Making Life & Leadership Feel Lighter

I'm Anita Brown.

I help people who spend their days taking care of other people feel lighter, whether that’s a committee, a team, a group, or just you.

I do it through consulting, training, and facilitation.

When I was in my 30s, I asked myself one question over and over: If I don’t take care of it, who will?

I was a mom, a full-time student, a massage therapist, and a wife, and I figured the answer was me. Maybe you know that question too. Maybe you hear it on a board, on a committee, on a team, in a club, in a congregation, or at your own kitchen table.

I see you. And you’re not imagining how heavy it is.

Here’s what changed things for me. Heavy has causes, and none of them are a flaw in you. It’s physics: mass, velocity, friction, and gravity. (I know. I promise it’s friendlier than it sounds.) Once you can name which one is weighing on you, you can adjust it.

Learn more about me

Heavy shows up everywhere.

In boardrooms and break rooms, committees and clubs, and at the kitchen table. If you’re feeling it, you’re not imagining it, and you’re probably not the only one in the room who is.

It isn’t a flaw in you or in your group. It’s simply unsustainable momentum. Physics really: mass, velocity, friction, gravity. All of it can be named, and once it’s named, it can be adjusted.

Who I work with

Groups that meet regularly.

Boards, committees, staff/teams, congregations, clubs, volunteers.

Groups that gather once.

Retreats, conferences, group meetings.

You, on your own.

You don’t need a group. Maybe you got here through your own self-awareness, or your own search for relief. The free framework is a good place to start.

Three ways to work together

  • Teach the group.

    I teach what I’ve built: The Momentum Formula Framework and The Four-Legged Framework. Half day or full day, board retreat or club meeting, in person or on Zoom. You’ll leave feeling lighter and with actionable ways to keep that feeling.

  • Facilitate the conversation.

    Meetings, planning days, retreats, and the conversation your group keeps walking around. I run the session so you get to be a participant in it. You leave with the wisdom from your team in the decisions that were made.

  • Build the system.

    We look at what’s really holding the group up: roles, handoffs, agreements, and everything you re-explain every year. Then we create the systems that support the group so they can meet goals without burning out in the process.

A Little of What I’ve Done

    • Growth Mindset

    • Customer Service

    • Company Values

    • Emotional Intelligence

    • Communication

    • Release and Renew: connecting lessons from our breath to lessons for our mind.

    • Guiltless Growth: how to work with guilt to reach our goals.

    • Safe to Be Human: the roles we play to be accepted, and what opens up when we make room for what feels real.

  • Before You Say Anything: on expanding the space between activation and response.

    When Trying Harder Isn’t Working: on why momentum is hard to maintain and what to do about it.

    Developing Emotional Intelligence: building self-awareness and interpersonal skills to strengthen leadership and relationships.

    The Felt Experience of Leadership (FLEx): on why leadership can feel heavy and draining and what to do about it.

Here’s how it works

Step 1: Tell me what’s going on.
We get on a 20-minute call. You tell me what’s feeling heavy and who’s feeling it. I’ll ask a few questions. By the end, you’ll know whether I can help.

Step 2: See the plan.
I send you a clear plan: what we’d do, how long it takes, and what it costs. No guessing and no surprises.

Step 3: Pick a date.
We schedule it. I show up, run the work, and leave you with something your group can keep using long after I’ve gone home.