Coaching For Chronic Illness
You are capable of more than you know. Rediscover your strength, clarify your goals, and move forward—at your pace, in your way. Turn your aspirations into action—and your challenges into growth. Because living with chronic illness shouldn’t mean putting your dreams on hold.
Welcome!
Your goals, your growth, your time to rise.
Coaching for Chronic Illness represents a partnership with clients to help them move forward with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Whether you’re navigating change, setting bold goals, or seeking greater balance and fulfillment, Coaching for Chronic Illness provides the support, tools, and frameworks you need to create meaningful progress.
Take our Coaching Readiness Quiz to determine what type of support is right for you at this stage of your journey.
Individual Coaching
Through individual, personalized coaching, we will work together to navigate challenges, nurture your strengths, and create meaningful progress at your own pace.
Group Coaching
The group coaching program brings together individuals with similar goals and challenges, providing a supportive and compassionate environment for personal development.
Mentor Coaching
Receive mentor coaching in either an individual or group setting towards achieving coaching credentialing.
Blog
More thoughts, tips, and tools for living with illness and navigating life in all its forms.
Navigating Chronic Illness with Heart and Hope.
Valerie Alawiye presents Navigating Chronic Illness With Heart and Hope on Grief.TV, an insightful series offering practical wisdom and heartfelt encouragement for every step of the journey.
Visit Grief.TV to see new episodes:
- Episode #1 – What Grief in Chronic Illness Really Looks Like
- Episode #2 – Embracing Who You’re Becoming
- Episode #3 – My Story: Why Did I Choose Coaching for Chronic Illness
- Episode #4 – Carrying What You Can: Grace for the Ones Who Help
- Episode #5 – A Healing Partnership: Coaching & illness Support
Online courses
Take a Coaching Class
Coaching Certification Program
Coming soon! Become a Certified Coach in the Coaching for Chronic Illness Coaching Certification Program. Help us continue to fulfill our purpose and expand our outreach by becoming a certified coach through an intensive, deep-dive program designed to take your skills and knowledge to the next level.
Duration
The Coaching for Chronic Illness Coaching Certification Program is an intensive 12-week program.
Availability
Enrollment for our inaugural program will open soon.
Options
Depending on your learning preferences, you can enroll in either the Solo, Connected, or Guided Journey level. Additional information will be available soon.
Continued Coaching Education
Coming soon! Stay up-to-date on your continued coaching education with this program, designed to help you broaden and deepen your skills to better support your clients.
Duration
Continued Coaching Education courses are short modules, typically ranging from 2 to 4 weeks each.
Availability
We will offer multiple Continued Coaching Education sessions throughout the year, allowing you to choose the one that aligns with your schedule.
Options
The Continued Coaching Education program will be available in either a Solo or Guided Journey format.
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The Caregiver’s Quiet Grief: What Love Doesn’t Always Fix–by Valerie Alawiye
When we talk about chronic illness, most of the focus is on the person who is ill. Their body, their pain, their appointments. But every chronic illness story has supporting characters—often quiet, often unseen. These are the caregivers. And they carry grief too. Maybe you’re a partner, a parent, a sibling, or a friend. Maybe…
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Becoming Isn’t Failure — Making Peace With the Person You Are Now–by Valerie Alawiye
There’s a version of you that maybe only you remember—the one who had energy late into the evening, who said yes without hesitation, who could plan weeks ahead without factoring in pain, fatigue, or flares. That version of you didn’t feel fragile or limited. They didn’t have to think about accessibility or energy trade-offs. You…
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Becoming You Again: Chronic Illness, Identity, and the Grace of Change – by Valerie Alawiye
There’s a quiet kind of grief that comes with chronic illness. It doesn’t always show up as sadness. Sometimes it shows up as longing. For who you used to be. For the life you planned. For the version of yourself who could just go, do, be—without needing to pause or explain. Maybe you’ve whispered things…