🌿 Radical Wholeness, Queer Liberation: The Work of Grassroots Life Coaching, LLC

Cowritten by: Charlie (he/they), Founder of Everywhere Is Queer + Di Nadeau (they/them), Founder of Grassroots Life Coaching, LLC

Di Nadeau (they/them) doesn’t just hold space—they reimagine it. As the founder of Grassroots Life Coaching, LLC, Di brings together decades of lived experience, professional training, and a radical commitment to liberation-centered care. Their work is reshaping what healing can look and feel like, especially for those who’ve long been pushed to the margins.

From the outside, Di’s journey into full-time private practice might look like a natural next step—but the road here was anything but typical. It took years of unpacking internalized oppression, navigating systemic barriers, and resisting traditional (and often colonized) models of care. Through that deep personal work, Di discovered IFS (Internal Family Systems) therapy, and it became a catalyst for transformation.

It wasn’t just healing—it was awakening. Di not only became a certified IFS and IFIO (Intimacy from the Inside Out) practitioner, but went on to train others at national conferences, lead sessions on Autism and ableism, and bring liberation-based frameworks to therapists and communities alike.

Today, their practice is a full-time commitment—and a fierce, healing container for queer, trans, neurodivergent, and people-of-the-global-majority communities to feel seen, honored, and whole.

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🌀 From Lived Experience to Liberatory Healing

Di’s work is rooted in a simple but radical truth: every single person is whole, just as they are.

As a queer, trans, nonbinary, autistic person of the global majority, Di knows firsthand what it’s like to be dismissed or pathologized by systems not made for them. That deep knowing drives every part of their practice. Through culturally responsive personal coaching, relationship work, and mediation, Di offers something rare: healing that doesn’t require you to fragment yourself in order to be understood.

Their practice centers folks whose lives are shaped by marginalization—and it does so without replicating the harm so often baked into traditional therapeutic spaces. Di is no "diagnosing therapist," more "co-conspirator in liberation."

✨ Core Values at Grassroots Life Coaching

At Grassroots Life Coaching, these values are more than guiding principles—they’re living, breathing commitments to how healing is held and how care is offered:

🌿 Liberatory Healing
Services are decolonized, trauma-centered, and culturally responsive—honoring the deep wisdom each client already carries within. Healing is rooted in the belief that every person is their own expert.

🌿 Wholeness & Multiplicity
All parts of a person’s internal system are welcomed here. Each one is seen, affirmed, and honored for its story, its needs, and its functional role in your life.

🌿 Relational Integrity
Relationships—whether with self, partners, or community—are grounded in consent, honesty, and care. The work supports authentic, reciprocal connection as a foundation for transformation.

🌿 Intersectional Justice
Healing doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Services are shaped by an active relationship with systems of power—rooted in equity, humility, accountability, and collective care. The team is deeply committed to lifelong learning and unlearning.

🌿 Curiosity & Compassion
Through open-hearted inquiry, clients are met exactly where they are. There’s no judgment here—only warmth, deep respect, and a belief in your inherent complexity.

🌿 Community & Interdependence
Healing is always personal and collective. Grassroots Life Coaching holds liberation at the center—believing that we heal best in relationship, in connection, and in community.

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🛠 Queering the Entrepreneurial Path

Di’s journey to business ownership wasn’t easy. They’ve experienced discrimination in academic spaces, struggled to access traditional credentials, and felt firsthand the weight of elitism and gatekeeping. But their refusal to give up, combined with grassroots learning and community-rooted training, has made them a sought-after practitioner in multiple healing communities.

To queer folks dreaming of launching their own thing, Di has this to say:

“Be real. Be imperfect. Unlearn colonistic models of being in business so that the collective can support you in a real way. It’s not about networking—it’s about community.”

And this practice is community in action. Whether they’re offering one-on-one coaching, holding space for couples navigating new relationship structures, or guiding groups through equity-centered mediation, Di is helping people come home to themselves.

🌈 Joy as Resistance, Wholeness as Celebration

What does queer joy look like to Di?

It’s not performative, and it’s not marketable. It’s raw, true, sovereign. It’s living unapologetically as a full expression of nature. It’s trusting your intuition, affirming your truth, and holding space for others to do the same.

It’s also found in music—like “I Am Free in My Body” by Shireen Amini—and in the words and work of brilliant queer and disabled leaders like adrianne maree brown, Dr. Kim TallBear, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and Alice Wong. It’s built through friendships, mentorship, and mutual aid with folks like Amy Hoag, Marta Mirabella, ahlay blakley, and Aster Pitcher.

🌍 Healing as Collective Liberation

For Di, decolonizing and queering are inseparable. The more they unlearn oppressive systems, the more they root into their queer truth. This is not healing in isolation—it’s collective liberation. It’s community care over competition. It’s truth-telling over politeness. It’s being in business not for profit, but for purpose.

Grassroots Life Coaching is not your typical coaching practice. It’s a living rebellion, a celebration of fluidity, and a refuge for those seeking something more expansive than the systems we've inherited.

👉 Learn more or book a session with Di at www.diananadeau.com
✨ Follow their work and explore their vision of healing, wholeness, and queer liberation.

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