You Hold Everything Together. Who Is Holding You?
Coaching for high-achieving women who have spent years being the emotional thermostat for everyone else—managing the temperature, keeping the peace, holding the space—and are ready to set down the stones that were never theirs to carry and return to the woman they were before they picked up anyone's expectations.
Five minutes. No judgment. A clear picture of where you actually are.
Most women I work with are the strong ones. The fixers. The ones who keep the peace, organize the calendar, and make sure everyone else is okay.
Over time, you started carrying stones that belonged to other people.
Put down the things you were never meant to carry and reclaim the woman you were before you had to pick up the expectations of everyone else.
Five minutes. No judgment. A clear picture of where you actually are.
An interactive clarity assessment
Turn the First Stone
This assessment will ask you some questions you have probably been avoiding. That is not an accident. The heavy lifting begins with you, and that is good news, because the power to change things belongs to you too.
Rate each area honestly from 1 to 10. Drag the slider for each stone. The chart on the right fills in real time so you can see your full picture as you go. Reflections are optional.
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Where should we send your results?
Enter your email to unlock the assessment. Your scores, reflections, and a personalized summary will be sent to your inbox when you finish.
The Method
The STONES Framework
Every client I work with moves through the same six-step process I built from 26 years of guiding high achievers and from walking out of my own season of losing myself.
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Stop and Breathe to See Clearly.
You cannot read the map while you are running.
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Take Time to Tell the Truth.
About what you carry, what you want, and what it costs you.
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Own Your Power.
You have more agency than burnout has let you believe.
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Negotiate Differently.
With your family, your workplace, and yourself.
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Execute Effectively.
Small, sustainable moves that hold under real-life pressure.
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Sustain the Shift.
So you never have to start over from empty again.
Turn the Stone. Find the Truth. Build the Life.
The Primary Offer
The Starting Stone Intensive
Three focused sessions to stop the slide and start the return.
This is where most of my clients begin. Over three private sessions, we work through the first movements of the STONES Framework together. You will name what you are actually carrying, tell the truth about what it is costing you, and leave with a clear, workable plan for reclaiming space in your own life.
What is included
- —Three private 60-minute coaching sessions
- —Your Interactive Clarity Assessment results, reviewed together in session one
- —A personal STONES action plan you build with me, not a template
- —Access to your private client portal between sessions
If you already know this is where you want to begin, you can reserve your spot below. If you would rather talk first, book a discovery call — no pressure either way.
Three sessions — $397
Paid once. Sessions scheduled together after checkout.
Book a session
Reserve a 30-minute discovery call.
Complimentary and held over video. We’ll talk through where you are, what you’ve been carrying, and what it would look like to finally set it down. I work with women ready for honest introspection and real perspective shifts. If that’s you, pick a time, and take one breath before you do.
A shorter beginning
The 3-Day Clarity Intensive
Three days. One breath at a time. A clear next step.
Reserve your spot with a $97 deposit, or pay in full and hold the whole thing today. If you’re not sure the Starting Stone Intensive is the shape you need yet, this is the quiet way in.
3-Day Clarity Intensive
Limited seats$297
Paid in full
- Three focused 1:1 sessions over three days
- Your Interactive Clarity Assessment reviewed together
- A written next-step plan you leave with
- Applied toward the Starting Stone Intensive if you continue
A word from your coach
A Word From Your Coach
I am Susan Townsend. I spent 26 years teaching and coaching high achievers, first in the classroom and then one woman at a time. I hold an M.A. in Rhetoric and Argumentation, which is a formal way of saying I have spent my career helping people find the truth of what they mean and say it out loud.
I also know burnout from the inside. I spent years caregiving through a spouse’s serious illness, finished my master’s degree from my bedroom during COVID, and rebuilt my life from the ground up after loss. I did not read about identity erosion in a book. I lived it, and I found my way back.
The STONES Framework is what I built from that road. It works because it was tested where it counts, in a real life that refused to slow down for recovery.
Client voices
Women Who Turned the Stone
Susan did more than just coach me. She guided me with major post secondary and advanced degree decisions. She helped me with major personal events in my life, as well. She encouraged me to continue on with my goals, even in difficult times and more importantly helped me truly think before making decisions based on my long and short term goals rather than deciding with emotions. I was able to go forward knowing what I need to do versus what I want to do.
Five minutes. No judgment. A clear picture of where you actually are.
For teachers & educators
Who Are You Outside of Work?
An identity workbook for women in transition.
After years of being the teacher, the coach, the fixer, the one who held it all together for everyone else’s children — who are you when the bell stops ringing? This six-module workbook walks you back to yourself, one stone at a time.
Built on the STONES Framework and scaffolded the way you’d scaffold a lesson — clear prompts, guided exercises, and a breakthrough question at the end of every module. Use it as a self-guided intensive, or bring it into coaching.
- Six modules mapped to the STONES Framework (S · T · O · N · E · S)
- Value sort, passion map, strengths inventory, and network mapping
- Facilitator notes so coaches can run it 1:1 or in groups
- A “Turn the Stone” breakthrough question inside every module
Start here first
Not sure where you are right now?
Take the free Interactive Clarity Assessment to see which stone is weighing you down most. Your score is emailed to you in minutes.
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Who Are You Outside of Work?
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