Your business was always meant to fit your life.
Gentle business coaching
For the creative who is ready to come home to themself and build from there.
Begin here.
You want a brand that is sustainable, meaningful, and genuinely yours.
Have you wondered if the reason things haven’t felt empowered for you yet has less to do with strategy and more to do with the stories you've been carrying since before you even opened your doors?
This is for you if:
You are a sensitive, intentional creative building on your own terms
You've followed someone else's blueprint and found yourself exhausted, contracted, or lost
You want to build at the pace of trust, not urgency
THE LIFE AND BUSINESS YOU LONG FOR WON’T ARRIVE ON ITS OWN. BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUILD IT THE HARD WAY EITHER.
The signature offering
The Inner Garden | A private community on Substack
A gentle, ongoing space to tend your business and your inner life together. Monthly private videos, reflections, and conversation and connection for the creative who wants to grow at their own pace, in their season.
A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF:
You don't want to do this alone. You want ongoing gentle support, monthly videos, and small community that meets you where you are.
RACHEL’S VIDEOS SPEAK TO SOMETHING DEEPER EVERY TIME
“I walk away feeling more connected to myself and the mission for my work every time I tune in with Rachel. She helped me go from overwhelmed to inspired and focused when I thought all was lost.”
Not another framework, a way back to yourself
Foundational Scripts | A 9-week small group intensive
The survival patterns you learned in life are still running your business today. Foundational Scripts is where you find them, name them, and begin to rewrite them in the intimate company of others who are ready to be set free too.
A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF:
You've sensed that the thing getting in the way of your business isn't strategy, it's something much older and deeper. You're ready to look at it, and you want the support of a small, carefully held group to do it alongside.
THIS PROGRAM GAVE ME PERMISSION TO EXPLORE WHO I TRULY AM
“This program is truly powerful. The process helped me unburden myself from the mental weight I have been carrying around my whole life. How I feel a week after the end of the program: Free. Lighter. More direct. More present. Less overthinking. More confident.”
Work with me
Business Mentorship | 1:1 coaching
Are you ready to stop circling and start moving? Not faster, truthfully. What would it be like to work with someone who will sit with you in the hard parts and help you find your way into the results and experience you’re wanting? Work with me in 1:1 coaching.
A GOOD FIT FOR YOU IF:
You are ready for a high-touch, deeply personal mentorship relationship. You want someone who understands both the practical shape of a boutique business and the inner work required to sustain one.
WORKING WITH RACHEL WAS MORE THAN I COULD HAVE EXPECTED
“I never could have known I could become this version of myself without Rachel's coaching. The way she creates space and witnesses you is transformative. Her love and genius have changed me.”
FREE FOR YOU!
Ready to step into who you’ve always been becoming?
Disconnection can show up in many different ways in your business… overwhelm, harshness, and isolation. That’s why I created this journal to help you turn disconnection into creation.
What Becomes Possible for You
These aren't overnight transformations. They're testimonies to what happens when you honor both your healing journey and your entrepreneurial dreams.TRANSFORMED HER IDENTITY
“Rachel’s coaching changes your identity, and that is the work.”
“Through our work together, what I had accepted for myself was revealed. I saw how I’d built my whole life in accordance with what works for other people. I was living within everyone else’s choices. Rachel gave me tools I can use moment to moment to look at the core pattern beneath everything I’m experiencing. Honestly, I don’t know that I would be able to honor this truth, rather than push it under the rug, had we not done this work together.”
- PREVIOUS COACHING CLIENT
BECAME AN EMPOWERED VERSION OF SELF
“I am not the same woman I was five months ago.”
I never could have known I could become this version of myself without Rachel’s coaching. The way she creates space and witnesses you is transformative. Her love and genius have changed me.”
- PREVIOUS COACHING CLIENT
GAINED NEW FREEDOM
“My inner world has shifted seismically.”
“I’ve been in and out of therapy for almost 30 years. I have done everything I could possibly do to heal. All it took was four sessions with Rachel’s gift for witnessing and holding sacred space, and my inner world shifted seismically. I didn’t recognize the woman looking back at me in the mirror but in the best way possible. I no longer saw someone I was trying to fix, I saw someone I deeply loved. I haven’t just changed, I’ve become more of my truest self through Rachel’s coaching.”
- PREVIOUS COACHING CLIENT
STARTED REWRITING PATTERNS
“Rachel’s coaching fundamentally changed my relationship to the patterns I’ve been existing within for my entire life.”
“Through her artfully crafted, gentle process, I was given permission to go back to the places where the deepest pain was nestled and evolve those patterns. Her expert guidance and tender holding, combined with being fully witnessed, brought a miraculous transformation to my life, my work, and the version of me that shows up for my family and clients.”
- PREVIOUS COACHING CLIENT
Can you imagine?
Ready to begin?
Choose where you would like to start
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Sign up for ongoing community and nourishment in a place designed for you to heal, rest, and bloom in your creativity, your courage, and the brand and business only you can build.
Learn about Business Mentorship
Set up a Discovery Call to explore what deep, personal mentorship can look like in your life and brand.
hello!
I’m Rachel, gentle business coach and author.
I'm a gentle business coach, author, and founder of The Gentle Creative® — a practice built over more than a decade for sensitive, creative entrepreneurs who are ready to build businesses that fit their actual lives.
I live and work from the Virginia countryside with my family. I believe the inner work and the outer work belong together, and I believe your business has always been meant to be an expression of who you truly are, not a performance of who you thought you needed to become.
I'm so glad you're here.
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Building businesses that fit your actual life.