The turning point, for me, wasn’t a big dramatic one.

It happened after my coach, Jessica, gave me a very simple assignment:
“Come to our next meeting with a basic outline of the program you want to offer.”

Simple… except every time I sat down to it, my body immediately tightened everywhere: jaw, chest, shoulders.

I had a dozen half-formed ideas in my head and no sense of how to turn them into something coherent. It felt like I was trying to force fog into a container.

It was suddenly super important to do anything else.

But I’m a stubborn Aries, so I sat down anyway, opened the Notion table, and started plugging in the themes that kept surfacing from the conversations I’d been having.

💡 somatics
💡 playfulness
💡 intuitive knowledge
💡 imagination

Not exactly the pillars of a Serious, Proper Program™.

But you know what? These were absolutely pillars of what I’ve been doing for years!

As I added them to the table, I realized that

Every single thing people wanted was something I’ve already led and loved.
Not hypothetical or aspirational. Skills based in years of actual practice.

Like the Art Oracle sessions I’ve run in museums, where I ask people what flavor of experience they want to have and give them a set of prompt cards based on that to experience artworks on view.

Or the embodied exercises and nonlinear prompts I’ve used for years with groups who were hungry for fresh inspiration.

This has never been my most “professional-looking” work in the traditional sense, and it was never the part that neatly matched my job descriptions.

But here it all was, laid out in front of me in a Notion table, asking to be taken seriously.

Suddenly everything loosened. My jaw relaxed. My chest felt light.

Oh! I can actually do this.

I don’t have to flatten myself or shave off the weird, intuitive, joyful edges. I can build something from the most alive parts of my work. The parts people already respond to.

And then this even wilder shocker buzzed through me:

Wait… this could actually be fun.

Not just doable as a business offering.
Not just “responsible” as a plan made and executed.
But fun in a way that leaned into who I really am.

Despite having worked for myself now for almost four years, it was this moment that opened a window for me into a possibility I never quite fully felt could be true.

And I recognize you might be nearing your own version of that window right now.

So here’s my pep talk for you.

There is a future version of you who isn’t bracing all the time.

Who isn’t walking through life armored in anxiety.

A version with steadier internal weather, more breathing room, and a way of meeting uncertainty without collapsing under it.

You might not see that version clearly yet. But you really want to meet them.

And soon, I can help you move toward that version, with more support than you’ve had in a long time.

Always ready to help you find your most adventurous self,
Rachel

P.S. What’s one part of yourself that you’ve sidelined because it seemed too playful or intuitive or weird… you know. Not “professional enough”?