A free, honest look at where you actually are
before you decide where you want to go
1-on-1 guided session
Shift gives you a clear picture of where things stand. This session is for when you want to understand what that picture means — with someone who knows how to read it. We move through your results together and find the one thread worth pulling on first.
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From the women who've done the work
Some did the workbook on their own; some did it live with me in a guided session. The work it opens into is what the women below are describing.
"I came in wanting clarity on how to move forward with my goals, and I left with so much more. The most powerful part was writing down the tiniest daily action I could take toward my goal — not some huge leap, just a small step in the right direction. Amanda’s presence is so soothing and supportive — she’s a brilliant force."
"I came to the SHIFT live session looking for dedicated time and company to reflect on what matters — and it delivered. Doing the workbook live felt so much more supportive than doing it alone. The whole experience was thoughtful, grounding, gentle, and encouraging."
"The rating system shocked my system. You can write down feelings about something, but giving it a numerical value is confronting — in a good way."
"It helps you focus on yourself with thoughtful intention and organizes your thoughts when you’re feeling stuck."
The workbook
Shift is a free, self-guided life assessment you take online, one section at a time. You'll move through seven areas — body, relationships, finances, mind, home, work, and play — rating where you are out of ten and answering a small set of honest questions about each. It takes most people around thirty minutes.
It isn't a personality quiz and it isn't a pitch for a program. There's no score at the end that sorts you into a type. What you get instead is a structured look at your own life, in your own words, across the places you usually only think about one at a time. For many women, that alone is the thing they haven't let themselves do in years.
When you finish, you'll have a summary of your responses emailed to you. What you do with it is up to you.
What's inside
Shift looks at seven areas of your life at once — your body, your relationships, your money, your mind, your home, your work, and your play. In each one you'll rate where things actually stand and answer a few honest questions about it. Some you'll know at a glance; others will surprise you — and together they form a single, clear picture of the life you're living right now.
Who this is for
Women at the hinge of something. Not in crisis — but not pretending the old answer still fits, either.
Some are in the middle of a career pivot, or the quiet part before one — the months when you've stopped talking about the job but haven't yet told anyone you're leaving. Some are in a marriage that still works on paper and has gone quiet in the places that matter. Some are newly divorced, or newly single after a long time of not being. Some are staring at a kid's last year at home and wondering who they're going to be when the house is quiet. Some just came out of a layoff, or a diagnosis, or their first year sober, and they can feel that the next version of their life needs a different set of rules than the last one.
A lot of the women who take this workbook are the capable ones. The ones everybody else thinks are fine. The ones who grew up having to figure it out — with a parent who wasn’t safe, or wasn’t there, or was complicated in the ways that don’t have a clean name — and turned that into something formidable. They built real lives. And they’re starting to feel the cost of the pattern underneath them.
If you recognized yourself in any of the above, you're in the right place.
About the author
For fifteen years I was a photo editor and creative producer working at publications like Vogue, GQ, New York Magazine, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and I built Loyal Nana, a platform for conversations with women like Sonia Sotomayor and Megan Thee Stallion about identity and reinvention. I spent my career helping other people tell the truest version of their story. The workbook is a small piece of what I now do for women working on their own.
My coaching is informed by psychoanalytic and attachment theory — the fields that take early life seriously instead of pretending it stopped mattering the day you became a competent adult. I came to this work the long way. I grew up without either parent — my mother and I were separated for sixteen years, my father was gone before I was ten. I was raised by a village, first-generation in most rooms I walked into. That’s part of why I don't treat the inner life as a luxury. It's the thing most of us were trained to skip.
Read more about Amanda →You've already read this far, which means something in you is ready to look. The workbook won't fix what it finds — nothing on the internet does that. But it will give you, in one sitting, a clearer view of your own life than most women let themselves have in a year. That's the starting point. That's the whole point of a starting point.
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