Nature-based resilience Coaching
Hi, I’m Shannon. I am a Nurse Coach and Forest Therapy Guide. I work with parents, caring professionals, and other people who are exhausted and trapped by their own patterns of giving too much. I partner with the natural world to look at the stories people have been telling themselves and examine the possibilities of telling a different story. I use nature connection, deep attunement, guided conversation, and executive function coaching. My clients get unstuck, step through the threshold into knowing what they want and remembering who they always were.
My Coaching approach:
There’s a time when caring people find they can’t keep going the way they always have.
It might look like depletion, burnout, mood changes, or a general sense that this isn’t what you signed up for. For women, it often hits in midlife, right as perimenopause is shifting your hormonal makeup and the ground under your feet starts to feel untrustworthy. It can feel awful; like failure, profound fatigue, loss of surety. The thing is, when you reach that place, it’s terrifying, painful, and so hard to see a way forward.
That’s how it was for me. I’d spent years as a hospice nurse, sitting with dying people and their families, while also parenting a child with unique needs. I reached a place that felt untenable. I was responsible for too much, carried too many people’s needs and emotions, and I knew I didn’t have what it would take to meet them all. I was in so much pain. The last time I had been in that much pain was when I’d given birth, 12 years prior. I remember thinking, ‘What if this is a process like labor? What if ‘this’ pain could be like ‘that’ pain, and produce something breathtaking?’ It took time, and a lot of tears, but something was being born.
Now, as a coach, I’m still working with that birth metaphor. Like a midwife, I sit with you and bear witness to the hard work you’re doing. I can remind you to trust the process when you lose faith in the change you’re making. I pay attention, stay attuned, cry with you, and personalize my approach to meet your needs. I'll cheerlead, encourage, give perspective, and celebrate with you as you do the work of becoming; because midlife is not the decline you’ve been fearing, it’s an awakening.
Coaching Offerings
A-la-Carte: A pair of 1-hour sessions · Find your footing
Sometimes you're not ready for a program. You're just standing at the edge of something huge, trying to figure out what you're even looking at.
Root is two focused hours, two conversations a week or two apart, to help you find your footing on that ground. We'll look at what you're carrying, what story you've been telling yourself about it, and what might be possible if you set some of it down.
No commitment beyond these two sessions. Just a place to begin.
Includes:
2 virtual coaching sessions
$10 off a single public Forest Therapy Session
Investment: $300
Root
Canopy
6 months, 12 meetings ·
Six months is long enough for real transformation to happen.
Canopy is for the woman who is ready to go deeper; past the overwhelm, past the patterns of giving until there's nothing left, into the part of yorself that already knows what you need. You’ve just never had the space, or the permission, to hear it clearly.
Over 6 months of guided conversation and time spent with the living world, we'll do the kind of work that lasts, the kind that helps you notice the tame story you've been telling yourself, and start telling a truer one. I’ll be your steady ally as you learn to enlarge your own circle of care just enough to let yourself inside it. To say no without guilt. To find the place where your roots already go down deep.
By the end, you’ll be ready to start writing a different, truer story than the one you’ve been given.
Includes:
9 virtual coaching sessions
3 remotely guided nature immersions
Investment: $1,200
*Includes discount code for $10 off any public Forest Therapy Session while enrolled.
3 Months, 6 meetings · Let the growth flourish
You know something has to change. You can feel it. But the path forward in front of you is hard to see, and the weight of everything you're carrying makes it hard to think clearly, let alone move.
Branch is 12 weeks of guided conversation and nature connection. It’s a space to set some of that weight down, catch your breath, and begin to see what's actually possible for you. We'll meet virtually, and once, we'll take that conversation outside, each of us in our own landscape, letting the living world be part of the work.
By the end you'll have more breathing room than you started with, a clearer sense of your own strength, and the experience of having had a real ally on the road.
Includes:
5 virtual coaching sessions
1 remotely guided nature immersion
Investment: $700
*Includes discount code for $10 off any public Forest Therapy Session while enrolled.
Branch
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