HAVEN: A Warm, Safe, Supportive Space for You to Thrive

A Refuge to Catch Your Breath, Find Your Calm, and Fill Your Cup

A supportive, empathetic community for mission-driven professionals, offering coaching, skills, and resources to help you navigate these chaotic, uncertain, and turbulent times while continuing to serve with excellence and heart.

🔥 Who It’s For: Physicians, executives, leaders, educators, and other helping professionals who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsupported.
💡 What You’ll Get: Weekly live coaching, resilience training, evidence-based strategies, and a powerful network of peers who understand your struggles.
🌍 Why Now? Because the world is shifting beneath our feet, and you need a haven, tools, and a supportive community to keep going.

👉 Join HAVEN now – Starts March 6, 2025
📅 Meets Thursdays at 4PM PT (60-90 min sessions)
🔗 Sign Up Here

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Why HAVEN?

We are living in unprecedented times. The world you thought you knew no longer exists as trusted structures crumble and values you hold dear are violated daily. The constant onslaught of moral injury, injustice, and disconnection is disorienting, heartbreaking, and exhausting.

• People you thought you knew now stand for the opposite of everything you believe in.
• It feels like lines have been crossed. There is no going back.
• You still have patients to see, projects to finish, communities to nurture, and lives to lead.
• You are strong, but even the strongest need support.

💡 You don’t have to do this alone. HAVEN is here to hold space for you.

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The Transformation You’ll Experience in HAVEN

Before HAVEN	After HAVEN
Feeling exhausted and overwhelmed	Replenished, resilient, and refocused
Alone in your struggles	Supported by a community of like-minded professionals
Emotionally drained and burned out	Equipped with practical strategies for sustainability
Struggling to balance values with reality	Feeling aligned, grounded, and empowered

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What’s Inside HAVEN?

1️⃣ Weekly Live Sessions

Curated teachings, breathwork, and facilitated discussions to help you regulate your nervous system, process emotions, and build resilience so you can continue to serve with excellence.

2️⃣ Skills for Thriving in Uncertain Times

Learn evidence-based practices such as:
✔️ Mental toughness (The Big 4)
✔️ Grounded confidence & boundary setting
✔️ Navigating grief, overwhelm & moral injury
✔️ Mindfulness & emotional regulation
✔️ Courageous conversations & leadership skills

3️⃣ A Community That Gets It

Connect with like-minded, mission-driven individuals who are navigating similar challenges and need a safe space to breathe, be heard, and receive support.

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Who Am I to Do This?

I have been a trusted advisor, coach, and facilitator for over a decade, helping thousands of high-achieving professionals harness their superpowers, lead courageously, and thrive in brutal, high-stakes environments without succumbing to burnout, overwhelm, or despair.

I have lived through multiple fascist dictatorships, fled to the United States as a teen, lost everything multiple times, and rebuilt my life while earning an MD, MPH, and multiple coaching certifications. I know what it takes to survive and thrive in chaos.

📖 Want to know more? Read the more in-depth description of HAVEN below.

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Choose Your Pricing Tier

HAVEN offers tiered pricing to ensure accessibility while supporting those who can invest more. Choose the level that aligns with your situation.

🔹 $4500 – Pay It Forward: Best for those with financial security who want to support access for others.
🔹 $3500 – Sustainable Investment: Best for those with steady income who may need to adjust discretionary spending.
🔹 $2500 – Access Tier: Best for those who need support and are making it work with limited resources.

💡 Special Upgrade: Add 1-on-1 personal and executive coaching at a discounted rate of $2500 (regular $5000) for 10 private coaching sessions. Purchase your individual coaching session for personalized support in integrating what you learn in HAVEN. Purchase your coaching package here. Use the code HAVEN for 50% off.

🔗 Enroll Now – $4500
🔗 Enroll Now – $3500
🔗 Enroll Now – $2500

• Note for Physicians: For an upgrade, you can attend physician-specific HAVEN sessions for physicians who need physician-specific (or healthcare specific) support including moderated Charting coworking time using my experience in physician coaching and work in helping transform healthcare culture. Physicians have access to both HAVENs. Sign up for HAVEN for physicians Here

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What People Are Saying About HAVEN

💬 “I was completely burned out and lost, but this gave me the tools to thrive again. Dr. Yvonne’s insights changed my life.” — Dr. A.S
💬 “I no longer feel like I’m carrying everything alone. This is my lifeline.” — K.S

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FAQs

1. What if I can’t attend live?
All sessions will be recorded, and you’ll have lifetime access to replays.

2. Is there a refund policy?
If you attend the first two sessions and don’t feel HAVEN is right for you, your payment can be applied to another program or coaching package.

3. How is HAVEN different from other coaching programs?
HAVEN is specifically designed for mission-driven professionals facing high-stakes environments, moral injury, and burnout. It combines evidence-based coaching with a deeply supportive community.

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Are You Ready to Have the Support You Deserve?

🚀 HAVEN starts March 6th, 2025
📅 Meets Thursdays at 4PM PT
💡 Secure your spot today.

🔗 Sign Up Now – $4500
🔗 Sign Up Now – $3500
🔗 Sign Up Now – $2500

You are not alone. Let’s rise together.

❤️ Sending you love, peace, and strength,
Dr. Yvonne Ator, MD, MPH
Founder of Thriving Idealist & HAVEN
Certified Personal & Executive Coach

Want To Know More? Read in-depth description below.

WELCOME TO HAVEN

A warm safe supportive space for you to catch your breath, find your calm and fill your cup so you can continue to do what matters to you in these chaotic, uncertain, turbulent times.

We are living in unprecedented times.

The world you thought you knew no longer exists as structures you had trusted and counted on your whole life fall are being dismantled before your very eyes.

The moral injury of seeing your cherished values violated several times daily feels disorienting, heartbreaking, infuriating.

People you thought you knew appear to stand for the antithesis to all you believe. You have never been an “Us and Them” kind of person but it feels like lines have been crossed.

There’s no going back.

It feels like a new world, an alien world…

And yet, you have work to do, patients to see, projects to finish, kids to raise, people to lead, communities to nurture and serve…

Not only do you have to perform, you have to perform at a high level of excellence, often in a high-stakes, stressful or life-death environment.

And the current barrage of sociopolitical developments (let’s call it what it is, a fascist dictatorship) are blindsiding and whiplash-inducing.

Equal Employment, DEI, Transgender, LGBTQ, Immigration, Civil rights, Women’s rights, Reproductive rights, Voting Rights, Vaccination, Healthcare Research, Science, Climate Change, Education, Humanitarian Aid and other issues undermined and erased before your eyes.

As a compassionate human who believes in everyone’s right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, you find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster.

You cycle through numbness, rage, resolution, sadness, fear, frustration, hope, despair, dismay, shock, disbelief… sometimes, several times a day.

And It is absolutely exhausting.

You are the strong one, the leader and nurture others depend on.

You are struggling too but others don’t have the capacity to support you in the way you need.

You don’t have to do this alone.

You don’t have to carry it all.

If you are feeling stuck, overwhelm, paralyzed…

If you want to level up or develop yourself you can withstand this high stakes environment at work, home or the world…

If you are desiring the frameworks, skills, resources and space to level up so you can continue to perform with the high level of excellence you have worked so hard for in the middle of all of this chaos, overwhelm, stress and high stakes…

…I get it. I have been there. I have helped thousands who are where you are. And I am here to support you.

WHO AM I TO DO THIS?

For over a decade I have been a secret weapon, a trusted advisor, an empathetic and passionate cheerleader, a personal and executive coach who has helped thousands harness their superpowers, becoming the truest and highest expression of themselves, overcoming the internal obstacles that keep them from being performing with the excellence they have worked hard for, manage and lead better and thrive personally and professionally in extreme, brutal, stressful, high stakes and uncertain environments without succumbing to overwhelm, compassion fatigue and burnout.

I am deeply passionate about equipping those I serve with the most transformative tools, frameworks and resources to help them thrive. I have completed trainings multiple certifications from evidence-based ICF certified coaching and facilitation programs by renowned leaders in the personal, leadership and organizational development world, including:

Certified Personal and Executive Coaching in Positive Psychology with the CaPP Institute by Valorie Burton, Certified Daring Way Facilitator and Certified Dare To Lead Facilitator by Brene Brown, Certified Unbeatable Mind Coaching by Retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine, Certified Sparketype Advising and Workcraft Advising by Jonathan Fields and Certified Heroic Performance Coaching with Brian Johnson.

I have walked the talk.

I know what it’s like to align with my values and strengths, build a community of support around me and train with routines to support me in self-mastery and development.

I have lived through multiple fascist dictatorships during which I witnessed firing squads often as a child, I saw much of what is happening in the US now, I have been chased by an angry mob, lived with the instability of military coups and domestic strikes, I fled to the United States as a teen, I have lost everything multiple times including becoming homeless, going through burnout in medicine, been through a brutal divorce and child custody (which I won), all while getting an MD, MPH, transmuting my ADHD, raising my kids as a solo parent, serving thousands and gaining multiple coaching and facilitation certifications.

I developed the Thriving Idealist PACT framework as an integration of all the trainings I have done and my own personal observations and frameworks from over a decade of working with highly trained, mission driven humans who desire to thrive even in the midst of chaotic, uncertain, brutal, high stakes environments at work and home while overcoming overwhelm, compassion fatigue, moral injury and burnout.

I taught the Thriving PACT in my Respite Program which served many on the frontlines during the pandemic. And now in these uncertain times and with the increased need for safety and community and the skills for thriving in uncertain and challenging times, we have HAVEN.

I know what it’s like to align with my values and strengths, build a community of support around me and train with routines to support me in self-mastery and development.

In HAVEN, You will:

• Have a safe place to breathe, vent, let your hair down, be supported rather than always having to support,

• learn skills for thriving in uncertain, challenging times at work or home, including breathwork, cultivating connection, expressing boundaries, grief, asking for what you need, big 4 of mental toughness, how to delegate, grounded confidence, cultivating vulnerability and courage, having hard conversations, dealing with overwhelm, rumbling with difficult emotions including anger, mindfulness practices for maintaining equanimity and calm during difficult times and many more skills for resilience, antifragility and thriving.

• You will have an intimate community of like-minded mission-driven, heart-centered individuals to connect with and know that you are not alone.

• Receive weekly teaching and facilitation from me with a decade of experience coaching, facilitating and advocating for mission-driven, heart-centered professionals needing to overcome challenges so they can continue to perform with excellence in stressful, high stakes, uncertain or turbulent environments especially physicians, startups executives, executive directors, leaders in allied health, education, government and so on.
• Note for Physicians: For an upgrade, you can attend physician-specific HAVEN sessions for physicians who need physician-specific (or healthcare specific) support including moderated Charting coworking time using my experience in physician coaching and work in helping transform healthcare culture. Physicians have access to both HAVENs. Sign up for HAVEN for physicians Here
  
  

To provide equitable pricing, I am offering tiered pricing. Through the years, I have experimented with different forms to tiered pricing to help increase access to this work for as many as I can. This latest version is inspired and adapted from Simone Seol’s philosophy on pricing.

UPGRADE WITH 1-1 personal and executive coaching: My coaching packages usually start at $12K for 6 months of weekly coaching. With HAVEN members, I am offering a special package of 10 sessions worth $5000 for $2500. Purchase your individual coaching session for personalized support in integrating what you learn in HAVEN. Purchase your coaching package here. Use the code HAVEN for 50% off.

HAVEN starts March 6th, 2025. HAVEN will be Thursdays, 4pm PT for 60 minutes. Those who sign up now will have lifetime membership.

In SUMMARY:

Welcome to HAVEN: Your Sanctuary in Turbulent Times

In an era marked by uncertainty and upheaval, finding a place of refuge is essential. HAVEN is more than just a membership program; it’s a lifeline designed to empower you with the resilience, skills, and community support needed to thrive amidst chaos.

Why HAVEN?

Having personally navigated life’s most daunting challenges—losing my home, enduring political turmoil, and facing personal adversities—I understand the profound need for a sanctuary. With over a decade of experience and certifications in positive psychology, heroic performance coaching, and training under a retired Navy SEAL commander, I’ve developed HAVEN to share the tools and insights that have been pivotal in my journey.

Who Is HAVEN For?

• Individuals Seeking Resilience and Antifragility: If you’re looking to build mental and emotional fortitude to face individual and societal challenges.
• Helpers and Leaders : Mission-driven, heart- empathetic aiming to foster safe spaces and support networks in their communities.
• Big Hearted Nerds: Anyone committed to personal growth and thriving despite external adversities.

What Does HAVEN Offer?

• Weekly Empowerment Sessions: Engage in sessions that combine breathwork, visualization, and evidence-based techniques to calm the nervous system and build resilience.
• Expert-Led Workshops: Participate in workshops rooted in positive psychology and performance coaching to equip you with practical tools. HAVEN Members get first dibs and 50% off all workshops offered by Dr. Yvonne Ator.
• Supportive Community: Connect with like-minded individuals in a safe, empathetic space where you can share experiences and grow together.

Why Now?

As societal tensions rise, the need for personal resilience and community support has never been greater. HAVEN provides the resources and connections to help you not only cope but thrive in these challenging times.

Join Us

Embark on a transformative journey with HAVEN. Equip yourself with the skills, support, and resilience to navigate life’s storms.

Sign Up Now.

When you sign up, you make a PACT with yourself. You PLEDGE to ACT: To ALIGN, CONNECT and TRAIN. You will have access to the Thriving Idealist Cultivating Academy library. You go at your own pace and you don’t have to do them all. I will cover the fundamentals during our sessions. 

In addition to spontaneous teachings based on the zeitgeist of the week, I will be teaching from my Thriving Idealist framework:

ALIGN: 6 MODULES:

MODULE 1 – SELF-DEVOTION: PERMISSIONS and COMMITMENTS including self-compassion, empathy, authenticity and permission slips.

This will help you lay the foundation of commitment to yourself. You will design the life you want from a strong foundation. 

MODULE 2 – Rumbling with Vulnerability – Taking Off the Armor, Cultivating Shame Resilience and Grounded Confidence.

This is The foundational skill for courageous living, loving and leadership.

MODULE 3 – DESIGNING THE LIFE YOU WANT – Future Me exercises, Obituary, Mission, Purpose, Dreams.

This makes sure you’re moving on track to get to where you ACTUALLY want to be, not where everyone (or society) says you should be.

MODULE 4 – PRIORITIES

This is similar, but is going to help you focus your days NOW in the right places, so you get more done in less time (and actually enjoy the process!)

MODULE 5 – VALUES

If you’ve worked with me before, you’ll know that burnout occurs when you’re out of alignment with your values. This will help keep you on track to stay away from burnout (or pull you out of it if you’re already close) with actions to embody your values. 

MODULE 6 – STRENGTHS

We’ll get clear on what they are  and how they  empower you so you can build your life sustainably. 

MODULE 7 – ALIGNMENT INTEGRATION – Boundaries, Living BIG & Embodiment, Values X Strengths Integration and operationalization

This is where it all comes together to make it work for YOU!

2. CONNECT – 6 MODULES

MODULE 7 – SELF -CONNECTION AND VALUE– Reconnecting to yourself in a deeper way. Remembering who you are, what makes you you and what brings you joy 

MODULE 8 – EMPATHY – Empathy, Empathy Misses, Hard Conversations and Engaged Feedback

MODULE 9 – SELF-TRUST – Learning to trust yourself and becoming your own strongest ally, learn how to be a safe space for yourself with non-judgment

MODULE 10 – TRUST RELATIONSHIPS AT WORK AND HOME

MODULE 11- BUILDING SQUARE SQUADS and COMMUNITY

MODULE 12 – CONNECTION INTEGRATION – Communities Of Practice

3. TRAIN – 6 MODULES

MODULE 13 – DEVELOPING THE 5 ARENAS OF AN INTEGRATED LIFE – Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual & Intuition

MODULE 14 – CULTIVATING RESILIENCE, ANTIFRAGILITY and INNER AUTHORITY

MODULE 14 – CREATING CONSISTENT SUSTAINABLE ALIGNED HABITS USING THE DISCIPLINES OF THE WARRIOR

MODULE 15- CREATIING PRACTICES FOR  MORNING RITUALS

MODULE 16 – CREATING PRACTICES FOR NIGHT TIME RITUALS

MODULE 17 – PRACTICES FOR DEVELOPING EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE

MODULE 18 – THE BIG 4 OF MENTAL TOUGHNESS

BONUS MODULES:

MODULE 19 : RISING STRONG FROM FAILURE

MODULE 20: CULTIVATING PRACTICE as a WAY OF LIFE – Perfectionism, Consistency, Process, and Integration.

 All participants will have Access to all teaching videos, coaching videos and all the recordings from all the previous respite sessions. 

We will meet for weekly for an hour to 90 minutes on Thursdays at 4pm PT. You will have access to all the recordings in case you miss a session. There will also be a whatsapp chat and facebook group for those who want it for connection and shared language.

Are you ready to finally have the support you need to build the tools you know can change your life? Secure your spot HERE

NO REFUNDS. Payment can be transferred to another program, workshop or coaching package of equal value. Payment plans are available.

Sign Up Now.

I know it’s hard right now. There is a way through. With HAVEN you can find respite and hope even in what’s going on with you.


As always, if you are struggling or know someone mission driven and heart-centered who has sacrificed a lot to make a difference and is struggling, or just want support on your journey, or to help you transition to the next level of your journey, reach out.

You are not alone.

Do not go through this year without support if you need it. 

You Matter. I see you, I love you and you belong. I am glad you are here. 

Sending you love, peace and strength,

Yvonne Ator, MD, MPH

Certified Personal And Executive Coach for mission-driven and heart-centered professionals

Certified Dare To Lead Facilitator

Certified Daring Way Facilitator

Certified Sparketype Advisor

Certified Heroic Performance Coach

Certified Unbeatable Mind Coach

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”― Fred Rogers

Fondly called “The Helper For Helpers and Sheepdog for Sheepdogs”, Dr. Yvonne Ator is deeply passionate about serving those who serve and lead. 

As the Founder of Thriving Physicians and Thriving Idealist, she has spent the past several years coaching mission-driven Physicians and other helping professionals who desire to serve and lead sustainably and thrive in their personal and professional lives while making their positive impact in the world without succumbing to disillusionment, moral injury, compassion fatigue or burnout. As a sheepdog for sheepdogs, she equips helpers and leaders struggling with overwhelm, overwork or feeling stuck with tools and resources to master themselves so they can live authentically and serve to their fullest potential. Yvonne is also passionate about creating daring  leadership and courage cultures in the workplace. 

An immigrant born in England, raised in several states in Nigeria and the United States, Yvonne was the quintessential multipassionate idealist who wanted to change the world through medical missions and music. However, after finding herself at a crossroads, overwhelmed and compassion-fatigued as a new mom having to choose between her mental health and burnout in the medical profession she had sacrificed everything for, Yvonne became an avid advocate for physician wellness, courageous service and leadership,  suicide prevention and a more wholehearted culture in the workplace. 

After losing her comatose dad during a physician strike and finding herself homeless, divorced and financially destitute, Yvonne realized the pitfalls of burnout and quitting medicine without a safety net. She now empowers helping professionals to step back from the tunnel of overwhelm and burnout, rediscover their values and strengths with a new lens and mindset to see the options before them and make more aligned and empowered decisions.

In addition to a doctorate of Medicine from the Brody School of Medicine and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, she has attained several certifications in resilience, wellness, personal, leadership and organizational development. She is a certified Personal and Executive Coach in positive psychology, Certified Daring Way Facilitator, Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator (Brene Brown’s work) and a certified Unbeatable Mind Coach (Integrated Training in Mental Toughness and Emotional resilience with  Retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine!).  

 A physician, musician, coach, writer, author, speaker, advocate  and serial-quester, Yvonne is tireless in her mission  to empower, equip and inspire those who have sacrificed to serve. She co-created the Veterans Integrated Program with the Courage Foundation to help veterans with post-traumatic stress cultivate the tools and practices to thrive. She has served schools, non-profit organizations, hospital teams and mixed professional groups as a sought-out keynote speaker, executive coach and workshop facilitator on leadership, resilience, work culture and emotional development topics such as Daring Leadership, Rumbling with Vulnerability, Living Our Values and building TRUST, disciplines of the warriors and the big 4 of Mental toughness. 

She has also spent the pandemic hosting Respite sessions for frontline workers to help with stress, overwhelm and burnout. She has internationally published several articles including laughter as medicine, caring for caregivers, mindfulness meditation, grief, crisis intervention, trauma resilience and cultivating values. She serves as a Founding Executive Board Member of the Mindful Healthcare collective. She is a co- author of the book “Thinking About Quitting Medicine?”  and her story is featured in the bestselling personal development books “SPARKED” by Jonathan Fields and “I Quit!” by Coonoor Behal. She has also served as  adjunct professor at  the Cal State University San Marcos Master of Public health program. 

When she isn’t being chased around by her two unbeatable warrior-princesses, she is either playing guitar in bands, meditating, latin dancing, wanderlusting, hosting free virtual Respite sessions for physicians and other Frontline workers during the Pandemic, doing burpees to support Courage Foundation’s mission to help veterans with Post-traumatic stress, dreaming up her next quest or geeking out on values, leadership, antifragility, emotional intelligence, Unbeatable Mind and Oprah!