This is a revolutionary time and the revolution begins within.
Within me. Within you.
We must do our inner work, friends.
The momentum of our outer work will be carried by it.
ON STANDING IN SOLIDARITY
I will continue to be explicitly committed to being anti-racist in my heart, life, and business. Always, in all ways.
I have been implicit and silent in this commitment for far too long.
I am standing with my BIPOC siblings and all souls who are speaking up against injustice, hatred, and systemic racism.
I want more for our global community than genuine inclusion. I want courageous anti-racism.
I will choose discomfort. And I will remain here.
I am standing with the courageous souls having hard conversations & doing necessary work. With the souls who are transforming empathy into energetic fuel to continue to push back against the structures and false beliefs that have fortified this inequality & injustice.
I stand with all souls who are looking their shadows and fears directly in the eye and illuminating all that doesn’t work within ourselves and our world.
I stand with so many fellow LGBTQIA+ siblings in recognizing that I have been wrong in my false belief that my queerness somehow means I slightly understand what it means to be BIPOC. I don’t. It’s time to acknowledge where I have been wrong. It’s time to know better.
I stand with those who listen, learn, unlearn, educate themselves, and take action. Ally will not be the noun I give myself to make myself feel better — instead, it will be the verb I choose to embody with deeper awareness & action.
ABOUT THE COURAGE PRACTICE
The Courage Practice community is committed to being a courageous, safe place of genuine inclusion and anti-racism. No harm of any kind will be accepted in any of the spaces we create or occupy. Being willing to be uncomfortable for what really matters will be relentlessly encouraged. We will share and encourage others to share from a place of deep conviction.
We will not be silent—courage is meant to be actively practiced here. Silence and implicit support contributes to confusion and upholds systemic racism in our communities.
Coaching and energy healing is about transformation. This is what we do here. True transformation and the evolution of our consciousness is why this intuitive work matters and how it changes lives. As such, racial healing, justice, & reconciliation hold a central place in this work and must be woven into the bedrock of our business values, development, and everyday practices. If I am not paying attention to equity and actively working for it here at The Courage Practice and in my own life, I am contributing to the very system that creates inequity and oppression.
OUR COMMITMENTS
TRUST & SAFETY: Every space The Courage Practice creates or occupies will be safe & sacred to all our BIPOC siblings. We will protect our community from racism, hatred, harm, & indifference by prioritizing safety & trust for all its members by building trust through action. Ally will be a verb (not a noun) here.
CHAMPION BIPOC LEADERS, CREATORS, TEACHERS, & HEALERS: We will actively support, champion, or feature BIPOC teachers, creators, businesses, brands, and voices in our spaces and community.
CORE VALUES: We are currently rewriting our community core values to be explicitly anti-racist rather than focused solely on inclusion.
EDUCATE OURSELVES: We are currently and will continue to invest in BIPOC educators and coaches to learn, unlearn, and grow in this necessary work. We will not ask BIPOC to labor for us in our education. We desire to ally in an effective and culturally competent way. There is no arrival — this education will continue and evolve forever and we’re here for it.
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT: We coaches at The Courage Practice will not teach what we have not experienced. We will instead guide clients toward BIPOC voices and businesses to support and invest in for deep learning and development as we collectively work to dismantle the racism within us, our systems, structures, and global community.
ENGAGE IN GENUINELY INCLUSIVE EVENTS ONLY: We will decline all invitations to speak or attend events that do not actively feature or encourage BIPOC voices in an equitable way.
TEAMWORK: As The Courage Practice grows, we are committed to ensuring our team includes BIPOC leadership, mentorship, talent, as well as diverse collaborations or partnerships.
ACCESSIBILITY: We are dedicated to ensuring offerings here at The Courage Practice are accessible. We will focus on creating spaces that foster equitable outcomes for all.
RESOURCES: We are actively updating our website and bookstore to include key resources featuring BIPOC voices and experiences to support our client community with continual education and learning directly from our BIPOC siblings. If you are looking for a place to begin, we recommend The Great Unlearn by Rachel Cargle.
GRATITUDE TO ALL OF YOU here in this community
I won’t always get this right. I have already been too silent for too long. I will make more mistakes too. I’m sincerely grateful for your patience, accountability, and kindness while I show up imperfectly and continue to actively cultivate The Courage Practice as a genuinely inclusive and equitable place.
With love, courage, & justice for all,
Tonyalynne
ABOUT THE COACH:
An intuitive leadership and life coach for 15 years and founder of The Courage Practice®, Tonyalynne Wildhaber coaches individuals, leaders, coaches, and soulful entrepreneurs to make friends with their courage in a conscious way.
With a unique approach of integrating inner wisdom with outer strategy, she partners with you to courageously step into your highest potential, navigate challenge and transition with greater ease, and transform your abundance and life from the inside out.
Tonyalynne’s approach has been informed and influenced by her own life experience infused with deep loss, shame, a dark night of the soul & spiritual awakening, and a passionate, scrappy resilience practiced from birth to the present day. (Ask her about her birth story sometime.) Her work has also been powerfully shaped by her coursework, training, and study of dynamic thought leaders and teachers, including Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Brené Brown, Gabrielle Bernstein, Caroline Myss, Martin Seligman, and her spiritual sisters within The Woo Collective.
She serves as an affiliate coach for the Northwest Coaching Group and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council for her integrated leadership and life development approach. She is also a frequent contributor to Forbes, WomELLE, and Thrive Global. Head-over-heels in love with the Pacific Northwest, Tonyalynne drinks iced coffee in all weather, is committed to human rights, equality, & justice for all, regularly nerds out on women’s soccer, saves way too many quotes on her phone, writes with black sharpie pens, and is attempting to train a little Yorkie named Ollie.
ABOUT THE COURAGE PRACTICE ®:
The Courage Practice offers personal & professional development from a deeper place. With an inside-out, soul-to-strategy approach, we guide you to make friends with your courage. This practice isn’t just about doing the things you’ve always wanted to do; it’s about awakening to your true self and becoming all of who you are. When we choose courage as our practice, transformation is merely the beginning. Join our thriving community to elevate your success, deepen your inner peace, and begin living, leading, and loving with conscious courage.