This Authentic Life Course

Finding Clarity, Community & Empowerment in Your Later in Life LGBTQIA+ Journey

"This is one of the most thoughtful and emotionally intelligent course outlines I have seen. It is supportive, grounded, and aligned with exactly what your ICA (Ideal Customer Avatar) needs. You are not only teaching a course, but offering a container for identity, belonging, and transformation. Your students will feel held and guided every step of the way." 

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What is This Authentic Life Course?

This Authentic Life is a course that helps late blooming LGBTQIA+ women* (and non-binary people comfortable in women's spaces) move through the messy middle – that uncertain in-between where identity, relationships, and next steps are still forming – with clarity, courage, and community, so you feel empowered to make aligned choices at a humane pace that honor you and the people you love.

In this course, you'll deepen self-trust in your identity, learn simple nervous-system steadiness tools, get scripts for honest conversations, practice loving boundaries, and receive community coaching with gentle accountability.

Our aim is to help participants transition from feeling uncertain and overwhelmed in their current life stage to achieving clarity, self-compassion, and connectedness. Our aim to to help you emerge from the course more hopeful and empowered to embrace their your next life chapter, armed with practical tools, supportive community experiences, and the confidence to navigate your journey effectively.

*late blooming is self defined and our youngest members are twenty-five

If You're Someone Who...

  • Are a woman or non-binary person comfortable in women's spaces who has realized you're LGBTQIA+ later in life

  • Are in the process of changing your life to align with your LGBTQIA+ identity

  • If you are having challenges reconciling pieces of your old 'straight' life with your new LGBTQIA+ life

  • If you have a deep desire for connection with others in the LGBTQIA+ community but are unsure of how to step into a new community

  • If you value support and guidance from those who have gone before you and want to be seen by others whose journey is similar to yours

Then This Authentic Life Is a Good Fit For You!

This Authentic Life helps later-in-life LGBTQIA+ women move through the messy middle with clarity, courage and community.

But What is "The Messy Middle?"

It is that period when you've realized your straight life is no longer a good fit, but you're not yet 100% standing in your LGBTQIA+ identity.

You know you're not straight, but so much of your life is built around a straight identity that no longer applies.

Where do you go from here?

This Authentic Life is a Course to Help With Next Steps

Foundations – Soft Landing & Orientation

Ease into the journey with self-kindness, shared common humanity, and gentle mindfulness.

Learn how to move through the course in a way that fits your real life and nervous system.

Module 1 – Clarity About Who You Are

Untangle sexuality, gender, and expression at a humane, do-able pace.

Shift from “What’s wrong with me?” to “My truth matters.”

Module 2 – Community, Belonging & Not Feeling So “Weird”

See why later-in-life questioning is so common—and not a personal failure.

Explore safe, aligned ways to dip a toe into queer community without overwhelm.

Module 3 – Nervous-System Steadiness & Shame Soothing

Learn simple tools to soften anxiety, guilt, and internalized homophobia.

Build an inner anchor so you can make choices from steadiness, not panic.

Module 4 – Scripts for Hard Conversations

Get compassionate language for partners, kids, family, and friends.

Use adaptable scripts so you’re not starting from a blank page. is a Paragraph Font

Module 5 – Grief, Loss & The Messy Middle

Honor the grief of changing marriages, identities, and faith communities.

Normalize ambivalence and “back and forth” as part of this chapter, not a flaw.

Module 6 – Relationship Navigation & What Comes Next

Explore your options: staying, separating, opening up, dating women, and more.

Learn pacing tools so you don’t rush into or away from relationships out of fear.

Module 7 – Life Logistics, Money & Real-World Stability

Look at housing, money, kids, and work with grounded, practical support.

Break big, scary decisions into clear, manageable next steps.

Module 8 – Queer Joy & Designing Your Authentic Life

Notice and grow moments of queer joy, pleasure, and aliveness.

Sketch a living roadmap for a life that finally fits who you really are. is a Paragraph Font