The Life Sucks Coach

✨ mental health x soul care ✨ helping you survive *and stay human* on the worst fucking days of your life

Are you dealing with something difficult right now and struggling to cope?

Are you overwhelmed, confused, and don’t know where to look for help?

Maybe you’ve considered therapy but found it too expensive, or felt like you wouldn’t belong in the room for whatever reason (too poor, too queer, etc.).

Maybe you’ve tried self-help, but felt even more overwhelmed than you did already because of how much of it was out there – like you didn’t know where to start, whose help to trust, or what would actually work for you.

Maybe you’ve even tried crisis lines and other forms of free help, only to find they didn’t help at all, or you were left on your own again once the conversation was over.

If this is you, and you’ve gotten to the point where you're starting to feel like you’re never going to be able to find the help you need...

if you’re feeling like you might be doomed to suffer and struggle alone forever…

if your life feels bleak and depressing because of all of this (and you might even be starting to feel like it’s not worth continuing on)…

…take a moment to breathe and relax for a change, because you’ve finally found your way to something that you can afford, that will actually help, and in a space where you DO belong.

👋 This website is currently under construction while I finish creating my Tier 1 course (name TBD). To stay in touch in the meantime, get a feel for my approach, and get updated when the course and 1:1 support open up, subscribe to my newsletter, The Worst Days Dispatch, via Substack👇

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What I offer...

Hi! I’m Miles, aka The Life Sucks Coach.

I am a secular chaplain and mental health educator, but even more than that I am someone who has been through their fair share of crises with nowhere to turn for help.

Because of this, I’m in a unique position to be able to create things for people like you and me:

I know what is truly needed from a care-seeker’s perspective, but also have the knowledge, skills, and experience gained through formal education to be able to create things that actually help.

Here's what I've built from that place:
  • a structured self-help system designed to take away the overwhelm and confusion that come with trying to figure it out on your own

  • combined with 1:1 support along the way – support that’s not therapy, but more like talking to a good friend who happens to know a lot about what people need in crisis and how to cope long-term (and one who doesn’t expect anything from you in return!).

It’s a system that takes you from crisis and overwhelm, to short-term stabilization, to long-term stability where you can cope with whatever life throws at you without getting catapulted back into crisis mode every time life is hard.

And it’s a system you can navigate fully on your own if you want to, but where support is readily available if you need it (with a person who already knows you, not a different stranger every time).

What makes this different from what you’ve already tried?

First, as I mentioned above, this is a system you can use fully on your own without outside help; but you’ll never be left alone if you need it.

Second, everything at The Life Sucks Coach is priced on a truly affordable sliding scale – down to zero dollars for the very first level of crisis support, because no one should have a paywall between where they’re at and what they need in order to survive it.

More than that though...

Unlike other self-help or even therapy, I don’t see coping and surviving as the end game; I don’t even see “thriving” as the goal.

My #1 priority is to help you stay – and become more – human: to reconnect with and nurture the things that make you feel truly alive, to help you create an inner world that feels worth engaging with and showing up for day after day, even if the world around you feels like something you don’t want to be a part of (and it often won’t).

I will teach you how to cope, and do it well. But for me, coping is in service of something much bigger – something that can’t be boiled down to a list of coping tools and skills, or even life goals or learning to thrive (in a world where thriving has little to do with the human spirit and more to do with being a productive member of society, “thriving” quickly loses its appeal).

I want to teach you how to feel alive, even when things are awful – and even, too, while you’re learning how to cope!

More on this in the Tier 1 course…but if this resonates, rest assured you’re in exactly the right place.

Ready to jump in?

The best (and only!) place to start is by signing up for the Tier 1 course (name TBD).

It’ll help you move from crisis and overwhelm to short-term stabilization, helping you feel cool, calm, and collected enough to be able figure out what to do next.

In it, you'll learn:
  • how to stabilize right now – whether you’re in a crisis moment or just overwhelmed and don’t know what to do next – using a tool I’ve created just for you

  • an introduction to your brain and nervous system to give you better context for everything else you’ll learn
     
  • how to assess where you’re at, what’s happening to you, and what you need in any given moment – not just to help you survive, but to become more human in the process – using my own unique framework

  • an introduction to the skills you’ll need to survive – and stay human – long-term/beyond the crisis moment, and

  • what comes next in the next course

And I teach using music, art, pop culture, TV, and more, plus a fair bit of irreverence and humor – an approach that helps you stay human while you’re learning to cope, not after.

👋 I am in the process of completing the Tier 1 course, which will (hopefully!) be launched on May 15th.

In the meantime, to stay in touch, get to know me and my approach, and get updates when the course and 1:1 support launch, sign up for my newsletter, The Worst Days Dispatch, via Substack👇

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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 — and the many different ways (good and bad) people have learned to cope;
  • discussions about and recommendations for music, art, TV, and more that deal with common themes of universal suffering, to help you understand your experience and feel less alone;
  • pop culture case studies that help you learn how to cope, using fictional stories as examples of what to do (and what not to do) when life fucking sucks;
  • and more…

You can also follow me on 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), or send me an email if you have questions or need resources while you wait 🙂

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