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From Pain to Purpose

Welcome to Fall 7 Rise 8 Coaching with Anne Shepherd

Fall Seven, Rise Eight helps people whose lives have been impacted by trauma, grief and loss to transmute the pain of their experience into a healing force for greater peace and purpose.


Fall Seven Rise Eight Coaching is built on the belief that while life inevitably breaks us open, those same experiences that threaten to undo us are also profound invitations to become who we are meant to be. We support individuals as they navigate grief, loss, transitions, and fresh beginnings with a reverent, grounded, and compassionate approach. With clarity, courage, and deep emotional intelligence, we help you grow into a more integrated and empowered version of yourself. 

Through emotionally intelligent coaching, meaning-making, and structured support, we guide you as you rebuild your identity, reclaim your confidence, soften what hurts, and learn to work with the wounds and wisdom your life has given you. As you rediscover what has shaped you—and often, what has shifted what matters most—you begin to rise with renewed strength. Together, we uncover the gifts, messages, and capacities that emerge from the courageous work of healing and growing through life’s most challenging chapters.

Fall Seven Rise Eight Coaching is more than a program — it’s a co-created space from which to invite the most powerful chapters of your life.

Premiering Winter 2026

Fall 7 Rise 8 Programs, Workshops & Retreats


  • Individual Coaching: One-to-One Support
  • Group Coaching Program: The Best Year of Your Life
  • Individual Coaching

Individual Coaching: One-to-One Support

Personalized Coaching for Life, Loss, and Renewal

Work privately with a coach who meets you exactly where you are. Individual coaching blends compassionate presence, strategic guidance, and practical tools to support you through life’s hardest seasons and into the next chapter.

Ideal for:
  • Navigating grief, loss, or major transitions
  • Rebuilding identity or confidence
  • Clarifying purpose, direction, and next steps
  • Overcoming emotional or motivational blocks
  • Cultivating resilience, emotional regulation, and self-trust
What it includes:
  • Weekly or bi-weekly sessions (virtual or in-person when possible)
  • Goal setting and accountability aligned with your current life chapter
  • Tools for emotional resilience, mindset work, and values-based living
  • Journaling prompts, personalized tools, and customized practices between sessions
Outcome:

A stronger, more grounded, more courageous version of yourself — ready to rise.

Group Coaching Program: The Best Year of Your Life

A Year-Long Guided Journey Toward Purpose, Creativity, and Legacy

This transformative program brings together a small, supportive group committed to making this year the most meaningful one of their lives. Participants will choose a Legacy Project or Year-Long Stretch Goal, then receive coaching, structure, and community support to bring it to life.

Examples of Legacy or Stretch Projects:
  • Writing a book or memoir
  • Delivering a TED Talk
  • Launching a business, nonprofit, or creative practice
  • Creating a travel or adventure experience
  • Designing a personal transformation challenge (physical, emotional, or spiritual)
  • Building a family or community legacy initiative
  • Deep healing work to rewrite a life chapter
Program Elements:
  • Monthly group sessions and workshop intensives (visioning, planning, resilience, identity shifts, creative discipline, etc.)
  • Accountability partnerships
  • Guided structure for long-term projects
  • Quarterly progress reviews and recalibration sessions
  • Abundant resources and referrals to advance your goals
  • Optional individual coaching add-on for additional accountability and support
What makes this program powerful:

You’re not just setting goals—you’re creating a life chapter that changes the trajectory and quality of your life. Literally, you put into action the next version of yourself, self-expression in the world in a way that moves others and maximizes your positive impact.

Outcome:

A completed or substantially progressed Legacy Project and the lived experience of the Best Year of Your Life — one shaped intentionally, boldly, and with heart.

Retreat Experience: Rise Again Retreat

A Deep-Dive Immersion for Healing, Clarity, and Personal Reinvention

This intimate retreat is designed for those who want to go deeper — into healing, insight, reconnection, and the courageous act of beginning again.

Focus Areas:
  • Navigating grief, loss, or life transitions
  • Releasing outdated identities
  • Reconnecting with purpose, values, and intuition
  • Rebuilding emotional resilience
  • Creating a renewed vision for the next chapter
Retreat Highlights:
  • Guided workshops and reflective sessions
  • Mindset, emotional resilience, and grounding practices
  • Somatic integration: movement, breath, and embodied presence
  • Nature-based reflection (mountains, desert, or local setting depending on season)
  • Time for journaling, creativity, and quiet integration
  • Optional 1:1 coaching inside the retreat
  • Community, connection, and shared stories.
  • Powerful practices of soul-friending and witnessing to build a tribe that supports you well beyond the culmination of our time together.
Purpose:

To create space for your inner world to settle, open, and reorient — so you return home clear, empowered, and ready to transmute life’s challenges into fodder for new beginning, growth and transformation.

Anne has been a dear friend for decades! When Anne lost her son Nolan to suicide, we were all heartbroken. Her beloved community did all they could to support her! But ultimately the journey of grief is an inner journey. 

 Our culture does not teach us how to surrender to grief. It is heartbreaking, devastating and it takes you down and changes your life forever. Anne knew intuitively to go inside and do the healing that was calling to her. She dedicated herself telling stories of her beloved son as well as bravely doing her own work in the process. She courageously wrote a book of heartfelt stories about her son including a journey to Japan to release his ashes as he requested. She is now offering coaching, facilitating groups and hosting retreats to encourage a collective healing for others who are navigating the unspeakable pain that life often brings. Anne offers a process and a way through the pain. She is a powerful group facilitator having led many groups in outdoor retreats such as Walking off the War for veterans trying to heal the wounds of war. You can trust Anne with your tender heart! She is a woman of compassion born from her own grief. Don’t miss this opportunity to journey collectively with other brave souls through a journey of deep heartfelt healing. — JUDE SIMMONS, MA MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST 

Writer’s Blog

Our culture doesn’t teach us how to surrender to grief. It is heartbreaking, devastating, and life-changing. Anne knew, intuitively, that she had to go within and tend to the healing that was calling…
First, I have to thank Bozeman Hot Springs for inviting me into this space. Bozeman Hot Springs has been a personal anchor for me since I first visited Montana State University with my children over…
The Eagle, in Native American traditions, represents the Great Spirit. Looking back on the past three years, I could not have survived had it not been for my own very deep relationship with the Divin…

Anne Shepherd is the owner/creator of Fall Seven, Rise Eight and she will be appearing on various podcasts to share the F7R8 story this fall.  Stay tuned for details.

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