Ground Truth Coaching
Alignment and Purpose through Agency
“Alignment and purpose are not the goals – they are the consequences of revealing your ground truth and living from it.”
Rebecca Sappington, PhD
You’ve built the career. Grown the business. Created the life…so why does it still feel like something is missing?
Your Ground Truth is the missing piece!
You’ve already proven that you can succeed. With Ground Truth Coaching, you can understand WHY it still doesn’t feel the way you expected.
What is your Ground Truth?
Your ground truth is the you that lies beyond mindset, beyond habits, beyond assumptions, and beyond expectations.
Why is it hidden?
The same subconscious drivers that helped you succeed are now quietly limiting how abundant, prosperous, and aligned you actually feel.
What do these subconscious drivers do?
Many high achievers have turned adaptations born from difficult experiences into extraordinary professional competencies.
Hypervigilance becomes anticipation. Perfectionism becomes excellence. Over-responsibility becomes exceptional leadership. People-pleasing becomes an ability to read a room. Self-reliance becomes remarkable capability. A need for control becomes preparedness, organization, and execution.
These aren't simply weaknesses disguised as strengths. They can become genuine strengths—skills refined over years and reinforced by professional success.
The problem begins when you cannot choose when to use them.
What is the connection between these subconscious patterns and fulfillment?
A pattern that functions as a superpower in one environment can quietly become a liability in another.
The executive who can anticipate ten steps ahead at work may be unable to stop scanning for what could go wrong at home. The leader whose exacting standards produce extraordinary results may struggle to tolerate imperfection in themselves or others. The person everyone relies upon may find it nearly impossible to need anyone themselves.
What will become possible when you understand your patterns well enough that they become choices rather than defaults?
How Ground Truth Coaching Can Help
Ground Truth Coaching isn't about taking away the qualities that made you successful.
It's about helping you understand what is driving them, recognize when they're operating automatically, and develop enough awareness and flexibility that you—not the pattern—decide when those capabilities come online.
The goal is agency…Keep the superpower. Gain control of the switch. Expand the range.
Dr. Rebecca Sappington is a neuroscientist with decades of leadership experience, who helps other leaders and high-achievers stay high-performing, while guiding them to experiences of greater resonance and expansion.
Her Ground Truth Coaching method utilizes neuroscience-based cognitive, behavioral, and integrative tools to target the drivers of your unmet needs, optimize competencies that enable your success, and most importantly, create a framework to achieve a lasting sense of abundance and prosperity.
A Note from the Founder
Greetings and welcome!
I’m Dr. Rebecca Sappington, a neuroscientist, certified coach, and leader in academic institutions and international scientific societies. For more than 25 years, my scientific career has been driven by curiosity—questioning assumptions, challenging accepted explanations, and following the evidence wherever it leads. That same curiosity drives my coaching: an exploration of the complex architecture of achievement—and the person living inside it.
I enjoy working with clients whose internal experience stands in contrast to the undeniable success visible to others—and who suspect that another achievement isn’t the answer. I have stood at that threshold.
As a scientist, I have published more than 50 studies, secured over $30 million in research funding, and served in elected and appointed positions nationally and internationally within my field. As an institutional leader, I founded a research center of excellence, led complex initiatives and multidisciplinary teams, mentored professionals, and navigated organizational change. These are the visible markers of my success. But what helped drive that success? My “inherited superpowers”—strengths shaped by subconscious patterns that developed in response to earlier challenges. Others see the capability. I know how high the internal cost can be.
Verterra Coaching arose directly from these revelations. My coaching isn't about dismantling what made you successful, but understanding what drives it, what it costs, and where greater choice becomes possible. If any part of this resonates with you, visit Ground Truth Coaching to discover how I gained agency over my “inherited superpowers” and crafted a life that feels on the inside like it looks on the outside!
I hope we have the opportunity to work together!
Dr.S
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