I’M AMBER KRZYS

I help people remember their innate wholeness—and live from it.

I'm a coach and mentor for people ready to stop earning their way toward safety and start living from who they truly are. I've walked more than one version of that path myself—Broadway stages, a TEDx talk, $44,000 in debt turned into my first multiple six-figure year, and every kind of striving in between.

None of it made me feel whole.

What did was learning to human well—not achieve, fix, or force my way there, but remember my way home. Here's what that actually looked like.

My Personal Journey

Conditioning

I grew up in Charleston, WV, splitting time between two homes—one with my mom, who loved big and struggled financially; the other with my biological father, whose alcoholism and hot temper bred an environment of unpredictability. I learned early how differently love could look depending on which house I was in, and how much safer it felt to be good, easy, impressive. Dance became my haven, and eventually my ticket to a bigger life—a BFA in musical theater (Point Park College), a move to New York City, years of auditioning and rejection, and finally, a Broadway debut in Mamma Mia. A part of me expected that moment to finally make me feel enough. It didn't. It just made the striving louder.

Breaking

I left New York for Los Angeles, still chasing a feeling of achievement and success. Twenty years of disordered eating, hating my body, fighting for perfection—and then, within two weeks: a painful breakup, hitting my goal weight and still loathing what I saw in the mirror, and a scathing review of a performance. I felt truly broken. That's when I found The University of Santa Monica and enrolled in their Spiritual Psychology Master’s Degree program. Those two years opened me to greater levels of compassion and acceptance, allowing me to see more of what was underneath the perfection and self-judgment patterns.

Remembering

What shifted in me became visible to other people, especially women, and I built my first company, bodyheart, to help them come home to their bodies the way I was learning to come home to mine. I even gave a TEDx talk about it—on the paradox of desire, and how what we most want is often the place that needs the most healing. Clearly I hadn't learned that lesson myself yet, because I still couldn't make the business work. At one point I was $44,000 in credit card debt, certain I'd failed.

That’s when I hired my first coach—my first real experience of true partnership in this work—and everything shifted. Within a year and a half, I'd paid off the debt and was making multiple six figures. But looking back, the money wasn't actually the biggest change. My relationships deepened. I moved in with the man who's now my husband. I started letting someone actually see me—and seeing myself more clearly—instead of just managing what they saw.

I used to tell this chapter like a redemption story about fixing my finances—because that's how it felt for a decade. But as you'll soon read, it wasn't quite that. Turns out I'd just found a way to achieve my way out of feeling inadequate—success became the proof that I was enough. I didn't know that yet, though. What I did know was that partnership had cracked something open in me that working alone never had.

Unraveling, Again

In 2024, the model I'd built my business on stopped working. Same actions, same way of showing up—but very different results. Money stopped flowing like it had. Clients expressed dissatisfaction. I couldn't explain it, and for a while I thought I was doing something wrong. I wasn't. I was outgrowing a pattern I couldn't yet see: the same achieve-your-way-to-safety pattern, just dressed up as more coaching success instead of credit card debt.

I slowed down and hired a coach again—who helped me understand what was happening. With her guidance, I saw how achievement had become a trap, a way I was trying to outrun feelings of insecurity, anxiety, and unworthiness. Underneath it all was conditioning I didn't know I had—beliefs about safety, about being liked, about money equaling worth. Meeting that conditioning is what radically changed my life and work for the better.

Receiving

Fast forward to 2026 where I had my first month-long sabbatical—most of it spent in Italy—and a kind of inner reset naturally occurred. It's as if the awareness and understanding I've been living into these last few years solidified. I returned more present, more receptive to what's actually here, instead of run by the control pattern that demands life look a certain way in order to feel okay. It wasn't about doing less. It was about resisting less. I'm still learning this. I don't think I'll ever be done. This work never finishes. It just keeps inviting you home. It's the whole reasonThe School for Humaning Well® exists.

Today

I live in Los Angeles with my husband and our old man dog, Matzah. Life is a beautiful blend of spaciousness and doing—work I love, travel, nature walks, The Telepathy Tapes podcast, real time with friends, snuggles with my guys. My work centers on The Secret to Humaning Well®—through retreats and packages for individuals and a soon-to-be-announced podcast exploring what it actually looks like to live this way. My clients range from coaches to CEOs to creatives to curious folks, and they all share the same thing underneath: a deep desire to feel the freedom of who they truly are.

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Official Bio

Amber Krzys is a coach and mentor who helps people human well—by living from their innate wholeness rather than fear, striving, or self-improvement. Her work supports a return to presence, trust, and inner sufficiency, where clarity, peace, and meaningful change naturally arise.

She is the founder of Fierce Loving, Inc. and the creator of The School for Humaning Well®, a six-month program devoted to integrating spiritual insight into real, lived experience. For nearly two decades, Amber has supported individuals, leaders, creatives, and coaches in unhooking from survival-based patterns, softening urgency, and learning to live and lead from truth rather than pressure.

Amber's approach is grounded, embodied, and relational. Rather than fixing or forcing change, her work invites deeper understanding of how the human experience works—allowing nervous systems to settle, inner wisdom to surface, and life to move with greater ease and integrity.

A former Broadway performer, Amber is also a sought-after speaker, retreat leader, and group facilitator, known for her warmth, clarity, and ability to translate deep spiritual principles into practical, lived application.

Amber holds an MA in Spiritual Psychology and has trained with teachers including Byron Katie, Rohini Ross, Robert Holden, and Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick. She is also the founder of bodyheart, a body-acceptance movement that supported thousands of people in cultivating a more compassionate relationship with their bodies.

Amber is committed to pointing others toward the inner wisdom that is always already here—and to the recognition that ease, clarity, and joy are not destinations to reach, but the natural expression of who we truly are.

To begin, she invites you to receive The Secret to Humaning Well® Starter Guide—four essays and a guided practice for meeting what's arising in real time. It's the doorway into The Secret to Humaning Well Newsletter, a twice-monthly letter with personal reflections, resources and events—all devoted to living more free.

When not working, Amber enjoys a good cup of French press coffee, meditation, pilates, strength training, watching action movies and consciousness documentaries, making playlists, friend time, and snuggles with her boys. Amber is based in Los Angeles with her husband and their old-man rescue dog, Matzah.

education and training

Individual Coaching:

Currently coaching with Rohini Ross. Past coaching includes individual work with Dr. Robert Holden, Dr. Mary Hulnick, Ron Wilder, Carolyn Freyer-Jones, and Michelle Bauman.

Some Past Trainings:

Byron Katie’s Nine Day School
Ziva Meditation and Evidence of Magic with Emily Fletcher
Robert Holden Masterminds: Success Intelligence, Love-Centered Coaching, The Hero’s Journey
The Life Coach School Certification
Amplified Impact Mastermind with Trudi Lebron
Soul-Centered Professional Coaching by The University of Santa Monica Certification
Professional Training Weekend with George and Linda Pranksy
Weekend Thinking Environment Workshop with Nancy Kline

Degrees:

MA in Spiritual Psychology with an Emphasis in Consciousness, Health, and Healing from The University of Santa Monica
BA in Musical Theater from Point Park College (now University)

What Clients Are Discovering

Emma Nicol

Leadership Coach
“The 6 months I worked with Amber helped me to create a greater sense of trust and safety inside myself. Old stories and self-judgements (which in some cases, had plagued me for years), fell away and never returned. I learned for the first time, how to truly feel my feelings and not to be afraid.”
Heather Rae Priest

Producer, Advocate, Artist
“I went into the work with an idea of what I wanted—and by the end realized that I had truly transformed and the things I wanted were different. My wishes had deepened, become clearer, and left me with a sense of openness to the unknown. The work is really about becoming our truest selves—and I'd recommend it only to those not afraid to go deeper."
Andrew Greenblatt

Leadership Coach
“This work allowed me to open up to receiving support, connection, and love in ways I couldn't before. It's also changed how present I am with clients, how much ease I lead with, and how many 'potholes' I step around as I encounter the normal ups and downs of a human life. In the process, my renewal rate has gone way up, my relationships have gotten deeper, and I made more money the year I worked with Amber while resting more than I had in years.”
Cacá Santoro

Photographer

“I started working with Amber when I was looking for a change in my professional life—my patterns of self-doubt and under-earning weren't serving me, and as an artist with no business training, I felt alone, like I had to figure it all out myself. I'd feared coaching would mean following a formula, but Amber showed me change could be a collaborative, creative process, and I became excited about building a new, authentic relationship with work and money. By the end, I was confident in my value as a professional and artist. I raised my fees, attracted more work, and learned to trust so much more.”
Shilpa Das

Actress, Comedian, and Writer

“I felt drawn to Amber’s community because I knew I needed a fresh perspective on how I have been approaching my life and body. I have been obsessing about my weight since I was a young girl and throughout many different sizes and points of my life. I have tried fad diets and cleanses since I was a teenager and nothing has ever lasted. I have just had further frustration built each time I failed or gained the weight back. Working with her helped me meet those feelings of guilt and failure and reprogram my mindset and lifestyle so I can live the life I truly want—free and happy!”
Katie O.

The School for Humaning Well® Student
"I discovered my mind creates stories to protect me, and my self-reliance was one of them—a survival strategy that had outlived its usefulness. The chest pain that plagued the first part of the program gradually decreased. My nervous system settled. My mind quieted. In the final class, I created an art piece holding both the heartache and the love, the grief and the beauty of life."

You have your own version of this story—your own conditioning, your own unraveling. Wherever you are in it, there's nothing to fix. Just something to remember.

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