Hi, I’m Rachel Tait
Resilience isn’t just something I teach, it’s what kept me moving when everything else stopped. It’s the quiet force I found through years of loss, pain, and uncertainty, and now, I share it with those finding their own way through.
For a decade, I was a paramedic, stepping into situations most people avoid. I’ve held hands slick with sweat in the back of an ambulance, spoken calmly over the wail of sirens, and locked eyes with people in their worst moments, knowing that my steadiness might be the only thing keeping them grounded. I learned to find stillness in chaos, to hold onto focus when urgency distorted time.
When Life Fell Apart, I Had to Rebuild From Scratch
Then, at 33, the ground beneath me shattered. In less than a year, I lost my father, a man whose laughter had been my compass, leaving a silence so loud it drowned out the world. A relationship I’d built my future on crumbled overnight, and then came a diagnosis that made my own body feel like a stranger. Cancer. The word alone brought fear and uncertainty into every thought. Grief, betrayal, and fear became my unwelcome companions, and for months, I wandered through life like a ghost, numb to everything but the ache. Time, which had once felt linear and predictable, now felt like a heavy fog, each day blurring into the next.
Learning to Heal on My Own Terms
In the middle of chemotherapy, I stumbled onto a truth: healing doesn’t always happen in straight lines. One IV drip at a time, I traded hospital walls for mountain trails. With shaky legs and a bald head wrapped in scarves, I’d hike until the sting of cold air replaced the metallic taste of fear. The mountains didn’t care about my scars or my prognosis—they just stood there, ancient and unshakable, teaching me that survival is a kind of poetry. The crisp air, the crunch of gravel under my boots, and the vast, quiet landscapes helped me remember that even in pain, there is beauty. Every step on those trails was a small act of defiance against despair—a reminder that I was still here, still fighting, still capable of feeling hope. Time, which had once felt like an enemy, began to feel like an ally, each moment offering a chance to breathe, to heal, to rebuild.
Resilience is Built in Small Moments
For the past 15 years, I’ve immersed myself in learning—cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and personal growth. Not as abstract concepts, but as survival tools. I’ve studied pain like a puzzle, sat in therapy, filled journals in the middle of the night, and read everything I could about resilience—not to erase the past, but to understand what comes after. I’ve learned that resilience isn’t a single breakthrough. It’s the accumulation of small, deliberate choices: getting up when the day feels impossible, saying “I need help,” accepting that healing is slow but real.
You’re Not Alone in This
I share this not as someone with all the answers, but as someone who has been where you are—sitting in parking lots with the weight of the world pressing down, avoiding mirrors, wondering if joy will ever feel natural again. If you’re here, carrying something invisible but heavy—chronic pain, heartbreak, the weight of depression—know that you don’t need to force optimism or find meaning in your suffering. Your experience is real. But so is your ability to move through it, even if you can’t see that yet.
Walking This Path Together
I see you. I hear you. I know how time can stretch unbearably and still offer moments of relief. It doesn’t erase wounds, but it can change how we carry them. Let’s take this journey together—not as teacher and student, but as two people walking the same uncertain path. I’ll be here, holding a light, until you’re ready to hold your own.
No matter where you’re starting from or where you want to go, I can help you get there.
For me, coaching is about giving people the space, support and strategies to claim their potential and step into their power. I’m interested in the story of how you are where you are and will help you rewrite your narrative. In all I do I’m focused on tangible outcomes that get results but I take a friendly (and firm when necessary!) approach to helping you to overcome challenges, whether they’re related to external circumstances or internal blocks like limiting beliefs and imposter syndrome.
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