For people who care deeply and feel overwhelmed. You'll leave knowing what's yours to do, with a personal Eco Action Plan and the energy to start.
No burnout required.
*This page is still under construction.
No burnout required.
*This page is still under construction.
Six live weekly sessions. Two private calls with Kelly. One powerful container.
*We are keeping this intimate: This coaching container is capped at 8 participants to ensure personalized attention, transformative momentum, and energetically aligned results for everyone.
Reserve your space now.
You don't have to burn out to save the world. There's another way.
From Ache to Action is built to shift you, in six weeks, from carrying the weight of the world to acting on what you love.
From contracted to connected.
From overwhelmed to empowered.
From ache to agency.
From Ache to Action is built to shift you, in six weeks, from carrying the weight of the world to acting on what you love.
From contracted to connected.
From overwhelmed to empowered.
From ache to agency.
By week six, you'll walk away with:
Clarity on what's yours to do - Out of a thousand ways you could help, you'll know the ones that fit who you are, what you value, and how you love to spend your time.
Your personal Eco Action Plan - A clear, co-created path for your next steps, and your first bold step already taken.
Calm and restored - Body-based tools to move out of anxiety and overwhelm. You'll sleep better knowing you're doing your part for a viable planet.
Action you can sustain - Action that fits the life you already have, so you can keep going without abandoning yourself.
Your personal Eco Action Plan - A clear, co-created path for your next steps, and your first bold step already taken.
Calm and restored - Body-based tools to move out of anxiety and overwhelm. You'll sleep better knowing you're doing your part for a viable planet.
Action you can sustain - Action that fits the life you already have, so you can keep going without abandoning yourself.
Your ache isn't the problem. It's the signal.
Does this sound like you?
• You care about the planet and want to do more.
• You feel overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure where to begin.
• You're tempted to scroll past, numb out, or wait until later.
• Underneath it all, something in your own life feels a little off.
• You feel overwhelmed, anxious, or unsure where to begin.
• You're tempted to scroll past, numb out, or wait until later.
• Underneath it all, something in your own life feels a little off.
What changes when you listen?
Your ache points to what you care about most. Ignored, it drains the very energy you need to respond. Honored, it gives that energy back.
Grief becomes fuel. Anger becomes clarity. Helplessness becomes action.
Thriving is activism, and living lit up is medicine for a world on fire.
Grief becomes fuel. Anger becomes clarity. Helplessness becomes action.
Thriving is activism, and living lit up is medicine for a world on fire.
How it works:
We start by holding space for your ache. We end with you in action, aligned with your purpose and passion.
Sessions weave together mindfulness, somatic practices, creative work, powerful questions, and community witnessing.
This isn't goal-setting, a five-step plan, or productivity coaching, and it will never ask you to push your pain aside or care less about what it's a signal for. It teaches you to act on what you care about from a fully resourced place.
Sessions weave together mindfulness, somatic practices, creative work, powerful questions, and community witnessing.
This isn't goal-setting, a five-step plan, or productivity coaching, and it will never ask you to push your pain aside or care less about what it's a signal for. It teaches you to act on what you care about from a fully resourced place.
- Hold space for the ache. Listen for the invitation. What is it telling you? How is it directing you? What is it asking of you?
- Root into resilience. What are the ways you stay calm, steady, and resourced? How can you prioritize those more?
- Map your inner and outer eco-system. What are the hats you wear and the roles you fill? Who are the people you know? Where are the places you go? What's thriving? What's not?
- Rediscover your spark. What lights you up? If you could do anything in the world, what would it be? If this year were your last, how would you spend it? Redesign your life with thriving in mind.
- Explore what aligned, sacred activism looks like. What hurts the most? What do you care about the most? Explore aligned ways you can respond to your hurt and deep care and map out a plan for thriving.
- Create a personal Eco Action Plan and take your first bold step. Be witnessed by your community.
What's included:
- 6 weekly 1.5-hour group sessions - A spacious, facilitated experience blending mindfulness, somatic practices, reflection, creative inquiry, powerful questioning, and community witnessing.
- 2 private coaching sessions with Kelly - One during Week 1 and one during Week 5 or 6 to deepen the work and support your individual transformation.
- Weekly Messaging Access & Community - Direct support and connection with Kelly and a community of other climate-concerned humans who are eager to become catalysts for change throughout the duration of the program for ongoing connection, witness, reflection, and support.
- Pre-Course Reflection Guide - Journal prompts and grounding tools to help you begin arriving for the work.
- Weekly reflection & meditation practices - Regenerative practices to accompany the week's work and help integrate insights into everyday life.
- Personal Action Plan - A clear, personalized path for taking meaningful action aligned with your values, gifts, life, and deepest care.
- Post-Course Integration Map - Tools and prompts to help you continue the work beyond the six weeks.
Meet your guide, Kelly
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I'm Kelly Isabelle DeMarco, a resilience coach, occupational therapist, and regenerative practitioner.
Eco-anxiety took root in me in 1991. Since then I've aligned my life with environmental action: cycling the Andes to raise awareness about trash, homesteading with my family, and leading a grassroots green team while working as a clinical manager. Walking through chronic pain, cancer, and end of life with my spouse opened my eyes to the power that lives inside of our ache and taught me that it's not a problem to fix but a portal to the life we desire. I understand busy. I understand that activism only lasts when it fits your obligations, your expertise, and the passions you've spent a lifetime building. I also know the numbing, deadening experience that comes from prolonged numbing to or circumventing the ache and am convinced that this is our primary barrier to thriving for ourselves and the planet. I won't hand you my template for thriving. I'll help you discover your own. |
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Kelly has a deep understanding of the issues facing the Earth community today, and a passion for awakening others to the urgent need for positive change. She breaks down the huge problem of climate change into actionable components that anyone, no matter their background or location, can begin to integrate into their life.
Jennifer Browdy, PhD
Professor of Comparative Literature & Environmental Humanities / Founder of Writing to Help Right the World & Greenfire Press
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I had the unique privilege of working with Kelly during a difficult transition in my life. Kelly's coaching gave me the confidence to step outside of my comfort zone to take some bold steps towards a positive change. Her support, encouragement, advice, and wisdom - along with a gentle nudge to do big things and trust myself - was crucial in making a big decision to take steps forward and pursue other opportunities. Kelly's care & kindness during our coaching conversations was vital in helping me feel comfortable. Trusting her and this process ultimately led me on a brand new path towards happiness and success. Kelly's coaching and positive reinforcement made all the difference. I am so glad I trusted her in this process.
Martin
Marketing Director / Public Service Sector, SE Wisconsin
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Upon meeting Kelly at a climate rally in our conservative county park, I felt her urgency and passion to change the climate trajectory. Later we met up to try to impact local issues related to climate and the environment. It was then that I joined a global organization called the Climate Reality Project and became a trained Climate Reality Leadership Corps member along with 10,000 other virtual trainees in 2020. I am grateful that our paths crossed. Kelly is inspiring, ready to lead, creative and thoughtful. Kelly was one of my catalysts to get involved. She has natural skills with youth as well as adults. I am confident Kelly will make a difference in strategizing and calling to action those ready to move toward solutions to this great global threat.
Judy Stellmacher, RN
Pediatric Public Health Nurse / Climate Reality Leader
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Gathering of like minded people, coming together with unique perspective and experience, is what I appreciated most from Kelly's event. When you take the opportunity to witness someone express their passion, it leaves its mark through knowledge and shared experience. It also energetically grows stronger. Kelly's message about transforming the ache into purpose-aligned action resonates deeply and grows stronger in me as I express it with my own unique twist.
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Land Steward, Cascade, WI / Podcaster - Riding Sidesaddle
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Who is this course for?
People who care deeply about the environment, feel called to contribute, and want to do it without burning out. It's for anyone overwhelmed by how many ways they could help and want to discover what is truly theirs to do.
Do I have to become an activist?
No. You don't have to do everything or become an activist in someone else's image. You'll discover the action that fits your life, gifts, and values.
Is this about the climate or about my own life?
Both, because they're connected. Your personal thriving and the planet's thriving go hand in hand, and the course works with the two together.
What if I'm not sure it's right for me?
Book a free discovery call. It's a short conversation to see if the course is a good fit.
Do I have to become an activist?
No. You don't have to do everything or become an activist in someone else's image. You'll discover the action that fits your life, gifts, and values.
Is this about the climate or about my own life?
Both, because they're connected. Your personal thriving and the planet's thriving go hand in hand, and the course works with the two together.
What if I'm not sure it's right for me?
Book a free discovery call. It's a short conversation to see if the course is a good fit.
"Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us."
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
