The answer to what’s next is
compassion.
Transformational coaching for midlife professionals and leaders ready to answer the call of what's next.
You care – you care a lot.
There’s even an argument to be made that caring is the throughline of your career.
Blasé? Not a word folks have ever associated with you.
But midlife is challenging that tendency to tend, and you’re not always sure what comes next.
Nothing’s wrong.
But it’s also not quite right.
Fundamental shifts happen with compassion.
Coaching can make space for incredible personal growth: this is not a revelation.
But the big breakthroughs, the ones that fundamentally shift your self-awareness, internal dialogue, and core perspective come from a place of care, not critique.
Welcome, I’m Kay
I’m a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with a penchant for tending friendships, cultivating political awareness, and a good cup of coffee. After decades spent in development, communications, and program management, I deeply understand how compassion can be both a challenge and a tremendous asset.
My approach to coaching is informed equally by the latest data-driven research in the coaching field, and the ancient wisdom traditions of our world. As a highly intuitive and sensitive person, I pull from all of these streams to best support you where you’re at. Together, we work with your nervous system – never against it – to find your ‘growth edge’ and broaden your window of comfort.
For sensitive souls, midlife isn't a time to fade or retreat from overstimulation. It's a time to untangle what you’ve been conditioned to be from what you truly desire. And it's the perfect moment to have a coach who understands your unique wiring by your side.
Midlife is hard
Mortgages, rent, house upkeep, raising kids, caring for elders, saving for your retirement, politics – it’s all barrelling at us with equal intensity and ruthlessness. And don’t get me started on the ways our culture’s ageism plays into the job market (heaven forbid you decide you want to pivot your career after 40).
There’s a reason so many of us feel like we’ve been handed the impossible.
Making meaning and sense of this hard work and crisis that is middle age can feel insurmountable. But rather than slog through it, I think we can view it as something akin to a crucible: a spiritual practice or a major discipline, like learning to climb Mt Everest or backpacking the Pacific Crest trail.
It takes work.
It takes guts.
It also takes unlearning so much of what we’ve been taught to want.
The crucible of midlife is the unraveling of what we’ve been told to want and what our soul yearns to be.
Some call it a midlife crisis; others, a midlife chrysalis.
Either way, this is when we finally shed what isn’t important.
And the way we can do this is through boundless compassion and empathy for ourselves.