The answers aren't out there. They're in here.
Something shifted.
And now you can't quite find your footing.
You're not falling apart.
But you're not okay either.
The old ways of getting through the day stopped working.
The person you used to be feels like a coat that doesn't fit anymore.
Maybe midlife did this.
Maybe a diagnosis, a loss, a faith that crumbled, a body that started asking for things you don't know how to give.
Maybe nothing dramatic happened — and somehow that's worse.
You're not broken.
You're at a threshold.
And thresholds don’t respond to pushing through, positive thinking, or being grateful.
They respond to listening.
This is a space to stop performing and start hearing what’s actually going on underneath — maybe for the first time.
This might be you
You're exhausted by advice. You’ve been managed, optimized, encouraged, and told to “focus on the positive.”
What you actually want is for someone to hear you — not fix you, not rush you, not hand you a five-step plan.
You’ve spent decades being competent, responsible, and strong.
But being kind to yourself? That part never came easily.
There are parts of you you’ve been at war with for so long you’ve forgotten why the war started.
And now something in you is asking for a different kind of attention.
What I do
I don't advise.
I don’t diagnose.
I don’t hand you a program to follow.
I listen — to what you say and to what you can't quite say yet.
Together we slow down enough to hear the part of you that’s been trying to get your attention.
The part you’ve been overriding.
The part that knows what needs to happen next.
And along the way, you begin to develop a way of listening that becomes a lifelong skill — something you can return to long after our work together.
The wisdom you're looking for isn't out there.
It's already in you.
My job is to help you hear it.
WHERE WE MIGHT WORK TOGETHER
The Midlife Edit — $125
For anyone in midlife who feels stuck, lost, or quietly at war with themselves.
This is where we do the listening, the untangling, and the slow work of finding out who you are now — not who you were before everything shifted.
1:1 sessions via Zoom.
Includes an introduction to Focusing.
North of Knowing — $80
For those in the second half of life who sense something deeper stirring.
Focusing‑oriented soul care and spiritual companionship for when the outer maps stop working and you need to navigate by something more interior.
1:1 sessions via Zoom.
Good Day.
I’m Simone.
I started in geology, studying how the ground shifts and what happens when structures meet forces they weren’t built for. Later, I worked around the world in the oilfield services industry, leading teams in high‑pressure environments where clarity and steadiness mattered.
While leading people, I became more interested in the inner fault lines — the places where people quietly come undone, the thresholds where the old ways stop working, and the deeper intelligence that shows up when we finally listen.
I know that terrain. I was one of those people. The structures I'd built — competence, performance, forward momentum — met forces they weren't built for. And underneath the coming undone, something truer was waiting.
Now I work with people in those moments.
Not to fix them.
But to help them hear what’s actually going on underneath.
Not sure where to start?
Every client begins with a complimentary one-hour Virtual Coffee Chat.
No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation to see what's ready to be heard.
Gentle Entry Points
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Tiny Rituals: five elemental practices: simple, sensory, free
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My Story: how Focusing shaped my own midlife shift, published in Presence, the journal of Spiritual Directors International.
Words from Those I’ve Worked With
The reflections below come from individuals who’ve experienced this work firsthand.
Each voice is shared with permission. First names only, to honor privacy.
“People may call what happens at midlife “a crisis,” but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re “supposed” to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”
Brené Brown