Meet TJ
Qualified Beautiful You Life Coach
Hi! I’m TJ. 💙
Outside of coaching, here’s what lights me up:
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Reading. Coffee. Huskies. Lazy mornings and firepit nights.
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I yell at football games (GO Chiefs!) and belt out Halestorm (well most any music) in my car – Lzzy Hale is such a badass!
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Both the mountains and the ocean (why choose?)
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Fuzzy pants in winter. Lifting weights to remind myself how strong I am.
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Nothing beats time with my husband.
I work with midlife women craving a new rhythm, one that’s slower, deeper, more aligned with new priorities and passions.
How We’ll Work
You’ll get:
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A hefty dose of compassion + a loving pinch of “let’s cut the BS”
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Someone steady enough to hold space for your messy middle
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Body-based practices, mindfulness, and reflective journaling to get you out of your head and back into your body
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Permission to experiment, play, and grow
With me, you’ll find an open door, an outstretched hand, and a virtual high-five waiting for you. 🙌
Now, in my 50s, I’m asking different questions:
What do I want from this chapter of my life?
How do I want to feel when I wake up?
What actually matters to me now?
One bold, recent answer: I gave myself permission to step into a part of me I’d silenced for years. I dropped my given name and started showing up as TJ – because TJ feels like freedom. She’s bold, creative, and unapologetic. She’s not afraid to try, to fail, to play bigger.
That shift isn’t just a name change.
It’s a way of living.
And it’s a big part of why I do this work – to help women like you reclaim the parts of yourself you’ve tucked away for too damn long.
Because you don’t have to keep living under the weight of roles and expectations.
You get to remember who you are.
You get to rise – radiant, unapologetic, fully you.
If you’ve been:
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Whispering ‘Who am I now?’ somewhere between yoga class and reheating your coffee for the third time
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Showing up for everyone else while quietly forgetting yourself in the process
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Holding it together on the outside but dimmed inside
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Circling the edges of the life you ache for instead of stepping in
…I see you.
My coaching guides you back to your whole, bold, unapologetic self and a life that finally feels like yours.
Why I’m Passionate About This Work
Because I know what happens when you finally stop neglecting your own heart.
When you remember who you are without the titles, the expectations, the “shoulds.”
When you know your values, your dreams, and you trust yourself again, everything changes.
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You stop shrinking
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You stop circling the edges of your own life
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You start showing up as your whole damn self
And that’s when the joy, the freedom, the radiance you’ve been craving finally break through.
(And yes, you’re allowed to want it.)
How I got here
I was the one who always had it together. Or at least, that’s what I wanted you to see.
Perfection was my armor. If I kept achieving, kept proving myself, kept holding it all together, I couldn’t fail… right?
Except the truth was: that armor was heavy as hell.
Living like that left me exhausted, anxious, and terrified of screwing up.
My worth was tangled in doing more, being more, keeping everyone else happy, while breaking promise after promise to myself.
Then one day, a friend said, “Try yoga.” That one class cracked open a door I didn’t even know I’d locked. On the other side?
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Self-care
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Self-compassion
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A softer way of being
Yoga led me to mindfulness and presence. I learned how to live in my body instead of bulldozing through life in my head. I witnessed the changing fall leaves and the bloom of spring in real time.
But it wasn’t all a straight line up from there.
When my husband and I moved to Kansas City in my late 40s, I slipped back into my old patterns: putting myself last, criticizing myself, trying to keep it all together. Old armor, same weight.
It took time, and a hell of a lot of inner work, to find my way back.
And it was worth every damn step.
This is for you if you’re ready to…
• Stop faking “fine” and reconnect to yourself
• Break out of going-through-the-motions living
• Unearth your buried spark
• Quit hiding parts of yourself to keep the peace (bonus points if you mutter “WTF” under your breath at least once a week)
• Explore new priorities, new passions, a new way forward
If your gut whispered yes to even one, you’re in the right place.
Professional background and qualifications that influence how I coach
Beautiful You Coach (Beautiful You Coaching Academy)
IAYT-Certified Yoga Therapist (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) (2019-2022)
Yoga Therapist (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) (2018-2022)
Therapeutic Life Mentor (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) (2017-2022)
Yoga Teacher Training – 300 hour (Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy) (2016-2022)
Relax & Renew Trainer – Restorative Yoga (Judith Hanson Lasater) (2011)
Yoga Teacher – 200 hour (One Tree Yoga) (2011)