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.
How It Works
Your Path to Healing in Three Simple Steps
Book A Discovery Call
We’ll discuss your goals and how we can work together.
Create a Personalized Plan
We’ll design a roadmap tailored to your healing journey.
Experience Empowerment and Growth
Begin seeing positive changes as you reclaim your life.
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.
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.
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.
Coleen
FAQs
Got Questions? Your Healing Journey Starts Here.
What is trauma recovery coaching?
A holistic approach to understanding and healing from trauma’s effects on the mind, body, and spirit.
How long does coaching take?
Every journey is unique, but most clients see progress in 3-6 months.
What’s included in the workshops?
Practical tools, strategies, and insights based on evidence-based practices.
How do I get started?
Book a free discovery call to explore your goals.
Get Consulting Today
Take the First Step Toward Healing and Freedom
Start your journey to reclaiming your inner strength and living a life of purpose. Let’s work together to create a personalized plan for your healing and growth.
At Awaken Your Life, we believe that every woman has the power to heal, grow, and thrive beyond trauma.
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