Come Home to the Power You Were Told to Hide

Welcome to the wild world of reclaiming your power, pleasure, and presence. This is where the sacred meets the strategic, and we stop apologizing for our brilliance.

You've spent years keeping everything running.

Managing your career. Your social calendar. Holding down the family. You have what you thought would make you happy, but when the performance drops, there's this quiet, persistent whisper: Is this it?

You won't admit you're at capacity. But your body knows.

Step Inside The SEA
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​​You can hold ten things at once for everyone else. But the moment you want something for yourself, you freeze.

You want to be ten toes down on a decision. Instead, you're asking everyone else what they think.

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You've read all the books, done all the workshops, hired all the coaches. But nothing in your actual life has changed…

And you're starting to wonder if all this healing has just been another way to avoid taking the risk.

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You keep telling yourself “when this quarter ends, when I get the promotion, when things settle down”…

But you never do. The goalpost just moves. And you've been waiting for permission to enjoy your life for two years now.

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You walk past something that used to light you up - a bookstore, an art supply shop, a trail you used to run - and feel that ache in your chest…

the one that says: I used to be someone who did that. Where did she go?

You don't need another productivity hack. You don't need to be fixed or optimized or told to try harder.

You need permission to stop performing someone else's life and start living your own.

The power is already in you. I help you remember how to channel it and build the life systems that can actually hold it.

It’s not about becoming someone new. It’s about remembering who you were before the world told you who to be.

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Hi, I'm Hélène

French-American sacred strategist who bridges the mystical and the mundane

I work with high-achieving women who’ve done everything “right” and still feel like something’s missing, who are tired of holding everything together and ready to build lives that finally hold them.

I’m not here to fix you. I’m here to help you remember what it feels like to be resourced, alive, and free in your own skin.

This work isn’t about polishing who you are, it’s about rebuilding the inner and outer structures that let you thrive instead of cope. This is for the woman who is realizing she can’t keep living at this pace and calling it normal.

The power is already in you. I just help you remember how to trust it, and build a life that can wield it.

My Story
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Ways to Work Together

There is no one right way. But there is your way. And your way needs a life that can hold all of you. There are three paths depending on the depth of support you’re ready to receive.

no. 1

Le Salon (Free)

For ambitious women and spiritual seekers who crave something real. Where reflection meets rebellion.

Le Salon lives inside Telegram, a gathering place to step out of the noise, reconnect to your own rhythm, and be seen without performance. Each week, I share voice notes, prompts, and reflections that help you weave small, practical ways to restore capacity inside the life you already have. We meet seasonally for live circles that feel grounding, generous, and alive — the kind of connection that lingers long after you’ve logged off.

Enter Le Salon

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The SEA

The Self-Expression Academy. A deep dive into restructuring your foundation for fulfillment.

A year-long guided immersion for the woman who’s ready to stop running on urgency and start leading from intention. Inside, you’ll regulate your nervous system, reclaim your voice, and rebuild the inner architecture that sustains joy, rest, and expansion.

Through live calls, weekly guidance, and a community that honors imperfection, you’ll anchor new systems that create breathing room inside your world again, and learn to trust the life that’s waiting underneath the noise.

Explore The SEA

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1:1 Mentorship

The Reclamation. A private mentorship for the woman ready to return to herself, fully, fiercely, and without performance.

An intimate, bespoke partnership for women who are done shape-shifting to stay in control and ready to live from truth instead of tension. Together, we rebuild your leadership, boundaries, identity, pleasure, and systems of support so your life is no longer carried by force, but sustained by structure. This is where you stop over-functioning and start being resourced, where your power becomes easeful, embodied, and entirely your own.

Work With Me 1:1
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Speaking

Truth with texture

Conversations that shift what’s beneath the surface.

When I speak, I ask the questions no one else will—the kind that settle in quietly and stir something awake. I talk on the exhaustion beneath ambition, the strengths we’ve been taught to hide, and what it means to lead a life that actually sustains you. Whether it’s on a stage, a podcast, or in a private retreat, I bring storytelling and strategy that leave people changed in ways they can feel.

I speak on identity, capacity, boundaries, emotional labor, power, and the reclamation of self.

If you want your audience to feel seen, and leave changed in ways that last, we should talk.

Book Me to Speak
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Podcast

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Podcast ?!

What the Hélène?!

Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unmissable.

A podcast for the woman who is done pretending she is fine and ready to live from the marrow of her truth.

We talk about power, pleasure, leadership, emotional bandwidth, boundaries, and the reconstruction of a life that actually feels like yours.

Listen on Spotify
Watch on YouTube
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A Note From Hélène

No more pretending everything’s fine.
No more performing strength while quietly running on empty.
No more carrying a life that doesn’t carry you back.

This is the gritty, gorgeous work of unlearning overfunctioning, reclaiming your story, rebuilding capacity, and remembering that your presence, not your productivity, is your power.

If you feel the pull, trust it. Your reclamation begins here.

Continue Your Journey