Hearthwise Healing

Hi, I’m Stacey. I founded Hearthwise Healing to offer safe and steady support to women who want to be in better relationship with themselves. If you’re tired of optimizing, surviving, or dream-deferring and you’re ready to live with more clarity, gentleness, and power, I’d love to connect.

By combining evidence-informed coaching and therapeutic approaches with alternative and holistic methods of healing and inner knowing, I help people regulate their nervous systems, nourish their ‘right-now’ rhythms, and take that next brave step.

Whether you’re in burnout recovery, stuck in a “should” loop, or craving a clearer path forward, I look forward to guiding you back to your center, patiently, personally, and with a plan.

Intuitive, By-Your-Side Life Alignment, Fueled by the Stars

“ToDoula” Coaching & Support

For burnout recovery, overwhelm, life admin, transitions, or “I need help being human.” Body doubling, daily check-ins,

It’s gentle accountability, live support, and systems that stick.

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Tarot + Astrology Readings

Clarity, timing, choice-points, identity seasons, relationship patterns.

Insight you can actually use.

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Inner Child & Shadow Work

Clarity, timing, choice-points, identity seasons, relationship patterns.

Insight you can actually use.

Chakra Balancing & Reiki Energy Healing

Nervous system support, energetic clearing, deep rest, emotional integration.

Quiet medicine. No force.

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Ways to Work With Me

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The ‘A Life Aligned’ framework weaves together:

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psychology + behavioral science

(1) The best practices of adult learning, positive , including approaches that include taking the next brave step, reducing friction, aligning to-do lists to capacity + values, integrating mindfulness + self-compassion, and engaging in realistic + sustainable habit design + planning.

personality typing + spoon theory

Emmett is a detail-oriented instructor who’s spent the past decade helping people develop new tools, habits, and mindsets. Their approach is clear, practical, and always infused with curiosity and care.

esoteric + spiritual practices

Ethical, client-driven, and intuitive use of  such as somatics, meditation, inner child + shadow work, astrology, herbalism, crystal healing, generational/ancestral trauma work, and reiki.

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Need help deciding which path to take?

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    Tarot, Astro, & Energy Healing (Reiki)

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    A Life Aligned: Intuitive Personal Coaching

    Discover how to take (and keep taking) the next brave step with this anti-optimization framework for ensuring your time and energy are being spent in ways that align with your capacity and values.

    Customized, by-your-side packages aim to help people—especially those living with high levels of stress or burnout, chronic health concerns, or general overwhelm—learn to regulate, rest, and ritualize their own well-being.

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    Tools, Workbooks, & Community Offerings

    Download printables, access audio tracks and videos, and sign up for upcoming virtual and Philadelphia-based offerings.

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    "Roots & Branches" Blog / Newsletter

    Read past issues and entries and sign up to receive future missives.

Make it stand out.

  • "Stacey is committed to teaching, to research, and to exploring education as a way of allowing every individual to succeed and, simultaneously, as an institution that can contribute to positive social change.”

    — Lisa Smulyan, Professor Emerita of Education at Swarthmore College

  • "Stacey is a joy to work with! Our team collaborates closely with her ... on several different university-community initiatives, and Stacey is always wonderfully reliable, responsive, and supportive. She has led a number of effective and engaging workshops and trainings for our students on working with young people and school partners. Her experience and expertise as an educator shine through."

    — Faustine Sun, Assistant Director, Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania

  • "Stacey Carlough is a force of nature. She is brilliant, efficient, organized, and thoughtful, with wide-ranging areas of expertise and experience. When I am looking for insight on matters of instruction, curriculum, secondary literacy, and teacher development, I go to Stacey first."

    — Deborah Stern, Independent K-12 Consultant: Curriculum and Instruction, Literacy, and School Design

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