Helping women deepen their sense of self.
Self-ish Stories
I believe we find ourselves in others and that learning from and listening to other women’s stories can ultimately help us rewrite our own. Bringing women together through storytelling, offering women a glimpse into other women’s lives so they can embrace their own.
My own story was rewritten after countless conversations with other mothers who had reinvented themselves in the midst of motherhood. These women, whether they know it or not, gave me permission to do the same.
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Courtney Gaiman
Courtney shared how choosing herself and her young family in those early years of motherhood, meant leaving behind a career she had worked hard to secure in an effort to not abandon herself. This one decision, while difficult at first, changed the trajectory of her life.
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Alex Tower Ewers
Alex shared how a joint decision for her to stay home with her newborn son turned into a 13 year commitment that felt anything like a choice, until the pandemic hit and changed everything. With choice can acceptance.
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Chelsea Day
Chelsea shared how part of her decision to launch her business while simultaneously mothering two young girls was motivated by her own realization that a piece of herself was dormant while she was staying home with her kids. She said she didn’t know how to revive that side of herself if she wasn’t working on a major project or growing toward something.
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Karen Karnatz
Karen has paved a path for herself in an industry that celebrates the thing we, as a society, try to ignore; with a resume like hers, you might imagine that immersing herself fully in death work was her chosen path but she admitted she always imagined herself eventually able to leave her career to be a stay-at-home parent especially for the early years, although this version of her life never came to pass.
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Kelly Brown
Kelly left behind her first identity and her corporate life to be home with her first child while simultaneously launching her coaching business. While she was out on maternity leave, she realized she was completely devastated by the idea of going back to work. She could not wrap her head around it, the thought that kept going through her mind was, “I am her only mother but I am leaving for a job that I know is not right for me.”
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Mari Petherbridge
For Mari, everything aligned and she felt an overnight change in her family, her dynamic with her partner, along with her business growth when she chose to take a more empowered role. She explained it as a mental and physical shift as she went from straddling the line; one foot in, one foot out, either because she couldn’t decide or was simply unsure. She took her power back by saying this is what I know is true, this is what I know they need, this is who I am.
If I could teach women anything it would be to be unapologetically themselves, no matter what.
Support Your-Self.
Need help rewriting your own story or reinventing yourself in the midst of motherhood? I help women connect to themselves and expand their vision for what is possible, bridging the gap between where they are and where they ultimately want to be.
