Your perfectionism is a gift.

Feeling like enough is what lets you wield it.

Coaching for driven women ready to keep their drive and drop the inner critic that comes with it.

Is this you?

You are the one everyone counts on.

You hold it together at work, at home, and for everyone else. You have built a life you are supposed to be grateful for, and most days, you are. But there’s a quiet truth you don’t say out loud.

You’re tired.

Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The kind that comes from running a private race nobody else can see, where the finish line keeps moving, the standards keep rising, and the voice in your head keeps telling you that if you were doing this right, it would feel easier than this.

You might recognize yourself here.

•  You can’t remember the last time you did something that wasn’t for someone else.

•  You treat rest like a reward you haven’t earned yet.

•  You have accomplished more than you ever thought you would, and it still doesn’t feel like enough.

•  You second-guess yourself even when you know you’re right.

•  You’re praised for being the one who doesn’t complain. And you’re starting to wonder what that has cost you.

If you read that list and felt seen, this is the work that was made for you.

  • I've regained the confidence I was lacking to live the life I've dreamed of and get unstuck from my habitual negative way of thinking. Lori helped me clarify my values and embrace the qualities that God gave me.

    Lori helped me get started on my "mindset" journey. One of the most important things I learned is regarding feelings and emotions. If we define them as something we use to validate our thinking, it is easy to see that mindset changes precede our emotional changes or reactions. It is so freeing for me to focus on thoughts and not immediately go to feelings, which has been my typical pattern for most of my life.

    She gave me the gift of her undivided attention during our sessions which is a rare and wonderful thing.

    BW

  • Thank you so much for offering such a wonderful service to help me do important self-work and reflection.

    Because of our weekly coaching sessions, I gained important skills that I continue to utilize in my day-to-day. I now feel more empowered to advocate for myself and setting healthy boundaries. I no longer let my "passive-aggressive" personality dictate how I react to situations. You also helped me to change my negative self-narrative--something that I continue to implement in my daily life as a graduate student. My life is very stressful as a result of my studies but, despite the difficult circumstances, I choose to find the positive in my situation much more often than I used to. This helps decrease my feelings of anxiety. Thank you for everything, Lori!

    — RS

  • "Special thank you to our Health and Wellness Coach, Lori Dahmes. Working with you has genuinely changed my life. You helped me slow down, breathe, and finally see that taking care of myself isn't selfish, it's necessary.

    I was overwhelmed, exhausted, and carrying so much. With your guidance, I've learned healthier ways to show up for myself, set boundaries, and build consistency without guilt.

    I'm still on the journey, but I'm lighter, stronger, and more grounded. First and foremost, through God and all His glory, and with your help, I'm becoming the person I'm meant to be.

    Thank you for giving me tools that actually work, for holding space with compassion, and for reminding me that I deserve to be in the circle of people I care for and care for me. So grateful for you and the work you do."

    —Angela

This is what becomes possible!

·   You wake up without that low-grade pressure in your chest.

·   You rest without having to earn it.

·   Your drive serves you instead of running you.

·   Your standards stay high. Your self-criticism does not.

·   You hear your inner critic, and you no longer believe her.

·   You enjoy your wins instead of immediately moving the goalpost.

·   You let yourself be enough before you do another single thing.

 

This is not fantasy. This is what the work makes possible.

I’ve been where you are.

Hi, I’m Lori.

Perfectionism & Self-Worth Coach for Driven Women

For a long time, I thought my perfectionism was the problem.

I was the woman who held it all together. The driven one. The one with the standards, the follow-through, the care that no one else seemed to bring to the room. And underneath it, I was exhausted. I was hard on myself in a way I would never be hard on anyone I loved. I thought the answer was to be less, to do less, to want less.

The funeral I missed taught me otherwise.

A former colleague had passed away. I had gained a few pounds. And I was so ashamed of how I might look that I did not go.

That stayed with me for a long time. Not because I had failed to show up. Because I had let my self-criticism cost me a goodbye I could not take back.

That was the moment I understood.

My drive was not the problem. My drive was the reason I cared, the reason I worked hard, the reason I held my standards. The problem was the voice that decided my worth was conditional on how I looked, how much I weighed, how perfectly I performed.

The work I do now is the work I had to learn the hard way.

I help driven women separate the gift from the punishment of the inner critic. We keep the drive. We keep the high standards. We keep the deep care. What we drop is the inner critic that hijacks all of it, and the conditional self-worth that has been running underneath.

I am a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with over six years of experience. I am known as The Enough Coach because that is what my clients need to come home to. Not less ambition. Not lower standards. Just the deep, unshakeable knowing that they are already enough, exactly as they are, before they do another thing.

If you are tired of using your drive to make yourself wrong, I would love to meet you.

Ready to stop performing for your worth?

You don’t need another productivity system. You don’t need to push harder, wake up earlier, or finally get it all right.

You need to know, in your bones, that you are already enough. And then let your life reorganize itself around that truth.

If you’re ready, I would love to meet you.

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