You Keep Holding it Together for Everyone Else

You’ve spent years caring for others, pushing through, and doing everything you thought you were supposed to do. Yet beneath the surface, you may feel anxious, overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or disconnected from yourself.

What if you aren’t broken?

What if your mind, body, and nervous system simply adapted to experiences that once helped you survive?

How I Help Women Move Beyond Survival Mode

Compassionate, evidence-informed support to help you understand yourself, build resilience, and create lasting change.

Trauma-Informed Nurse Coaching

Discover the patterns shaping your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors so you can move forward with greater clarity, confidence, and self-compassion.

Why do I feel responsible for everyone else?

You put others first, say yes when you want to say no, and often carry more than your share.

You put others first, say yes when you want to say no, and often carry more than your share.

Embodied: The Journey Home

Deepen your healing through guided integration, emotional resilience, and practices that help lasting change become part of everyday life.

Meet Terry deAragon:

Registered Nurse. Board Certified Nurse Coach. Advocate for Lasting Change.

For much of my life, I believed I simply needed to try harder.

To be stronger. To do more. To keep everyone else okay.

Looking back, I realize many of those patterns weren't flaws. They were adaptations.

As both a Registered Nurse and someone who has walked through adversity, I've come to believe healing doesn't begin with self-judgment. It begins with understanding.

For more than 19 years, I've cared for people during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives. Through my nursing career and my own healing journey, I discovered that many of the struggles we carry as adults are not signs of weakness. They are patterns shaped by experiences that once helped us survive.

Today, I help women understand those patterns with compassion, practical tools, and evidence-informed education so they can move beyond survival mode and create lasting change.

Why This Work Matters to Me

Having faced and overcome significant personal struggles, I know firsthand the toll trauma can take on the mind, body, and spirit. When conventional medicine and traditional mental health care did not bring the lasting healing I was seeking, my own journey through mental health and relationship challenges led me to explore the deeper science of trauma and its impact on the whole person.

Through this journey, I discovered that true healing goes beyond symptom management, it involves reconnecting with the body, restoring emotional safety, and reclaiming one’s sense of self. This experience fuels my commitment to helping others uncover their inner strength and rebuild lives rooted in peace, resilience, and purpose.

Welcome to Awaken Your Life


At Awaken Your Life, we empower service-driven professionals—nurses, teachers, first responders, and leaders navigating divorce, loss, role changes, burnout, or constant unpredictability—to reconnect with themselves, release survival patterns, and build lives that feel safe, steady, deeply meaningful, and free.

Through compassionate guidance, science-informed practices, and personalized support, we help you release old patterns, rebuild trust within yourself, and step into the most authentic version of who you are becoming.

Your Path to Lasting Change

Healing doesn't happen overnight. It happens one step at a time.

Start with a Discovery Call

We'll talk about where you are today, the challenges you're facing, and whether we're the right fit to work together.

Begin the R.E.S.E.T. Experience

Understand your patterns, build new habits, and create lasting change through the R.E.S.E.T. Experience.

Create Lasting Change

Move beyond survival mode and create a life rooted in peace, confidence, and purpose.

Real Stories. Real Transformation.

See how women have moved beyond survival mode and created lasting change.

Terry helped me to dream big and bring my vision to life. She is an incredible cheerleader. The way she was able to reflect my challenges back to me and help me find growth and understanding was so powerful.

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Julia

Terry has a gift to share that will transform the lives of those she comes in contact with. The way she listens, the questions she asks, the way she challenged me came from a supernatural place, an authentic place of love for others and her practice.

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Sarah

Terry is a wealth of knowledge and has been a wonderful mindfulness partner. Her vibrant energy and deep compassion for personal and professional healing will make her an amazing nurse coach.

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Coleen

FAQs

Got Questions? Your Healing Journey Starts Here.

What is trauma-informed coaching?

Trauma-informed coaching helps you understand how past experiences may be influencing your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors today. Instead of asking, "What's wrong with me?" you'll begin to understand the patterns that once helped you survive. Together, we'll build greater self-awareness, resilience, and practical tools to create lasting change.

What makes your approach different?

As a Registered Nurse and Board Certified Nurse Coach, I combine evidence-informed neuroscience, trauma-informed principles, and compassionate coaching to help women better understand themselves. My approach honors the connection between the mind, body, emotions, and lived experience, creating a safe and supportive space for healing and growth.

Who do you work with?

I work with women who feel overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, or stuck in repeating patterns. Many of my clients are service-driven professionals, including nurses, teachers, first responders, leaders, caregivers, and women navigating burnout, divorce, grief, or major life transitions.

How do I get started?

The first step is scheduling a free Discovery Call. We'll talk about where you are today, what you're hoping to achieve, and whether my coaching approach is the right fit for you. If we decide to move forward together, we'll create a path that supports your goals and your journey.

Do I need to have experienced trauma to benefit from coaching?

Not at all. Many women come to coaching because they feel anxious, overwhelmed, burned out, or stuck in patterns they don't fully understand. You don't need a specific diagnosis or traumatic event to benefit from learning more about yourself and creating lasting change.

You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone.

Healing isn't about becoming someone new.

It's about understanding the person you've always been beneath the patterns. If you're ready to move beyond survival mode and create a life rooted in greater peace, resilience, and purpose, I'd be honored to walk alongside you.

You are not broken. Many of the patterns you've carried were once ways your mind and body learned to survive. With understanding, compassion, and support, lasting change is possible.

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