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Read MoreFor Those Managing a Health Condition While Leading Their Life and Work
For the one who has learned to keep going while managing the demands of their health. The one who is still showing up for work, family, relationships, and everyone who depends on them, even when something within them is asking to be tended to.
A new or chronic diagnosis does not make the rest of your life disappear.
You may be navigating symptoms, appointments, treatment decisions, and uncertainty while trying to maintain the life you have worked hard to build. And when your condition is not visible, there can be pressure to keep performing, explaining, or proving that what you are experiencing is real.
Your health may require something different from you now. Like adjusting to a version of yourself that feels unfamiliar, or letting go of a routine that no longer works. But caring for yourself does not have to mean becoming smaller, losing sight of who you are, or abandoning the life that still matter deeply to you.
I walk alongside people, helping them listen sooner, heal earlier, and rebuild in ways that honor both their tenderness and their capacity, whether or not the condition resolves.
I KNOW
THIS ROAD...
I am Tolu Jean-Jules, a Registered Nurse with more than fifteen years of experience in healthcare, including health tech, care management, the operating room, and the intensive care unit. I am board certified as a Holistic Nurse and Nurse Coach, and my clients are people managing a health condition while still leading their careers, their families, and their lives.
My own path shaped this work as much as my training did. For years, I held leadership positions in high-pressure healthcare settings while carrying disability and chronic health challenges of my own, and like many people managing a chronic condition, I masked how much I was carrying and kept functioning at a high level to avoid stigma and judgment. I kept showing up empty for everyone else until my body forced me to stop. That season changed how I understand healing, not only physically, but across the fuller scope of a life.
This isn’t coaching as you may know it, this is transformative Nurse Coaching. I bring a foundation most coaches simply do not have.
“As a Holistic Nurse, I look at and beyond the diagnosis itself to understand how it is affecting you physically, emotionally, and practically, and what it means in the context of your life. As a Nurse Coach, I use that understanding to help you identify what matters most to you, work through what is getting in the way, and strengthen your ability to advocate for what you need with your doctors, your employer, and your loved ones. This work is designed to complement your medical care, never replace it.”
-Tolu Jean-Jules
WAYS TO
WORK WITH ME
1:1 Nurse Coaching
Personalized whole-person support for people who are ready to care for their health, and move through their next season with greater clarity, and self-advocacy skills.
Care In Context
A one-day retreat for people managing health conditions, their support system, and healthcare professionals to learn, connect, and build understanding together.
DiaType Health
An integrative and holistic health tech marketplace connecting people with holistic and functional care providers who look at health as a whole, not just a set of symptoms to treat.
What Makes this Work Different:
Whole person healing, because you were never meant to be treated in parts.
My work weaves together reflective practice, clinical insight, integrative health, and whole person care, because the body, mind, spirit, and its environment were never meant to be separated.
Coaching built on the art and science of Nursing, and years of walking this path myself.
You cannot be guided any deeper than your guide has gone themselves. My diverse clinical background and my own healing journey are both part of how I show up for you.
Building resilience and capacity that can be sustained, and not performed.
This is not about becoming less ambitious, or abandoning responsibilities. It is about learning to listen to your body before it has to shout, so the way you carry your capacity can actually last.
Real transformation from the inside out, not another "woo-woo" or wellness trend.
This is not about optimizing for output or performing wellness for an audience. It is slower, evidence-informed, yet individualized work that changes how you live, not just how you cope.
Your capacity should not require you to abandon your health and wellness needs, or your identity.
“I believe that you already carry what it takes to live to your individualized healthiest potential. My role is not to fix you. It is to walk alongside you as you rediscover and rebuild, regardless of how complex or layered your health and wellness needs may present.”
-Tolu Jean-Jules
Focus Areas
- Identity disruption
- Decision fatigue
- Invisible symptoms and disbelief
- Grief that has no clear endpoint
- Medical trauma or distrust
- Financial strain
- Isolation
- Loss of spontaneity
- Moving beyond forced positivity
- Making sense of a new or evolving diagnosis
- Communicating with providers, employers, and family
- Rebuilding trust in your body and its signals
- Managing your condition while sustaining your career
- Understanding insurance, and available benefits.
- Setting boundaries without guilt
- Navigating uncertainty and long-term decisions
- Reconnecting with your identity beyond the diagnosis
- Navigating care across a fragmented healthcare system
INSIGHTS and REFLECTIONS
A collection of reflective writing, educational conversations, notes, poetry, and stories designed to support your healing, deepen your awareness, and remind you that you do not need to wait until everything falls apart to begin tending to yourself.
Practical guide to preparing for clinical appointments.
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Practical guide to questions that move your care forward.
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Read MoreA Few Kind Words:
Working with Tolu as my coach has been amazing.
Going into the program, I had some idea of what I needed to do to get my life in order, but I didn’t quite know where to begin, because honetly, I was just filled with anxiety and overwhelmed. Tolu made me feel heard and seen, and she knew just when I needed a soft approach and when I needed some tough love!
– Sam.
Working alongside Tolu was an absolute joy.
Her openness to explore various ideas and adapt her scripts to suit my needs was remarkable. The personalized approach not only made the process enjoyable, but also guided me to a profound place within myself. Tolu’s commitment to personalization truly made a difference in my journey.
– Dottie.
Tolu created a space that was welcoming, non-judgmental, and encouraging.
At the start of our time together, I felt disconnected and out-of-sorts in certain aspects of my life, including within this nurse coaching education process, as well as in my regular profession. I cannot fully express how much I appreciate the valuable insight she contributed. Not only with aspects that brought clarity to my current situations, but also with concepts and thought processes that I intend to carry long into my future practice. Her support and guidance reassured me of the impact nurse coaches can truly have and I am so grateful to had been given the opportunity to connect with her.
– Shannon.
The BEST COACH ever! I am always blown away by how Tolu incorporates all her experiences and credentials to support me.
I am lucky that when she coaches me, she asks for permission when she wants to give me advice or give her Nursing input. I did not get it at first because I was thinking this is why I am working with you, to give me advice, but what I realized after a few sessions with her was that she believes in me, which made me believe in myself and my decisions. She has a wealth of knowledge, and I have enjoyed working with her, and looking forward to continue working with her.