True North Coaching

02/15/2026

Strong and soft.
A solid backbone, an open heart.
Honesty, truth, seeing behind the illusion
A push for positive change

Kind over “nice”
Empathy over ego
Change over comfort
Discomfort over silence.
Righteous rage. Valid, welcomed, directed.

Joy as rebellion
Love over fear
Compassion, care, and Feminine wisdom

The world-you, me, all

Connected

Peaceful

Free

02/15/2026

A Music pumping, sweat dripping, hollering loud spin class followed by brunch for Galentines?

Talk dirty to me 😂

Ok…

A massage followed by a Cozy restaurant, solo, steak and a mocktail..aka my Friday night.

I love to love on myself, what can I say?

As I sat at the bar in this cozy little restaurant, a woman sat down next to me. Took one glance at my steak, And said, “girl you’ve got it figured out”.

And while there are so many things I do NOT know, I do know the path to self love

I love (even more) to coach people how to love themselves toooooo

Loving ourself is not always massages, solo time, spin class or brunch

It sometimes found in speaking up
Saying Saying hell yes to what we actually want
Saying NO (say it with me)
Getting up 15 minutes earlier to take a moment
Holding ourself to our commitments
Doing the thing we have been avoiding
Speaking truth instead of fake smiling

Little and big acts that over time, teach our bodies and our nervous system that we are safe here…

That we can trust ourself
Honor our desires & needs
That we’ve got our back
That we really do love our own company
And from that deep self love, we can pour into others, and receive from others from a full, juicy place

So on this hallmark holiday, I hope you found a way to love on yourself, soak in the love, and share it too.

02/10/2026

It’s a couch, Amyee.

It was 10:30 PM on a Tuesday night.

My son was quite literally doing backflips over our new couch, and I was beyond exhausted.

These beloved couches were the ones I had in Alaska—ones I had ordered TWO FREAKIN’ MONTHS AGO, arriving many hours after they were supposed to.

Getting my son to sleep amidst the noise of assembly was a lost cause, and as I came upstairs to sign off, I saw it: the pillows and cushions, flat and lifeless. The material not at all what I expected.
In my exhausted and quite dysregulated state, I was convinced I had been scammed. Again.

THIS WAS NOT WHAT I ORDERED, FOR F’S SAKE.

I had made the wrong choice. I felt stupid, naïve, frustrated…
So, of course, I started crying.

Quite hard—big alligator tears rolling down my face—as the quiet and kind Hispanic man in front of me (probably already freaked out to be in a single woman’s home late at night) softly and gently asked if there was anything he could do.

Probably wondering why I was crying over couches.

Because it wasn’t actually about the couches.

It was about my system needing comfort and familiarity after months of tension and rising violence in our country.

It was about being a woman who holds all the things all the time, and just wanting to rest into something I know.

And it was also in this place that I realized the lens I was seeing things through was one of dysregulation, while judging myself, my privilege and my response.

I coached myself to sleep on it.

Rest first, babe. Rest first.

When I woke up the next morning, I saw that the pillows and cushions had fully inflated. LOL. Of course they had. They had been cold and collapsed for transport. Duhhhhh. I remembered the kindness of strangers, and the safety they provided—especially when I wasn’t feeling safe within myself.

In my dysregulated, under-resourced place, all I could see was what was wrong. The story I told myself was that I had been ripped off. The emotions, the lens I was seeing the world through, were fear-based, negative, and worst-case scenario.

While the couch cushions shifted, so did the state of my nervous system.

When we are tired, overwhelmed, and under-resourced, our brain will look for danger. It will tell stories that feel real, convincing, and urgent.

Sometimes, the kindest and most gentle thing we can do for ourselves in this place (when we are not actually under threat, to be clear) is to

Pause
Rest.
Breathe.
Feel.
Connect.

And come back to reevaluate—from a lens of clarity, connection, and regulation

01/29/2026

A few ways to tend to your nervous system if you have been feeling the overwhelm ❤️

01/26/2026

Hold on to your humanity

We need one another

We are all neighbors in some way, we are all connected.

01/25/2026

This is not ok.
This is not safe.
This is not right.
This is not a country that is free

Murders by ICE agents in broad daylight.

Two in less then two weeks.

Alex Pretti was murdered for doing what at his core he knew was right. He stood up for a women, pushed to the ground by an ICE agent, and was then attacked by seven of them. Shot multiple times in his back after they dearmed him.

He was a nurse, and as one, I know.
We stand up for what is right.
We advocate for those who can’t.
We use our privilege and our training to do good and help.

And we feel it all in the process.

What I know for sure is silence perpetuates abuse.

Abusers want compliance, no push back-to sit down and shut up.

Abusers gaslight, manipulate, and distort the truth to try and make themselves “right”. To make you feel crazy, confused, and to doubt what you know to be true.

There are now thousands of videos that show the truth of what is happening.

The truth of violence, cruelty, and harm-of executions in broad daylight by ICE agents

See what you see, know what you know

Use your eyes and see it.

Every day we choose to be silent is one where freedom, liberty and justice are being stripped away

Everyday we numb, distract, or avoid are days
Our neighbors and friends, immigrants or not, are being kidnapped, abused, and killed. They are using children as tools now. It’s only going to get worse.

It’s disgusting.

It’s time to stop being silent.
It’s time to open our eyes and stop looking away, to stop avoiding what is here.
It’s time to look at where our comfort with our own privilege is causing harm

I know it’s hard. I know it’s scary AND it’s time.

Take a stand.
Be an advocate.
Use your privilege for good.

Just to be clear…

I will not tolerate abuse of any sort
I will stand up and use my voice and my privilege
I stand with due process, balances of power, and freedom for all.
I stand for accountability and transparency
I stand for legal process

Human rights aren’t up for negotiation nor is where I stand on the above.

Hard stop.

01/22/2026

01/19/2026

Hey hey!

Is starting or growing your coaching biz on the dream list this year?

Are you tired of throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something will stick?

Do you want a biz that lights you the heckkkkk up and does meaningful work for the people that need it most?

The foundation is a mentorship space I’ve created after mentoring hundreds of nurse coaches over the past five years. It’s a combo of powerful coaching calls, self paced course work and assignments, and group connection.

If there’s anything that I can fully own about my journey growing a successful coaching company, it’s because I didn’t do it alone and DIY my way there.

It’s because I invested in myself, was surrounded by other people making it happen, and chose to do damn thing, even though I didn’t want to.

This space is nervous system supportive-and whole human-meaning that all of you gets to be here-and I can hold it.

Comment or DM for more info and let’s goooooooooooo bb.

01/19/2026

Look. I don’t just talk about the stuff I teach-I freakin live it.

Here’s the mortifying proof of that 😂

I’ve been working on a course to support new nurse coaches in their journey to start and grow a business for months. This has been the backbone of a lot of my work for six years. The recording piece of sharing the knowledge? I freakin avoided that s*** for the same amount of time..

Next level mortification seeing myself on video, let me tell ya what.

So here’s the blooper reel. Shoutout to the real MVP, for making me snort laugh at myself.

And oh yes! The nurse course mentorship-The Foundation- starts THIS week! If starting and growing your business has felt like you have no idea what the hell you’re doing-send me a message. This is where I am NOT a beginner. Don’t do it alone, it takes forever and you’ll pull out your hair or quit…

01/17/2026

If your goal is..

To be a good f’in human.

To make the world a better place—not by performance, but by what you actually live and do

To do the deep inner work required to actually heal.

To live from integrity and self-awareness.

To be unshakable in your confidence and self-trust.

To stand up and step into what you’re meant to do with this one precious life.

To feel nourished and at peace instead of overwhelmed and overextended.

To be embodied in yourself—so you can break patterns and live a connected, conscious, purposeful life.

And you’re a high-achieving, big-feeling woman…

You’ve found the right place ❤️🫶

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01/17/2026

Big emotion and big charge in the body needs and wants to MOVE.

Run, lift heavy, push against the wall. Growl, sing, dance, stomp. Scream, rage, and also let yourself play.

Feel it so it doesn’t consume you, too.

This week has been a f’in lot.