Coming Up For Air

A 12-week 1:1 coaching program for women who just got a diagnosis and still have a whole life to run.

You look like you have it together. You mostly do. Then a doctor said a word out loud, and now it's in your chart and it's in your head. You left with a pamphlet, a follow-up in six months, and no idea what to actually do on an ordinary Tuesday.And your body. It’s riddled with symptoms you’ve conditioned yourself to ignore. You're tired in a way that sleep doesn't fix. The afternoon coffee to get through the day. The crash that follows it. The wired but tired nights. The bloating you decided was normal. The headaches you blamed on stress. You've been told for years that this is just what busy looks like. It isn't. Now your body feels more like something you have to manage than something you live in, and the fear underneath it all is that the life you're working so hard forts one your body won't be healthy enough to live.

And here’s the part that makes you feel crazy. You may not know exactly what to do about the diagnosis, but you know you should be eating better, moving more, and being intentional about sticking to a routine. Yet you still don’t do it. Knowing was never your problem. The gap between knowing and doing is. You keep waiting until you feel less tired to start, and the tired never lifts. So waiting has become the thing you do instead of starting. And it’s made you think you’re the problem. You’re not.You’re actually the most disciplined person you know. You force your way through everything on fumes and willpower, and it’s all been aimed at everything and everyone but you. That’s the problem. You know how to go hard for your dreams. You know how to sacrifice for your boss, for your spouse, for your children. But you’ve never really been good at making sacrifices for you. The real you. The one you keep leaving for last.

So you don’t try. Every plan you’ve seen looks like a mountain of hard work, and you’re already exhausted at the bottom of it. You’re scared you’ll start and quit halfway. Scared you’ll do everything right and still get nothing out of it, that it’ll be one more thing that didn’t work. Scared this is just one more person trying to take your money.

Here's what the first women who finished said.

I'm Shelby.

I've been a respiratory therapist for 8 years, and I'm a certified holistic health coach. I've spent my entire career helping people breathe, long past the point where anyone could have done something different. This work is the opposite of that. A diagnosis is not that point. It's the one before it. You still have room, and I know exactly what it costs to run out of it.

You’re not the type to ask for help. You never have been. So investing in something like this feels foreign, maybe even selfish. How’s doing it alone working out so far?This is where all of that changes.

We don’t start with a mountain. We start where you are, exactly as tired as you are. We pull the weeds first, the habits you’ve outgrown and the rules you’ve been forcing yourself to follow. Then we prepare the ground, the night-before routine that quietly shapes how you eat and how you sleep and how you wake up. Then we plant, one thing at a time, at a pace you can actually keep up with. Whole food nutrition that’s sustainable. Not deprivation. Not another plan you’ll abandon by week three.Together, we grow something that doesn’t ask you to give up everything you love, or lose the little joys that get you through. You gain the tools to show up for yourself the way you show up for everyone else.This isn’t a theory for me. I’ve been where you are. I know how heavy it is, and I know how it feels to think you’ll never dig out. We’ll go at your pace. No rushing. No guilt. Just me and you, tending what we plant, one week at a time. I’ll be with you as you grow through it.

No diagnosis, or one you've been carrying for years? You're in the right place too.

12 weeks. Weekly 1:1 online sessions. Recap notes after each one, plus a full library of somatic practices, whole food guides, and inner-work tools, yours to keep.$1,500 for 12 weeks.

Five spots. Enrollment closes September 7.

Payment plans available.Local to Los Angeles? In-person 1:1 coaching is available, 12 weeks for $2,000. Same 12 weeks, except we meet outside in fresh air, and the hour is completely yours away from home, your phone, and everything else waiting on you.

You’ve waited long enough. Let’s get to work.— Shelby