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Meet Your Resiliency and Nature Coach

About Me

Darcie Ziel BSN, RN, NC-BC

As a registered nurse for over twenty years, I've come to realize that nothing is more important than your health and wellbeing, and a big part of wellbeing is your resilience.

After caring for thousands of patients suffering from often preventable conditions, and from the experience of facing my own health struggles, I chose to transform my nursing practice to be more in alignment with my passions to help clients at a deeply transfomational level.

My story

Nearly thirteen years ago I was working 12 hour shifts with lots of overtime doing bedside nursing at a big hospital. I was feeling burnout and compassion fatigue. I had a great job, a great life, but I just wasn’t happy and I didn’t know why or how to change that.

Right around that time I had a devastating loss in my personal life. I was feeling depressed both at work and in my personal life and that motivated me to seek change. I started going to a therapist.​

This therapist asked me questions such as “What is your passion?” “What do you want out of life?” and many more. I now recognize these as coaching questions but when she first started asking me these questions I drew a complete blank. I really didn’t know what to say because I really didn’t know what I wanted.

When I went home and sat down to do my homework and write out these answers I realized that although I’d had so many wonderful experiences in life, I had been living without intention. I started a process of changing that.

Being more intentional in the choices I made, doing regular self-care, and starting to be more mindful all created a shift…

My mission…

is to empower you on a transformative journey of self-discovery. Together, we will develop tools to forge a deep connection with your body, build resilience in your nervous system, and reconnect you with nature's healing power.

I'm here to coach you toward creating a life you truly love—one that aligns with your values, ignites your passions, and fills each day with purpose and joy.

…This catapulted me in a new direction, and so many of the dreams and visions that I wrote down with intention all those years ago have materialized.

​The coaching process isn’t magic, even though it feels that way at times! It’s about changing your brain, regulating your nervous system, using tools to build resiliency, getting to know your self deeply, starting where you are and continuing to take action.

Taking advantage of the brain’s ability to constantly adapt can shift how you show up in the world. This process will change your future.

If you are wanting your life to be different, now’s the time. The first step is taking action, however small, toward that future that you’re craving. Maybe like me it is sitting down and figuring out just what it is that you want out of life.

Are you ready to start to change your brain and take the first step in to your future?

​As a nurse I've needed to learn the skills of prioritizing care of myself and my own health while still being able to care for others.

You can do the same and I am here to support you in getting there!

Through our work together, you’ll learn to:

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Change your brain and regulate your nervous system

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Use tools to build resiliency

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Get to know and trust yourself deeply

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Take consistent action towards your goals

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Are you ready to start building resilience and take the first step into the future you are wanting?

The coaching process is about changing your brain, regulating your nervous system, and consistently taking action towards your goals.

It's about starting where you are and continuing to grow.

  • Michelle Jez

    "Our work together reminded me that dark times are also a time of growth. This helped me re-frame what I always have thought about these times. Dark times still happen but I breathe easier thinking about that growth I'm going through (even if unpleasant) and that this time will pass too.

    ​Another tool was sharing with me small ways to bring back exercise to my daily life -even in the time between when my coffee is brewing and the time I write in the morning. Setting weekly goals helps me feel grounded and that I can accomplish things even if I feel no accomplishment in any other area of my life.

    I am truly blessed to have been able to do this work and to have Darcie be there with me. She is a wonderful guide."

  • Janet, Oregon City, OR

    "I have worked with Darcie for more than a year, in both 1:1 and group coaching containers. Before I started working with Darcie, I was experiencing burnout in my life and in my work. I was struggling to find meaning in my work and in my relationships. I was interested in building a business and interested in healing from the burnout....

    I’ve had so many benefits, it will be impossible to list them! I would say that I achieved an ability to reflect; to consider how I am feeling and how I want to be feeling and then take steps toward how I want to be feeling; to listen to music; to understand some of the physiology behind why a marriage can become strained in stressful times and how men and women manage stress differently; to know that I have accomplished many great things in my job and that it’s okay to be ready to leave that job behind; and that I have a powerful medicine to offer!...

    I believe Darcie has the ability to coach anyone! Her particular strengths are in the areas of managing emotions around parenting and partnering; regaining health despite auto-immune genetics; and holding space for the individual (inside a group and 1:1) as the stories emerge and the work takes shape. Darcie has a vast support network and has referred me a couple of times to others who will be better able to help me with a particular issue. This is so valuable."

  • P.K. RN, Alaska

    "I reached out to Darcie regarding Life Coaching because I found myself becoming increasingly depressed and anxious about the current medical crisis and economical as well as ecological situations as well as other external areas of stress. I had episodes of feeling hopeless and disorganized and unable to be of use.

    Darcie helped me to set goals for actions that would help me come to terms with my concerns. She had a lovely and positive way of clarifying my statements in a way that made it easy to make steps forward. I feel like the sessions helped me be more confident in myself and gave me tools to work on decreasing my anxiety and addressing my needs.

    She was easy to interact with and I liked that she paused to consider what I had just said before responding. I felt like she was really listening to what I was saying. It was a new concept that I could give myself permission to let go of insecurities and Darcie had a way of making a direction forward appear out of my somewhat chaotic ideas. She was good at restating and summarizing, without making it seem overly obvious.

    I thought this was a valuable process and would recommend the program to anyone who is struggling to adjust to difficult and uncharted situations."

  • Rob, RN

    "I am grateful for the enlightening mindfulness exercises that you have presented over our sessions. Your professionalism and skilled guidance has provided me with a focused meditation Toolkit that I can apply daily. Your reassuring and calm voice has guided me with therapeutic imagery in a safe environment and allowed me to access my inner resources. You have provided resiliency and support on a deeper level. Thank you for that gift."

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