Hi, I’m Emily—a mother, revillager, and coach dedicated to helping families weave the village back into their lives.

Revillaging wasn’t something that always came easily for me.

I was a proud “do it myselfer” who thought asking for help was a sign of weakness — especially when it came to my mothering.

As I was initiated into motherhood, I felt resentful, isolated, and at times depressed. I didn’t know how to speak up about it because I thought it meant I was doing this wrong. Wasn’t it all supposed to come easily to me? Why didn’t I love every minute?

Fortunately, I had another voice inside telling me that all of this was completely understandable. I was living without the necessary fabric to hold me inside of my parenting:

I was missing the village.

With this identified, I sat down with my husband and began to talk strategy.

This is when my own revillaging journey began.

Photo Credit: Heirlume Photography

Photo Credit: Lauren Smith

Photo Credit: Lauren Smith

Photo Credit: Lauren Smith

Before I became a mother, I gave my life to my career.

I was focused on climbing the corporate ladder, while wanting to make a difference in the world.

I didn’t know it at the time, but I was picking up some important life skills that would serve me well in my revillaging work today.

Some highlights include:

  • Becoming a certified coach through the Coaching Training Institute’s (CTI) accredited coaching program

  • Studying interpersonal relationships, team culture, communication and change management

  • Facilitating offsites & workshops to help leaders work across difference and solve creative challenges together.

  • Coaching people to connect with their dreams and walk through the transitions needed to bring those to life

Then I became a mother — and my identity was given a shake up.

I grieved who I once and said goodbye to the career that I had built. I let myself sit in the goo for a while. Bit by bit, new pieces of a life I had always dreamed of started to come into view.

I began to value my time in a whole new way. I started to focus on the things I truly cared about. I questioned how I wanted to show up and who I wanted to be.

I started a podcast, This Is How We Care, to help me sit in that inquiry. In countless interviews held with visionaries and leaders, “community” was the answer they all pointed to.

Inspired by these conversations and the challenges I was facing by parenting in isolation, a sense of purpose connected to revillaging began to emerge.

I realized my innate skillsets were allowing me to approach revillaging as a creative, spiritual and relational path that nourished me along the way — and I could actually marry all of my previous professional experience to help others do the same.

If you’re tired of parenting in isolation, you’ve come to the right place.

Let’s begin with a free discovery call to get you some support, now.