Every day is a blank page for the next chapter of your life.
Cancer was your wake-up call to start writing it differently. The moment you recognize that YOU are the author of your story — not your diagnosis, not your past, not the beliefs you inherited — everything shifts. That’s where transformation begins. That’s where your power lives. The first step to moving forward is recognizing the story you want to change. I can show you how. We author our own stories — and we can revise them at any time. I’m Emilee — a Licensed New Life Story® Wellness Coach and two-time cancer survivor. I help women transform their life and story after cancer — so they can finally feel alive, significant, and at peace.
What Makes Me Different
What makes me different is my story. I'm a two-time cancer survivor and a mom to a young adult childhood cancer survivor. Ever since I was a teenager, I've wanted to connect with other cancer survivors — to know their story, to understand what they went through. This is what I was born to do. For years, I felt stuck in my own survivor story with no one who truly understood.
It wasn't until my second cancer at 39 that I finally found the tools and community I'd been searching for my whole life. Even if I don't know you, I know what you're going through. Cancer survivors are my family, the community I've always felt connected to. I feel called to do this work — nothing makes me happier than helping a survivor reclaim her life. This is what makes me feel significant and helps me live a life filled with joy, fulfillment, and purpose.
I believe it's a big part of why I'm still here. I have a bigger mission — and this is it. I have deep compassion for survivors because I know how easy it is to want to move forward — and how hard it is when you're stuck in an old story that cancer reveals. I understand not just the physical aspects of healing, but the emotional and mental parts too. And I know what it feels like to not be ready to deal with your story until decades later.
That's why I do this work now — because coaching was the #1 thing that helped me move forward and create a new life for myself. I learned that there is an art and science to change and reinvention — and it changed everything for me. I'll guide you through the exact ROADMAP framework I learned from my mentor, Dr. David Krueger, where you'll start to understand the neuroscience behind the unconscious story that's been writing your life. Once you see the possibilities and understand that your brain can change — that you can map and program new beliefs and a new identity — it makes doing this work exciting. You no longer feel paralyzed by your life. You start feeling empowered by the choices you decide to make to move you forward.
Together, we'll transform your story and your life.
Who I Serve
You're a woman who survived cancer — whether you're currently in treatment, just finished, or years out from diagnosis — and you're ready to transform your story. Women come to me inspired by my own transformation through cancer and divorce — and how I came out stronger and happier. They want that too, and I help them find it. They're searching for that feeling of inner peace, freedom, and significance they've always longed for. The women I help know they need a coach — someone on their sideline cheering them on.
They're ready for change and willing to get honest with themselves and take responsibility for creating a new chapter despite their setbacks and challenges. She's looking to transform her relationship with herself and is beginning the journey of personal growth and inner healing while creating her future life — even without knowing all the answers.
She is courageous and willing to go for it, even when life feels messy. I feel most connected to women who were unhappy in their marriage pre-cancer — like I was — and to single moms navigating cancer, who now find themselves at a crossroads, unsure what path to take. Cancer had you asking: "What is it costing me to stay stuck in a story that tells me I don't matter?" For me, it was costing me my life. I'm here to help you recognize what matters most and start focusing on more of that — because you and I both know, your health and your life are your #1 priority.
Wherever you are in your journey, if you feel called to make a change, you're exactly who I'm here to serve.
How I Help
As a Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Wellness Coach, I guide you through a 12-week transformational experience — strategic coaching to help you reframe your life and your story, reprogram your beliefs, and create real, lasting change. This isn’t therapy. This is forward-focused work based on neuroscience.
You can’t change a story you don’t recognize — my job is to help you see the story that’s been ghost writing your life and break the script controlling it. You are not the story you tell yourself, and it’s time to change that. I would love to be that coach for you.
I will help you:
- Reconnect you with your core values, needs, and deepest desires — what truly matters to you
- Reclaim who you are with confidence and clarity around what you actually want
- Recognize what you lost long before cancer — and reclaim her
- Heal the emotional scars and reprogram the beliefs that made you feel like you didn't matter
- Guide you through the ROADMAP framework to begin creating a new life story for yourself
- Co-author your next chapter — so you can finally live it
Choose your own path
coaching Services
- self-guided
Write Your Way Forward
Your First Step to Transforming Your Story
What You'll Receive:
- 15-minute guided coaching video where we write together
- 3 powerful prompts to get you unstuck
- Your first quick win — clarity
- Immediate access
- 1:1 coaching
12-Week Transformational Experience
Transform your life and story after cancer — so
you can finally feel alive, significant,
and at peace.
Ready to do deep, transformational work? This is an intimate 1:1 experience where we walk through the complete ROADMAP framework together — a neuroscience-based approach for story transformation and identity reinvention. The ROADMAP helps you become aware of the story keeping you stuck from living the life you want, decide what you want to change, and create a plan to do it — so you can build a life aligned with who you really are and what you actually want.
Over 12 weeks together, we'll:
PHASE 1:
RELEASE
- Recognize the story you want to change
- Own your story and what comes next
- Assess the storylines and patterns getting in your way
PHASE 2:
REWIRE
- Decide what to change, let go of, avoid, and keep
- Map your vision and plan your next chapter
PHASE 3:
RECLAIM
- Author new experiences to create lasting change
- Program a new identity with new belief systems
- Write and read your New Life Story declaration
What's Included:
- 12 consecutive weekly Zoom calls together
- The complete ROADMAP framework
Together, we'll co-author new stories for your future.
- group coaching
12-Week Group Coaching Experience
Transform your life and story after cancer —
together with women who truly understand
Over 12 weeks together, we'll:
PHASE 1:
RELEASE
- Recognize the story you want to change
- Own your story and what comes next
- Assess the storylines and patterns getting in your way
PHASE 2:
REWIRE
- Decide what to change, let go of, avoid, and keep
- Map your vision and plan your next chapter
PHASE 3:
RECLAIM
- Author new experiences to create lasting change
- Program a new identity with new belief systems
- Write and read your New Life Story declaration
What's Included:
- 12 consecutive weekly Zoom calls together
- Recordings of every session (life happens — you won't miss out)
- A small group of survivor sisters (limited to 8)
- The complete ROADMAP framework
What Women Are Saying
Executives, health professionals, lawyers, mothers — women from all walks of life come to me after cancer because something is calling them. Cancer changed them. They value life differently now and don't want to waste another day — they're ready to feel different and live different.
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aBOUT
Cancer Wasn't the Enemy—My Story Was
At age 4, I was diagnosed with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma — a childhood cancer. The doctors told my parents my tumor was inoperable and believed I was going to die. My little body went through two years of chemotherapy, radiation, and multiple surgeries.
At age 5, while still in treatment, my dad died by suicide.
The first six years of my life shaped everything — and after that, I don't remember much.
This is my origin story. My body went into survival mode — and my mind began ghostwriting a story I would live out for decades.
For over 30 years, I lived out that ghostwritten story — believing something was wrong with me, that I didn't matter, that I wasn't enough.
It wasn't until I hit rock bottom at age 39 that everything changed. I lost everything I thought I ever wanted. I got served divorce papers. Then I got the shocking news: stage 3c ovarian cancer — what the doctors called "incurable."
My life was in chaos. I was a newly single mom and business owner, trying to hold my life together while going through a divorce and cancer at the same time.
What would break most people made me come alive. And that's why I tell people cancer saved my life.
I didn't want to die feeling insignificant or without having made a difference. And most importantly, I didn't want my kids to see their mom broken and disempowered.
After receiving an email of hope, I answered the call. I said YES to changing my life and writing a better next chapter — even with the uncertainty of not surviving. I decided to go for it!
That's when I met my teacher and mentor, Dr. David Krueger, who taught me the art and science of change and reinvention. I began the ROADMAP process as a personal experiment — sort of like my own clinical trial, since there was nothing in this form of help for me from doctors or modern medicine. This was the real medicine I needed.
I went step by step — beginning with recognizing my story and the story that I wanted to change, all the way through to the last step: programming a new identity for myself. The who I wanted to be when I survived cancer. Through repetition and practice, I was able to reprogram my beliefs and create a new story and life for myself that I was proud of — and this is possible for you too.
For the first time in my life, I felt alive. I felt empowered and I was excited for my future. I started to notice myself making big shifts in my life and having the courage to do things I never thought were possible.
I tell you this to show you that anything is possible. I was at rock bottom in my life — and I created a better ending to my story.
This ROADMAP framework isn't just for cancer. I've used it to transform my money story, my career story, and many personal and business challenges. It's an ongoing tool I use whenever I feel myself falling back into an old story — and you will too.
All it took was having someone who believed in me and showed me the path — that it was possible.
Now I am that person for you.
I do this work because it forever changed my life and I want to give the same gift to others.
After talking with other women on a similar journey, I hear a familiar story: You survive cancer, but there's no roadmap for what comes next. Once you leave the medical system, you're on your own — and that's a scary and lonely feeling. I bridge that gap to help you stay hopeful on the future you are creating. Healing requires more than focusing on the physical body — as I experienced myself, it requires harmony between the physical and emotional body.
I do this work because it gives others hope for a better future and a way forward.
This work also fulfills one of my own deepest unmet needs — to matter. I hope by sharing this transformative experience, I make a difference and give someone else hope to never give up on their life.
When my son was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer, I guided him through the ROADMAP process. Today he is thriving doing what he loves. This work transforms not just you, but the people you love.
I'm a Licensed, Specialty-Certified New Life Story® Wellness Coach trained by Dr. David Krueger — a retired psychiatrist and mentor to professional coaches like myself.
I've spent 27 years as a movement specialist in medical fitness. Over the past decade, I've added professional life coaching to offer my clients a full transformation of mind, body, and soul.
I take what can be complicated science and help you understand it in a simple way — the easiest next best steps for yourself, without the overwhelm and confusion.
I help you transform your life and story — so you can finally feel alive, significant, and at peace.
Today, I am happier and healthier than I have ever been. I have a purpose: to help other survivors like myself heal and thrive after cancer — not just survive it, but use it as the catalyst to create the life they say they want.
Ready to write your next chapter?
Questions You Might Be Asking
No. I'm not a therapist. This is forward-focused life coaching using the New Life Story® framework and neuroscience-based methods. We don't sit in the pain — we use your story as the foundation to create transformation. You don't need to relive old trauma or keep talking about your problems. We focus on who you want to become and the action steps to get you there. If you need therapeutic support for trauma or mental health conditions, I encourage you to work with a licensed therapist. My work complements therapy but doesn't replace it.
No. You don't need to have everything figured out or feel completely recovered. You don't have to wait until you survive to start this work. I started this work 2 weeks after my first chemo session — it gave me something to focus on other than being sick with cancer. So it's a personal choice when you feel ready.
Many women come to me during treatment or shortly after because cancer is the wake-up call that makes them finally want to change their lives. If you feel called to improve your life, feel the need to do deeper personal growth work, or have a goal you want to achieve — this is perfect for you. I had a goal to write my first book before I died, so I was extra motivated. You can still have goals even when you're told your cancer is incurable. This is about living and creating your best life while you are still breathing.
The key is, you want to do it — and you see this work as helping you, maybe even part of your own medicine, like I believed it was. I believe it's part of why I'm still here.
The ROADMAP framework is designed for you to specifically decide what you want to focus on — and together we co-create a new story for you. This style of coaching focuses on mindset shifts and helping you recognize what you want and need to change in order to move forward. Through strategic coaching questions, you will find your own answers — and I am here to support you. You take the action steps necessary to rewire new beliefs through repetition. Because without the action and doing, you fall back into your old story. That's why we don't just talk for an hour about your day — we have an agenda that is focused on you and the outcome you desire. Each week you will observe your transformation in real time and feel the shift within you.
Some women have breakthroughs in our very first session. Others need the full 12-week experience to feel the shift. Transformation isn't linear — but if you're committed to the work, you will see change. The women who get the most out of this experience are those who show up with an open mind, open heart, and who are coachable.
That's exactly why you're here. Most women come to me feeling stuck because they don't know who they are or what they want anymore. The first thing I'll help you do is reconnect with your core values, needs, and deepest desires — what truly matters to you. Figuring out what you want is part of the work — and it's where we start.
You truly can come as a blank slate and be ready to create your future self — this is exciting. You do not need to feel ready. In fact, nobody is truly ready. It is the courageous one who steps into her future even with uncertainty who makes the biggest shifts.
Together, we collaborate on a VISION for your life — your future self and the story that will need to be updated with new belief systems. We look at the stories that no longer serve you and need to be released — almost like a death of their own so that a new story can be created. It's the reprogramming of the brain, and this is what creates lasting change. The ROADMAP framework guides you through this process step by step. Through my guidance and through the ROADMAP framework of New Life Story coaching, you will be on your way to successfully reinventing yourself and your life.
When you rewrite your story, you begin to reprogram new beliefs and behaviors — and this is what rewires the brain. Science calls this neuroplasticity. It's the foundation of lasting change.
This work is best for women who are open to being coached and willing to see their story from a new perspective. If you're not ready to do the inner work or prefer to stay in your comfort zone, this may not be the right fit — and that's okay. When you're ready, I'll be here.
Yes. If you have a story you want to rewrite for yourself or feel called to make a life transformation, I am happy to guide you using the same ROADMAP. If that's the case, email me directly at emilee@emileegarfield.com.
