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For the one who keeps choosing people who don't choose them back

You were never too much. You were settling for too little.

Journey to the Crown is Kristen Yates' relationship coaching, built on The Crown Path. Walk it two ways — private coaching, or local group experiences here in Chattanooga.

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Kristen Yates, relationship coach and founder of Journey to the Crown

If this is you

You already know something has to change.

You replay each conversation trying to figure out the moment everything went downhill.
You've promised yourself that this relationship would be better than the last one.
You keep seeing the same cycles and can't figure out how to get out of them.

None of that means you're broken. It means you learned love had to be earned — and that lesson can be unlearned.

The Crown Path

Three stages. One journey.

This isn't advice about texting rules or "keeping the spark alive." It's deep, honest work on the pattern underneath every relationship you've ever had — done with a coach who won't let you look away.

The Mirror

See the pattern clearly — without shame, and without flinching.

  • Map your relationship history and find the thread running through it
  • Name the moment you first learned love had to be performed for
  • Separate what they did from what you decided it meant about you

The Root

Pull out what taught you to settle, at the root — not just the symptoms.

  • Rewrite the self-talk that negotiates your standards down
  • Practice boundaries in low-stakes moments until they hold in high-stakes ones
  • Learn to sit in the discomfort of disappointing people instead of abandoning yourself

The Crown

Stand in your worth — and build a life where it's non-negotiable.

  • Write your standards down and decide, in advance, what happens when they're crossed
  • Change how you show up — in how you speak, choose, stay, and leave
  • Walk into every room, and every relationship, already whole

Two ways to connect

Walk it privately. Or walk it with your people.

Same path, two doors. One is you and Kristen, one honest conversation at a time. The other is a room of people in Chattanooga doing the work out loud, together.

Option one

Private Coaching

You and Kristen. The work is personal because the pattern is.

  • Weekly callsOne focused video call each week — part truth-telling, part strategy, always about the next real step in front of you.
  • Between sessionsMessage support when the moment actually happens — the text you shouldn't send, the boundary you're about to fold on.
  • What's expectedHonesty and follow-through. Kristen brings the framework and the mirror; you bring the willingness to do things differently.
  • PaymentsHandled securely online after your call, with plans available — money questions get answered plainly before you commit to anything.
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Option two

Local Group Experiences

Find your people, your purpose & your next move…

ConnectionDirectionTransformation

  • In person, in ChattanoogaReal rooms, real faces. The kind of night you leave feeling known instead of networked.
  • Kept small on purposeSmall enough that nobody hides in the back and everyone gets to say the true thing.
  • Guided, not wingedKristen leads the room through the same Crown Path work — one honest question at a time.
  • You leave with a next moveNot just a good feeling. Something you're actually going to do this week.
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Seats start with a short application — a few written answers so Kristen knows the room is right for you.

Not sure which door is yours? and tell Kristen where things are — she'll tell you honestly which one fits.

A coaching conversation — two people, one honest question
Listening — the part of the work nobody posts about

The journey, in frames. More of it, most days, at @Journeywithkristen.

The promise

What changes in 90 days of this work.

Days 1–30

You stop guessing.

The pattern has a name and a history. You can see it coming before it runs you — which is the first time it's ever been a choice.

Days 31–60

You stop folding.

You've said the hard sentence out loud and survived it. Boundaries move from something you admire in other people to something you actually hold.

Days 61–90

You stop settling.

Your standards are written down and non-negotiable. Whatever happens to the relationship, what's no longer up for debate is you.

This is the promise of the work — written as a commitment to you, not a claim about anyone else. Your pace is your own; the direction is not in doubt.

Kristen Yates, relationship coach and founder of Journey to the Crown

Why I do this

I'm Kristen. I built this because I needed it first.

I know what it's like to hand someone your crown and then spend years auditioning to get it back. To be the strong one, the understanding one, the one who stays — and to quietly disappear inside all of it.

Journey to the Crown is the work I wish someone had walked me through: honest, structured, and completely uninterested in helping you become more tolerable to people who don't value you. I coach the person, not the relationship — because when you come back to yourself, every relationship in your life has to renegotiate with someone whole.

I won't flatter you and I won't rush you. But I will hold the standard for you until you can hold it yourself.

— Kristen Yates, Founder, Journey to the Crown

Follow the journey — @Journeywithkristen

Who it's for

This work is for you. Or it isn't.

Come as you are, if…

  • You're done pretending the pattern is a coincidence
  • You're willing to look at your part — not to take the blame, but to take the power back
  • You want a coach who tells you the truth, not what keeps you comfortable
  • You're ready to do real work between calls, not just talk on them
  • You want your standards decided by you — not by whoever you're afraid of losing

This isn't for you, if…

  • You want scripts to make one specific person text you back
  • You're looking for someone to co-sign staying exactly as things are
  • You want the outcome without the discomfort of changing
  • You need someone to fix your partner — this work is about you
The crown was never theirs to give. It was always yours to pick back up.
— The line the whole journey is built on

Questions you're already asking

Asked before every first call.

Then we start exactly where you are. This isn't a "leave them" program or a "stay and endure" program — it's a you program. When you come back to your worth, the right next move for the relationship gets much clearer, and it becomes a decision you make instead of one that happens to you.

Therapy helped you understand where the pattern came from — that matters, and this isn't a replacement for it. Coaching is about what you do next: a structured path, weekly accountability, and a coach in your corner while you actually change how you show up. Insight is the mirror; this is the walking.

The honest answer: the first shift usually isn't in your relationship, it's in you — the moment you catch the pattern in real time and choose differently. That can happen early. Rebuilding standards you'll actually keep takes consistent work over weeks, which is exactly why this is a journey and not a webinar.

It depends on the level of support you need, and Kristen answers it plainly on your first call — no games, no surprise upsell. Payments are handled securely online and payment plans are available. The call itself is where you decide, with all the numbers in front of you.

You talk about where things really are — no performance required. Kristen asks the questions no one else has asked, tells you honestly whether The Crown Path fits your situation, and lays out what working together would look like. If it's not the right fit, she'll say so.

Because a room where people are honest only works if everyone in it came to be honest. The application is a handful of written questions — no scoring, no test — and it tells Kristen whether you're ready to be known and held to something, or whether private coaching is the better first door. It also means the person next to you was asked the same questions. Nothing is charged from that page.

Stay the person who waits — or become the one who decides.

Decide today