My Services

Chuck Coward (The Struggle Coach) seated with a group of people at a kitchen table smiling and enjoying coffee.

Coaching through struggle, not around it

Support for navigating the hard, human stuff—through one-on-one coaching, honest conversation, and group experiences that make space for reflection and growth. Whether you're moving through something personal or holding space for others, I offer grounded, compassionate guidance that meets you where you are. This work isn’t about fixing—it’s about showing up, staying present, and moving forward with care.

What I Offer:

1:1 Coaching

Personal, one-on-one support for when life feels uncertain, overwhelming, or off-track. Together, we explore what’s showing up in your life—with curiosity, honesty, and without judgment. Coaching sessions offer a space to slow down, sort through what matters, and move toward choices that feel more aligned with who you are and how you want to live.

** Available as ongoing coaching or single sessions.

Speaking & Group Facilitation

Talks and workshops that create space for honest conversation and shared reflection. I work with teams, communities, and organizations to explore struggle, emotional honesty, and resilience. Each session is tailored to your group’s needs, focusing on connection, depth, and care.

** Custom sessions built around your audience and goals.

What My Coaching Is (and Isn't):

I’m not here to help you optimize your mindset, crush your goals, or “level up.” This isn’t performance coaching, productivity hacking, or a shortcut to feeling good all the time.

I work with people who are in it:

  • Grieving
  • Burning out
  • Questioning who they are or how they're living
  • Trying to make decisions from a deeper place
  • Untangling patterns that once helped, but now just feel heavy

We all face struggles of some kind as we live life out. Sometimes it’s our own personal work to be coached through. Other times it’s work we need to do along with others, because there is a shared vision of personal growth, or they are, in some way, involved in the struggle. 

There are also groups of people with whom you just feel safe, so a lot of your personal growth has been together. Walking in community nurtures change we don’t anticipate, but deeply need. All of these are conversations I would love to facilitate and coach you through, as an individual or a group.

YOU need more attention.

Think about it, how much time, energy, and money do you spend on your physical world? The gym where you might workout, the food you eat, the makeup and clothes you wear, the car or truck you drive, the home you live in, the yard you display, they are all the tangibles of your life. But none of this is YOU.

Who YOU are is an intangible reality that needs more attention. Struggle in life tends to expose the needs, weaknesses, pains, and sorrows that lie hidden here. The mental, emotional, and spiritual self needs to be known and understood, and the health of your very being cultivated.

I can help you do that.

Struggles are real...
and so is help for them.

Struggles—both internal and external—can impact every part of life. If you're feeling overwhelmed, let’s talk. Schedule a FREE 45-minute conversation to explore how I can support you in finding clarity and moving forward.