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Hi, I’m Maryam Ebtehadj, a mom of 2, educator, and life coach
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I know what it’s like to feel burned out, overwhelmed, and hopelessly exhausted raising amazing, big-feeling children while running a business or working a full-time job. I am a mom and an educator and balancing life could be a work of art. The guilt I felt when I was not fully there for my children when they were little, having little patience to do all my mom duties after work, losing my cool and yelling at my children like a control freak, then feeling heavy loads of guilt and shame, running back to fix things by overcompensation was ruining my life. I felt overwhelmed, disappointed, and constantly less than enough.
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This was exhausting.I have read many parenting and self-help books. This added even more to my feelings of guilt, shame, and inadequacy when I didn’t meet the standards I had in my mind. And then the pandemic hit: Hello 2020! Things went from bad to worse. Like many others, I had to work from home, navigate online schooling, and deal with exhausting power struggles, overextended screen time, and sibling rivalry.I felt like I never got a break. I felt disconnected with myself, and resentful from having to work nonstop. Work-life balance was nonexistent and staying present with my children and their evolving needs was becoming harder and harder. My misery did not make any sense.During the lockdowns I decided to change the way I lived and related to life. Even though I had read many self-help books before, it was coaching that turned my life around. Showing up for myself consistently and getting my mind coached on a weekly basis, helped me see my blind spots and shift my perspective. It took from knowledge to wisdom and from theory to action. I began to notice and break through years of automatic habits and subconscious beliefs that had led to uncontrollable overreaction to exterior triggers including my children’s behavior and less than desirable work circumstances. I took radical responsibility and decided enough is enough. I got coached, journalled, reflected, processed my unprocessed feelings and most importantly I took aligned actions to turn my life around.Now I am a more connected, compassionate and calm mom. the kind of mom my children deserve. When I sometimes lose my cool as all moms do, the intensity, length and frequency is much less than before- and I teach moms to exactly do the same by showing them how to break through their limiting beliefs and make consistent small shifts until they create the same results.I have divorced perfectionism and people pleasing and although I set goals and work hard to reach them, I do it as long as it is joyful and meaningful. I have permanently signed off from the hustle culture. My worth does not depend on my achievements and external validation. I constantly work on being kind and compassionate to myself, forgive myself and love myself even more when I fail and mess up. I have repaired my connection to myself extensively and I continuously invest in this #1 relationship.​My business is built around helping humans who are where I was not too long ago. The pain they feel is far too familiar to me and I have the tools to help. I care about working moms who carry it all. I want them to feel more joy, fulfillment, calm and harmony, and build wonderful, strong connections with themselves, their children, and their purpose. I help them find the work-life balance they desire by teaching them how to create and sustain boundaries to protect their energy and livelihood, say more NOs with zero guilt, and not worry about their reputation as a perfect good girl anymore.You are so much more than your job, your role as a parent, a daughter, a sister, a wife, a friend or an excellent overachiever. It's time for you to get to know the ENTIRE you and fall in love with it again and again. The journey of self-discovery is fun, it's crazy, it's scary, and all in all it's amazing and so worth it. You will laugh, you will cry, you will be pushed to think deeply and differently, you will feel all your feelings unapologetically and you will blow your own mind when you create your own next version from the goo you may find yourself in today.