A unique science-backed system that guides family caregivers beyond survival mode, recover their energy and rediscover joy - while still showing up fully for their loved one.
Meet Tanya
I am a caregiver, a coach, and a mother of three daughters. I am also a world traveler who eventually followed her intuition to Costa Rica.
For as long as I can remember, I have felt that there is something bigger unfolding beneath the surface of my life.
Our 19-year-old middle daughter, Leia, is non-speaking and autistic with significant developmental delays. Loving her has changed the architecture of my brain, my body, my identity, and ultimately, my work.
For years, I tried to manage caregiving the way I managed everything else: strategically, efficiently, responsibly. But caregiving is not a project to optimize. It is an initiation.
My background in neuroscience-informed coaching and decades as a mindfulness meditation practitioner and teacher gave me language for what was happening internally, but it was living it, day after day, that transformed that knowledge into a system.
Today, I guide caregivers through the biological, somatic, and psychological shifts that come with long-term responsibility. Not to escape the role, but to evolve within it.
Beyond coaching:
I am co-creating Casa Leia, a first-of-its-kind residential and retreat community in Costa Rica for high-support non-speaking and unreliably speaking autistic young adults and their families.
I am co-producing immersive retreats and camps for caregivers and their loved ones, both in the US and Costa Rica.
I am completing my book on survival mode and the hidden rewiring that caregiving demands.
Beyond caregiving, I love to dance. I practice yoga. I hike mountains. I am currently exploring telepathy and alternative communication, and am curious about the edges of human potential.
Caregiving has not made my world smaller. It has made it much wider.
I believe we are living at a time when parents of non-speaking autistic children are being asked to expand their understanding of communication, consciousness, and interdependence.
I don’t see caregivers as victims of circumstance.
I see them as people standing at a powerful threshold.
If you are here, it is likely because you feel that too and I am honored to walk alongside you.
“The program (Metamorphosis 101) asks really deep questions that make you examine yourself more than I had ever done with other counselors. It really is a self-evaluation that causes you to open your eyes from a different perspective. It’s your whole vision of how your life is going to be now moving forward and it really helped me understand myself. You have to move on, you have got to move forward, but how are you going to move forward without this deep hurt? It still hurts but it’s a way of looking at things that are so different than I ever imagined and the program helped me tremendously along those lines.”
Mark, caregiver spouse, Florida
I can help
Tired of feeling guilt, anger and stress
The complicated emotions of caregiving can overwhelm us. Often we get stuck in repetitive loops. We believe there is only one way to look at our experience.
You have lost yourself
Constantly serving others, responding to everyone else’s needs except your own, the frequent state of hyper-vigilance and managing daily chaos leave us without any time for ourselves. We believe it is better to just put out the fires than nurture our own.
The constant grind is wearing you down
Caregiving can leave us feeling ragged and it is a combination of our beliefs, our environment and our body chemistry that brings us to this point. This is when we realize our old coping skills are no longer working in our new reality.