— A SIX-SESSION ONE-TO-ONE COACHING PROGRAMME
What About You?
One-to-one coaching for women who are ready to include themselves in their own lives again.
— A SIX-SESSION ONE-TO-ONE COACHING PROGRAMME
"Taking care of yourself doesn't
mean putting me first,
it means me too."
L. R. Knost
You've been capable, dependable, and caring for a long time
And it's worked — in a way. Things get done. People rely on you. Life keeps moving forward.
But there's a deeper question that may have started to surface — perhaps in the gap between one responsibility and the next, or during a moment that was supposed to be yours: Where are you in all of this?
If you're in a season of change — a shift in your career, your family life, or simply a growing sense that something needs to be different — that question tends to become harder to ignore.
How it tends to happen
Naming the pattern
Most women don't set out to carry everything. It builds, gradually and steadily, over years.
You step in because
something needs doing.
You organise because
it's just easier if you do it.
You stabilise situations
because you can
Over time, something shifts:
Handling becomes
ownership
Ownership becomes
expectation
and eventually it becomes
tied up with who you are
From the outside, this often looks like strength. Inside, it can feel quite different. You might notice:
A constant background hum of anticipation — always thinking ahead, always preparing
A sense of being stretched, not dramatically, but persistently
Moments of resentment, followed quickly by guilt about the resentment
A feeling of being less present in your own life — there, but managing; involved, but from the sidelines
And gradually, without quite noticing when it happened,
a sense of being outside your own life rather than at the centre of it.
— A DIFFERENT APPROACH
This isn't about doing or caring less
There are plenty of approaches that encourage you to set limits, do less, or immediately change how you respond. And while those ideas have their place, they can be surprisingly hard to sustain when responsibility has built up through patterns and identity that have formed over years — not just habits that can be swapped out.
What About You? works differently. Rather than starting with behaviour, we start with understanding — how responsibility has gathered in your life, what has been keeping it in place, and the emotional experience that has developed around it.
From that understanding, something shifts. And as it does, the way you respond begins to change more naturally — not because you're forcing it, but because you're seeing your situation differently.
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate"
Carl Jung
Rather than forcing change, you begin to experience change.
— ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Six sessions, tailored to you
What About You? is a six-session, one-to-one coaching programme. Each session lasts approximately 60 minutes, takes place online via Zoom, and is tailored entirely to your situation and what's happening in your life at the time.
Sessions are typically spaced weekly or fortnightly, so there is time to reflect and notice shifts between our conversations.
What we explore together
Although every programme is shaped by the individual, the journey tends to move through a progression.
Understanding the pattern
How responsibility has gathered in your life over time, and the beliefs and identity that have formed around it.
Recognising the emotional weight
The cycle of anticipation, resentment, and guilt — and what sustains it.
Beginning to include yourself
Noticing where you have been absent from your own thinking and decisions, and exploring what it might feel like to be included
Responding differently
Working through real situations in your life, and developing greater clarity and conscious choice in how you respond.
Finding a more grounded way
Relating to responsibility in a way that is sustainable — and that includes you.
Each session builds on the last, while remaining responsive to where you are at the time.
— ABOUT CELIA
I've been where you are
I created this work after my own experience of gradually taking on more and more responsibility — both practically and emotionally — and finding myself feeling increasingly absent from my own life. From the outside, everything looked stable. Inside, I was managing a persistent, low-level tension between responsibility, resentment, and guilt.
It was through a period of reflection that I began to understand not just what I was doing, but the patterns and identity that had formed around being the dependable one. The most important shift was recognising that I mattered too — within my own life, not just in relation to everyone else's. That understanding didn't remove responsibility, but it changed how I related to it.
Since then, I've been working with women to help them recognise similar patterns and begin to reposition themselves — so they can respond to responsibility in a way that includes them.
My coaching credentials include an EMCC-accredited Coaching Professional Apprenticeship Level 5 and an ICF-accredited qualification in Business and Personal Coaching..
The most important shift was recognising that I mattered too —
within my own life, not just in relation to everyone else's.
— WHAT SHIFTS
What you might begin to notice
Change in this kind of work tends to be gradual rather than dramatic — which is, in many ways, the point. But over time, you may begin to notice:
A greater sense of groundedness — feeling more present and more settled internally
The ability to pause before stepping in, and to think clearly about how you want to respond
Less internal conflict between resentment and guilt
A different relationship with responsibility — one where you are included, not just carrying
A sense of being in your life, rather than managing it from somewhere just outside it
"We need to do a better job
of putting ourselves higher
on our own to-do list"
Michelle Obama
"Caring for myself is not
self-indulgence, it is
self-preservation. "
Audre Lorde
What About You?
Investment
The investment for the What About You? programme is £750.
This includes six 60-minute coaching sessions conducted online via Zoom, spaced at a pace that works for you.
If you would like to discuss a payment plan, please mention this when we speak.
— LET'S TALK
There's no obligation — it's simply a conversation.
Let's have a conversation first
If any of what you have read has resonated, I'd be happy to speak with you before you make any kind of decision. A discovery call is a chance to talk about where you are, what's been happening in your life, and whether this programme feels like a right fit. There's no obligation — it's simply a conversation.
If you have any questions beforehand, you're very welcome to get in touch.
— FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Most of the women I work with are managing well — and that's part of what makes the shift hard to name. What they're noticing is more subtle — a gradual sense of absence from their own lives, or a growing feeling that something needs to be different. You don't need a breaking point for this work to be relevant..
Each session is a conversation — focused on your real life, your real situations, your real patterns. We explore what's happening and work together to develop greater clarity and conscious choice in how you respond. There are no worksheets or set homework; though if you find reflection useful between sessions, there's plenty to sit with.
No. Coaching and therapy are different things. This is a forward-focused process — we explore where you are and where you'd like to be, rather than working through past trauma. If at any point it seems that therapeutic support would be more appropriate, I will say so.
That's a question worth bringing to the discovery call. It gives you the chance to talk through where you are, ask anything you'd like to ask, and get a sense of whether this feels right — without any obligation to commit.
Not necessarily. Sessions are typically weekly or fortnightly, depending on what works for you. We'll agree a rhythm at the start that suits your life.
No. This is not about caring less. It is about shifting your relationship to the responsibilities you carry — so that you are included in your own decisions, rather than absent from them. You can still step in. You can still care deeply. The difference is that you do so consciously, from a place where you also matter.
Many women also notice that as the emotional load eases, they have more energy — not because anything has been removed from their life, but because of how much had been going into carrying it.