What if you could shift from “there’s something wrong with me” to “I’m not settling”?
Note: I work with my clients via Skype which means that it’s possible for us to work together in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic eliminating any need to go out. If you are needing support to navigate this challenging time whether with self-care (paramount), work, or relationships, do reach out below. I am finding that the coaching support for clients can make a big difference. With my clients, I am finding these themes emerging:
- Helping you to create structure and daily routines to take care of yourself: to keep grounded and healthy in all senses so that you can focus on what matters most for you right now and be of support to others
- Helping you to think about what this time means to you and how to make the most of it, in the alone time you would not take otherwise, to cherish it, enjoy it, and take it as a well-deserved break so you emerge feeling that you have made the best of this time
- Helping you to connect to your inner resources rather than outer expressions to win approval, which may put you in a better position as we emerge from this global crisis
- Helping you deal with the yearning and touch-starvation that might come from being single and sheltered in place alone at this time, and how to do inner work that will help you be in a better position for the relationship you want when this is over
- Helping you navigate conflicts and uncomfortable situations with family, partners, and friends, especially as you are holed up together in confinement or working through issues in a family with tools such as Nonviolent Communication that can transform your ability to communicate your feelings and needs.
- And so on. Each person’s situation is unique. I’m sure yours will be too.
I am happy to be able to provide this support during such a challenging time. So if this calls to you write me here to tell me about you and your situation. We will set up a time to talk for 20 minutes to see if we are a good fit. Namaste dear quirky ones!
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I specialize in helping smart, ambitious single and divorcing women love themselves first, stand up for their value, and live full lives in every arena, from the bedroom to the boardroom.
Our work is about helping you to look forward in a meaningful way to the life you want to create and then making it happen through actionable baby steps.
Through our sessions, you will get clarity on your dreams and goals and we don’t stop there. You’ll have an action plan to achieve it and my support every step of the way.
I bring my “quirky,” “quirkyalone/together” and “wet” perspectives to our work–I’m not your typical life coach. We strip away the societal programming that may have you down to shift your beliefs and behaviors and create more freedom and possibilities instead.
The story you come in with about yourself and your life will not be the story you leave with. You will see yourself in new ways.
I help you with:
- Loving yourself first, with lots of self-worth, self-respect, boundaries and self-care to create a life that works for you. Finding the confidence to love yourself and not settle for someone because you are afraid of growing old alone.
- Articulating what you really want in the realm of relationships. Opening up to greater intimacy in dating and relationships and learning how to communicate your needs and desires
- Embodiment, sensuality and sexuality. If you are living entirely from the neck up, I help you reconnect to your body and your sensual joy through coaching (and through tango if you choose to come to Buenos Aires too!)
- Getting clear on goals and what you really want in your life, work/career, and relationships–as opposed to what you are supposed to want.
- Career transitions and reinventions: figuring out what you want to do with your career, whether you’re working a 9-5 or taking an entrepreneurial path
- FUN! Filling your life with more pleasure so you are living the moment and enjoying your life fully
I offer a creative alternative to therapy that can help you start living your full life now (not later)…
Through my coaching practice, I provide a unique, deep, creative, and action-oriented alternative to therapy to help you make lasting change.
We will start by getting clear about the goals of our working together, and then I will help you to achieve those goals step-by-step through a path of actionable baby steps.
During our 50-minute to hourlong sessions, I ask you gentle, probing questions and offer insights that help you unearth and explore possibilities for your life.
Many clients say there is a distinct before and after quality to working with me. Some also say things like “that was exhilarating and mind–bending” and “It feels great to be working on something as opposed to standing still.” You can read more experiences about working with me below and on my Yelp page.
Here are some examples of diverse real-life problems and situations I have helped clients with:
- understanding past patterns in relationships (or being single) as we look at your “quirkyalone nature” and what you really want for your life and relationships
- living fully whether you are single or in a relationship (if you find yourself shying away from opportunities because you don’t have a significant other to share them with…)
- building more self-worth and self-love and ability to make decisions from your own needs rather than always bending to others
- learning new communication skills. If something in a relationship upsets you, you will have tools at the top of your brain to bring forward communication instead of stewing and staying chronically angry about what happened.
- clarifying whether you want to have children
- negotiating, and moving on from a divorce with the best settlement possible. Working with me can result in much better deals!
- healing the effects from past abuse that was stopping you from being open to dating or fully loving yourself
- setting healthy boundaries and clear communication with a committed partner
- taking the risk to move to a new city to create a new life
- leaving a secure job to follow a dream of a new career
- healing from vaginismus to have great sex with a committed partner
- improving your sexual connection with your partner as you learn to speak up in bed and connect to your own sexual energy
Self-worth is always a theme of our work. I will not let you settle in a so-so life, work, or sell yourself short for scraps in a relationship–or in your relationship with yourself.
When you work with me, you will get:
- Support to take risks to find out what really lights you up, so you are living life to the fullest
- Personalized guidance from a woman who has a fierce will to live life to the fullest and has broken the mold in her own life.
- A coach and guide who is independent minded: someone who’s not lockstep with any set societal idea of what life should be, who can help free you from conventional thinking to find what is really true and right for you.
My coach training comes from CTI, the largest coach-training institute in the world, and I supplement this with my decades of experience supporting quirkyalone women and men, along with training in memoir, writing as healing (the Hero’s Journey), tantra, female sexuality, tango, psicotango, and trauma healing.
As the author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics (Harper San Francisco, 2004) and the founder of the quirkyalone movement (which I launched back in 2000), I have deep experience helping thousands of single women.
I’m definitively a coach by training and approach, but many clients call me their therapist because of the depth of our conversations and the support you receive. One client told me, “I had a psychologist and a pleasure coach, but I’d prefer to talk with you weekly.”
Since we’ll be working closely together, you can get to know me a bit here. Here’s a video where you can learn about me and my work as a writer and a life coach for modern single women.
Many of my clients dance tango or other dances such as ballroom or salsa and we use the metaphor of dance in our coaching work. Here’s a video where you can see how incorporating dance into coaching worked out for Kerry. The way it works is unique for each person.
Playwork
Many clients have shared with me that while they got benefit from therapy, they didn’t necessarily see change. I take care with my coaching to incorporate creative, practical, action-oriented things for you to do (whether reflective or out in the world) so that little by little you are changing and growing.
Our sessions happen every two weeks so you have time to do the “playwork”– and you can write me in between the sessions if you need support. We will brainstorm the playwork together. I’ll bring you all my creativity and past experience helping clients, and I’ll always ask you what you think the playwork should be because the work will be organic to you.
I call it “playwork” because I like to encourage play–play is where much of our growth and creativity happens.
Don’t forget: I wrote a book on to-do lists, so we use that framework to turn your desired changes into a series of baby steps that make this all a series of doable things you will be checking off on your list, one-by-one.
Often the playwork involves writing and reflection, or it’s some sort of practical step, creative project, or conversation to help you advance our goals in the real world.
Some examples of playwork:
- creating a checklist to guide your yes or no for a decision (on a date, or an opportunity)
- writing lists to release emotions or fears
- facing a fear, such as having a tough conversation with Nonviolent Communication strategies you learn from me
- co-creating a daily morning goddess ritual that honors your body and acknowledges that it is capable and worthy of pleasure, joy and sensuality
- punching pillows to release anger
- going to a salsa class to explore sensuality
- pussy-focused walking to increase your feelings of pleasure and confidence in your body and everyday life and presentation (you’ll learn what this is)
- rewriting a dating profile to get clear on what you really want
- going to networking events to practice talking about yourself and the job you’re looking for, then reporting back on conversations
- looking in a mirror and saying I’m valuable to increase your natural self-love
- practicing a pitch for a new business or job change
My clients
My clients tend to be women who are highly educated and want to life a fully expressed life whether they are single or coupled.
My clients range in ages from twentysomething to sixtysomething, and they live all over the world: the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia, and South America. The best part about working via Skype is that you can live anywhere. We find a time that works for both of us to talk twice a month, and you can do this work from the comfort of your own home, or anywhere you have a private space (such as a conference room at work).
Many are academics, creative types, in business as entrepreneurs, or working in government or nonprofits. Most either identify with being or enjoy the quirkyalone concept, and feel “quirky” in some way. Some like the idea of being “wet.” Wet is a metaphor that I am working with in my new book that is all about being in touch with your body’s desires to help guide your choices in life.
Client stories
“As a result of working with Sasha, my confidence in myself was sky-high: I changed careers, restarted dating in an open/honest way and I joined a local tango community. I owe much of my new outlook on life and ways of interacting with others to Sasha. I have peace, satisfaction and a true view of my worth. If you are stuck or just can’t get rid of a nagging feeling that your life is moving by without you, Sasha can help.”
Carissa Giblin
Tampa, Florida
You can also read reviews on Yelp here.
You tried to work through this yourself but have remained stuck in the status quo.
You may have tried to address these issues in various ways. The therapist was okay, but you just vented and didn’t see the change you long for. Or perhaps the therapist didn’t quite understand the quirkyalone life experience or have comfort talking about “wet” topics.
Self-help books have strategies but you never do them and they are not tailored for you and your unique needs and personality. A self-help book also can’t hold you accountable.
Talking to friends is good but there are things or a certain depth of things you can’t expect them to take on.
A private Facebook group might give you direction but it’s not a structured process to keep you accountable and help you make change.
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Want to explore coaching with me? Tell me a little bit about you and what you want to focus on or get help with.
I work with clients in the U.S., Europe, and South America via phone or Skype, so you can live anywhere in the world. Because we work via Skype or phone, you can do this work from the comfort of home or work (if you have a private space during the workday).
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