Yourself, Exactly As You Are.
You’ve been operating on a “story of me” that no longer fits (did it ever?).
Or you’ve always taken your cues, made your decisions, and set your goals according to what other people thought you should do.
You’re ready to re-align your inner compass and claim a steady sense of trust in yourself. you decisions. To look at your life in this moment and trust deeply that even though there’s no such thing as perfect, YOU CHOSE THIS FOR YOURSELF.
Aligning your values from the inside out. Creating days that reflect the highest vision for your life and your love and the work you came here to do is possible.
Deep trust that you belong to and in your life, exactly as it is. Enough, exactly as you are.
What my clients are saying —
“I came to Catherine looking for clarity in my work, specifically how to build a business doing what I love. I’d worked with Catherine in the past and I just knew I needed a coach I could learn from, who was a total professional, and who I could show up 100% as myself with, even as I was navigating a lot of self doubt. I decided from the start to completely trust Catherine and our work together. I wanted to learn and grow at an accelerated pace, but I also wanted the experience to be free form, so I had space to trust my own instincts and let myself find my way. That’s what working with Catherine is like. ”
“I'd tried meditation before, and always struggled to understand it, to let myself really participate in it. But there is something about the way that Cath invites you, so individually and presently, that feels personal and welcoming. She reminds you that there is no right or wrong way to show up. This invitation Cath extends is unlike anything I've felt before.”
— Former Client
“I come to Catherine for: grounding, wisdom, calming down and centering. When I need to get really quiet and turn inward, to meet myself with lots of gentleness. Honestly, sometimes I think to myself ‘I could just use being in a room with Cath in it right now.’”
— Longtime Student & Client
FAQs
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My clients come to me sometimes knowing exactly what they need to move through. And after our time together, they’ve quit the job that was burning them out to have the baby and finish their PhD. Some have a deep sense of an inner life shift that they can’t quite name but they can feel. And they leave our time together trusting in their own capacities, clear on new boundaries they need to set in their work/life flow, a redefined definition of “success,” and an unshakeable trust in the timing of their own lives. Others leave with a daily meditation practice that they’re proud of and that serves them so, so well. And other clients are lawyers who have left with a really actionable, practical stress management tool kit they can use the next time they go to trial or face a major deadline. All to say, this is not one-sized-fits all work. And with all coaching (& life!), there are no “guarantees.” That’s why we get really clear and keep checking in with the WHY for our work together to make sure we’re on track. And I am a steady partner, mirror, champion of you, co-creator, teacher, listener, and facilitator. I set this work up so that when we’re done, you don’t need me any more ;) You’ve got you.
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That’s exactly why I created 40 Early Mornings, my signature group coaching program (with 1:1 attention) that starts again in September 2024. A lower-priced investment and a shorter time frame, this program is designed to give you real tools that we’ll learn & practice together and that you’ll use for a lifetime — JOIN THE WAITLIST HERE.
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Clarity is kind and transparency is key.
This is a 5-figure, 6-month commitment. It’s a big investment on both ends. SO let’s make sure it’s the right fit.
First step: fill out the application.
Second step: I’ll send over a few more details on pricing & structure.
Third step: If we’re still in alignment, we’ll hop on a call where you can ask me anything ;) We’ll make sure we’re a good match for each other and pick our start date!
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Yes, I’m onboarding clients for start dates in July (If you need to get started earlier, I got you - we’ll work it out.).
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