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Integrated Wellbeing Program
The Slow & Well Collective is designed to help you gently align your goals with your values in four areas of your life throughout the year — without pressure or overwhelm. You’ll receive guided monthly assignments, personalized feedback, and the support you need to take consistent action.
Create clarity about what you really want. Stay accountable with structure. Feel supported through gentle, encouraging feedback. Gain confidence as you take consistent action. Make space for what matters most — without burnout or hustle.
This monthly membership program is asynchronous — meaning you can participate on your own schedule while still feeling supported and connected. AND have the option to attend monthly live Office Hours for customized support.
Seasonal planning workshops for those yearning to slow down during experience of reinvention. Soon announcing Fall 2026 Themes!
Join by upgrading your Inspiration Surrounds Us substack subscription (option monthly or save with an annual membership) & connect today!
Schedule a Session & begin to rediscover purpose in life and work.
When we move through profound loss, it can feel nearly impossible to envision a life that still holds meaning. It’s easy to become stuck, discouraged, and quietly searching for relief. Drawing on both lived experience and professional insight, we’ll reconnect you with what energizes you and gently map a path toward rebuilding a life and career rooted in purpose.
If you’re exhausted from feeling depleted and ready to open to new possibilities, you’re in the right place. Together, we’ll support your healing while cultivating clarity, confidence, and direction. As you reconnect with yourself, your quality of life begins to shift—bringing forward the vision that’s been waiting within you.
I’m honoured to walk alongside you in this next chapter as your coach, whether one-on-one or within our Slow & Well Collective. Book your time by clicking the button below:
Books
Provide you with guidance for the whole family to inspire connection.
Join Chloe, Katie, and their growing family on a heartwarming adventure full of love, loss, and everything in between. Chloe’s tale, written especially for children, celebrates the life of Katie’s beloved dog.
The true and touching story is a gentle guide, helping young minds face change, transition, and loss that are part of everyone’s journey. Children will discover that love connects us, empowering them to face life’s challenges with hope and reassurance.
Share in the joy of this unforgettable tale and use this book as a tool to explore topics with your child that are often difficult to discuss but key to building hope and resilience.
Provide you with a workbook for when you are feeling lost.
After years of checking off the boxes of success that society created for me – my plans were interrupted when I experienced loss. Quickly, I realized you aren’t always in control, and grief can bring you to your knees.
My healing journey led me to dismantle everything in my life. In the process, I learned self-acceptance, my expansive capabilities and the key to prioritizing wonderment. After that, everything else fell into place when I embraced my life wholeheartedly.
If you’re stuck and need actionable inspiration, check out my book “Follow Your Heart to Discover Your Life Purpose.
Courses & Workshops
The Creative Collaboration of Self-Publishing
I am thrilled to be partnering with author Vanessa Shields for an intimate conversation about creative integrity and collaborative effort in authentic self-publishing.
If you have a story to share and are thinking of self-publishing as a way to get your message out to your readers, please join us!
DETAILS:
September 13, 2026 from 1-3PM, at the Balanced Life Wellness Center in Essex, ON.
Please register ahead of time by email to shieldsvanessa@gmail.com
Managing Grief in the Workplace
Managing Grief at Work is a practical, grief-informed module designed for disability management practitioners. It recognizes the universal experience of grief and the reality that grief is often present in the workplace— affecting concentration, productivity, communication, attendance, and team dynamics. Often, there is little direction on how to navigate grief in the workplace.
This module through Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences explores the disability manager’s role in responding to effective communication, navigating accommodation, and supporting return-to-work planning with both compassion and accountability. Disability Managers can help organizations create space for compassion, leading to improved engagement, retention, and psychological safety in the workplace. Through real-world scenarios and reflective practice, learners will build confidence implementing sustainable grief-informed practices that support employees while strengthening organizational culture.
Next Course runs November 23, 2026, register early!
Supporting you on your Parenting Journey
The companion course to Chloe & the Butterflies offers a unique opportunity for caregivers to engage in meaningful conversations with your children about difficult topics, such as change, transition, and loss.
Sharing stories about Chloe and our family provides an opportunity to gently reflect on your experiences and gain new insights and inspiration about your strengths and resilience. Live course offerings happen throughout the year.
Our Clients Are Searching For Meaning & Purpose
We help individuals who have experienced significant life events navigate and integrate the emotional and practical aspects of grief and loss to once again reimagine a fulfilling life and career ahead.
Kelly MacLellan, MSc.
is a Career & Well-being Specialist, Author, and Certified Life and Career Coach recognized by ICF, with a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counselling, specializing in grief and bereavement and career transition. Kelly is a past member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling.
Embrace Your Life Coaching helps entrepreneurial women and ambitious professionals rebuild after loss and find clarity at life’s crossroads. This allows them to rediscover their purpose, reignite their careers, and feel grounded, powerful, and hopeful as they move forward.
Small Business Finalist Recognition 2022! Specializing in:
* Lifestyle Design—Heal from loss by creating a vision for your life that captures your genuine desire, most profound values, and work-life balance.
* Career Reinvention—Create a plan and strategy rooted in purpose and meaning to grow your business or position yourself for that promotion.
With expert guidance and accountability, you will refocus priorities, improve your confidence and transform.
We will walk together during this part of your journey toward a more profound experience of meaning and fulfillment in work and life!
Kind Words from Past Clients
Kelly has guided and helped me realize my true potential and capabilities through her coaching.
I think it was the first time in my life I began making career choices for JOY!
My life will never be the same and I owe Kelly a special thanks of gratitude for that!
Kelly is kind, honest, and very inspiring… I have since created a business that I love and that is aligned with my soul’s purpose.
Working with Kelly has the warmth of connecting with a dear friend and the trust of knowing you’re in the hands of a professional.
I have found that Kelly’s deep, thoughtful listening, and helpful “action” tips often lead to new solutions to obstacles or anxieties that I face.
