the life sucks coach
"hope" - artwork by me
Life sucks, but it can suck less. Let me teach you how.
Hello! This page is currently being updated. If you are interested in any of the offerings below, please reach out. I’d love to hear from you! You can also sign up for my newsletter at the bottom of this page to keep in touch and get updates 🙂
One-on-One Support/Deep Listening/Compassionate Presence “Hang Sessions”
Life fucking sucks. And sometimes having someone be there with you in the suckiness is the key to making it through another day.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by life, and connection with a real live human being (who has no agenda other than listening deeply to and supporting you) feels like it would help relieve some of that overwhelm, these “hang sessions” are for you.
These are one-on-one phone calls* where the goal is for you to be heard, supported, and cared about, without the need to reciprocate.
We can chat while going for a nature walk, doing a low-stakes art project, cooking a meal, or anything else that makes you feel good and grounded. We can also just chat, no activity required.
Whether you want someone to talk you through it, to sit with you in your pain, help you problem solve whatever you’re going through, or just figure out how to keep going on your hardest days — I’m here for it all.
Combining my background in chaplaincy/spiritual care, crisis support, non-violent communication, trauma-sensitive care, and more to help you make it to tomorrow by being there with you today.
*Text support also available after initial phone session.
No-Bullshit Meditation Library (Coming Soon)
Sometimes it can be overwhelming to talk to a stranger when you’re in a bad place mentally. I get it, trust me.
Sometimes just the *feeling* of connection, paired with guidance to help you sit with your panic, anxiety, negative thoughts, overwhelming feelings, and whatever else you’re struggling with, can be a better option.
These meditations are like a voice in the darkness reaching out to support you and help you hold on through the tough moments, so you can make it through today — offering connection and support without the need to talk to a total stranger.
If you’re looking for a way to ground yourself, calm yourself, or just stop yourself from spiralling, and don’t want to do it with another person, this is the library for you.
Created through a trauma-sensitive lens, so no one will be telling you to unclench your jaw, dammit, and with everything framed as an invitation rather than an instruction.
I also speak frankly and like a real person, not like a meditation “guru” sitting on a cushion and speaking in a lilting voice —which has never once calmed me in my entire life!
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Custom Resource Curation
Sometimes the thing that helps you get through a tough moment or a tough life isn’t connecting with another person or sitting with your feelings — sometimes it’s taking action: to learn about yourself, what you’re going through, and how to get through it.
If you’re looking for resources to help you take action, but don’t know where to start, don’t want to spend time and energy digging through the mountains of stuff out there that might be helpful, or you’re looking for more unconventional sources of guidance and support, custom resource curation is the thing for you.
Basically, you tell me what you’re going through or want help with, and I’ll make you a list of curated resources to help you get through it, tailored to your unique needs and preferences.
Whether you want the more traditional route of self-help books, apps, support groups, websites, and more, or you’re open to finding guidance and self-understanding through movies, TV, music, art, and poetry, I’ve got your back.
After more than a decade and a half of helping myself and others through difficult times, I’ve got a big resource bank to draw from — plus, I’m just really good at researching things and finding solutions (and I love doing it too 🙂 )
THE Course (Coming Spring 2025)
Custom resources are great, but wouldn’t it be even better if you had someone to tell you exactly what things to work on re: mental, emotional, and spiritual health to help you have a life that doesn’t feel like shit so much of the time, where there is less pain and more of the things that make life feel even just a little bit worth living?
When you’re ready to start making changes to your mental, emotional, and spiritual health that will help you not hate being alive as much in the longer-term, and even find moments of joy as a regular occurrence in your life, this course is where you’ll find what you need.
You’ll learn things like self-compassion, how to challenge and reframe negative thoughts, radical acceptance, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and more — things I’ve identified over the years as the most important and impactful tools and skills for people like us — people who are struggling with depression, anxiety, overwhelm, negative thoughts, self-criticism, overthinking, and more — and it’s all taught through a lens that uses music, art, poetry, nature, the sacred, and other unconventional means of learning and internalizing what you’ve learned.
Overall, these modules will help you learn how to achieve the ultimate goal of The Life Sucks Coach: to manage your pain well enough that it doesn’t take up all the room in your life, so you can make space for and intentionally inject into your life the things that make it feel at least a little bit worth living.
If you want your life to have less stress, anxiety, overwhelm, etc. and more joy, beauty, connection, awe, wonder, and even magic, this course is absolutely for you.
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The Church of the Small Screen (Patreon)
I combine my background in chaplaincy/spiritual care with my love of TV to craft secular sermons and essays that speak to the human experience and how we might get through the shittiness of it while holding onto the goodness in it, using TV as a “sacred text” to help guide us, inspire us, and give us strength.
For more information, check out my Patreon page.
Pain& Podcast (Coming Late 2025)
This podcast will feature conversations with people from all walks of life, about the painful experiences that have impacted them, how they got through them, and what good things they held onto when everything was going to shit (the “and” part of “pain&”).
A weekly-ish source of strength and hope from sharing in others’ experiences in this thing called life, which sucks for all of us at one time or another — no one is immune!
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