— THE RESET · CLARITY SESSIONS OPEN
You did what you were supposed to.
So why are you so exhausted?
Find out what's actually draining you — all of it, including the parts nobody counts — and get back to leading as yourself instead of the version you've been performing.
Free, about 45 minutes. No pitch.
You've done everything right
Built the career. Earned the respect. Became the person who takes it on — whatever it is, whoever needs it.
Lately everything costs more than it used to.
You wake up tired after a full night. You forget things you never used to forget — names, keys, why you walked into the room. Small things land harder than they should. When you finally get an unstructured hour, you can't settle into it.
You've told yourself it's a busy stretch. That it'll ease up after this quarter, this project, this thing with your family.
But when did it ever ease up?
Somewhere around 3am you've suspected you've lost a step. That's the thought that's hardest to sit with, because competence is the thing you've never had to question.
You haven't lost a step. The load has changed, and nobody has ever added it up.
Nobody is counting all of it
The work
Expanding exponentially. Getting harder to define. Strategy from above unclear or always shifting. The job description, if it exists, stopped describing the job a while ago.
Everything else with your name on it
Aging parents. Kids who need something you're not sure how to give. The house, the volunteering, the thing you agreed to three years ago and can't get out of. None of it counts as work to anyone.
The field around all of it
The feed. The economy. Technology moving faster than anyone can track. Conversations you've stopped having with people you care about. A low-grade dread that isn't attached to anything specific.
You're not managing one demanding job. You're managing a dozen open-ended, solution-resistant problems at once, while acting like nothing has changed.
You've already tried the obvious things
More sleep.
A real vacation.
Better boundaries.
The meditation app.
The company's wellness program, which was well-intentioned and touched none of the actual dynamics.
A temporary blip of relief, if there was anything at all.
So why doesn't any of it stick?
Advice built for one piece of the picture can't do much about a load coming from three directions at once. And the instinct that's carried you this far — push harder, absorb more, figure it out — is the exact instinct that spends the reserve you need in order to recover.
You can't out-discipline depletion.
Working the problem harder is the problem.
The Reset
What the work looks like
Ten sessions over four months. One person looking at the whole thing with you.
This isn't a factory reset that wipes you clean and returns you to defaults. It's a reboot after decades of running processes you never chose to install.
We start by counting the whole thing — accurately, without flattening it into something tidier than it is.
Then the harder question: who you actually are underneath the performance. What you value now. What you're for. Most people have spent so long smashing themselves into a shape that was never theirs that the answer takes some finding.
From there, a perspective you choose — or build — rather than the one you were handed.
Only then does it make sense to look at what changes, what gets put down, and what you'll carry differently.
What's included
Ten sessions over four months
Roughly every other week, 60 minutes, by video.
Recording and transcript of every session,
Yours to revisit whenever you want.
Work between sessions
Practices and assignments shaped by what surfaced, never generic homework.
Frameworks and tools
Built for your situation, including short recorded explainers you can come back to.
Session review
I run every session through a private AI workspace I've built and loaded with my own frameworks and philosophy — not a generic chatbot's take on what you said. It surfaces patterns worth noticing, and I review what it finds and add my own questions on top before any of it reaches you. A second pass at what surfaced, filtered through the same lens I'm using with you live.
What to expect
Relief usually shows up early. Within the first few sessions it might look like better sleep, or less reactivity, or simply having a name for what's been happening. That's real, and it matters.
Relief isn't the same as change. The patterns underneath were installed over decades and get reinforced daily by systems that are hard to see from inside. Four months is the shortest container that actually does the job.
This works best for
Directors, VPs, and senior leaders in midlife
People who've been running on empty long enough that it's starting to show
Anyone performing a version of themselves that doesn't quite fit
People who notice more than their environment gives them credit for noticing
Anyone who wants an approach that respects how complicated their situation actually is
This isn't the right fit if
You want a quick fix or a productivity system
You're looking for career coaching or job search help
You want someone to agree the answer is better time management
Who you would be working with
I'm Raelie Bach. I spent fifteen years inside Fortune 500 leadership — eight at American Express, seven at Discover Financial Services, in roles including Director of Customer Experience and Senior Manager of Professional Development. I burned out spectacularly on the way through.
The migraines started in business school and got worse as I climbed. I medicated them down to a background hum and kept going, because that's what you do.
I know the specific loneliness of being the person everyone relies on with nowhere to put your own exhaustion. I know what it's like to keep performing well past the point where it costs more than it returns.
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I've been coaching professionally since 2015, and studying it since 2004, when I earned my first certification. I have a PhD in Organizational Systems from Saybrook, an MBA from Duke, and a psychology degree from Carleton. I've worked with leaders from Google, Disney, Ford, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Walgreens, Bank of America, and the US Army and Air Force, along with dozens of smaller companies and founders.
The model I use with clients started as my doctoral research and has been in daily use ever since. My work draws on consciousness studies, positive psychology, cognitive biases, and the architecture of belief — practice grounded in research, alongside considerably older wisdom. What I'm after is what's underneath: the thing shaping how you see your situation before you've had a chance to think about it.
Credentials
PhD, Organizational Systems, Saybrook University · MBA, Duke University · BA Psychology, Carleton College · Certified Coach, Coach Training Alliance · Archetypal Pattern Analyst, Assisi Institute · Immunity to Change · Art of Developmental Coaching · Archetypal Consultant, Caroline Myss Education · Byron Katie's School for the Work · Certified Life Coach The Coaching School · Positive Intelligence
What people are saying
"Raelie's recommendations and strategies made a significant impact in my business and personal life. She is engaging, fun to work with and she has a wealth of knowledge and experience. I enjoyed our conversations because she speaks from the heart and I felt that she truly cared about me. In my opinion, she is a student of life and has done the research to backup her coaching. I highly recommend Raelie!"
Stephanie S.
"Raelie is a fabulous coach! I have engaged several life coaches over the years, but rarely have I encountered one who understood me so quickly and was able to address my concerns, desires, and blocks in concrete, highly doable action steps. If you are looking to take your life to the next level, Raelie is the coach for you. She is, indeed, an alchemist!"
Ginny C.
"Working with Raelie has been a transformative experience for me. Before we started working together, I was struggling with evaluating my career and feeling undervalued in my current position. Raelie helped me understand my limiting beliefs, learn thought models, and reframe those beliefs, which led to changing some habits and developing a better outlook and perspective.
Raelie's approach and insightfulness, openness, and kindness made the experience enjoyable and enlightening. I appreciated her extensive knowledge and expertise, and her wide variety of tools helped me understand myself better. Although occasionally challenging, the homework was very helpful.
I highly recommend Raelie to anyone seeking to learn more about themselves and find satisfaction in their lives, themselves, and their careers."
Lisa H.
The investment
$2,999 paid in full, or 4 payments of $825
This is the founding rate for the first six clients in this program. It won't stay here.
Ten sessions over four months, everything above included.
Free, about 45 minutes. We talk through what's actually going on.
Is this therapy or medical treatment?
No. This is coaching. And I'm not a medical doctor (not even on TV). I do have a PhD. If what you're dealing with needs clinical care, I'll say so and help you find it. Plenty of people work with both a therapist or a medical doctor and a coach.
Why four months?
Shorter would sell more easily. It also wouldn't work. Real relief shows up early, but the patterns underneath took decades to install and don't reorganize in six weeks. Four months is the shortest container that does the job properly.
I'm already stretched thin. How much time does this take?
An hour every other week, plus whatever you choose to do between sessions. The work is designed for people with no spare capacity, because that's who comes to me.
What if I can't commit to all ten sessions right now?
Then this probably isn't the right moment, and that's a legitimate answer. Book a clarity session anyway — sometimes the conversation itself is what's needed, and I'll tell you straight if the timing is wrong.
Do I have to leave my job?
No. Most of my clients don't. This is about how you're doing what you're doing, not about walking away from it.
What happens in a clarity session?
We talk about what's actually going on. I'll ask questions nobody has asked you in a while, if ever. By the end you'll have a clearer picture of your situation whether or not we decide to work together. It's free and there's no pitch.
Worth a conversation?
One conversation, about 45 minutes, no cost and no pitch. You'll leave with a clearer read on what's actually draining you.
I take six clients at a time, which is the real limit for work this close.