Ecotone PracticeCoaching for Life After Financial Independence. Navigating the places where old structures fall away and something new wants to emerge.
An ecotone is a region of transition between two ecologies.
These zones are dynamic, generative, and sensitive to change.
If you’ve recently reached financial independence, you are living in an ecotone: a liminal zone between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming.
Hi, I’m JessicaElder millennial. Grew up in restaurant kitchens. Youngest sibling. Happy place is reading a book in a pool. Loves spreadsheets. Financially independent. Drawn to edges and in-between places. Good at being a companion to people in uncertain seasons.
Who I work with
Inheritors
You have inherited wealth, but not a clear framework for how to live with it. Questions about power, contribution, and belonging can feel isolating, especially when your experience is misunderstood or judged by others. This work offers a place where that complexity can be held with care, supporting you in shaping a life that feels grounded, self-authored, and truly your own.
Post-Work Adults
After achieving financial independence and leaving traditional work, many expect relief—but instead encounter disorientation and deeper questions of identity and purpose. Without achievement organizing your days or sense of self, life can feel strangely unstructured and quietly pressurized. This work supports you in navigating the “now what?” phase, building the inner capacity needed to meet a world where choice, rather than necessity, defines your path.
Burnout Recovery
You have already taken a break from work, knowing that rest is necessary. Yet without a different orientation, time off can still be shaped by pressure, self-monitoring, or the urge to “do it right,” leaving deeper patterns unchanged. This work supports you in resting in a way that actually restores, so the break becomes a genuine turning point, not just a pause before returning to exhaustion.
I coach from inside these terrains, not from the outside looking in.
I am an inheritor and a financially independent adult who has stepped away from full-time work. I also lived through a four-year burnout that required a deep surrender in 2023. I know what it is like when the structures that once organized meaning, belonging, and contribution fall away—and to discover what these transitions actually ask of a person.
This work is informed by lived experience and by having done the developmental work these thresholds require.