Career Coaching for Black Healers, Helpers, Hope Dealers, and High Achievers

Unlearn the Strong Black Woman narrative, redefine your relationship with work, and build a life and career that honor your values—not your survival patterns.

Start Unlearning That Sh*t
Dr Cecily Moore stands, smiling at the camera, with her hands in the pockets of her black dress.

Does it feel like you’re carrying more than your role, your team, or your body can hold?

As a Black healer, helper, or high achiever, you’ve built a life around showing up for everyone else.

 You know how to hold space, solve the crisis, absorb the chaos, and keep moving—because no one taught you another option.

But lately, the cracks are showing:

  • You’re holding workplace dysfunction on your back like it’s part of your job description.

  • Rest feels like a reward you haven’t earned instead of a right you already have.

  • You delay your needs, your dreams, or your health because someone else “needs you more.”

  • Your confidence feels tangled up in how useful you are to everyone but yourself.

  • You can’t tell the difference between genuine alignment and survival-driven loyalty.

You’ve noticed that success hasn’t made things lighter.
If anything, the higher you climb, the more invisible your needs become.

Two women sit in leather chairs, computers stacked on a small table in front of them. They lean in facing eachother, smiling and talking

And the cost?

It touches everything.

Over-functioning at work becomes over-functioning at home.
Your body moves at the pace of crisis even on days when nothing is wrong.
Your relationships bend under the weight of your exhaustion.
Your purpose feels blurry. Your joy feels distant.
And the life you’ve built—one that looks incredible from the outside—no longer feels like yours on the inside.

You’re starting to feel the truth you’ve been avoiding:

It’s not that you can’t keep doing this.
It’s that you shouldn’t have to.

Career coaching rooted in rest, regulation, values, and truth.

Unlearn That Sh*t

Imagine what becomes possible when you stop letting fear, loyalty, or obligation steer your decisions—and start leading with clarity, alignment, and self-trust.

Through our work together, you’ll create a relationship with work that is:

  • grounded in your values

  • aligned with who you truly are

  • free from overwork, over-giving, and over-performing

  • shaped by rest and regulation, not survival mode

  • reflective of a future you actually want to walk toward

    What life can look like on the other side:

  • You make decisions without spiraling into overthinking.

  • You choose opportunities with confidence instead of desperation.

  • You stop shrinking, code-switching, or overperforming to earn safety.

  • You show up fully—at work and at home—without the Strong Black Woman mask.

  • You have time, emotional space, and capacity for the life you’ve been postponing.


What You’ll Learn

  • Module 1: The Origin Story of the Strong Black Woman

    → Where the SBW identity came from

    → How it was socially constructed during slavery, media, religion, and economic policy

    → The psychological toll of inherited strength

  • Module 2: The Psychology of a Belief

    → How beliefs are formed, stored, and reinforced

    → Why the SBW narrative feels like truth

    → How to recognize belief systems in Black women’s language, behavior, and nervous system

  • Module 3: The Cost of Chronic Strength

    → Chronic stress, emotional suppression, and cultural burnout

    → Black women’s relationship to labor, achievement, and productivity

    → Somatic signs of survival mode

  • Module 4: Reappropriate, Redefine, Recover

    → My 3-part framework grounded in my dissertation research

    → How to help clients reframe strength as choice, not obligation

    → Tools to facilitate recovery without reinforcing shame

  • Module 5: Rest, Resistance, and Recovery

    → The psychology of rest and how it disrupts internalized capitalism

    → How to help clients unlearn urgency and over-functioning

    → Recovery practices that honor the cultural body

  • Module 6: Clinical Applications + Ethical Considerations

    → How to ethically use this framework in session

    → Questions to explore in supervision and case conceptualization

    → Why centering cultural context is a clinical skill, not a political opinion

  • How my approach helps you get there:

    • Career development grounded in identity, rest, and nervous system regulation

    • The Reappropriate, Redefine, Recover™ framework

    • Womanist-informed perspectives on work, worth, and wellness

    • Trauma-informed coaching that acknowledges race, culture, and the body

    • My dissertation research + 10 years of supporting Black women in transition

Career coaching for Black healers, helpers, hope dealers, and high achievers can help you:

Identify the beliefs driving your overwork and begin unlearning them.

  • Clarify your true values so you can make aligned, confident decisions.

  • Redefine your relationship with work, rest, and responsibility.

  • Reduce burnout by shifting out of survival-mode patterns.

  • Reconnect to your body’s pace and reclaim your capacity.

  • Recognize the difference between real opportunities and trauma-bonded loyalty.

  • Prioritize your wellbeing without guilt, apology, or fear.

  • Trust yourself enough to choose work that honors your life—not just your skillset.

  • Build a career that reflects who you are, not who you had to become to survive.

  • Model a new legacy of rest, truth, and alignment for the next generation.




Join the Next Cohort

Your wellbeing is worth investing in.

Together, we’ll help you discover the clarity, confidence, and freedom that were always yours.

Dr Cecily Moore sits, smiling at the camera, as she leans one arm down on the couch below her, and one arm drapes across her lap

Q: Is this therapy?

A: No. This is identity-centered, values-led career coaching rooted in rest, regulation, and unlearning. It complements therapy beautifully but does not replace it.

Q: What if I don’t know what I want next?

A: Perfect. Most of my clients arrive in transition, exhausted, or unclear. Our work clarifies what you want by helping you reconnect to your values and release survival-driven decision-making.

Q: Do I need to be ready to quit my job?

A: Not necessarily. You only need to be ready to stop abandoning yourself for work. Whether you stay, redesign your role, or transition out, we make values—not fear—the foundation.

Q: What makes this coaching different?

A: I address work, identity, race, nervous system regulation, and the Strong Black Woman narrative together. Traditional career coaching ignores these realities. I refuse to.

Q: Can this help if I’m burnt out?

A: Yes. Burnout is often the symptom. The identity, beliefs, and conditioning beneath it are what we transform.

Areas of Expertise:

  • Unlearning the Strong Black Woman Narrative

  • Rest & Regulation as Career Strategy

  • Work Recovery & Identity Shifts

  • Values-Led Career Redesign

  • Career Transitions & Walk-Away Support

  • Boundary Setting, Capacity & Overwork Recovery



Unlearn That Sh*t

methods

  • Reappropriate, Redefine, Recover™

  • Trauma-informed, Womanist, and decolonized perspectives

  • Nervous system literacy + rest literacy

  • Identity-centered career development

JOIN THE RESISTANCE

REFRAME YOUR EXISTENCE.
REDISCOVER YOUR SELF.
RECLAIM YOUR LIFE.

Start Unlearning Now