EMERGENCE
Supporting your soul’s emergence in path, purpose, creativity and livelihood
What once worked … doesn’t anymore
And it’s not your fault.
What you're really yearning for isn't a new business model or rebrand. Underneath that strategy, you long for inner congruency.
A life where the way you show up in the world is a genuine expression of who you actually are. Work that nourishes you as much as it serves others.
The pinch-me-I-get-to-do-this feeling you always believed was possible — and still do, somewhere underneath all the unrelenting busyness of the day.
You did it ALL right. You studied, got the credentials, worked hard, showed up, built something impressive, and earned the approval of everyone around you.
By every external measure, you’re successful. Everyone celebrates all you’ve accomplished and assumes you are thriving.
Your life looks great on paper…but you’re dying a little inside.
You’re going through the motions every time you show up to the umpteenth Zoom meeting, answer the phone, or attend another conference. You smile, provide your expertise, and everyone seems happy.
But you feel like a fraction of your true self gets to show up everyday, if at all. Like you’ve become an actor in a play you wrote to please a younger version of yourself, or someone else entirely. You used to feel creatively engaged but all that zest for life feels drained from your current reality.
You wake up in the middle of the night tossing and turning, dreading the next day. Morning meets you with an onslaught of to-do listing, and you’re going through the motions but it feels like you’ve lost the bigger plot. You can’t help thinking to yourself: Is this really it? You fantasize about running away from it all. Or doing something dreamy that feels impractical and impossible.
That critical voice inside says: I should be grateful, I have what so many people want. And still — this longing won’t leave you alone. Something else wants to emerge. Something truer. Something that actually feels like you.
What you’ve tried hasn’t gone deep enough
You are not someone who ignores or refuses the winds of change. Driven by that inner wisdom that knows there’s more for you, you've probably joined a business mastermind or leadership retreat, bought (but never finished) another online course, and talked to your therapist and friends. And some of it helped, sure.
But often these keep us in our heads where everything gets analyzed, strategized, and optimized. Yet: the body and the soul are kept out of the room.
Nobody asks about your childhood joys, your recurring dreams, the throughline that has quietly threaded itself through every chapter of your life. We don’t talk about the systems we swim in and how they’re impacting you. You were handed someone else's roadmap and told to follow it. You good-girled or nice-guy’d it all, then wondered why it still didn't feel like yours.
The soul layer was missing. And without it, all the strategy in the world lands on ground that isn't ready to receive it, like water that runs through a parched plant without hydrating. Others have tried to rush you through it, to come to some pretty and clean clarity before sitting in the discomfort of the questions, and the wonder and complexity of your life and reason for being here.
The Way it is
BY WILLIAM STAFFORD
There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.
About Your Guide
My lived experience with path, purpose and soul-led service
I know this territory from the inside.
I have pivoted many times — from full time corporate writer to college professor, to herbalist and birth doula, to astrologer, to book coach. Each pivot was a response to a new life season: the birth of my child, a divorce, health challenges that required me to reorganize everything, and more than once, an unseen but undeniable soul directive that made it irrefutably clear it was time to shift. (Though that clarity was often resisted before it was heeded!)
Earlier in my entrepreneurial life, a business coach told me I should help successful leaders write books. It was a smart strategy and made financial sense. I built a whole business around it, while my soul actually longed to help people use writing as a vehicle for healing and transformation. I eventually wove that in. But I know firsthand what it costs to build something on someone else's ideas.
What kept me oriented through every pivot was what the poet William Stafford called the thread — the one you follow even when you can't see where it leads. Learning to feel that thread, trust it, and follow it is the work. Different seasons of our lives require different expressions of our gifts.
I have walked this path long enough to feel, see, and hear the soul's signal clearly, even when fear, conditioning, and other people's expectations are louder than a Taylor Swift concert. Part of my magic is helping you bushwhack through the thick underbrush of conditioning, other people’s ideas, incessant thoughts, resistance, and fears. I offer my steady and unwavering permission-giving, vision-holding, soul-trusting, and clear mirroring as you live into your own clarity and the aliveness that comes from really trusting yourself.
Soul knows what is worth doing. Ego knows how to carry it out. We have to go to Soul first, otherwise ego will most certainly be carrying out someone else’s vision for our lives.
Our Work Together
We work together through a Threshold Season — a four-month, 12 call container designed to bring rich insight, genuine clarity and build capacity to step toward the life and livelihood of your wildest dreams.
We move through a three part arc:
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Exploring your soul gifts
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Releasing resistance & conditioning
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Forging new ground
A Threshold Season together typically includes:
Astrological soul mapping (we’ll sometimes use other tools like Myers-Briggs, Human Design, and Gene Keys, as needed)
Regular narrative inquiry to uncover emergent threads, forgotten truths, and soul patterns and connect you back to yourself
Deep imagery and active imagination sessions to get to subconscious layers and deep psyche wisdom
Somatic attunement to what the body already knows
An examination of cultural conditioning, the systemic waters we swim in, looking at how we are relating to themes like PROVING, PROTECTING, and PRODUCING and emerging ways to relate from your sovereign wholeness instead
Re-igniting your connection to your creative self, through my program Catalyst
Ongoing companionship as the clarity that emerges begins to take shape in your actual life and work.
This program is also a responsive, living container shaped around what your particular soul is asking for — with enough depth, spaciousness, and focused attention to guide you to the next horizon your soul longs to reach.
For Authors
For those whose soul gifts yearn to express through writing and authorship, this work connects with Whale Song, the creative agency I founded nearly a decade ago, where we offer creative mentorship and support authors in writing, editing and publishing transformational non-fiction and memoir in the areas of personal growth and spirituality.
What Makes this Work Different
Most purpose work starts with what you want to do. Our work together starts with who you are here to be … and what gifts your soul came to express.
Drawing on the work of depth psychologist Bill Plotkin, this approach understands that our soul gifts are deep and enduring. Soul gives zero-hoots about what our culture deems most admirable, it is rooted in what is real for us at the deepest levels.
While our soul gifts don’t change, what does evolve over time is our delivery method. Before we can find the right container for your gifts, we need to know what those gifts actually are. We may also have to do a little reckoning around identity and societal conditioning too.
This requires a different quality of inquiry than most coaching or therapy offers. We use multiple points of entry beyond thinking and strategy. Astrological insight reveals the blueprint your soul arrived with, your strengths and your wound-medicine. Narrative exploration uncovers the patterns and emergent threads woven through your whole life arc. Deep imagery and soul journey work bypass the noise of conditioning and let your soul speak directly. Somatic awareness brings the body into the conversation, because the body knows things the mind prefers to silence or override.
The result is not someone else's idea of your best next move. It is your own soul's clarity: specific, embodied, and genuinely yours. We are patient with the process, creating enough space for truth to emerge, where life otherwise rushes us through to forced certainty.
Investing in your EMERGENCE
$1200
EACH MONTH FOR 5 MONTHS
This FOUR month program includes:
12 private calls: 3/month with an integration week
Telegram communication M-Th for check-ins
Access to Catalyst program + other course resources
Bespoke resources developed to meet & support you where you are
Review of your astrology soul map and timing and other modalities of soul illumination (Meyers-Briggs, Human Design, Gene Keys, Strengths Finder)
Flower essence, herb, practice/ritual recommendations
Two distance energy healing sessions
Frequently Asked Questions
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This invitation was made for you if:
You are a healer, coach, therapist, creative, or soul-aligned entrepreneur
You are living a soul-led life and are ready to go deeper
You have outgrown something and know it, even if you don't know what comes next or how to step toward it
You are willing to slow down enough to let the soul speak
Beyond the business plan, you want support that meets you in your body, your dreams, your history, and your stars
You are tired of doing what’s sensible or strategic and ready to do what is true and sets your soul on fire in the best way
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Most business and career coaching starts with strategy — what to build, how to market it, how to grow it. This work starts underneath all of that, with the soul inquiry that has to come first. We are not here to optimize your current path or hand you someone else's roadmap.
We are here to find out what is actually true for you — what gifts your soul came to express, and what delivery method wants to emerge in this season of your life. Strategy has its place. But it works best when it is built on a foundation of genuine soul clarity.
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You are welcome here. Complete lostness is not an obstacle — it is often the most fertile ground and part of a transformational season. The soul always knows.
Our work together is about slowing down, listening deeper, and clearing enough noise, conditioning, and other people's expectations to be able to hear it. Many of the people who have arrived most lost have left with the most surprising and supportive clarity.
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Absolutely. In fact, this is often the best time to do it — before a crisis forces the pivot. Many people do this work while still in their current role, using this container to develop clarity and readiness so that when the time comes to move, they do so with intention.
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We’re not focused on a business plan, a rebrand, or any specific strategy. This work happens before all that: we step toward genuine clarity about your soul gifts and what wants to emerge next, an embodied sense of your own throughline and how to follow it, and the confidence to pursue what is actually true for you rather than what makes sense to everyone else.
After building toward renewed vitality and a felt sense of internal congruency, we complete our season together by helping you determine a clear creative or vocational direction, with practical next steps that you feel inspired and confident to act on.
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A Threshold Season is a four-month dedicated container — 12 sessions total, with three sessions per month and one week of integration between each round. Sessions are held online or in person and draw on my full background and range of supportive resources: astrological soul mapping, narrative life review, deep imagery work, somatic attunement, and ongoing companionship.
Telegram check-ins and between-call invitations (practices, journal inquiries) are woven into the program to give you the most potent experience I can.
On our first session call, we will map out our beginnings together to ensure a strong foundation for our journey together. This might include plans for specific kinds of support—such as somatic, nature-based, ritual, astrological or herbal support.
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This work is not therapy and is not a replacement for therapeutic support. While Jaime is a trained somatic therapist and brings therapeutic sensitivity and skill to the work, this container is coaching and guidance that is forward-oriented, soul-led, and focused on emergence not pathology. If you are navigating active mental health challenges, therapy may be a more appropriate primary support.
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It’s no problem, you are welcome to bring your healthy skepticism to that piece or we can skip it altogether.
Astrology is one of several tools, not a place where we outsource knowing. If it doesn't resonate for you, we’ll weight our inquiry toward other entry points: narrative exploration, somatic awareness, deep imagery work. The goal is always your own clarity, not any particular framework.
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If you are asking that question, the timing is probably closer to right than you think. This work tends to call people when the discomfort of staying where they are begins to outweigh the fear of changing. You don't need to have it figured out before we begin — in fact, the less figured out the better. The work is designed for the in-between, not the already-certain.
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The first step is to complete the interest form at the bottom of the page. We will get back to you to schedule a complimentary call with Jaime to explore intentions and fit. We look forward to hearing from you.
Staying stuck costs more than we realize.
The risk of not doing this work may go unnoticed by everyone else. Maybe you can manage another year of going through the motions. Another rebrand that doesn't quite fit. Another program that gives you someone else's answer. Another Sunday afternoon dreading the week to come.
The soul has a way of pressing harder when it isn't heard. And the body usually starts talking, and eventually shouting. What begins as subtle dissatisfaction has a way of becoming burnout, chronic depletion, or a crisis that forces rather than invites change.