The Chrysalis Contemplative
A 3 month 1:1 coaching experience to empower creative, curious leaders surviving corporate to access their inner wisdom during transition to craft an authentic, artful life that feels alive.
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As a creative, curious leader in corporate, you’ve achieved conventional success, but you sense an internal drift from yourself.
You’re highly competent, respected and high integrity. You know what’s important to you and you lead with your values yet…
Every career accomplishment seems to take more than it gives
You’re not sure if you can make it to the next milestone without breaking
Something is off —you invest time, energy and finances to fix your depletion, but the problem won’t go away
Deep down, you know you need to make a bigger change in how you show up in your life, work and leadership, but you don’t know what that change is, you struggle to trust yourself or take action on what you sense.
Maybe you’re…
A high achiever used to pushing through, but it’s no longer working
You’ve tried every tool, strategy, mindset shift and internal pep talk you know, but you’re still exhausted, misaligned, or unable to find a sustainable path forward.
You’ve been performing at a high level, but holding on by a thread, and a layoff, your work bestie leaving or a change in management has made your internal disconnect glaring and intolerable.
You’re resourceful, capable and self-reliant, but the cost of pushing through and figuring it out on your own has gotten too high.
Returning from a sabbatical or career break and looking for a new, aligned way forward
You stepped away intentionally from the workplace, reconnected to yourself, your creativity and clarity, but now find yourself unsure how to translate that clarity into a real, long-term life and work rhythm.
You’re approaching the end of your career break and the idea of returning to your old way of life and work feels agonizing.
You’re seeking structure, partnership, and creative & strategic experimentation to help you re-engage work in a way that honors the person you’ve become.
To emerge from this threshold with an authentic, artful, aligned life, you need to access and trust your inner wisdom.
When you finally trust your inner wisdom…
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Instead of wondering how much longer you can keep pushing through, you make a clear decision about your next chapter, and you trust yourself to follow through.
Whether it’s reshaping your current role, planning a purposeful exit or pursuing something entirely new, you're moving from intention instead of obligation.
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Instead of grieving the version of yourself you discovered on your sabbatical, you're living more like that person every day.
You stop treating that experience as a beautiful exception and start building a life that reflects the clarity, creativity and values you uncovered during that time.
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Instead of enduring work at the expense of yourself, you know how to recognize misalignment and respond before it becomes burnout.
You set boundaries, make courageous decisions, advocate for what matters and give yourself permission to stop enduring because you've learned to trust your own inner compass.
“Working with Nyam helped me process long-held grief, see past decisions in a new light, claim my boundaries and make bold career moves. If you're navigating fear, grief or uncertainty during a life or career transition, I highly recommend coaching with her.”
— Danielle, past client
Via somatic practice, mind-body connection and personalized creative reflection, I empower my clients to access their inner compass.
Via practices that are an intimate part of my own personal transformation as well as practices that are informed by somatics & neuroscience, we’ll partner together in your metamorphosis.
The Chrysalis Cycle
Hear Yourself
Phase 1: Shedding
You’ll understand what is no longer sustainable, what is asking to evolve and how you want to show up differently in your life & work.
You’ll not just know, but feel and distinguish what is outdated versus emerging within your body, sourcing clarity, courage, stamina and joy from the latter.
You’ll start acting and making choices in line with your new self now, even if it's initially in small ways.
Trust Yourself
Phase 2: Becoming
You’ll develop a compelling vision for your life and work and begin gathering evidence that it's possible and sustainable.
You’ll feel a deeper confidence in yourself and your ability to navigate change while remaining true to who you are by nurturing evidence based self-trust.
You're not just introspecting and getting new insights, but rather shoring up your self-trust via experimentation and somatic integration that shows you what you want is possible and can be real, not just in your dreams.
Lead Yourself
Phase 3: Flight
You’ll know how to recognize when something is out of alignment, reconnect with your inner wisdom and take meaningful action toward what feels true.
You’ll trust yourself to navigate change—not because you have all the answers—but because you know how to find your way back to you.
You’ll feel empowered to make a confident, clear decision for the next step in your journey.
Lasting change doesn't begin with a better plan. It begins with a different relationship to yourself.
Our work doesn't stop at new insights. Through somatic coaching, creative reflection, and intentional experimentation, you'll learn to recognize what alignment feels like in your body, trust your inner wisdom, and act on it—even when the path ahead isn't fully clear.
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Feel Your Truth
Many of us have learned to make decisions from our intellect alone.
Through somatic coaching, you'll learn to recognize how your body experiences a genuine yes, a genuine no, and everything in between, so that your biggest decisions are made from your whole self, not just your thoughts.
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Turn Insight into Embodiment
Insight doesn't create change until it's lived.
Together we'll integrate what you're discovering through reflection, embodied practice and real world experimentation, so that your values become something you experience, not just understand.
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Build Evidence, Not Just Confidence
Instead of waiting until you feel certain, you'll run meaningful experiments to strengthen self-trust and get data on what’s actually possible and what does or doesn’t work for you. Your confidence will be embodied and accompanied by data you can refer back to.
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Leave with Life-long Practices, Not Dependence
Rather than relying on a coach for clarity, you'll develop personalized rituals and decision-making practices that help you return to yourself long after our work together ends.
An authentic, artful life starts with a powerful pause.
In 2022, I took a one year career break, and I reclaimed my personal power and ignited my inner vitality. I walked away from my 14 year tech career of external success, but quiet burnout, to craft my vision for what it meant to be alive.
I transformed my pain, disillusionment and uncertainty through honest, compassionate contemplation, trusting my intuition and inside out habit changes. Using the practices of the Chrysalis Contemplative, I nurtured an environment for my own self-discovery, empowerment and metamorphosis.
I believe that you have the resources within you to actualize your vision for your life and career. My role is to support you in deepening your ability to access those resources and trust yourself. My practice is rooted in tuning into your body and inner wisdom as a guide to envision and embody what you want.
This experience is not a course, but rather a personalized, curated 1 on 1 haven to nurture lasting inner change that manifests in aligned action.
Program Features
All support is virtual and 1 on 1
3 months total
1x 90 min discovery session to initiate the experience
60-75min weekly or biweekly calls (7 calls total)
1x 90 min closing reflection + celebration session
Unlimited asynchronous support via email and video/ voice notes (via Loom)
Seasonal Reflection Process: Through audio reflections and guided prompts, you'll identify what feels complete, what is asking to evolve, and what wants to be carried forward into your next chapter.
Life Force & Leadership Audit: Together we'll examine where your energy is being invested, what is nourishing you, what is depleting you, and where your current responsibilities may no longer match your priorities.
Guided Somatic Inquiry Sessions: Through embodied coaching conversations, you'll uncover the assumptions, identities, expectations, and inherited definitions of success that may no longer fit who you're becoming.
Future Self Immersion: A guided reflection experience designed to help you explore and emotionally connect with the life, work, relationships, and rhythms you want to cultivate.
Embodied Vision Sessions: We'll use somatic coaching to explore not just what you want, but how you want your life, work, leadership, creativity, and relationships to feel.
Vision Mapping Process: Translate your values and aspirations into a tangible vision for your next chapter using a neuroscience-informed visioning framework.
Real-World Experiments: Design and test small but meaningful actions that help you gather evidence for the future you're creating.
Next steps
If you’re ready to trust your inner wisdom in your transition to craft your aligned, alive life, I’d love to connect with you.
Complete the form linked below, and I’ll reach out to schedule a complimentary 45 min Discovery Call to see if working together feels like a match.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
— Mary Oliver