is your vision of success bringing you the joy you imagined?
You’ve done everything right. Worked hard. Achieved. Succeeded. But somewhere along the way, the hustle stopped feeling fulfilling—and started feeling heavy.
You’re not alone. Many high-achievers reach a point where the version of success they were taught to chase no longer fits the life they want to lead.
This isn’t failure. It’s the beginning of your journey—a turning point toward something more aligned, sustainable, and whole.
Where high-achievers come to reconnect, realign, and rise—on their own terms
This work is for the high performers who lead with heart, carry too much, and rarely pause long enough to ask, What do I need? It’s for the lawyers, leaders, and professionals who are done proving themselves and are ready to start being themselves.
Whether you’re on the edge of burnout or on the cusp of a new chapter, I offer support designed to meet you where you are and guide you toward a more sustainable, values-aligned version of success.
1:1 coaching
Clarify what’s next. Build boundaries that hold. Lead with confidence and integrity. Reconnect with what fuels you—not just what drains you.
Sessions are grounded in Integral Coaching® methodology and adapted to your goals, pace, and lived experience.
facilitation
If your team or firm is looking to retain talent and create a culture that supports real sustainability, I offer tailored workshops and facilitation designed to support both performance and well-being. Let’s work together to make inclusion, clarity, and support part of your leadership strategy.
workshops
These workshops aren’t just about learning — they’re designed for deep, embodied transformation. Through coaching, mindfulness, and meaningful reflection, you’ll reconnect with your inner wisdom, renew your energy, and walk away with grounded tools to create real, lasting change in your life and work.
I’m Here to help you find space to come home TO YOURSELF
I’m Steph—a certified Integral Coach®, facilitator, and former intellectual property lawyer with over 15 years of legal experience. I know firsthand what it means to live the life of high-achiever in a demanding profession.
But behind the success, there was a cost. I was so focused on doing and achieving that I lost touch with the parts of me that made life feel meaningful. That’s what led me here: to create space for professionals like you to reconnect with your values, find your footing again, and redefine success in a way that includes your humanity, not sacrifices it.
Now, as a coach, I work with people who are capable, driven, and often at a crossroads. People who are ready for something more sustainable. More aligned. More themselves. Together, we’ll identify what matters most, explore what’s getting in the way, and build the roadmap to your next chapter—one that feels good on the inside, not just polished on the outside.
This is your journey, and I’m here to walk beside you—with insight, structure, warmth, and a deep belief in your capacity to thrive.
upcoming publication!
COMING 2025
This upcoming guidebook is your practical resource for navigating the messy middle of success and stress. Through engaging insights, thought-provoking prompts, and actionable practices, Free to Flourish helps you move beyond burnout, perfectionism, and overextension to create a more grounded, fulfilling way of living and working.
The HEROINE'S JOURNEY
When Striving No Longer Feels like Enough
The Heroine’s Journey is a psychological and narrative framework that explores the inner transformation many women experience as they navigate success, identity, and personal meaning, especially within systems traditionally defined by masculine ideals of achievement.
While the Hero’s Journey, made famous by Joseph Campbell in the mid-20th century, focused on external quests and heroic conquests, the Heroine’s Journey turns inward. It reflects a more internal, emotional, and relational process—one that acknowledges the cost of conforming to external expectations and the journey toward reclaiming the whole self.
For women in high-performing careers, this journey is deeply resonant. Many succeed by adapting to systems that reward overwork, perfectionism, and performance—but eventually, they hit a turning point.
The Heroine’s Journey is the path from striving to alignment, from burnout to presence, from doing to being.
It’s not about leaving your ambition behind. It’s about expanding your definition of success to include your body, heart, joy, rest, and truth.
THE STAGES
THE CLIMB
Mastering the system, achieving success, and learning how to thrive within established rules.
Most high-achievers are taught to chase success by mastering the system: hit the targets, earn the promotions, climb the ladder, power through. And for a time, that works. You rise. You achieve. You prove.
the disconnect
Realizing that external success is no longer enough and feeling the quiet cost: exhaustion, disconnection, or emptiness.
But eventually, something shifts. The path that once felt clear starts to feel narrow. The pace becomes exhausting. The external wins don’t feel like enough.
THE QUESTIONING
Beginning to ask: “Is this all there is?” Wondering if it’s possible to live and lead differently.
You begin to wonder: “Is it supposed to be this hard?”, “How much longer can I keep pushing like this?”, or “I’ve checked all the boxes, so why am I so unhappy?”
THE INNER CALL
Feeling the pull to slow down, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters—your values, voice, body, and heart.
The Inner Call asks you to slow down, turn inward, and listen—not to more external advice, but to your own voice, values, and wisdom that may have been quieted for years. It’s a call to reconnect with your body, creativity, truth, rest. It’s not asking you to abandon your ambition but to realign it with your wholeness.
the DESCENT
Turning inward. Letting go of old roles or ways of being. Facing uncertainty, grief, or fear as part of the process of change.
You start to loosen your grip on roles, rhythms, and rules that once defined you. There may be confusion, grief, or fear because the identity you’ve built is shifting. This descent isn’t failure; it’s the courageous pause required to create space for something more true.
THE RETURN TO SELF
Reclaiming lost parts of yourself—intuition, creativity, rest, softness, truth. Rebuilding trust in your inner wisdom.
In this stage, you begin to listen inward. You reconnect with the parts of yourself long buried beneath performance: your intuition, your body’s wisdom, your desire for rest and joy. You question not only how you work but why. This is where new insight is born, and the rebuilding begins.
the integration
Blending ambition with authenticity, strength with softness, and logic with intuition. No longer performing success but embodying it.
You start to reweave your inner and outer lives. You let go of rigid expectations and reclaim values that truly matter. You begin to understand success not just as achievement, but as alignment. You give yourself permission to lead differently, live differently, and relate to yourself with compassion, not just critique. You realize this isn’t about choosing between ambition and authenticity. It’s about blending the two. You bring your whole self into your work and relationships: fierce and soft, strategic and intuitive, driven and grounded. You stop performing success and start embodying it in a way that sustains you.
THE rise
Stepping back into your life and leadership with clarity, grounded presence, and a version of success that feels deeply your own.
Eventually, you return—not to who you were, but to who you’ve become. You re-enter your career and life with a new kind of power: one rooted in clarity, wholeness, and agency. You lead not from urgency, but from wisdom. You no longer abandon yourself in pursuit of the next thing; you bring yourself with you, fully.
OWN YOUR PATH: The heroine's journey
a group coaching experience for women
COMING SOON | STARTS JANUARY 2026
You’ve worked hard to get where you are. You’ve earned the respect, delivered the results, and proved yourself in a field that demands excellence. But beneath the surface, something’s shifting.
Maybe you’re feeling the quiet weight of always having to perform. Maybe the version of success you’ve built no longer fits the woman you’re becoming. Maybe, like many of us, you’re sensing a call for something deeper: A way to lead, live, and grow that doesn’t cost your well-being.
This is the beginning of your Heroine’s Journey—the turning point where striving gives way to truth, and the path forward is about integration, not exhaustion.
Own Your Path: The Heroine's Journey is a yearlong group coaching experience designed specifically for women who are ready to reclaim their time, energy, and sense of self. Together, we’ll explore a more sustainable, authentic way of working and leading, rooted in who you are—not just what you do.
You’ll be part of a trusted circle of like-minded women—each navigating her own version of this journey—where reflection meets real-life strategy, and professional growth is supported by personal clarity.
This is your invitation to reconnect with your values, restore your energy, and rise—on your own terms.
case study
From Exhaustion, Overwhelm, Burnout to Peaceful Independence & Belonging
Kathleen G., Kitchener, ON Focus: Slowing Down, Asserting Needs, Finding Peace, and Reclaiming a Sense of Home Before Coaching: Life as a Travelling Circus Performer When Kathleen entered coaching, she was in a state of constant motion. Her life was nonstop. As the “Travelling Circus Performer,” Kathleen was always on the road, showing up for others, doing whatever was needed. Her life was in a state of flux. She was exhausted, anxious, and spread thin. “I’m at everyone’s beck and call,” she shared. “I drive from one city to the next and have no time for myself until the end of the day when I am overtired and use social media or TV to numb myself into sleep.” Like many high-functioning professionals, Kathleen found safety in staying busy. If she kept moving, she felt in control. But deep down, she was craving stillness, security, and the ability to assert her own needs without guilt. The Coaching Journey: Slowing Down, Tuning In Kathleen’s coaching focused on reconnecting with her own body, mind, and heart. Using mindfulness, somatic awareness, and powerful self-observation tools, she began to identify when the Travelling Circus Performer was running the show and what it cost her. She started asking new questions: Am I rested? What do I need today? These seemingly simple inquiries helped Kathleen begin to gently shift from constant motion to intentional choice. After Coaching: Embracing the Way of the Peaceful Artist In the months during and following our work together, Kathleen’s life transformed in tangible, meaningful ways. She moved out of the chaos of constant commuting and into a home of her own —a space she purchased independently, designed for peace and rootedness. Her relationship with her partner improved with new, healthy boundaries. And most importantly, she began creating a life with more stillness, joy, and clarity. “Your words have been in my head over the past few months giving me strength,” she wrote. “GOODBYE Travelling Circus Performer, HELLO Peaceful Artist.” Though her paints are still in boxes, Kathleen now knows what it means to live a life she’s creating—not just reacting to. She’s learning to trust stillness, to be patient with herself, and to hold the brush with confidence as she paints each new chapter. Key Shifts: •From exhaustion to energy •From obligation to discernment •From reaction to creation •From “hand-to-mouth” existence to grounded independence •From performing for others to asserting her needs In Her Words: “It will take time. More time than I anticipated. And I am not good at being patient. I have to learn to channel that peace.” Kathleen’s journey is a beautiful reminder: deep change doesn’t happen overnight—but with the right support, it does happen. And when it does, it’s transformational.