Client archetypes
Composite stories from the work
Each story is a composite — names and details changed, the pattern intact — built from the kinds of people Tara works with most. If one of these sounds like you, it probably is.
The founder who couldn't sleep
When the company was finally working, the sleep stopped
A series-B founder who hadn't slept through the night in three years. Wired at 2 a.m., useless by noon, terrified to admit it.
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The surgeon carrying grief she couldn't put down
Twenty years of saved lives, one she couldn't
A cardiothoracic surgeon who lost a patient she shouldn't have lost, two years ago, and hadn't been the same in the OR since.
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The new parent who couldn't rest even when the baby slept
The baby slept. She didn't.
A first-time mother whose nervous system stayed on watch even when the house was quiet.
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The performer who lost her voice mid-tour
The voice was fine. Something else wasn't.
A touring vocalist whose voice closed up on stage three nights in a row. ENTs cleared her cords. The pattern kept happening.
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The healer who had nothing left for herself
She held space for everyone. No one had held space for her.
A therapist who'd spent fifteen years inside other people's pain and finally hit the wall.
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The executive who couldn't stop blowing up at home
Composed at work. Volcano at home.
A C-suite operator who held it together for 11 hours a day and lost it on his family in the twelfth.
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