Your Past Gets a Voice. It Doesn’t Get the Final Vote.
I know what it feels like to look at your life and wonder how you got there - and how you're supposed to find your way forward.
I'm a Nationally Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist through NAADAC, but much of what I bring into this work was learned long before I earned a certification. My story includes addiction, recovery, motherhood, relationships, starting over, and grief that changed the way I see life entirely. I've been in recovery since 2019, and I've had to rebuild parts of myself more than once. I've made choices I'm not proud of. I've experienced consequences I couldn't undo and loss I couldn't fix. I've learned what it means to keep showing up as a mother, wife, and woman while carrying things I never imagined I'd have to carry. Most importantly, I've learned that understanding how you got here matters - but eventually, you have to decide what you're going to do from here.
Take Back the Pen
Your past is part of your story. I'm not going to ask you to erase it, minimize it, or pretend it didn't shape you.
I want to help you understand it.
Together, we'll look at the experiences that shaped you, the patterns you keep repeating, the ways you've learned to survive, and the stories you've started believing about yourself because of all of it. Then we'll begin separating what happened to you from what belongs to you now.
I'm not here to rescue you, fix you, or hand you my version of recovery. I'll meet you with empathy and without judgment, but I'll also challenge you when I see you handing the pen back to the very things you've told me you want to change.
Because I've learned that two things can be true at once.
You can have been hurt and still be responsible for your healing.
You can regret choices you've made and still respect the person you're becoming.
You can love someone and still need boundaries.
You can be grieving and still experience joy.
You can be scared and still move forward.
Your past deserves to be heard. It just doesn't get to decide what happens next.
We don't erase the story. We put the pen back in your hand.
Behind the Story
You don't need to come into coaching knowing exactly what's wrong or how to fix it. Sometimes the first step is simply getting honest about what's happening without minimizing it, defending it, blaming yourself for all of it, or blaming everyone else. I'll help you slow things down enough to separate what you can control from what you can't, recognize the patterns that keep showing up, and find somewhere honest to start.
I also believe healing doesn't require you to leave everything behind. Grief isn't limited to death. We grieve people, relationships, versions of ourselves, lost time, missed opportunities, and futures we thought we were going to have. I'm not interested in helping you "get over" any of it. I want to help you learn how to carry what matters without allowing it to take everything else with it. You can be grieving and still experience joy. There is room for sadness and laughter, anger and gratitude, missing what was and still wanting what's next.
But eventually, understanding your story isn't enough. There comes a point when we have to decide what we're going to do with what we've learned. That might mean setting a boundary you've avoided, changing your relationship with a substance, rebuilding trust, asking for help, learning to respond instead of react, or finally making a decision you've been waiting for someone else to make.
I won't make those decisions for you. I'll help you become confident enough to make them for yourself.
You don't need all the answers. We just need somewhere honest to start.
Packages
READ THE PAGE — 3 Sessions
You can't change what you aren't willing to see.
In these three one-hour private sessions, I'll help you slow things down and honestly examine where you are, what brought you here, and the patterns that may be keeping you stuck. Together, we'll begin separating what happened to you from what belongs to you now and identify the first meaningful changes you can make. See the page clearly. Then decide what comes next.
$240
TAKE BACK THE PEN — 9 Sessions
Stop letting old patterns write new chapters.
Over nine one-hour private sessions, we'll move beyond simply understanding your patterns and begin changing how you respond to them. We'll explore the areas that matter specifically to you—boundaries, relationships, emotional responses, accountability, recovery, communication, and the survival strategies that may no longer serve you. I'll challenge you to practice responding differently instead of automatically returning to what's familiar.It's about becoming an active participant in your own life again.
$900
WRITE WHAT’S NEXT — 12 Sessions
Your past shaped you. Now you decide where the story goes.
Over twelve one-hour private sessions, we'll stay with the work long enough to create deeper, meaningful change.
Together, we'll strengthen your boundaries, communication, coping skills, accountability, and confidence while making room for something beyond survival—purpose, relationships, identity, goals, and joy.
I'm not here to help you erase the chapters that came before.
I'm here to help you recognize that you're still holding the pen.
$1,150
Free 15 minute phone consult with Mandi
I'm looking forward to talking. Lets see if we are a good fit.
720-968-0740 M-F 8am-4pm