HI. I’M NANCY REYES.

I am a certified professional life coach with a background in clinical social work.

I am also a mother to twins + 1 (yes, we had twins first and decided to go for one more), wife to a pretty great guy and carry loads of other responsibilities that come with being the daughter of immigrants (so many cultural balances to name here).

I have always been passionate about helping others and happily pursued a career in the helping profession. The more people I helped, the more satisfied I felt.

But all of that changed once I became a mother. Everything became a juggling act and I spent a lot of time struggling with the balance of being a parent, working full-time, trying to maintain a relationship with my husband, being the good first-gen daughter and finding time for myself.

The struggle was real with lots of tears and sleepless nights. I knew I needed to make changes but had no idea where to start - which was frustrating for me as someone who spent most of her life helping others by problem-solving and finding solutions.

It was a never-ending cycle of me wanting to have more time, more happiness, more freedom, but always feeling like I would never actually have it. I had a deep desire to figure out a way to make it all work and be the best mom, wife, daughter, employee and still have time for me, but I never found it. It was always a fleeting feeling, moments when things felt good, but then they would slip away.

And then I slowly started doing the work.

It wasn’t easy at first because I kept putting myself into a box that was created by all of the noise around me - the noise of how I should be as a mom or how I should say yes to things even though I knew deep down inside I would only regret it or how I would work long hours and feel guilty for not spending more time with my kids but also felt like I was failing at work for not be able to keep up with my responsibilities.

I started becoming more introspective and realized that the box that I was trying to fit into for so many years needed to change. I needed to redesign it, reshape it and make it work for me.

I started working on myself by reading personal development books and creating habits which turned into routines. I would do well for a bit and then life would get in the way again.

So I decided to hire a coach - someone to hold my hand and hold me accountable to work towards those things I wanted in my life.

I had finally decided that the spiraling was enough and I couldn’t do it on my own because despite all of my efforts, I still was not putting myself first. I had to rework my old belief patterns, throw some of them out and develop new ones.

I had to REFOCUS my goals and desires to what I truly and deeply desired, not what I thought it should be.

I had to RESET my thinking patterns and perspective on many areas of my life.

I had to REFINE those areas as I started to implement the changes.

It’s why I decided to become a coach - to work with other people on first identifying “the box” that they have put themselves into and working with them to redesign it.

Change is not perfect, it’s quite messy and a bit of a roller coaster at times. I’m here to hold your hand through it and help you move yourself forward. I know the fears that arise when thinking about making changes, but I also know how amazing it is on the other side.

If you are ready to Refocus, Reset and Refine your life, you are in the right place.

I look forward to working with you!

❤ Nancy