About Taylor

For most of my twenties, I was the most prepared person I knew. I had the books. I had the certifications. I had the frameworks. I had a folder of unpublished drafts that grew steadily for eight years and never became anything.

What I didn't have was the ability to act on any of it.

I told myself, for a long time, that I just needed one more piece of training, one more book, one more season of preparation, and then I'd be ready. I believed this earnestly, the way a young child promises to take care of a puppy. They mean it, but don’t understand the full weight of responsibility within their request.

The hard truth was that I wasn't really preparing for the work. I was preparing instead of doing the work. Deep down, I knew that the passion inside of me would require an inner transformation I wasn’t sure I could endure.

I began to realize that the gap I was living in wasn't going to close from the outside. No book, course, or system was going to do it. The shift came from the intentional work of aligning my thoughts, feelings, and actions to the person I wanted to be. When I realized I had crossed the threshold, I also realized I had something to offer the people still on the other side of it.

The coaching I do now is the coaching I wish had existed for me. Private, written, slow, specific. Built around the long arc of becoming, not the short arc of fixing. Designed for people who recognize their patterns, who have read everything, who are not confused about what they want, and who are still, somehow, not moving.

The work I do sits on top of a few things:

A degree in psychology, certification through The Life Coach School, and four years of written-only coaching with 30 clients, who are the proof of concept for everything I now offer.

Eight years in preparation mode before I let myself begin doing this publicly. I don't list that as a credential, exactly. But it's why I can recognize the pattern in someone else, and why I trust the long view of how change actually happens in people like us.

Outside of the work: I live in Southern California. I'm an INFJ and a 4w5, which probably tells you more about me than anything else on this page. I'm drawn to photography, and the small rituals that make ordinary time feel like something sacred. The beach is one of my favorite places. I love beautiful spaces in any form - nature, hotels, restaurants, big windows.

I write weekly at From Taylor Harrison on Substack: essays on capacity, aliveness, and the long work of becoming someone who moves. If you want to know me, that's where to start.

If you're considering working together, the offer is here. The intake form is the beginning of the conversation, and I read every one carefully.

Thank you for being here.