About Nadine
I create space for your truth to emerge — in words, choices, and direction.
I help you transform how you see yourself or your brand and tell your uniquely empowering story. My goal is to guide you to drop the “shoulds” so you can develop and share a narrative that feels like home, not a costume or performance you’ve outgrown.
As a Toronto-based midlife coach, storyteller, writer, and editor with over two decades in Canadian and U.S. media, I combine editorial curiosity and precision with genuine warmth. This allows me to reflect back what you truly want to say, especially when you’re struggling to find the words yourself. I help you shape language that resonates more deeply and invites more joyous, aligned experiences into your life.
Who I Work With
I create the most powerful results for people who:
Feel exhausted by the constant pressure to perform
Have checked all the traditional boxes but still feel something is… off
Struggle to articulate their value clearly and consistently
Have something important to say but can’t quite find the right words
Are ready to let go of narratives that no longer serve them
Whether you're a midlife woman seeking clarity, a writer in transition, a neurodivergent creator, or a purpose-driven entrepreneur — if you're seeking language that feels like you, we're likely a match.
How I Work
I reject one-size-fits-all frameworks and rigid storytelling formulas. Instead, I offer a thoughtful, human-centred approach that blends journalistic skill with compassionate coaching.
When we work together, you can expect:
Deep listening: You’ll feel truly seen and understood
Gentle reflection: Thoughtful prompts to help you reconnect with yourself
Permission to pace yourself: One steady, sustainable step at a time
Tangible guidance: Practical tools with deep respect for your process
I reserve limited spots for coaching clients to ensure I can be fully present — and to protect the rhythm of my own creative work. That means you get my best energy, not what’s left after burnout.
My Values
I believe in creating spaces of authentic connection and community care. My work is grounded in values that prioritize inner truth over external pressure. Whether you're navigating a midlife transition, developing your brand voice, or bringing a creative project to life, I create clarity where you previously felt confusion, and connection where you felt isolation.
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Self-compassion over constant improvement
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Authentic expression over performance
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Sustainable pace over perfectionist pressure
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Healthy boundaries over self-abandonment
My Story
In my early 40s, I had the family, the title, the bylines — the boxes checked.
And yet, something still felt… off.
I wasn’t ungrateful. But I was restless.
The answer wasn’t in working harder or blowing everything up. It was in giving myself permission to want something different, even within a life that looked “successful.”
Permission felt scary at first. The voices in my head were loud: “Good mothers don't rock the boat. You should be grateful for what you have.”
But underneath all that noise was a quieter truth: I was allowed to grow. I was allowed to want more than what I'd settled for.
Learning to give myself permission — to want, to change, to take up space — changed everything.
Professionally, my path led me through leadership roles in media, including as Managing Editor at Today’s Parent and executive positions at Rogers Media. While at Rogers, I completed a program in their ICF-aligned coach training with Essential Impact — part of an award-winning cultural transformation that built an internal coaching culture across the company.
I began coaching formally in 2019, contributing to the Kickstartology Alignment Framework and collaborating on programs that helped hundreds of women move towards a life where they thrive. But over time, I began to see the limits of traditional coaching. The top-down approach — identify the thought, reframe the belief, take the action — didn't work for everyone.
I needed to understand why, and to explore what I was sensing in myself and observing in my clients. Many of the women I worked with were navigating something deeper:
C-PTSD
Generational trauma
Neurodivergence
These women didn’t need more mindset tools. They needed gentleness. Nervous system support. Witnessing.
Through my training in Creating Trauma-Informed Safe Spaces with Adria Moses and the School of Radical Healing, I began integrating community healing practices, ancestral knowledge, and somatic techniques that support slow, embodied change — the kind that actually sticks.
Now in my 50s, I've lived through multiple identity transitions — including my name change from Silverthorne to Araksi. As a second-generation Armenian-Canadian, the daughter of hard-working immigrant parents whose own parents survived genocide, I’ve come to understand this:
We don’t always get to choose what shaped us. But we can choose how we respond — and how we repair when we cause harm.
This is the root of my work: helping people reconnect with what matters, rewrite the stories that are no longer true, and move forward with more integrity and self-trust.
If you’ve never felt like this work was meant for you...
I understand.
The coaching and personal development world often centers whiteness, individualism, and performance. It can feel like these spaces weren't built for you, or like you have to filter your truth to be understood.
I understand the complexity of holding two truths at once: honouring the sacrifices and stories that shaped you, while also claiming your right to forge paths your ancestors couldn't have imagined. To set down the survival stories that served them but no longer serve you in the world as it is now.
My work holds space for those complexities through lived experience, professional training, and ongoing unlearning of what it means to "do the work" inclusively.
Whether you're from a racialized, immigrant, neurodivergent, or working-class background, you don't have to code-switch here. You don't have to translate yourself. You don't have to be fully formed to belong.
You just have to show up as you are. That’s where we begin.
Let’s Connect
Ready to find the words that feel like home?
Start with a free 20-minute conversation to explore how I might support your storytelling needs.
