Press & Media
Carolyn Tucker is an author, speaker and transformation coach based in Texas. She writes and teaches about grief, anxiety, and the old patterns that keep good people stuck, like people-pleasing, the inner critic and shame.
She has been speaking to groups large and small for decades, and she's known for being practical, warm and funny about hard things.
Featured In
The Wall Street Journal
Quoted in "Parents Try to Keep Kids Safe From Fentanyl With Warnings, Pleas and Naloxone Training" by Betsy Morris, on how little many teens know about fentanyl and how parents can start the conversation.
May 2022
OM Times
Featured writer for the conscious-living magazine, with articles on healing, spirituality and the inner life.
Featured Writer
Patch, Harvard Blogs & PositiveMed
Columns on anxiety, boundaries, authenticity and learning to stop fighting pain, written for Atlanta's Buckhead, Midtown and Decatur Patch, a Harvard-hosted blog, and PositiveMed.
2012–2013
Podcasts, Radio & Interviews
The Coach's Circle Podcast
Episode 8, from Life Coach Path. A conversation about coaching and therapy, and where one ends and the other begins.
Podcast with Fallon Jordan
On trauma and the people who run toward it: what first responders carry home, and how they can set some of it down.
Radio Interview: The Law of Attraction
A radio conversation about the law of attraction, and how what we focus on and believe shapes the life we create.
Decodinghim.com: Empowering Women
A long-form interview on not waiting for a partner to make you happy, stepping into your power without hardening, balancing masculine and feminine energy, the maiden, mother and crone, and treating yourself like someone you're in love with.
April 2013
Infidelityinfo.com
An in-depth interview on what to do when you suspect a partner is unfaithful, why curiosity serves you better than confrontation, and how couples who choose to stay can heal and rebuild trust.
December 2012
Speaking
Carolyn has spoken in auditoriums, churches, conference rooms and living rooms, and once kept going through a tornado. Past audiences include Disabled American Veterans, St. Joseph's Mercy Care, Skyland Trail, Tabernacle Church Atlanta, Lumina Birth, TRU Integrative Health and Wellness, and the community doula training program at Families First in Atlanta, a partner of Chicago's HealthConnect One. The program trains women from the community as doulas to reduce low birth weight among African American babies.
Current topics: grief in the workplace (Grief Doesn't Clock Out), calming anxiety in the body, and breaking the patterns of people-pleasing, self-criticism and shame.
"She is funny, practical, energetic, open and loaded with helpful strategies and tools."
Teri L. Lewis, Director, Healthy Families and Relationships, Families First
Books
Navigating the Journey of Grief
Finding Yourself Through the Sacred Lens of the Enneagram
How each Enneagram type grieves, and what each one needs to heal.
2025
The Adventures of Max and Papa
A children's book series about big feelings, told from a grandfather's front porch:
Max and the Big Feelings
Max and the Mindful Tune
Max and the Feeling Finder
Max and the Puzzle Piece Promise
Media & Booking Inquiries
For interviews, expert quotes, podcast guesting or speaking, I'd love to hear from you.