The Life Sucks Coach
crisis care, connection, and coping tools for real human beings on the worst fucking days of their lives
Welcome.
If you’ve found your way here, life probably sucks pretty bad right now. So, I’m sorry you’re here — but also, I’m glad you’re here, because it means that now you’re not alone, and — if you want me to — I can help.
👋 This website is currently under construction. To stay in touch and get updates (and useful content while I’m building), subscribe to my newsletter, Everything Sucks (and I Want to Go Home)👇
Here's where I'm guessing you're at right now:
Either something happened and it knocked you on your ass — you lost your job, someone you love died, your relationship blew up — or it feels like life is one big, ongoing crisis (and it’s probably felt like that for awhile) — and you’re stuck.
This might look like:
- you can’t get your thoughts to slow down enough to figure out what to do next
- you feel maxed out and like one more thing will push you over the edge
- you keep reaching for something to take the edge off (scrolling, drinking, spending, sex, food, disappearing completely)
- you’ve tried the usual routes and they’re not working — or you don’t even know where to start
If this is you, you're in EXACTLY the right place.
Hi - I'm Miles (they/he), aka The Life Sucks Coach. I'm the person behind this work.
I can't say I know exactly what it's like to be where you are...
but I’ve lived through the kind of pain that makes life feel impossible, and I know what it’s like to look for help and come up empty — or end up with “support” that doesn’t actually support you.
I managed to make it through the shittiest times of my life without the help I really needed, but just barely — and when I looked back, I could see that other people were still out there trying to survive the same way I had been, with the same limited support — and I wasn’t okay with that.
So I took what I learned from trying to survive for all those years — plus years of education, training, and my own research — and I started building something that actually helps people like us in moments like this.
That's what I'm building here:
A coping system you can follow when everything is falling apart and you can’t even think straight — with a clear starting point and steps you can actually take, even when you’re barely functioning — that’s not locked behind outrageous paywalls, waitlists, or gatekeeping.
And it’s built for real humans like you and me, which means you don’t have to sanitize your experience — you can show up as your dark, messy, or irreverent self and still be understood here.
⚠ This system is still under construction.
When it’s finished, it’ll start with a self-triage tool, so you can support yourself through a crisis moment without having to rely on anyone else.
After that, you’ll build long-term coping skills — so your world won’t fall apart every time hard shit happens — with 1:1 crisis support available along the way, whenever you need it — not just one conversation and done.
Normally, 1:1 support wouldn’t be available until after you’d learned the self-triage tools — because my goal is to teach you how to reliably be there for yourself first, so you aren’t fucked in those moments when there’s no one there to help you but you.
But since the self-triage tools aren’t finished yet, 1:1 support is available as a first step right now.
To get support, even if you don’t know what that looks like yet, email me 
You can literally just say “I’m not doing okay and I found your site.”
I’ll help you figure out next steps, whether that’s booking a conversation or finding other resources that can help.
In the meantime, the newsletter is still the best way to stay connected.
You’ll get content like
- podcast episodes that talk transparently about what it’s like to be knocked flat by life — the honest, messy stuff, not just the “and now I’m healed and happy” stuff;
- mental health hot takes like how “self-love” makes me want to lash out irrationally;
- pop culture case studies that help you learn how to cope through fictional stories;
- and more…
(You can also follow along on YouTube or Instagram. I’m just getting started, so don’t worry if there’s not much there yet — you’re jumping on the train as it’s just leaving the station).
Welcome, fellow traveler on the painful path of life.
If you’re here, it probably means you’re struggling and life sucks pretty bad right now, and so I’m sorry you’re here; but I’m also glad you’re here, because it means that now you’re not alone, and, if you want, I can help.
(This website is currently under construction; to stay in touch and get updates, make sure to subscribe to my newsletter!)
If you are:
– experiencing an acute crisis (just lost your job, someone you love just died, etc.);
– someone for whom life just feels like one big ongoing crisis or series of crises (you struggle to cope with things in general, so it feels like you’re constantly trying to just survive, and you don’t know how much longer you can keep going);
– neither of these exactly but something close,
and you feel like:
– life is too hard to keep going;
– you’ll never get through this thing you’re going through;
– there is too much pain in your life and it’s not worth living anymore;
– you want to drink or do drugs or lose yourself in people or food or sex or spending just to make something feel bearable or enjoyable again;
– something similar to the above,
and you also feel like:
– crisis lines are not enough or not helpful in the right ways;
– therapy is a bad fit, inaccessible (financially or culturally), more than what you need, and/or it’s taking too long to find the right person;
– self-help is overwhelming, confusing, drains you, and/or makes you feel isolated or alone,
...you are in EXACTLY the right place.
Hi - I'm Miles (they/he), aka The Life Sucks Coach, and I offer:
1 – 1:1 crisis support that is real, personal, and ongoing
I won’t abandon you after one conversation, you will never leave feeling like you don’t know what to do next, and you will be in good company if you say fuck a lot or make dark jokes about your dead mother (for example)
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2 – self-paced online courses that teach you how to:
a) support YOURSELF through a crisis moment, so you’re not dependent on a crisis line or provider to help you survive your worst days;
b) have more control over the painful things in your life and the ways they impact you, and become more stable long-term in the face of ongoing crises — so you’re not constantly overwhelmed by the painful things that happen to you or constantly feeling like you are in survival mode;
c) have a life beyond just pain and pain management, even when pain and crisis are still an ongoing and recurring part of your life — and incorporate pop culture, music, art, poetry, and more into the learning material and activities
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3 – a clear, simple, straightforward system for learning and navigating all of above
…with ONE single entry point, that reduces the overwhelm of “what do I learn and when and from whom?” (AND doubles as a flowchart that helps you figure out how to help yourself in any given moment!)
I am currently working on finishing bulding all of these things (and this website!), and hope to be done by January 2026 - but don't worry, I can still help!
…whether you want to book a 1:1 conversation or simply get help finding resources to help you get through whatever it is you’re going through, while you’re waiting for me to finish what I’m working on for you, you can and absolutely should reach out to me.
Just let me know in your email how I can help.
In the meantime:
…to stay connected and get content like podcast episodes, seasonal grounding practices, creative projects to help with your mental health, and more, subscribe to my newsletter, Everything Sucks (and I Want to Go Home).