Stephanie | Life & Leadership Coach 🍉

Oh Hi! 👋🏼 It’s been a while and I thought I would re-introduce myself. For better or worse, I see everything through the lens of challenging capitalism, and my work is all about finding the spaces of resistance available to us. ❤️‍🔥 When not discussing or dreaming beyond capitalism, you will often find me making, and sharing food. As food is, and will always be, the way to my heart! 🥘 I live for a big belly laugh, and I feel most at ease by the ocean that connects my two homes, Ireland and Nova Scotia. 🌊

I have been working on a couple beautiful projects that I am so excited about! 🌼 🌺 I cannot wait to share more with you soon! 👀 — Photo taken while I found myself EARLY (iykyk! 🫣) while waiting for a pal and her doggy and I couldn’t help by lay myself down on the grass by the flowers. 
 Spring, what a gift! Am I right? ☀️ 

✨ Here is to the little rays of light, the GLIMMERS of hope that energizes and remind us much better is possible xx ✨

So much of my work looks like this these days👆🏽 (What a gift, am I right?) I’ve been quieter here than usual, so let me tell you a little more. Just over a year ago, a role came across my desk — a chance to work in my community. I was deep in coaching and juggling contract work. I wasn’t even sure I wanted it at first. WOWzers, am I glad I went for it. What looks like a simple woodworking workshop in a community garden is, I think, something quietly radical. In a moment of rising fear, disconnection and increasing privatisation of public life — organising spaces where people can just meet, learn something, and belong? That feels important. The Westport Community Garden has been running for nearly 20 years, kept alive by volunteers who show up every Tuesday and Thursday. There’s so much skill and wisdom in that group. But joining a well-established community can feel intimidating — so this year, we’ve been hosting workshops as a low-pressure way in. Come learn a thing. Meet some people. Stay if it feels good. So on a sunny spring Sunday, I built a window box alongside a group of community members and grinned about it the whole time. This work takes SO much of my capacity — which is partly why you haven’t seen much of it here. But it feels deeply connected to my coaching: the material implementation of so much of what I work through with clients in their own lives. So I wanted to show you a little more of it. 💚 If you are local: 📍 Westport Community Garden 🌱 All welcome, Tuesdays & Thursdays 🎟️ All upcoming workshops are listed on the Westport Family Resource Centre’s Eventbrite — link in their bio @westport_fcrc

Look, this is obviously not a 5-step plan to world peace, I am not delusional. But-and, I am keen to continue taking steps toward a better way of being, one that reflects the needs of the people I care about and support. So here are some gentle reminders, an invitation to humbly practice asking for what we want/need, again and again (and again). Never forget that small actions taken by many add up. Our sense of collective helplessness has been curated, staying connected to an active, grounded sense of hope is so friggin important right now.

💌 Comment or a DM ‘Newsletter’ and I will share the link to my full newsletter on this xx

Perfectionism is a farce, remind yourself and a friend ❤️‍🔥 Your small, messy steps are more than enough. You’ve got this xx

January has been about rooting in. About calling in the support that makes the endless need-to-do’s feel less fucking overwhelming, and somehow creates space for more joy, play, and whimsy in the middle of… gestures broadly at the world. Capitalism teaches us two big lies:
 1️⃣ That we’re meant to do life alone
 2️⃣ That only visible, external “achievements” are worth celebrating I’m not buying either. So I’m choosing to celebrate the quiet, relational, embodied things — the messy middles — because they’re intentional acts of resistance in a culture that thrives on isolation and burnout. This month, that looked like:
 ▪️letting myself be deeply supported
▪️choosing collaboration over isolation
▪️ building low-pressure, low-spend community
▪️ rooting into place, pleasure, and presence I’m sharing this not despite the state of the world, but because of it. We need one another more than ever. ✨ If you’re craving support to get clearer on your own baby steps — the ones that actually feel possible right now — the replay of my recent workshop is available. It’s a gentle space to reflect, name what matters, and find a little more steadiness in the mess. Link in bio. 🔗 ❤️‍🔥 💫 What are you celebrating from January?
💫 What messy middle deserves honour? I’d love for you to share with me below or in my DMs 💛

If the weight of the world feels heavy right now, you’re not failing; you’re paying attention. This workshop is a space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with what matters to you in the middle of it all. Not by turning away from what’s happening, but by rooting yourself more deeply within it. You don’t need to arrive with clarity or answers. Just yourself. Free workshop, live this Sunday with a replay available. You’re so welcome 🌿 ✨ Link in bio to join ✨ Save & share with someone who might need this

Honestly, I don’t have a neat answer for this moment. I don’t think anyone does. What I do know is that trying to carry it alone makes everything heavier. And that clarity rarely comes from urgency or isolation. Reflect, Root & Rise is a free workshop for people who are feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world and want space to pause, reflect, and orient themselves with care. I’ll be holding space (not to fix or instruct) but to support you in finding yourself in this moment, and getting clearer on how you want to respond. If that feels supportive, you’re very welcome to join us. You know where the link is xx

This dumpster fire reality of late stage capitalism thrives on your isolation and overwhelm. Please don’t beat yourself up about it, it gets me some days too! 🫠 But the more we come together, the more we learn how it’s trying to keep us stuck, the more equipped we are to change it. You are not alone, and you really really matter. Join me at the end of Jan, to locate yourself in this moment and get clear on what intentional sustainable steps you want to take this year. Because they really do add up and matter ❤️‍🔥

📢 You are not behind 📢 Scarcity abd urgency are artificially amplified under capitalism to keep you panicked and disconnected. Join me to take a big deep breath together, to root into what matter most and to cultivate the courage to rise to the challenge ❤️‍🔥 January 25th, it’s free. You know where to find it 🔗 or comment RISE and I’ll dm it to you xx

January is loud with threats. If you don’t plan now.
If you don’t optimise.
If you don’t reinvent yourself immediately. Then you’ve already failed. That message isn’t truth; it’s conditioning. Capitalism survives by breaking us from natural cycles
and convincing us scarcity is personal failure. But winter is not for blooming.
And you are not behind. If you want a slower, grounded way to vision into the year; 
one that honours rest, community, and what actually matters,
 I’m hosting Reflect, Root, Rise on January 25th. No rushing.
No fixing.
No pretending you’re a machine. Because your dreams really f*cking matter. And we will not rush or bully ourselves toward them.

Rest is hard. And I also know that having the time and space to rest is a privilege; one I’m deeply grateful for, and one I wish everyone had. Everyone deserves rest. Winter has been inviting me to slow down, and I am doing my best to listen. Not in a neat, aesthetic way. But in the kind of way that can feel, honestly uncomfortable, restless, even confronting. Because when you’re used to being busy, useful, productive… rest doesn’t always feel restful. Sometimes it feels like your mind is racing while your body doesn’t quite know what to do with itself. Because we live in a world shaped by urgency. One that keeps us wound up, braced, responding. One that teaches us to equate worth with output, and speed with success. So even when rest is available to us, letting ourselves actually sink into it can be fecking tough. And still, I’m learning that there’s something quietly powerful about pausing. About resisting the rush to figure everything out. About letting ourselves sit with what’s here, rather than immediately trying to move past it. That’s why having something to hold onto can help. ✨ A few questions. ✨ A shared container. ✨ A moment to reflect with intention, rather than pressure. 🌿 Reflect, Root & Rise 🌿 My free 90-minute workshop happening at the end of January (intentionally). Its timing is a small resistance to the idea that January is for fixing yourself, setting everything in motion immediately, or having a perfectly articulated plan. Instead, it’s an invitation to: ▪️ reflect on what’s mattered ▪️ root into what sustains you ▪️ move toward the year ahead with more care and clarity You don’t need to be ready. You don’t need to have all your goals figured out. You don’t need to be anyone other than who you are right now. If that feels like something you need, you’re very welcome to join us 🌿 You know where the link is xx With love xx