Private Coaching for the Person Ready to Embrace Their Truest Self and Ditch Performing for Belonging for Good

Why Work With Me (Credibility Without Ego)

Because I’m not selling perfection.
I’m modeling the work.

As a late-identified autistic, queer, non-binary leader raised in dysfunctional systems, I’ve lived every pattern I now help others dismantle.

I’ve also:
✔ built an inclusion company from the ground up
✔ supported leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs across industries
✔ helped clients create businesses, identities, and relationships that actually fit
✔ taught multiple-hundreds of people how to trust themselves again
✔ developed frameworks that bridge somatics, identity, neurodiversity, and practical systems

I bring depth, clarity, compassion, and structure.
My clients describe me as “love with skin on,” a walking encyclopedia, grounded, funny, wise, and deeply safe.

This is work I’ve lived—not just learned.

Cheryl in a black blazer and white crewneck playing with Lego to regulate their nervous system while being interviewed.

Let’s get to know one another…

Cheryl is a whole-human support practitioner, storyteller, and facilitator whose work weaves lived experience with a rare blend of emotional intelligence, intuitive insight, and practical skill. As a late-discovered autistic, non-binary creative raised at the intersections of poverty, resilience, and complexity, Cheryl has spent a lifetime studying what it means to be human, to survive, and to rebuild identity from the inside out.

People describe them as a walking encyclopedia with heart. Someone who can hold the mess, see ten paths forward, and help you choose the one that actually works for your life. Their work dissolves shame, reconnects you to your own inner knowing, and gives you the grounded support most people have never experienced.

Through somatic grounding, identity integration, shame alchemy, intuitive guidance, and practical problem-solving, Cheryl helps clients return to themselves—not by forcing change, but by creating a space where authenticity feels safe again.

Their mission is simple: to support collective liberation by helping people accept and embody who they truly are. When you work with Cheryl, you’re not just getting clarity. You’re getting someone who sees you fully, meets you without judgment, and walks with you as you become the version of yourself you’ve been holding back.

A whole-human identity restoration experience for people who are ready to stop performing for belonging and start living from their truth.

You’ve spent years becoming who you needed to be.

And now, you’re ready to become who you actually are.

Most people come to me when they’re standing at the edge of an identity they’ve outgrown.

They’re tired of fitting into expectations that were never designed for them.

They’re exhausted from masking, shape-shifting, or carrying the emotional weight of everyone else’s comfort.

They don’t need another coach telling them to push harder or be better.


They need support that meets their whole humanity.

That’s the work we do inside The Return To Self.

It’s not self-improvement.
It’s self-restoration.

THE TRANSFORMATION

A Clear, Stable Sense of Self

You stop shape-shifting and start inhabiting your real identity.

Deep Somatic Self-Trust

Your body becomes a reliable resource instead of a battleground.

Boundaries That Don’t Break You

You learn to hold limits without guilt, collapse, or overexplaining.

Emotional & Energetic Regulation

Your overwhelm softens. Your clarity strengthens.

Freedom From Old Roles & Conditioning

Caretaking, masking, fawning, and hyper-independence lose their grip.

Identity Sovereignty

You know who you are — and you stop negotiating it.

Aligned Relationships & Choices

You begin choosing from resonance, not fear or obligation.

A Nervous System That Has Room to Breathe

You feel grounded, spacious, and more yourself than you’ve ever been.

WHO THIS WORK IS FOR

This coaching is for people who want to feel:

• grounded in their truth
• connected to their body
• clear about their identity
• safe making decisions
• free from people-pleasing
• stable in their emotional world
• able to trust themselves
• able to honor their needs
• able to express themselves without shrinking

It is especially powerful for:

• late-discovered neurodivergent folks
• cycle breakers
• recovering fawners + people-pleasers
• healing from high-control environments (family, religion, relationships)
• identity-shifting life transitions
• anyone untangling shame, conditioning, or self-abandonment

No business strategy.
No hustle culture.
Just identity, embodiment, and liberation.

What The Return to Self Is:

A 1:1 partnership for people who want deep identity work held with compassion, precision, and emotional honesty. This is where shame dissolves, self-permission expands, and your real self gets the room to breathe again.

You receive the full spectrum of my expertise:
• Somatic grounding
• Nervous system support
• Shame alchemy
• Identity integration
• Pattern re-writing
• Emotional processing
• Practical problem-solving
• Intuitive guidance
• Whole-human strategy
• Creative + cognitive support

This is not “coaching.”


This is being held by someone who understands complexity and meets you exactly where you’re at because they led themselves through it and lead themselves through it every time a trigger response happens. Anyone selling a magic wand for CPTSD, or trauma is being dishonest.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Monthly 1:1 Coaching Calls (Bi-Weekly for 12 Months)

Deep identity work, somatic integration, and new pattern formation.

Unlimited Voice & Text Support (on your selected week day)

Real-time reflection, grounding, and guidance between sessions.

Personalized Identity + Somatic Frameworks

Tools tailored to your nervous system, history, and goals.

Energetic + Emotional Integration Practices

Daily rituals and exercises to anchor your transformation.

Shame-Free Support

Because you can’t expand in a space where you’re trying not to be “too much.”

Choose the Most Aligned Offer for Where You're At...

Choose Your Partnership Portal — You pick the depth.

I Meet You There.

12 Months Together

$1000 CAD/Month or $10,000 Paid In Full

This is the only option that includes bi-weekly calls.

For the person ready for a full identity rebirth. The deep, steady, integrated return to yourself.

6 Months Together

$1000 CAD/Month or $5000 Paid In Full

For the person ready to shift patterns that have been running their life for too long

3 Months Together

$1000 CAD/Month or $2500 Paid In Full

For the person who is starting the journey of rediscovery for the first time.

Extended payment plans available upon request and include a 5% finance fee. To apply for an extended payment plan, send an email to cheryl@cherylfolland.ca

Please note, extended payment plans are only available for 3 and 6 month options. Cheryl reserves 20% of their coaching availability for equitable access this way.

What People Say

"Cheryl is the first coach who didn’t try to fix me—they helped me understand myself."

 "I didn’t know coaching could feel like this. Empowering, safe, and actually useful for me."

"I finally feel like I’m not broken. I’m just wired differently—and that’s okay."

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