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Karen Canup Coaching LLC
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MEET KAREN CANUP

I didn’t need a new life. I needed to become part of the one I already had.

Hi, I’m Karen, wife, mom of four, bonus mom, business owner, and Certified Christian Life Coach. I help women in midlife stop managing everyone else’s life long enough to remember that they belong in their own too.

I know what it feels like to love your life and still be tired of carrying it

For years, I was the person who kept everything moving. I raised kids, ran businesses, and solved problems. From the outside, nothing looked wrong. But I was tired, irritated, and wondering why an ordinary Tuesday felt like a full-time job I never applied for.

What do I bring to the table?

  • Bachelor’s degree in psychology from George Mason University

  • Certified Christian Life Coach

  • Years of experience working directly with children and families

  • Approximately fifteen years leading a preschool and play-school program

  • Wife, mom of four, and bonus mom

  • Co-Owner of a family-run jiu-jitsu and martial arts school in Burlington, North Carolina

  • A woman who has used these same coaching tools in her own real, messy, full life

I bring both education and lived experience to this work. I have the education and the coaching tools. But I have also stood in the kitchen wondering why I was angry that nobody replaced the toilet paper. Honestly, that part matters too.

My Faith

My Christian faith is part of who I am and how I see people. I believe your life has value beyond how useful you are to everyone around you. I believe rest, honesty, responsibility, grace, and wise boundaries can exist together.

Faith does not mean pretending everything is fine, never feeling resentful, or saying yes to every need. Sometimes the most honest thing we can do is admit what is not working and ask God for the courage to do our part differently.

A few things about me that have nothing to do with a coaching certificate

01

I am 50 and firmly believe I am not too old to become beginners again.

02

I started jiu-jitsu at 50, which is both empowering and a very efficient way to discover muscles I forgot I had.

03

Going to the shooting range is one of the things I genuinely choose when I have free time.

04

I am deaf in my right ear and wear CROS hearing aids, so if I turn my good ear toward you, I promise I am listening.

05

I love a planner, a quiet morning, coffee, journaling, reading my Bible, and a trip with enough breathing room to notice the view.

06

I live in Burlington, North Carolina, and my family has called North Carolina home for more than twenty years.

You don’t need a whole new life

You may already love the life you built. You may simply be tired of feeling like everybody else gets to live in it while you stand nearby keeping it running. We can talk about whether coaching with me feels like the right next step.

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