Exploring Life & Business with Courtney Osselaer of Courtney Coaches Wellness

Today we’d like to introduce you to Courtney Osselaer.

Hi Courtney, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I spent over 15 years working as a pediatric RN, and while I loved supporting families, I started to realize something: so many of the health issues I was seeing were rooted in stress, burnout, and emotional disconnection — and I wasn’t immune to it either.

After years of pushing through, my own body finally said, enough. In 2019, I had my stomach removed — a wake-up call that forced me to slow down and learn what self-care truly meant at the most basic level: nourishment, rest, and receiving support. Two years of complications and hospital stays stripped me down to essentials and began a whole new chapter of self-awareness.

Then, while completing my coaching certification in 2024 and building my private practice, I uncovered decades of repressed childhood trauma. It was humbling and healing all at once — the moment I realized that my triggers weren’t the enemy; they were invitations to pay attention.

That experience became the foundation of my work today. Now, as an Emotional Mastery and Self-Trust Coach, I help high-achieving, spiritual moms move from overgiving and exhaustion into deeper connection, sustainable energy, and emotional freedom.

At my core, I’m a rejuvenating alchemist — helping women transmute their overwhelm into peace, their exhaustion into vitality, and their disconnection into deeply rooted renewal.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Smooth? Not at all — but I’ve learned that the goal was never a smooth road.

Obstacles are part of being human, and I don’t think they ever fully disappear. What’s changed is how I meet them.

One of the hardest decisions I ever made was walking away from my bedside nursing career. On paper, it made no sense — a stable job, great benefits, a clear path forward. But inside, I was unraveling. After my health crisis and the trauma I uncovered in 2024, I knew I couldn’t go back. I had much more inner work to do — and a calling that wouldn’t quiet down.

That decision cracked everything open. It forced me to face my patterns, my pain, and my need for control — and to learn how to trust life again.

There are still challenges, of course. But now, instead of trying to fix or fight them, I use them as mirrors — invitations to pause, feel, and grow. That’s what I now teach my clients: that your triggers aren’t problems to solve; they’re teachers showing you what’s ready to heal.

The real work isn’t escaping struggle — it’s learning to meet it with compassion, curiosity, and a nervous system that finally feels safe enough to hold it all.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
My business is called Courtney Coaches Wellness, and at its heart, it’s about helping women find more sustainable energy and deeper connection — with themselves, their families, and life itself.

I work primarily with high-achieving, spiritual moms who are great at taking care of everyone else but often feel disconnected from themselves. Through emotional mastery, nervous system regulation, and inner child healing, I help them move from constant reactivity and burnout to calm, confident, and connected.

My signature framework, the ROOT Method™, guides that transformation:
• Regulate your nervous system
• Own your emotions
• Operate from self-trust
• Transform your boundaries

What sets my work apart is how deeply embodied and individualized it is. I don’t hand people cookie-cutter steps or “mindset hacks.” I help them build safety in their body so they can actually live what they know — not just think it.

Beyond the framework, it’s the feeling people experience when they’re in my space that makes the biggest difference. My approach is deeply grounded and trauma-informed. Clients often tell me they feel instantly safe, seen, and held — like they can finally exhale. That sense of safety allows real transformation to happen, because we can’t heal in survival mode.

I think that’s where my background as both a nurse and a coach comes together. I bring the precision and attunement of my medical background with the empathy and intuition of someone who’s walked through her own healing. My strength lies in noticing the subtle — the micro-expressions, tone shifts, and unspoken cues that reveal where someone’s nervous system or inner child is needing support.

I naturally create environments where people feel emotionally steady, understood, and deeply supported — without ever feeling judged or “fixed.” My role isn’t to tell people what to do; it’s to guide them back to their own wisdom.

Whether it’s a one-on-one Embodied Breakthrough package, my group program Rooted & Radiant, or an in-person retreat, my goal is always the same: to help women regulate their emotions, reconnect with themselves, and rebuild relationships that feel nourishing and real.

At the end of the day, my work is about helping women shift from overgiving to overflowing — where energy, connection, and joy come from a grounded, embodied place of wholeness.

Can you talk to us about how you think about risk?
I used to see risk as something to avoid at all costs. For most of my life, I was in survival mode — doing everything I could just to stay afloat. And when your nervous system is wired for survival, even small risks can feel like massive threats.

But entrepreneurship has completely rewritten my relationship with risk. When you build something from the ground up, you realize that taking calculated risks isn’t just part of the process — it is the process. Every decision, from leaving my nursing career to launching my first coaching offer, required me to bet on myself before I had proof it would work.

The biggest risk I ever took was walking away from the security of my bedside nursing job to face decades of trauma and rebuild my life from a place of truth. On paper, it looked reckless. In reality, it was the most aligned decision I could have made. That choice cracked everything open and led me to the work I do now — helping women cultivate the emotional safety and self-trust they need to take their own brave, aligned risks.

Now, I don’t see risk as something to fear. I see it as a mirror — reflecting how much trust I have in myself and in life. When my body feels grounded and my intuition feels clear, I know I can hold whatever comes next.

Pricing:

• Trigger Reflection Journal – FREE
• Inner Child Meditation – FREE
• Complimentary Emotional Reset Session – FREE

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.courtneycoacheswellness.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_eo_seahorse/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-osselaer-bsn-rn-nc-bc-331898345/
• Trigger Reflection Journal: https://go.courtneycoacheswellness.com/triggerreflectionjournal
• Inner Child Meditation: https://go.courtneycoacheswellness.com/innerchildmeditation-6654
• Complimentary Emotional Reset Session: https://go.courtneycoacheswellness.com/emotional-reset-session

Image Credits
Jocelyn Collins Photography