Coaching to expand your capacity for life — after loss, change, and fear.
Loss and major life transitions don’t just affect our emotions.
They change our energy, our confidence, our bodies, and our ability to move forward.
At Saunter, I help people expand their capacity after loss and transition — so they can pursue goals, adapt with resilience, live alongside fear, and re-engage with life in a way that feels steady, grounded, and sustainable.
Not by pushing harder.
But by working with the body and nervous system — not against them.
I’m Susan.
I came to this work through lived experience.
After losing both of my parents within a year, I expected grief to be emotional. What I didn’t expect was how deeply it would affect my body. Years of chronic stress and loss showed up as fatigue, immune disruption, digestive issues, and a nervous system that felt constantly on edge — even when life on the outside looked “fine.”
I wasn’t broken.
My capacity had been exceeded.
That experience reshaped how I understand change, healing, and transformation — and it’s the foundation of my work today.
Why capacity matters
Loss, chronic stress, and major transitions narrow our capacity:
to tolerate uncertainty
to feel confident and motivated
to take risks or pursue what matters
to be present with fear without being overwhelmed
This isn’t a personal failing — it’s a physiological reality.
When the nervous system is overloaded, willpower and mindset alone aren’t enough. Sustainable change happens when the body feels safe enough to engage with life again.
My work focuses on gently expanding capacity — emotionally, physically, and neurologically — so resilience isn’t forced, but restored.
My approach: paced, embodied transformation
This is not hustle-based coaching or mindset optimization.
We work at the pace of your nervous system, integrating:
Nervous system awareness to reduce overwhelm and build stability
Embodied presence to rebuild trust with your body
Emotional integration so loss and fear don’t run the show
Aligned action that emerges once your system has the capacity to support it
Transformation doesn’t happen by rushing forward.
It happens when your system can hold more — more choice, more confidence, and more.
A note on movement & nourishment
When appropriate, we may integrate gentle movement and nourishment practices — not as performance goals, fixes, or prescriptions — but as tools to support regulation, grounding, and capacity building.
Movement and nourishment become ways to:
reconnect with your body after stress or loss
support nervous system resilience
rebuild energy and confidence gradually
Always adaptive.
Always responsive.
Never forced.
This work is for you if…
You’ve been through loss or major change and don’t feel like yourself anymore
You’re functioning — but exhausted, tense, or disconnected
You want to pursue goals and life again without burning out
You want support that honors fear, rather than trying to eliminate it
You don’t need to be “fixed.”
You need space, pacing, and support to expand again.
You don’t have to do this alone
My role is to walk alongside you as you rebuild capacity — so change feels steadier, fear feels workable, and life becomes something you can move toward again.
If that resonates, I’d love to connect.