Our foundational formula contains 4 main ingredients:
We assist you in creating your own unique Relationship Glue formula, enhancing your emotional intelligence and supporting your personal growth!
Communication
True connection blossoms from effective communication, which is a key aspect of emotional intelligence. Speak openly, honestly, and without fear of judgment, fostering a safe space for every thought and feeling. With our approach, you will have the opportunity to master conversations that enhance personal growth and deepen connection.
In each coaching session, communication skills are weaved into the conversation. Experiencing and practicing a new way of communicating is essential for mastering emotional intelligence.
Empathy
Another essential ingredient to relationship glue is the ability to be fully present with your partner, ensuring they feel seen, heard, and understood. This practice fosters emotional intelligence and compassion in the midst of conflict, allowing emotional intimacy to develop in its place.
We model and practice an authentic approach to navigating those prickly emotions—such as fear, anger, and anxiety—just to name a few. Authentic empathy comes from understanding that each emotion carries unique messages that can guide decision-making in a powerfully wise way, contributing to personal growth. We just need to be open to listening to them.
Self-awareness and Personal Growth
Doing our own work means we can recognize "our part" of a relational rupture, which is a key aspect of emotional intelligence. Personal accountability and making things right is the SUPER glue that holds relationships together. Relationship challenges are par for the course; by offering compassion towards each other and holding each other accountable, we often find ourselves needing to speak up and engage in uncomfortable conversations. This process requires leaning in, doing the work, and acknowledging the part each of us plays in the dynamic of any situation, ultimately contributing to our personal growth.
Commitment and Effort
Building healthy relationships requires deliberate effort and sustained commitment, as well as emotional intelligence. Establishing regular check-ins, creating agreements, and being open to life changes allows for flexibility, ensuring that the evolving needs of relationships are supported.
During your coaching sessions, your commitment and effort are essential for personal growth. What is experienced and practiced in your coaching sessions will serve as homework to apply in your relationships.
Meet Sandi the Coach
My Mission
My mission as an Emotional Fluency Relationship Coach is to empower and inspire my clients to live a life that is authentic, fulfilling, and aligned with their values. I believe that everyone has the potential to create positive change in their lives through emotional intelligence, and I am here to support you on your journey towards personal growth, transformation, and a life you say "YES!" to every day. I believe the most important work we’ll ever do is learning how to truly connect—first with ourselves, then with the people we love.
My Why?
To invite and empower people everywhere and every day to deeply connect with their true hearts, inspiring them to boldly express their most authentic selves. From this place, together, we are transforming our world—one relationship at a time.
How Did I Get Here?
For over 20 years, I built a career in high-stakes environments, from designing corporate benefits to shaping behavioral health policy. I was a trusted advisor and a strategic leader. However, at home, my childhood trauma contributed to feelings of overwhelm, anxiousness, and panic during moments of conflict with my partner. We explored various approaches to improve our relationship, but it was only after enrolling in a relationship course with The Relationship School and truly understanding the connection between childhood experiences and attachment styles that I began to see, feel, and experience a powerful transformation in relating to my estranged partner. After a two-year separation, we reconnected and committed to doing the work necessary to strengthen our relationship. It was worth it!
Trainings and Certifications
- Relationship Coach Certification (Level 1) - The Relationship School 2025.
- Relationship Coach (Level 2) - anticipated graduation 2026.
- Equine Facilitated Learning Coach, EFLC Certification - The Academy of Coaching with Horses, 2016.
- Completed 40+ hours of EDIA Corporate Training [Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility] 2023.
- Adult Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Certification 2023.
Additional Experience
For well over ten years I have served in multiple roles for non-profits as a mentor, volunteer, and Advisory Board Member for at-risk-youth and youth homelessness programs, emphasizing emotional intelligence in mentorship.
Ten years of providing coaching (with horses); two of which to justice-involved individuals re-entering society, fostering their personal growth, relationship skills and emotional intelligence.
I have led Emotional Intelligence and Fluency Workshops as an Instructor;
Received two separate Trauma-Informed endorsements - The Relationship School 2025 & TGTHR.org 2024.
My Coaching Style and Approach
I offer one-on-one coaching sessions, group coaching, workshops, and online courses focused on emotional intelligence and personal growth. My areas of expertise include emotional fluency, relationship coaching, and leadership development - all of which are interconnected!
My coaching combines emotional intelligence, lived experience, and deep compassion, striking a balance between offering profound emotional support and challenges that keep my clients on their growth edge.
We’re all a work in progress. My journey has shown me that our deepest wounds can transform into our greatest strengths. I’m here to walk beside others as they discover their own paths to personal growth.