know your story.
know yourself.
Space to understand why you are the way you are.
Storywork coaching + podcast
Your story didn’t start today.
There are experiences in your past that still shape how you see yourself, relate to others, and move through the world.
You may have learned to push through, stay strong, or set certain experiences aside. But sometimes the things we’ve moved past aren’t things we’ve fully understood, or more importantly, allowed ourselves to feel.
Over time, our experiences can shape the way we see ourselves, what we believe we’re worth, what we expect from others, and how we respond when life feels uncertain, painful or overwhelming.
Storywork creates space to make sense of the story beneath your patterns.
Not to erase your past, or change what happened, but to become curious about how your experiences in life have shaped you—and what piecing together your story might help you understand about yourself today.
When we make room to process our experiences, and begin to understand them more honestly, we can digest the truth, reconnect with ourselves, and move through life with greater awareness, self-trust, and freedom.
What is storywork?
Storywork is a narrative-focused approach to trauma care that creates space to explore the experiences that have shaped you—and understand how they continue to show up in your life today.
Through guided conversation and attention to the stories we carry, you can begin to understand the connection between your experiences, your beliefs, your emotions, your relationships, and the patterns you find yourself repeating.
Storywork is not therapy, and it isn't about diagnosing or fixing you.
It isn't about digging up your past for the sake of reliving it, or telling you what your story means.
It is a space to become curious about your own experience—with someone who can help you slow down, look more closely, and help you make connections you may not have been able to see on your own.
Why you might be here
Maybe you’ve spent a long time trying to understand yourself.
You’re thoughtful. Self-aware. You’ve read the books, asked the questions, prayed, talked it through, tried to communicate better, tried to let things go.
And yet, something still isn’t quite working.
Maybe you keep finding yourself in the same patterns—shutting down, becoming overwhelmed, overreacting, people-pleasing, pulling away, or carrying more responsibility than feels like yours.
Maybe you know, logically, that you’re safe now, but certain things still feel bigger than they should.
Maybe you’re questioning things you once believed about God, yourself, your family, your marriage, or the person you thought you were supposed to be.
Maybe you’ve spent so much time adapting to other people that you’re not entirely sure what you actually want anymore.
your story may hold more answers than you realize.
Or maybe the question is simple:
Why am I the way I am?
You don’t need to have the answer before you begin.
You don’t need to know whether what happened to you “counts”.
You don’t need a perfectly articulated story.
You just need enough curiosity to wonder if there might be more to understand.
WHY we do this work
We both know what it is to wonder, Why am I the way I am?
Between Beauty & Heartache grew out of our own experiences of becoming curious about the stories that shaped us—and discovering how much can change when we have the space to truly understand them.
For Chassie, this work has been deeply personal and embodied. Through her own journey with complex trauma, she has spent years learning from Cathy Loerzel and the women of Sacred Interruption, engaging her story with honesty, compassion, and care. Along the way, she has experienced firsthand the shifts that can happen when we begin to understand not only what happened to us, but how those experiences live in our bodies, relationships, emotions, and sense of self.
Noah came to this work through his own story as well and has pursued formal training in Narrative Focused Trauma Care (NFTC), becoming certified in the approach. His practice combines that training with the curiosity and compassion that come from continuing to engage his own story.
Our paths into this work have been different, but the invitation is the same:
Become curious about your story. Understand why you are the way you are. Discover what becomes possible when you know yourself more deeply.
Today, we’re continuing to learn, practice, and grow in this work—individually and together.
We offer one-on-one Story Work, share our own stories through the podcast, and are beginning to create small, intimate retreats with Horse & Bow. These experiences bring story work into a slower, more embodied environment where women can step away from everyday life, spend time in nature and alongside horses, and create space to notice what is happening within them.
We’re especially drawn to creating these spaces for women recovering from developmental and complex trauma—women who have spent years adapting, surviving, performing, or caring for others, and are ready to understand themselves in a new way.
We don’t believe you need to become someone new.
We believe there is more of you to understand.
Because this work isn’t just something we believe in.
It’s something we’ve lived.
