“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw
Our minds are incredibly powerful, but they still can’t tell the difference between reality and make-believe. Changing the stories you tell yourself will reset your beliefs, shift your actions, and bring you the results you truly desire and deserve. It’s never too late to write the story you want.
Can you Rewrite Your Life?
As a writer I know it’s never the first draft that makes the cut. It’s the work we do to write and rewrite that really counts. But can we take this powerful message into our own lives and change the story we’re living in?
Every great story has a pivotal moment, the point where everything changes. For many of us, that moment comes in mid-life. It’s when we’re forced to confront the gap between the life we imagined and the life we’re living. These plot twists might be triggered by a career shake-up, personal loss, or the painful realization that we’ve spent too long living for others rather than ourselves.
I know this turning point well. My own mid-life pivots were as challenging as they were transformative. A career I’d built with pride over 25 years suddenly felt misaligned. Health challenges demanded I adapt both expectations and habits. Personal tragedy upended every aspect of my life. But I learned that mid-life isn’t a crisis; it’s a chance to write the most exciting chapter yet. A belief I share in conversation with my newsletter readers every fortnight.
Reignite Your Quest
In every great story, the hero finds a mentor to guide them. Frodo had Gandalf. Luke Skywalker had Obi-Wan Kenobi. Sarah Connor became a guide for her son, John, preparing him to save the future from AI.
These mentors didn’t fight the battles for their protégés, but they provided something even more important: experience, clarity, and the belief that the hero already had everything they needed to succeed.
As a fiction author, I’ve always been fascinated by the role of the mentor in a protagonist’s journey. Coaching works in much the same way. A good coach doesn’t impose answers, they help uncover those within. They provide structure, tools, and a safe space for exploration. They challenge assumptions and celebrate wins.
Whether you’re navigating a major career or life change, or simply looking for a renewed sense of purpose, coaching provides the mentorship to help you thrive. If you’re looking for a sense of the kind of questions I’ll ask you, leap into my FREE challenge here
One Day to Change Your Story
It can be hard to find the time to take stock of your life. Regular weekly coaching sessions can often be interrupted by the many demands life makes on us. Inspired by the novel ‘One Day’, which explores the painful consequences of thinking that time is an infinite resource, I created the Rewrite One-Day Online Retreat.
In just one day of 1:1 collaboration, you will identify what it is that you need to address, to transform your relationship with yourself, your loved ones, and your wider community.
At the end you’ll have:
Clarity over what that ‘One-Day’ you keep telling yourself really means to you.
Permission to fully face the life you have now with ALL the emotions and total support.
Confidence in how to bridge what feels like an insurmountable gap. In fact, by the end of this One-Day you will have already laid the first stone!
Don’t miss out on your chance to write the most extraordinary chapter yet.
These retreats are exclusively limited to my capacity to deliver an experience that will radically change your story.
Dip Your Toes
You’re cautious, I get it. I would be too. That’s why I offer once-monthly micro-coaching sessions so that you can experience the process fully. These sessions are limited in number and affordable to access. Online or irl. Just you, me, a decent cup of whatever brews your biscuits, and half an hour of focus. I’ll bring the coaching tools, you bring the life challenge. £30 for 35 minutes. Book below.
FAQs
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Coaching is a collaborative process designed to help you unlock your potential, clarify your goals, and take meaningful action toward achieving them. Unlike therapy, which often focuses on healing the past, coaching is future-focused, empowering you to move forward with confidence and purpose.
I work with Resilience Strategies, Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, Solution-Focused Coaching, Journal Coaching and Narrative Dialogue.
As a writer and journal coach, my coaching focuses on the power of writing. Both in session and out of session. But I combine this with coaching tools and exercises, including conversation, tailored to provide the best possible experience for the client.
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I focus on mid-life transformation. Because I have experienced so much myself in this period of life, I am deeply connected to the potential this part of our life’s journey holds for us. This might include career change, relationship realignment or release, personal purpose, or social mission. It might revolve around the changes that come with empty nesting, or the impact of menopause. It might involve weariness with the ‘out-of-date’ expectations that society or your loved ones demand of you. It might involve the pursuit of a long-cherished dream.
While I work primarily with women, I am gender inclusive as a coach. No matter how you identify, if your story is a little stuck, I’d love to help you unpick the plot holes and move into a new chapter.
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One of the reasons I direct all my clients to meet me via my newsletter is so that you can begin to understand who I am and the work that inspires me. In Rewrite Today you will get to know me better. This is a personal ‘from the heart’ newsletter devoted to the power of transformation. I write it myself, every damn time. It’s inspired by the incredible people I meet and my own ever-expanding story.
Inside Rewrite Today is your first step into this incredible world of coaching. You’ll find my 3 Questions Invite in every newsletter so it’s there when you feel absolutely ready. This will give you 3 of the most impactful Questions I have used in coaching, and invite you to email me directly with your answers. I will personally answer your email with my insights into your own story, and an exercise for you to go deeper. If this resonates with you, then we can identify the best way for us to work together, based on your current needs.
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While my focus is on the power of writing and journaling to give us new perspective, empower our greatest stories, and support emotional wellbeing and resilience, I don’t work ‘just with journaling’. If the idea of writing a new chapter appeals to you but you’re thinking ‘I’m no good at writing’, then please get in touch with me. I work in a way that is Neurodivergent friendly, including multiple versions of journaling that are ‘beyond words’.
And if you’re interested in coaching but an introvert that hates the idea of talking to a stranger, then know that I created Rewrite with you in mind. Journaling allows you private, quiet space in our sessions. And I am proud to create a space that honours and uplifts introverts in a world that all too often feels like it’s shouting.
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Rewrite One-Day Online Retreat. 1:1 only. £880 (2025 price). Includes written feedback and two online follow-up coaching sessions of 45 minutes.
The Rewrite One-Day Retreat is delivered online as standard. For in-person retreats based in South Shropshire, email directly at marianne@mariannerosen.com
2026 price is £1200
Standard coaching:
1 hour Membership rate £95
1.5 hours Membership rate £155
Access to my Rewrite Membership coaching rates is available only following completion of a core Rewrite offer. Membership is at my discretion.
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My qualification, the ADCT Integrated Diploma in Holistic Life, Wellness and Resilience Coaching Training, has undergone rigorous scrutiny to ensure it meets the criteria of each accrediting body and is equivalent to a QCF Level 5 (Foundation degree). It is accredited by the Association of Coaching, the Complementary Medical Association, and the National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists.
Coaching is not yet a regulated industry and so accreditation is a valuable indication that you are working with a well trained and professional individual. You can find a link to the Coaching Code of Ethics here.
I am a member of the Association for Coaching and an Accredited Wellbeing and Resilience Coach with them. I am a fully certified Journal Coach, and a CPD tutor at Wellbeing Professionals @ Work.
As part of my own rigorous professional standards, I undergo Supervision with Patrick Hobbs, a master executive coach.
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My one day workshops are on a Wednesday or Saturday, online, from 8.30am to 5pm.
All ongoing membership coaching is available on Thursdays. I offer standard working hours GMT/BST. I do not work evenings but I do offer early morning.
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Life always throws a few curve balls. If this means you have to end or postpone coaching, you may. You may just find that coaching is exactly what you need to help at that moment!
You as client are always in control of the process. Full payment details and cancellation policy is available at booking.