About Tasha
I’ve walked the
path, too.
For more than thirty years, I’ve been walking my own healing path — through eating disorders, addiction, family-of-origin trauma, chronic illness, and the long work of coming home to myself.
Today, I support others through that same kind of return: gently, honestly, and with the whole person in view.
No pressure. No performance. Just a real conversation.
Tasha Darwent
Integrative Health Coach & Therapeutic Mentor
Boulder, Colorado · Worldwide via Zoom
Educational and supportive services. Complementary to therapy and medical care.
Why this story matters
This page is really about you.
Because if you’ve been carrying addiction, body shame, family pain, chronic illness, or the quiet feeling that something in your life has to change, you don’t need another expert looking down from a distance.
You need someone who can meet you with compassion, tell the truth gently, and help you make sense of what you’ve lived.
That is the work I’m here to do.
My story
The path I didn’t choose became the path I now walk with others.
I didn’t come to this work because healing was easy for me.
I came to it because, for a long time, nothing about being human felt simple.
I lived through anorexia, bulimia, addiction, family-of-origin trauma, and chronic illness that no one could quite explain. I know what it feels like to be labeled as the problem when your body, your symptoms, and your patterns are actually telling the truth.
For years, I tried to fix one piece at a time. The food. The substance. The diagnosis. The symptom. The family role.
What finally helped was not one perfect protocol. It was integration. Body, mind, nervous system, relationships, and spirit — all held together, with compassion instead of shame.
That is the foundation of Resilient Grace.
“My lived experience became my expertise. My wounds became my wisdom. My healing became my offering.”
The path home
Four chapters. One thread.
I don’t believe healing happens in a straight line. Mine didn’t. But looking back, I can see the thread that carried me here.
Chapter 01
Survival
As a young person, I learned to survive through control, disconnection, and perfection. Eating disorders, addiction, and over-functioning became ways to manage pain I did not yet have language for.
Chapter 02
Seeking
I went looking for answers — through treatment, therapy, doctors, spiritual practice, nutrition, mindfulness, and every doorway that seemed to offer a way through. Some helped. Some missed the deeper story.
Chapter 03
Integration
The real shift came when I stopped trying to choose one answer. Healing asked me to listen to the body, tend the nervous system, name the family patterns, nourish the spirit, and stop abandoning myself.
Chapter 04
Service
Today, I bring that lived experience, professional training, and steady presence to others walking their own path home. Not as someone above you. As someone beside you.
Professional experience
Where lived experience became steady support.
For more than sixteen years, I’ve supported people through recovery, mental-health challenges, life transitions, chronic illness, family patterns, and the slow work of rebuilding trust with themselves.
My work brings together therapeutic mentoring, integrative health coaching, trauma-informed mindfulness, family systems, somatic practice, nutrition, and contemplative spirituality.
The goal is not to diagnose you. It is to understand you — and help you understand yourself with more compassion, clarity, and choice.
16+ Years
Professional experience in mental-health and healing-centered support
Hundreds
Of clients supported through complex life and health challenges
Naropa
Guest lecturer in contemplative, recovery, and healing-centered spaces
Certified
Integrative Health Coach and Mental Health & Addiction Recovery Coach
Trauma-Informed
Mindfulness, somatic awareness, and nervous-system support
Whole-Person
Body, mind, relationships, and spirit held together
Family Systems
Somatic grounding in family roles, inherited patterns, scapegoating, and the body's memory of survival
Mindfulness Mentor
Vipassana, Tonglen, RAIN, somatic awareness, and contemplative, nervous-system practice
What I believe
Healing only works when it honors the whole person.
Not just the symptom. Not just the story. Not just the body. All of you.
Symptoms are intelligent.
Your symptoms aren't failures — they're signals.
What I believe
Symptoms are intelligent.
The addiction, the eating disorder, the anxiety, the freeze response, the chronic illness — these are not signs that you are broken. They are signals. Survival strategies. Ways your body and psyche tried to keep you safe.
Integration matters.
You can't heal one part while abandoning the rest.
What I believe
Integration matters.
You can't heal the nervous system while ignoring the body. You can't nourish the body while abandoning the heart. You can't build a new life while staying loyal to an old role that was never yours.
Healing happens in relationship.
We're wounded in relationship — and we heal there, too.
What I believe
Healing happens in relationship.
Many of us were wounded in relationship. Most of us heal there, too — through safety, honesty, repair, community, and being seen without having to perform.
The experience
What it feels like to be met here.
This work is not about being fixed. It is about being understood, supported, challenged gently, and guided back toward yourself.
You won't be rushed.
We move at the pace your nervous system can actually hold. Not someone else's timeline. Not a program's promise. Yours.
You won't be pathologized.
The question is not, “What’s wrong with you?” The question is, “What happened — and what has your system been trying to protect?”
You won't be handed a template.
Your history, body, family system, beliefs, health, relationships, and daily life all matter. The work is shaped around the person in front of me.
You won't walk alone.
Healing asks for courage. It also asks for support. My role is to help you keep turning toward the life that is trying to emerge.
Resilient Grace
A practice built around the truth that healing is not one thing.
Resilient Grace is for people who don’t fit neatly into one box — sober but still anxious, years into therapy but still bracing at the family text, told it’s all in their head when their body is telling the truth.
The work lives between clinical care, coaching, somatic practice, nutrition, and spirit. Not a replacement for therapy or medicine — a bridge.
“I don’t believe your symptoms are evidence that you failed. I believe they are evidence that something in you kept trying to survive.”
— Tasha Darwent
The work now is learning how to live without needing the old strategies to carry you.
Before you reach out
Questions people actually ask.
No — and that distinction matters. I'm a coach and mentor, not a licensed therapist or medical provider. My work is educational and supportive, not diagnostic or clinical. Many of my clients work with a therapist at the same time, and I regularly collaborate with psychotherapists and care teams. Think of this as a complement to therapy and medical care — never a replacement for it.
We spend 30 minutes on Zoom talking about what's bringing you here. You share as much or as little of your story as you want, I listen, and together we explore whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure. No sales pitch. Just a conversation.
Therapeutic mentoring and integrative health coaching are $175 per hour, and we'll find a rhythm that fits your life — weekly, biweekly, or something gentler. The monthly support group is always free, and the consultation costs nothing but half an hour of your time.
Not at all. I work with clients around the world over Zoom. If you're near Boulder, Colorado, in-person sessions are possible too — some of my favorite work happens on a walk outside.
Honestly? Healing is non-linear and it doesn't follow anyone else's timeline. Most clients work with me in three-to-six-month containers, and we move at the pace your nervous system can actually sustain — because that's the pace that lasts.
Something else on your mind? Ask me directly — I read every message.
Begin here
You don’t have to know exactly what you need.
You only have to know that something is asking for care.
We can start there.
Thirty minutes. No pressure. Just a conversation about what you’re carrying and whether this work feels like the right fit.