About Sarika
“I’m not here to fix you. Nothing about you is broken. I’m here so you can hear yourself think.”
The long way here.
Sarika didn’t arrive at coaching through a tidy career ladder. She arrived through a life, a full, complicated, deeply lived one, and everything that life asked her to carry.
For nineteen years she was the one who held the center of a home: the steady presence, the quiet logistics, the emotional weather system for everyone around her. She knows, from the inside, how invisible that work is and how much it costs.
“Grief doesn’t ask whether you’re ready. It just hands you a different life and waits to see what you’ll do.”
A profound loss in 2012 rearranged the map. A move to Canada meant rebuilding from the ground up. And somewhere in the rebuilding, the thing she’d always done instinctively, helping people find their own footing, became something she chose to do with rigor.
The certifications came next. Not to borrow authority, but to hold lived experience to a real standard.
The path, briefly
- 1993–2012
Nineteen years, holding the center
A full life as a homemaker, the invisible, essential work of keeping people steady. She learned exactly how heavy the load is when no one names it.
- 2012
A loss, and a move across the world
Her husband passed away suddenly. In the same year, she moved to Canada and began rebuilding, a new country, new footing, and the slow, unglamorous work of starting again.
- 2020–2023
Turning it into craft
Training began during the pandemic, iPEC, Energy Leadership, ICF, functional-medicine health coaching, and she founded her coaching practice in January 2021, completing her certifications by 2023.
- Today
The work she was always doing
Coaching people through the exact terrain she crossed, quietly, without hype, and without ever making anyone feel small for needing it.
How Sarika works
Three promises about the room.
No hype
No breakthroughs promised by Friday, no manufactured urgency. Real change is quieter and more durable than that, and I won't sell you the loud version.
No platitudes
You won't hear "everything happens for a reason" in this room. You'll hear real questions, held long enough to reach a real answer.
No shaming
Whatever you find when you finally slow down, it's met with steadiness, not judgment. You've done enough being hard on yourself.
Properly qualified
Credentials, for the skeptics.
Lived experience, held to a real professional standard.
iPEC
Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
ELI-MP
Energy Leadership™ Index, Master Practitioner
ICF PCC
Professional Certified Coach, ICF
FMCHC
Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach