Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu, PhD, MSW, BCC
she, her, hers
Together In Beauty was a phrase that came to me during my mother's transition from this earthly plane to whatever comes next. She was a lover of beauty, poetry in motion, and she instilled this love in me. When she died, I sensed that wherever she would go - and wherever I would stay - we would always be together in beauty.​​
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In the years that followed, I began to experience a slow unraveling that continues to this day. It's as if I'm being released from an idea of myself, and of time, and certainty. In their place is an opening - a quiet, spacious invitation - into a life more beautiful than I ever imagined possible.
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That invitation lives at the heart of my work.
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I believe all of us are vessels for immeasurable beauty. It is my honor to accompany individuals and collectives as we move through transitions, create new connections, and reinhabit all that we are together.
Everyone is welcome here, with a hug for my highly sensitive and neurodivergent peers. This is a place where we meet each other in our humanness and revel in the joy of being ourselves together. ​
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I bring a lifetime of gathered experiences to this work: a doctorate in social welfare, a master's degree in medical social work, a coaching certification, founding leadership roles in nonprofit and consultancy organizations, years of mothering, wife-ing, daughtering, caregiving, and friending, a curious mind, and a tender heart.
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But most of all, I bring love. I bring love and an unwavering belief that we are beautiful across time and tears, held by gentle whispers reminding us: we were made for this moment.
Tell them, dear, that, if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson