Whole Life Mentoring & Coaching
A Liberatory Approach to Living, Feeling, and Becoming
Let’s explore what lights you up, grounds you, moves you to take action — and how to navigate oppressive systems with more clarity, joy, and power. This isn’t performance coaching or top-down advice. This is a wisdom-filled, compassion-led space where mentoring and coaching intertwine to support your whole self. Together, we’ll name what’s true, move through what’s hard, and cultivate what’s possible. You’ll be held in your wild ideas, tender doubts, bold dreams, and messy brilliance — just as you are.
What Is Whole Life Mentoring & Coaching?
Life is layered. There are twists and thresholds, seasons of becoming and undoing — sacred beginnings, messy middles, and quiet endings. There are celebrations and heartbreaks, long pauses and wild joys. Through all of it, we long for connection. Not for someone to fix or direct us, but someone to witness us with care.
That’s the heart of Whole Life Mentoring & Coaching:
A space for presence, not performance.
For deep listening, not quick fixes.
For rediscovering the wisdom you already carry.
This is a sacred container where mentoring meets coaching not to push or pressure you, but to support your unfolding. Together, we explore your truth, your longings, your fears, and your next steps — all on your terms.
How I Support You
I’m here not as an expert or guru, but as a grounded companion. A gentle mirror. A co-conspirator in your remembering. A guide who helps you reconnect to your rhythm and your roots. You don’t need to be held accountable — you need to be held.
Here’s what that looks like:
Holding space for the full range of your expression: venting, celebrating, grieving, dreaming, or simply being still.
Offering empathetic witnessing, without judgment or urgency.
Exploring how you’re being as well as what you’re doing — in your life, relationships, work, and healing.
Asking honest, reflective questions to reconnect you to your knowing.
Creating space for your wild ideas, bold desires, and quiet truths to breathe.
We’ll root your inner seasons in rhythm with the natural world, so you can move with clarity, intention, and grace even in the chaos.
What You Can Expect
A Sanctuary for Your Truth
A space where you don’t have to shrink, explain, or perform. Come as you are — soft, messy, powerful, unsure.
A Space for Reflection & Inquiry
We’ll explore liberatory questions like:
What’s already true? What wants to emerge? What do I want to reclaim or release? How do I stay aware of oppressive systems without being consumed by them?
A Practice of Presence
This isn’t about getting somewhere. It’s about becoming who you already are — with compassion and consciousness.
A Co-Creation of Your Path
You bring your lived experience, intuition, and longings. I’ll bring presence, tools, and grounded care. Together, we’ll walk with intention.
What I Share and How I Share It
My offerings are grounded in Buddhist-informed practices—especially mindfulness, breath awareness, and compassion—which originate from spiritual traditions across South and Southeast Asia. These teachings are not tools I extract, but wisdom I honor. I am not a lineage holder, but I approach these practices with reverence and in conversation with teachers and scholars who resist Western commodification and uplift their sacred roots. Mindfulness, as I practice and share it, is a path of collective liberation—not productivity.
Alongside this foundation, I draw from a constellation of other modalities that support embodied healing and inner-outer transformation: intuitive movement grounded in Afro-diasporic and Latin dance lineages, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Ho’oponopono (with acknowledgment of its Indigenous Hawaiian origins and the harms of appropriation), Laughter Yoga, Liberatory Praxis, Mystic Rituals, Nonviolent Communication, Reiki, Restorative Practices, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Womanist Theories, and journaling as a tool of reflection passed down through many ancestral wisdoms.
These aren’t tools I’ve invented — they’re practices I’ve trained in, tended to, and continue to learn from with reverence for the cultures and lineages they emerge from. You’re invited to engage with them in ways that center your body, story, and values — always in integrity with where these practices come from.
This Space Is for You If:
You’re craving support that honors your complexity — not advice, but accompaniment.
You want to reconnect to your intuition, your rhythms, your truth.
You’re longing for a decolonial approach that names systems and honors ancestral wisdom.
You want to feel whole, held, and witnessed in a world that often demands fragments.
You’re ready to live more intentionally — with softness, depth, and soul.
How It Works
Book a Free Connection Call
Let’s meet heart-to-heart and feel into whether this container is right for you.
Choose Your Rhythm
Decide how often you want to meet (monthly, biweekly, etc.) and your preferred format — video calls or voice notes. It’s shaped around your life, not forced into a formula.
Choose Your Package
Flexible, values-aligned pricing and tiered options available — because healing shouldn’t be a luxury.
Begin the Journey
We’ll co-create a support experience that meets you where you are and honors the path ahead — rooted in love, clarity, and presence.
Ready to Walk This Path Together?
Book your free Connection Call today and step into the next season of your life with support, intention, and a deep commitment to honoring your own power, softness, and sacred complexity.
Your space. Your rhythm. Your becoming.
Marta Carrion
"As a woman of color, I often felt invisible in traditional spaces, but Brenda’s heart-centered and liberation-focused approach helped me feel appreciated. I’ve never felt more empowered or aligned with my purpose!"
Sam T.
I’m a baby queer person and a busy IT professional, I often felt disconnected from myself and burdened by expectations from my family. Brenda helped me find the courage to step into my own truth and feel comfortable in my skin.
TIERED PRICING
My services are offered through a tiered pricing model, rooted in equity, care, and collective responsibility.
This model recognizes that we don’t all have access to the same financial resources — because of systemic oppression, generational harm, and ongoing economic injustice. Those with greater financial privilege are invited to intentionally redistribute wealth, making it possible for others from historically marginalized communities to access healing and growth.
It’s also designed to empower you to choose a price that aligns with your financial reality and the value you place on this work. You are invited to tune into your heart, your intuition, and your lived experience. Choose the tier that honors your needs, respects your limits, and reflects your ability to invest in your healing without compromising your essential well-being. This moment — this choice — is where our coaching begins.
This is a liberatory practice. It’s a small act of resistance against systems that commodify healing and treat worth as transactional. I will not question or challenge your self-determined rate.
The Tiers:
Rooted – For those planting seeds while tending to their own needs.
You can make this monthly investment, even if it’s a stretch. It may feel tender, but you know it’s worth it. You’re saying yes to yourself with courage.
Nourished – For those who have enough and choose to circulate care.
This rate feels steady and aligned. You can make this investment without financial strain. It’s a balanced, grounded commitment to your growth.
Abundant – For those with overflow who joyfully redistribute resources.
You have abundance to share. It brings you joy to give generously and help others access this work. Your investment supports equity, healing, and community care.
Financial Accessibility for the Global Majority
If my rates are beyond your current capacity and you are Black, Indigenous, or a Person of the Global Majority, you are welcome to use the code POWER50 at checkout for 50% off.
No applications. No justification. Just trust.
Because you deserve care, rest, and support — not more barriers. If you'd like a visual to help guide your decision, you can click HERE.
Monthly Subscription
A mentoring monthly subscription offers consistent, ongoing support to help you stay rooted in your growth and aligned with your values. With regular check-ins and reflection, you'll receive the care and encouragement needed to navigate challenges and deepen self-awareness. It’s a powerful way to prioritize your journey with a steady investment in yourself. This kind of support helps you integrate insights in real time, allowing for more lasting and embodied transformation. Cancel any time. Rejoin whenever you’re ready.
6-Month Package
6 months. 6 or 12 sessions. This mentoring package gives you time and space to go deep into your personal journey, creating room for real transformation and growth. With steady support and reflection, you’ll explore your spirituality, clarify your path, and cultivate meaningful change. This intentional commitment offers a strong, supportive container to integrate insights, build new habits, and align more fully with your most authentic self. You'll have room to stretch, reflect, and return to yourself again and again.
I don’t offer single sessions for mentoring. Schedule a call to find out why.
FAQs
What exactly is Whole Life Mentoring?
Whole Life Mentoring is like having a wise, grounded, and occasionally goofy companion walking beside you on your life journey. It’s not about fixing, achieving, or striving — it’s about being held as you move through the mess, magic, grief, and growth of life. This is a supportive space where your experiences are honored with compassion, honesty, and a sprinkle of laughter.
How is mentoring different from coaching?
Great question. Coaching is typically goal-oriented — it focuses on achieving specific outcomes with structure, timelines, and accountability. Think personal trainer for your goals. Mentoring, in contrast, is more relational and spacious. It’s about walking with you through your life as it is, without pressure to perform. Less “get it done” — more “be with what’s here.”
What can I expect during our sessions?
Expect a soft, judgment-free space where your full self is welcome. Wild ideas, big emotions, numbness, confusion, joy — it all belongs. Each session flows with what’s alive for you in the moment. Whether you're here to vent, dream, cry, celebrate, or just be — this is time carved out for your truth.
Do I need to have specific issues or goals to start mentoring?
Not at all. You don’t need a crisis or a checklist. You can arrive just as you are — uncertain, curious, content, or questioning. Mentoring is about meeting you in your now, whether that’s chaotic, quiet, or somewhere in between. We move with your rhythm.
Is this connected to a specific religion or spiritual practice?
Nope. While the word “spiritual” is in the mix, this work isn’t tied to any religion, dogma, or doctrine. It’s about exploring what feels sacred and meaningful to you. Whether your roots are ancestral, intuitive, nature-based, faith-centered, or evolving — you’re welcome here.
How often do we meet?
That’s up to you. You can choose to meet weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly — whatever fits your needs and capacity. We’ll find a rhythm that honors your season of life.
Can I really share anything with you?
Yes. You can bring it all — the grief, the joy, the rage, the pride, the confusion. This is a space where nothing is too much, too weird, too loud, or too tender. I hold space without judgment, agenda, or performance. Just presence.
How do I know if this is right for me?
If you're craving a space to be fully yourself without pressure, urgency, or expectations — this might be what you’ve been looking for. If you want to be witnessed with care, not fixed... supported, not managed... this could be your place.
How is our mentoring relationship structured?
Our relationship is collaborative and fluid — not hierarchical. We move through questions that matter to you, reflect together, and make space for your insights to emerge. It’s less about sticking to a formula, and more about being in relationship with your becoming.
How do I get started?
It’s simple. Book a free Connection Call and we’ll have a relaxed conversation to see if this feels aligned. No pressure. Just space to connect and explore how I can support you.