the life sucks coach
helping you make it to tomorrow when you don't want to be here today
"hope" - artwork by me
Life is fucking hard. But you can get through it. Here’s how I can help.
I can’t offer to make all of the pain in your life go away.
What I can offer you is a support system to help you stay alive in a painful world.
It starts with teaching you how to feel less overwhelmed and out of control in this moment, so you can regain your footing and decide what to do next. Then it teaches you real tools and skills—things you should’ve been taught a long time ago—to help you get through today, tomorrow, and a million more tomorrows, without adding more suffering on top of what already hurts.
Even with the right tools, though, survival still takes energy—and when you’re already running on empty, that effort can start to wear you down. Over time, the constant work of staying alive can drain you completely.
That’s why I also help you cultivate and connect with what your spirit needs to survive: beauty, magic, joy, connection, and more. These things aren’t nice-to-haves. They’re the required counterbalance to the effort of surviving. When all your energy is going to pain management, something has to replenish you or you’ll burn out on survival itself.
This whole system is not about healing or fixing yourself. It’s about learning how to survive, and keep surviving—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually—when you’re not sure you want to keep going at all.
COMING SOON
The Life Sucks Coach is currently undergoing changes and all offerings are currently on hold while we finish working on them behind the scenes.
Everything below is an accurate “menu” of current offerings — they just aren’t currently available for signups.
Click any of the buttons below each offering or scroll to the bottom of the page to subscribe to the mailing list and get notified as things become available!
Substack IS currently active and available for sign-ups 🙂 And if you need help RIGHT NOW, please send me an email and I can connect you to resources in the meantime.
The System: Sustainable Survival™
Everything I offer fits into one of three stages in the process of surviving a painful world without burning out on surviving:
1) Regain Control (“Right Now” Support)
When you’re overwhelmed, you can’t function fully. You have to have ground to stand on before you try to do anything else, so THIS IS WHERE YOU START.
✨ BE COOL and Have Some DAMN FUN – A Tool for Managing Overwhelm (Microcourse) – START HERE
Learn my BE COOL/DAMN FUN method to stop mental and emotional overwhelm quickly and reliably, so you can get calm, regain mental clarity and figure out what to do next.
This is the first step – START HERE!
✨ How to Keep Going – Coping Flowchart
A visual decision aid to help you figure out what to do when things are hard and you feel like you can’t keep going.
2) Learn What Helps and Start Using It (Core Skills, Coping Tools, Resources)
Once you’re out of crisis, you need a foundation. These tools and resources teach the basic skills that make survival less painful and more sustainable—and help you apply them.
✨ Sustainable Survival Skills Course
A guided tour of the essential tools and skills for staying alive in a world that hurts: emotion regulation, distress tolerance, self-compassion, mindfulness, reworking harmful thought patterns, and more—plus vetted resources to learn them more deeply.
Subscribe to my mailing list to get notified when this course launches.
✨ Honest and Irreverent Meditation Library (Coming Soon)
Meditations that are honest about how much things fucking suck, designed to help you get through difficult moments with less suffering. Trauma-sensitive mindfulness for real life.
✨ Tangible Tools for Survival – Downloadable PDFs + Physical Products
Journals, coloring books, and more to help you put into practice the things you’re learning here. Supplementary materials to help you create lasting change.
3) Soul Survival
Mental and emotional survival alone isn’t enough. These offerings tap into the things of the spirit — to nourish your soul so that surviving doesn’t burn you the fuck out. Without them long-term survival might be possible, but it will take everything you have.
You’ll learn how to cultivate these in the Sustainable Survival Course, but here’s where you keep them as an ongoing part of your life.
✨ Substack – The Life Sucks Coach
Here you’ll find the core of my ongoing support — things like essays, secular sermons using TV as a sacred text, podcast episodes, and monthly curated resources to help you keep going. A mix of paid and free content, there’s something here for everyone.
This is the best place to stay in touch with me and get indirect support to help you make it to tomorrow.
✨ Soul Survival Workshops (Coming Soon)
Music, art, poetry, and more — not to fix you, but to feed the part of you that makes it possible to keep going long-term. Sign up for my mailing list to stay up to date on these offerings.
Where to Start?
There are three things to do to get started:
👉 Sign up for my BE COOL/DAMN FUN microcourse.
This is THE starting point for all other offerings.
👉 Subscribe to my Substack
This is where you’ll get ongoing indirect support from me. Posts arrive in your inbox or you can read/listen to them on the Substack platform.
👉 Sign up for my mailing list (separate from my Substack)
…so you don’t have to keep tabs on me. If there’s something new—a tool, course, or offering—I’ll send a short, direct email so you don’t miss it. I won’t clutter your inbox; it’s just a way to stay connected and up to date.
Let’s Keep in Touch
Subscribe to my general mailing list here to stay updated on courses, workshops, products, helpful tools, and more. This is the only way to be notified when offerings become available.
For essays, secular sermons, podcast episodes, and more, make sure to subsribe to my Substack (separate from this mailing list).