About Cherie [Last Name], RN | Anchored Canvas Wellness

A nurse, a coach, and someone who believes you are the expert on your own life.

Cherie [Last Name], registered nurse and founder of Anchored Canvas Wellness.

Who I am

From inside the clinical world

I'm a registered nurse and Assistant Nurse Manager, working three twelve-hour shifts a week in the operating room. On weekends I'm both managing and circulating cases; on weekdays I circulate and then take charge. Our cases run the full range — elective surgeries, emergencies, trauma — and a big part of the work is helping patients and supporting their families through some of the most stressful moments of their lives.

The anticipation of surgery is one of the most vulnerable human experiences there is. I try to support and care for people through it to the very best of my ability, because I believe I'm there for them for a reason.

I came to coaching from inside that world. Years of being close to people on their hardest days taught me something I didn't expect: most of what shapes a person's wellbeing happens long before they reach the hospital. The choices they make. The questions they ask themselves. The way they treat their own body, their relationships, their time. Nursing taught me to care for people in acute moments. Coaching is how I learned to support them in everything in between.

"Caring for others has been part of my nursing career; coaching will allow me to support them in a deeper and whole-life manner."

Training

What I trained in

Nurse life coaching is its own discipline. It draws from the holistic nursing tradition — a lineage that goes back to Florence Nightingale's insistence that nursing is about the whole person, not just the disease — and from professional coaching frameworks endorsed by the International Coaching Federation. I trained through the Nurse Life Coach Academy, a program that combines both, and I'm preparing to sit for the NC-BC (Nurse Coach Board Certified) credential through the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation, with the program completing around October. Alongside the coaching work, I'm also completing a Master of Science in Nursing in Education at Chamberlain University, expected to finish around the same time.

The work draws on a specific set of evidence-based frameworks. I name them here not as credentials to impress, but because they shape how I show up in a session.

Training & Credentials

Registered Nurse (RN), Florida
Assistant Nurse Manager, operating room
Nurse Life Coach Academy graduate (~October 2026)
NC-BC candidate — American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation
MSN, Nursing Education — Chamberlain University (~October 2026)

Frameworks I draw from

ICF-aligned coaching models
Motivational Interviewing
Self-Determination Theory
Positive Psychology
Stages of Change (Prochaska & DiClemente)
Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Emotional Intelligence

Philosophy

How I think about the work

The name of this practice is deliberate. Anchored is what I bring — a steady, confidential space that doesn't move when your life does. Canvas is what's yours — the life you're authoring, the one only you can paint. The work is co-created. I hold the space; you do the seeing, the choosing, the moving.

I trust that you already have the answers you need. Most of the time, the most useful thing a coach can do is ask a question good enough to surface what you already know but haven't said out loud. I work that way because it's honest. You are the expert on your own life. My job is to be a steady, curious, well-trained companion to your thinking.

I work across every domain of life — your health, your work, your relationships, your sense of purpose, your time, your money — not just one. Coaching is future-focused. We can acknowledge the past, but we don't camp there. The question is always: what do you want, and what's the next step toward it?

Outside the work

The rest of it

When I'm not working or studying, you'll find me playing pickleball, at the gym, crocheting, or listening to audiobooks. My go-to reset is planning to be at the beach for sunrise or a full moonrise — I love the smell of the salt air, the sound of the waves, and the way no two of those moments are ever the same. As I move through my day, I try to stay mindful of my connections with other people, and to simply be where my feet are.

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