Eliminate self-doubt and loneliness
on the awakened path

Counseling • Coaching • Coursework

Psst.
Here’s the bonus to doing self-work.

(Featuring my therapy cat, Amir.)

I’m Rachel Astarte.

Lifelong writer.
Ambivert.
Lover of science + spirituality.
Champion of eccentric souls.

I’m the daughter of a poet and an actor. So, naturally, I became a therapist.

Since Carl Jung was required reading in our house, I learned early on how important it is to be your True Self.

I went to therapy. Practiced Zen meditation. Read Alan Watts and Eckhart Tolle and Ramana Maharshi. I rubbed the crystals. Did the yoga. Took the self-development classes.

By my 30s, I’d discovered my Self, but I lost partners. Friends drifted away. Family didn’t “get” me.

Rather than feeling good about my life, I became more and more isolated and insecure about my choices.

I was at a crossroads: Stay stuck or trust my intuition and dive into complete self-acceptance.

I chose the latter. Over the last 20 years, I’ve devised a systematic method for achieving complete self-acceptance that my clients and students have touted as life-changing.

If this speaks to you, I hope you’ll consider me your self-acceptance mentor.

I’m here to guide you with love and nonjudgment on the sometimes rocky—but always worthy—path to your True Self.

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Is this you?

You’ve done a lot of work on yourself.

You’ve been in therapy.

You’ve gone on mindfulness retreats, taken self-development courses, and maybe even joined online communities seeking like minds.

Damn it, you’re proud of your progress. And you should be.

But now you’re having trouble bridging the gap between your inner growth and your outer life.

You feel—

Underappreciated
Misunderstood
Riddled with self-doubt
—and fucking lonely.

Now that you have a foot in both worlds—your new, awakened life and the one you’ve evolved out of emotionally but still live in relationally—you may find you’re crap at creating boundaries, default to people-pleasing to avoid conflict, or overthink and question yourself constantly.

These are perfectly natural issues as we transform from one way of being to another.

Using your current life challenges as a guide, we’ll work together to build a strong Foundation of Self, enabling you to live a life of complete self-acceptance—without self-doubt, isolation, or the need for external validation.

Let’s build your
Foundation of Self

Here’s how powerful you are

The benefits of your deep self-work don’t end with you. Living as your best self strengthens your relationships with everyone around you—from loved ones to colleagues to complete strangers.