Hi, I'm Steph.

I didn't set out to become a self-reclamation coach and energy healer.

I just wanted to feel like myself again.

I had spent years becoming incredibly capable, self-sufficient and emotionally aware. I anticipated needs, managed emotions, kept everything moving and convinced myself that being able to handle it all meant I was strong.

From the outside, I looked like I had it together.

Inside, I was exhausted. And honestly, I was miserable.

I didn't necessarily know what needed to change yet. I just knew I couldn't keep living my life feeling disconnected from myself, constantly bracing for what might happen next, and carrying the weight of everyone and everything around me.

I wanted peace.

I wanted to feel happy in my own life again.

Mostly, I wanted to find the version of me I knew was still in there somewhere.

What I didn't realize yet was how much of what I'd called strength had become over-functioning.

I'd become so good at reading everyone else, keeping the peace, being needed and holding everything together that somewhere along the way, I'd stopped knowing how to simply be myself.

And eventually I realized my story wasn't really about betrayal or divorce.

It was about what happens when a woman loses herself so gradually — in love, motherhood, responsibility, people-pleasing and being the strong one — that she doesn't even realize how far she's drifted from herself.

That's the story I now hear from so many women.

Different circumstances. Same underlying feeling:

“I know there's more of me in here. I just don't know how to get back to her.”

And that's exactly what this work became about.

Rooting for you,

Steph Read
Self Reclamation Coach & Energy Healer