You Survived What Was Meant to Break You.
Now It’s Time to Come Home to Yourself.
I help women who have experienced abuse and deep trauma move beyond survival, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and embrace spirituality as part of their healing journey.
You are not broken. You are becoming.
You Are More Than What Happened to You.
A trauma-informed pathway from survival to self-trust, spiritual connection, and becoming who you were always meant to be.
You don't have to spend the rest of your life defined by what happened to you.
Healing isn't about becoming someone new.
It's about returning to yourself.
I'm Elise Skibik author, life coach, trauma advocate, Reiki Master, and creator of the SEASTAR Model and TRANSEND Method.
Through coaching, mentorship, writing, spirituality, and holistic healing practices, I help women begin to understand their patterns, reconnect with their inner wisdom, and create a life that feels like their own.
You survived. Now let's explore what becomes possible when you no longer have to live from a place of survival.
From Surviving to Becoming
Trauma can shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, our choices, and even our future.
You may find yourself:
repeating patterns you know aren't serving you
struggling with self-sabotage
carrying anxiety, stress, or hypervigilance
questioning your intuition
feeling disconnected from yourself
searching for deeper meaning or spirituality
knowing you want change but not knowing where to begin
You aren't broken.
There are patterns beneath the patterns.
And when we begin creating safety, awareness, and space to explore them, something begins to shift.
Your Healing Isn't About Becoming Someone Else.
It's about returning to the woman underneath the survival patterns.
My work brings together trauma-informed coaching, subconscious pattern exploration, spirituality, Reiki-informed practices, reflection, journaling, meditation, and intuitive self-discovery.
The goal isn't to tell you who to become.
The goal is to help you hear yourself again.
The SEASTAR Model
A pathway back to yourself.
S — Safety
Create a foundation where exploration can begin.
E — Explore
Become curious about your experiences, patterns, beliefs, and inner world.
A — Awareness
Recognize what has been shaping your thoughts, behaviors, relationships, and choices.
S — Shift
Begin creating new perspectives, responses, and possibilities.
T — Transform
Move beyond simply understanding your patterns and begin living differently.
A — Align
Reconnect your choices with your values, intuition, purpose, and authentic self.
R — Return
Return to the self beneath the survival patterns — not a new you, but a more fully connected you.
Ways We Can Work Together
1:1 Life Coaching
Personalized support for women ready to explore patterns, reconnect with themselves, and create meaningful change.
Explore your patterns.
Strengthen self-trust.
Create intentional change.
The Seastar Sisterhood
A supportive online community for women exploring healing, spirituality, self-discovery, and personal transformation.
Inside the Sisterhood, you'll find:
Monthly healing themes
Workshops
Guided meditations
Journaling and printable resources
Spiritual exploration
Reiki-informed practices
Community connection
Reflection and self-discovery
A space to explore your healing without having to walk alone
Books & Writing
Sometimes healing begins with seeing your own story reflected in someone else's words.
Through memoir, poetry, reflection, and storytelling, my writing explores trauma, survival, spirituality, identity, resilience, and the complicated path of becoming whole.
Meet Elise
I don't teach healing from a pedestal.
I share from lived experience.
My own journey has taken me through trauma, survival, addiction, motherhood, spiritual awakening, and the long process of learning that surviving something and living freely after it are two very different things.
Those experiences became part of the foundation for the work I do today.
To create spaces where women can feel safe enough to explore, courageous enough to shift, and empowered enough to return to themselves.
You Don't Have to Have It All Figured Out.
Maybe you're at the beginning.
Maybe you've already done years of healing work.
Maybe you're somewhere in between.
There is no perfect timeline.
There is no single way to heal.
There is only the next honest step.
And you don't have to take it alone.
A Gentle Reminder
This work is educational and supportive in nature and is not a substitute for psychotherapy, medical care, or crisis services. You are always encouraged to seek qualified professional support appropriate to your individual needs.
Need deeper support?
Check out our Seastar Membership
The Seastar Sisterhood offers a growing library of healing resources created from my 8 years of training, lived experience, holistic healing practices, coaching knowledge, and continued education. Members receive monthly workshops, workbooks, guided meditations, Reiki-infused practices, spiritual teachings, reflection tools, community connection, live gatherings, and exclusive resources. The combined value of these offerings is estimated at $500+ annually, while membership provides ongoing access at an accessible monthly investment.
The Seastar Sisterhood offers a growing library of healing resources created from my 8 years of training, lived experience, holistic healing practices, coaching knowledge, and continued education. Members receive monthly workshops, workbooks, guided meditations, Reiki-infused practices, spiritual teachings, reflection tools, community connection, and exclusive resources. The combined value of these offerings is over $500+ annually Save $50 on a yearly membership and get entered into giveaways
Big Ideas, Real Impact
The TRANSCEND Method
A Journey Back to Yourself
What if healing isn't about becoming someone new, but reconnecting with the woman who has been there all along?
Trauma can shape the way we see ourselves, our relationships, our bodies, and the world around us. Sometimes the patterns that once helped us survive can continue long after the danger has passed.
You may find yourself abandoning your own needs, struggling to trust yourself, feeling disconnected from your body or intuition, or wondering who you are beyond everything you've experienced.
You don't have to navigate that journey alone.
The TRANSCEND Method is my signature trauma-informed coaching framework created to help you move from surviving to consciously reconnecting with yourself.
Through nine intentional stages, we create space to slow down, listen inward, regulate our nervous system, acknowledge what we've experienced, nurture ourselves, and begin taking meaningful steps forward.
TRANSCEND stands for:
T — Tune In
R — Regulate
A — Acknowledge
N — Nurture
S — Step Forward
C — Connect
E — Embody
N — Navigate
D — Develop
This isn't about rushing your healing or forcing yourself to "move on."
It's about learning to listen to yourself again.
It's about recognizing what you need.
It's about creating a relationship with yourself rooted in compassion rather than self-abandonment.
And ultimately, it's about discovering that there is so much more to you than what you've survived.
Your healing journey can begin with one conversation.
Through one-on-one coaching, we'll explore where you are now, what you're ready to shift, and what support you need to move forward—using the TRANSCEND Method as a compassionate framework for your journey.
You are not your trauma.
You are the woman who survived it
You are the woman who gets to decide what comes next.
Ready to Begin?
Talks With Friends Podcast
Talks With Friends is a conversation-driven podcast exploring modern life through the lens of friendship.
We unpack relationships, personal growth, mental health, culture, spirituality, and the everyday experiences that shape us.
Intuitive, powerful shaman
Elise is a powerful and remarkable healer.
I had been yearning for a shamanic journey and met her at a spiritual retreat where she taught and offered Reiki and crystal healing to all of us. I was able to have a private session and journey under Elise’s guidance. She is a gifted shaman with both natural and developed intuition. My journey held truth, insights, and information for me. She harmonizes with nature and the source, and she facilitates meaningful connections to my higher self and ancestral souls. She is both strong and gentle, which suits my sensitive nature. I am very grateful to have Elise in my life, guiding me in my expansion and life path.
— Shamanic Journey clientElise is truly amazing
Elise is truly amazing. I have had the pleasure of attending multiple online workshops, receiving many readings, and purchasing her books. Every reading has been super accurate. Her printable self-help workbooks are the greatest, and I use them regularly to help guide me through this thing we call life. I suggest everyone book a session with her to gain insight and clarity.
— Client ReviewThankful to have found the Seastarhood!!!
Elise has created an amazing space for her Seastars, providing a variety of tools and content from meditations, podcasts, her writing, workbooks, and coaching tools, which I’ve found immensely helpful while on my journey to reconnect with myself, continue processing my past trauma, and redefine who I am and wish to be. I stumbled across her a year ago and never left because she is REAL, she is responsive and my favorite part… she gives you the messages you need, NOT want you want. Thank you, Elise, for creating this space and for being authentically you!
— Seastar memberExplore Our Current Lineup
Hi, I’m Elise, a trauma-informed life coach, author, Reiki practitioner, and spiritual mentor passionate about helping women heal, reconnect with themselves, and step into the life they were meant to live.
After overcoming my own experiences with trauma, grief, addiction, and deep personal transformation, I dedicated my life to creating safe spaces for healing, empowerment, and spiritual growth. Through coaching, energy healing, writing, and mentorship, I help women regulate their nervous systems, rebuild self-trust, reconnect with their intuition, and transcend survival mode.
My work blends holistic healing, spirituality, emotional support, mindset transformation, and nervous system care to guide women back home to themselves — mind, body, and spirit.
1:1 Coaching Sessions
I offer trauma-informed coaching sessions designed to support you in healing deeply, reconnecting with yourself, and expanding into your spirituality in a way that feels safe, embodied, and real.
Fully customized sessions to align with your needs.
This is a space where you don’t have to perform, rush, or have everything figured out. You get to arrive exactly as you are.
In our time together, I guide you through a process that gently uncovers patterns, beliefs, and emotional responses rooted in past experiences while helping you build a new relationship with yourself grounded in awareness, compassion, and self-trust.
My approach blends psychology and spirituality in a way that is both intuitive and practical. I integrate coaching techniques, inner-child work, nervous-system awareness, and grounded conversation to support real, lasting shifts.
For those who feel called, I also offer optional intuitive guidance and Reiki energy work to support emotional release, clarity, and energetic balance.
What We Can Work Through
Healing trauma patterns and emotional triggers
Reconnecting with your inner child
Releasing self-doubt and limiting beliefs
Navigating life transitions or overwhelm
Deepening your intuition and spiritual connection
Building self-trust, boundaries, and emotional safety
If you feel ready to go deeper, I invite you to begin.
Book your session and take the next step toward healing, clarity, and alignment.
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Life Coaching Disclaimer
Life coaching is a supportive, educational, and goal-oriented service designed to help you gain clarity, explore personal growth, develop self-awareness, and create meaningful changes in your life. Coaching is not a substitute for medical, psychological, psychiatric, legal, financial, or other professional services.
As a life coach, I do not diagnose, treat, or cure mental health conditions, medical conditions, trauma-related disorders, or other illnesses. Coaching may include reflective practices, mindfulness, spirituality, holistic wellness practices, journaling, visualization, meditation, and other personal-development tools. These practices are offered for educational and supportive purposes and are not intended to replace appropriate professional care.
Because conversations may involve difficult life experiences, you are encouraged to work with a licensed mental health or healthcare professional when addressing significant trauma, mental health concerns, crisis situations, or conditions requiring clinical treatment. If you are experiencing an emergency or are at risk of harming yourself or someone else, please contact 911, go to the nearest emergency department, or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
You are responsible for your own decisions, choices, actions, and outcomes. Coaching does not guarantee a particular result. You acknowledge that you are voluntarily participating in coaching and that the information shared during coaching is intended to support your personal growth and self-directed goals.
My intention is to provide a compassionate, respectful, trauma-informed space where you can explore your experiences, reconnect with yourself, and move forward at a pace that feels supportive to you.
A guided healing experience for reconnecting with your inner child, deepening self-love, and creating space to transcend old trauma patterns.
There are parts of us that learned to survive long before we understood what was happening.
This healing bundle was created to help you gently reconnect with those younger parts of yourself, offer yourself compassion and safety, and begin building a deeper relationship with the person you are today.
Return to Self includes a collection of guided meditation experiences designed to support inner-child healing, self-love, emotional connection, and the process of moving beyond old wounds and patterns.
What You'll Receive
🎧 2 Guided Audio Meditations
An Inner Child Healing Meditation
A Self-Love & Emotional Connection Meditation
🎥 1 Guided Video Meditation
A trauma-informed healing meditation designed to help you reconnect with yourself and create a deeper sense of compassion, safety, and self-love.
📖 Bonus Digital Workbooks
You'll also receive additional printable workbooks to help you continue the experience beyond the meditations through reflection, journaling, self-exploration, and intentional healing practices.
This Bundle Can Help You Explore
Connecting with your inner child
Practicing deeper self-compassion
Recognizing old emotional patterns
Creating a more loving relationship with yourself
Exploring wounds connected to abandonment, rejection, shame, or feeling unseen
Releasing the belief that you have to become someone else to be worthy of love
Creating space to understand your emotions
Developing a deeper connection with your authentic self
Supporting your journey of transcending trauma and returning to yourself
Your Healing Doesn't Have to Begin With Becoming Someone New.
Sometimes healing begins with remembering who you were before survival taught you to hide parts of yourself.
Use these meditations and workbooks at your own pace. Return to them whenever you need a moment of grounding, reflection, connection, or self-love.
You are not broken.
You are not too much.
You are not your wounds.
There is a part of you beneath the survival patterns that remains.
This bundle is an invitation to begin returning to her.
Digital Access
After purchase, you'll receive access to a digital download PDF containing a hyperlink to your 2 audio meditations, 1 video meditation, and bonus printable workbooks. Make sure to have internet access to open links
This is a digital product. No physical items will be shipped.
Created for your personal healing journey and self-exploration.
These workbooks are designed to support self-reflection, emotional regulation, and holistic healing through grounded spiritual practices. Each workbook offers a gentle, structured space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with your own inner wisdom without pressure, perfection, or spiritual bypassing.
Rather than providing answers or predictions, these workbooks guide you back to self-trust, discernment, and embodied awareness. They are intentionally trauma-informed and suitable for sensitive, intuitive individuals navigating healing, personal growth, or spiritual exploration. Practices are invitational, flexible, and meant to be adapted to your unique needs and pace.
Across all titles, you’ll find:
Reflective journaling prompts
Grounding and integration practices
Emotional and energetic boundary awareness
Tools that support nervous-system safety
A focus on integration into everyday life
These workbooks are not a replacement for medical, psychological, or therapeutic care. They are supportive companions designed to deepen self-awareness, encourage sustainable wellness, and help you cultivate clarity, confidence, and alignment from within.
Whether you are exploring confidence, protection, intuition, ancestral healing, or spiritual connection, each workbook meets you where you are and supports you in moving forward with intention, compassion, and integrity.
Workbooks are either printable or usable digitally. Check your spam folder for the digital download, or create an account to keep track of all your downloads.
Want to join a SISTERHOOD? Check out our Seastar Membership
Damaged Girl is more than my memoir it is the story of what happens when a woman refuses to let her past define her future. Within these pages, I share my journey through deep, complex trauma, survival, loss, healing, and ultimately transformation. This book is an invitation for anyone who has ever felt broken, unseen, or silenced to discover that healing is possible. My hope is that as you walk beside me through my story, you'll find the courage to reconnect with your own inner strength, embrace your resilience, and remember that your greatest wounds can become the foundation for your greatest purpose.
The woman beneath the trauma
Why I Wrote My Memoir 🤍
I didn’t write my memoir because I had everything figured out.
I wrote it because there was a time when I didn’t know how to make sense of what had happened to me.
I carried stories I was ashamed of.
I carried wounds I didn’t understand.
I made choices from places of pain, survival, fear, and self-sabotage.
For a long time, I thought my past was something I needed to hide.
But healing taught me something different:
Our stories don’t have to remain the places where we are stuck. They can become the places where we begin to understand ourselves.
Writing Damaged Girl allowed me to go back—not to relive everything, but to finally witness the girl I had been with compassion.
She deserved to be understood.
She deserved to know that what happened to her wasn’t the end of her story.
And I deserved to discover that I was more than the things that happened to me.
I wrote my memoir for the woman who has ever looked at her life and wondered:
“How did I get here?”
For the woman who has survived things she never thought she would.
For the woman who has lost herself trying to survive.
And for the woman who is beginning to wonder…
Who could I become if I stopped letting my past define me?
My story isn’t about being perfect.
It’s about becoming.
It’s about finding my voice.
It’s about learning to trust myself again.
And ultimately, it’s about realizing that healing isn’t about becoming someone completely new.
Sometimes, healing is about returning to the woman you were underneath it all.
That is why I wrote my memoir.
And that is why I continue to share my story.
Because if my story can remind even one woman that she isn’t broken, isn’t alone, and isn’t finished…
then telling it was worth it. 🩷
Your story matters.
Your healing matters.
And you are so much more than what happened to you.
“Life coaching with Elise has been truly life-changing. She offers such a strong sense of support, understanding, and wisdom, drawing from her own experiences while also bringing a gentle insight that allows me to heal and expand at my own pace. I’m deeply grateful for her guidance and would highly recommend her to anyone seeking meaningful personal growth and support.”
Safety and self-connection have been an internal battle for most of the women who have experienced trauma. One of the recurring themes is being misled by assumptions, which can affect our process but also how we show up.