ABOUT ANNA SCOTT
I know what it feels like when your soul is calling, and you cannot hear it.
I lived it for years. And I found my way back. That journey is why I do this work — and why I know it is possible for you.
My soul's wish is simple. I want people to be kinder to each other. And I know with everything I am, that it begins with the relationship you have with yourself.
MY STORY
Before I became a coach, I worked in Fortune 500 companies and tech startups — in sales, in business development, building things that looked successful from the outside. And from the outside, my life often did look successful.
Inside, I knew exactly what it felt like to ignore my gut. To override my intuition. To stay in situations because of money, title, approval, or expectation. To say yes when everything in me meant no. To say what I thought others wanted to hear instead of speaking what was true for me.
That way of living has a cost. I paid it for years before I understood what I was doing.
Over time — through devotion, practice, and more than a few hard lessons — I learned how to listen to what is true for me and honor it. I learned to listen to what I love, not what I fear. I learned how to be with my emotions without blaming others for my experience. I learned to recognize which energy is mine and which belongs to others. I learned how to ask for what I want with kindness and conviction. I let go of people-pleasing. I let go of trying to fit in.
I left the world of technology and built a coaching practice more than 20 years ago. Since then, I have had the honor of sitting with hundreds of people — lawyers, executives, entrepreneurs, creatives, parents — and witnessing them find their way back to themselves.
I still learn. I still get caught in stories. I still have to wake up and return to myself. I am human. The difference is that I come back faster — with more awareness, more compassion, and more truth. What I found on the other side was not a better version of myself. It was the return to my own soul — my inner authority. The part that always knew.
I love my clients, and I love this work. It is an honor to sit with another human being and witness their beauty, their truth, and their transformation.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Why This Works Matters
I want people to be kinder to each other. This is not a small wish. It is everything I work toward, every single day, one person at a time.
I have seen it happen — in session after session, year after year. When a person returns to the wisdom of their own soul and begins living from their inner authority, something shifts not just in them but in every relationship around them. They become less reactive. More present. More generous. More real.
Kindness toward others is not a practice you can add on top of a life that is running on fear and self-abandonment. It is the natural result of coming home to yourself.
When you are kind to yourself — truly kind, not performing kindness — you cannot help but offer the same to everyone around you. That is the ripple. That is why this work matters beyond the individual. That is my wish for the world.
FOUNDATION
Thirty-five years of devoted learning.
My training is not a credential list. It is a map of a life spent following the thread of what is true — through the body, the mind, the energy, and the soul.
Strozzi Institute — Somatic Coaching: The body as a source of intelligence and change.
Three Principles - Understanding how the mind creates experience from the inside out.
Gene Keys — Archetypal insight woven into practical, personal purpose.
Conscious Embodiment - Breath, movement, and awareness as pathways to insight.
Aikido — Black Belt and Kuk Sool. The balance of softness and strength. Presence under pressure.
Psychic Development and Qi Gong - Deepening the ability to sense, feel, and read energy.
THE PERSON
Beyond The Work
I am a mother of two adult children — Cylus and Mattie — who live close to home. They have been my greatest teachers. Loving them has shown me depths of myself I didn't know existed. They are part of why I keep growing, keep returning to myself, keep doing this work. They are the force that reminds me why it matters.
I am in a committed relationship with a partner who I adore and who adores me. That kind of love — mutual, honest, and chosen every day — is what this work makes possible.
I love to cook, hike, laugh out loud, and surround myself with beauty. If you walked into my home, you might think I was a florist.
I am still a student. Still learning. Still returning to myself. The work I ask of my clients is work I ask of myself every day.
Cooking meals that bring people together
Hiking in the Oakland hills
Flowers — always flowers
Writing — because clarity comes through words
Qi Gong
My podcast — My Love of Life Energy
Cylus and Mattie — always close
Laughing out loud — as often as possible
A Beautiful home - to share with others
What Fills My Life
The first conversation could change your life.
My work is to help you become present with your sensations, emotions, and belief patterns with grace, and guide you back to the wisdom of your own soul — your inner authority.
When this happens, life becomes as beautiful and simple as it was always meant to be.