A COLLABORATION IN THE MAKING

Beyond the Box

There is a version of you that society scripted long before you had any say in it. Perform. Achieve. Manage. Smile. Get it together. Do it all, and do it gracefully, and do not ask for too much.

That version is exhausting. And she is not the whole truth of who you are.

Beyond the Box is an in-person and virtual community for women navigating mid-life who are ready to stop performing and start belonging — to themselves, and to each other. It is a space where the things that get stigmatized actually get named: aging, burnout, failure, perimenopause, the rage that turns out to be clarity, the drive to reimagine a life that looks fine from the outside.

We are not acting as therapists here. Or gurus. We are two women who have done — and continue to do — this work ourselves, and who know what it means to hold space for others doing the same.

What Beyond the Box is

It's a community — virtual and in-person — built around retreats, connection, and radically honest conversation. It is experiential. It is messy in the best way. It is grounded in depth psychology, somatic awareness, and the kind of authenticity that opens doors for everyone in the room.

We hold this space with groundedness, empathy, and what we call both/and thinking — because you can be angry and grateful, lost and capable, broken open and becoming, all at once. There is no single story that wins here.

“Normal” is not a truth. It is programming — and we are here to undo it, together.

Who we are

Beyond the Box is a collaboration between two facilitators and coaches who each found their way to this work through their own mid-life transformation — found each other during the process — and who believe, deeply, the most powerful thing we can offer is not expertise, but presence.

MORE ABOUT ME

I'm Kari — a queer woman, a mom, a coach trained through an ICF-certified program, and the founder of Human-Centered Coaching. I'm a first-generation college graduate with a Bachelor's in Sociology and Communications from the University of Washington, and I've spent 15+ years working in corporate and tech environments as a People & Culture leader. My coaching practice is rooted in Jungian depth psychology, somatic awareness, and trauma-informed approaches, and I work specifically with high-performing women and LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the kind of transformation that doesn't fit neatly on a resume or a life plan. I know what it is to hold a demanding professional life in one hand and a deep interior reckoning in the other — to be high-functioning and quietly undone at the same time. I know what it is to do the work of recovery, and what it means to rebuild yourself from the inside out. I also know what it feels like to start finding your way back to yourself, and to build something true alongside everything else.

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Who this is for

You might be exhausted. You might be pissed off. You might be quietly complacent and not sure which is worse. You might look entirely fine from the outside while something inside has been asking — sometimes whispering, sometimes screaming — for something more honest. You might want more connection with other women.

You might be navigating perimenopause or menopause. A career that no longer fits. The grief of an ending. The strange disorientation of success that doesn't feel like you thought it would. Recovery. A relationship with your body that has always been complicated. The slow dawning awareness that you've been performing a version of yourself that was never quite real.

If any of that lands — this is for you.

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