NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Raina

IFS Practitioner | ICF Professional Certified Coach | Energy Leadership Master Practitioner

Before I ever helped women stop abandoning themselves for everyone else, I had to recognize how often I was doing it too.

I know what it’s like to lose yourself while trying to be everything for everyone.

I grew up as a deeply sensitive child in a world that didn’t quite know what to do with that. Early on, I learned to read the room, anticipate what others needed, and become the version of me that felt easiest to love. It looked like kindness and capability from the outside, but inside, it was teaching me to leave myself behind.

By my teens and early adulthood, I was carrying more than anyone realized.

I looked composed. Capable. In control.

But beneath the surface, anxiety and depression were quietly taking over.

I became very good at being the “good girl.”

So good, in fact, that even I forgot who I was underneath the expectations.

Trying to hold it all together eventually cost me my mental health. And while that chapter of my life was painful, it also became the beginning of something honest. It forced me to stop performing, pleasing, and proving, and finally start listening.

Not to everyone else.

But to myself.

To the version of me who had always been there, before the world taught me that being loved meant being agreeable, useful, and easy.