Kiley Hartigan

Kiley’s nearness to life’s impermanence has clarified what matters: love, presence, and forgiveness. This understanding draws her to the mother-daughter bond, where those virtues are most deeply tested. As a coach and counselor-in-training, she works alongside her mother to guide women through a structured, compassionate process to evolve from the past and choose a new story. She begins graduate study in family counseling this year to deepen her practice.

Guided by the belief that how we relate matters more than what we face, Kiley draws on the image of the tide beneath the waves, a quiet pull between Earth and moon. She sees depth not as something to reach, but as a return to what lies beneath coping and silence. Her work invites others to reconnect with the deep current of compassion that has always been there, much like the timeless bond between mother and child.

Beyond her coaching, Kiley supports a cross-cultural initiative bridging indigenous and modern wisdom, partnering with Lakota families on Pine Ridge. Through an annual gathering in Nebraska, they raise funds to transfer ownership of a quilt-making business, creating a path toward economic sovereignty to break a seven-generation cycle of poverty.