Your doctor gave you a diagnosis. Not a destiny.
I help successful midlife women reclaim their identity after chronic illness and life disruption — because surviving was never the finish line.
If This Is You...
You’ve survived things most people can’t imagine. You managed the appointments, the adjustments, and the hard days while holding everything together.
But somewhere in all that surviving, you lost track of you. You find yourself wondering: Who am I now, outside of this diagnosis — or this disruption?
Why does it feel like I’m still just enduring, even on the good days? Is it too late to feel like myself again?
It is not too late. You are reclaiming what was always yours.
I know this road. I have walked it.
I’m Jacqueline Johnson-Collins, licensed mental health therapist, social worker, published author, and transformational coach.
In 1997, I was diagnosed with MS and told I would be in a wheelchair within ten years. I refused that prognosis. Now I help successful midlife women do the meaningful work of reclaiming who they are on the other side of disruption.
- Licensed Mental Health Therapist
- Licensed Social Worker
- 25+ Years Experience
- Published Author
- MS Survivor Since 1997
How I Can Help
BY INVITATION ONLY
The AUTHOR Experience
A private 5-day 1:1 experience where we work together one-on-one to begin your identity reclamation journey.
PRIVATE
1:1 Coaching
A high-touch engagement for the woman ready to stop managing disruption and start authoring her life.
COURSE
The Reclamation Method™
A structured, expert-designed self-paced course and workbook to guide every step of your journey.
FREE SERIES
The Reclamation Series
Five days of identity-reconnecting exercises delivered straight to your inbox. Begin the work today.
FREE PDF
Identity Manifesto
Five foundational principles for the woman who has survived and is now ready to reclaim herself.
THE BOOK
The Get Up Principle
A story of resilience, faith, and the discovery that identity is not lost in disruption—it is reclaimed.
By Invitation Only
The AUTHOR Experience
Free
Five days. Just you and me.
A free, private 5-day 1:1 experience — just you and Jacqueline — where we work together one-on-one to begin your identity reclamation journey. No group. No strangers. No pressure. Just five focused days that could change everything.
Coaching
The Reclamation Experience
Private. High-touch. Transformation-focused.
The Reclamation Method™
Self-Paced Course
A structured, expert-designed identity reclamation course and workbook available in two versions — Foundation ($297) and Complete ($497). Begin the work at your own pace, with Jacqueline’s methodology guiding every step.
The Get Up Principle
Book & Workbook
My story. Your map.
Written for every woman who has been told what her life would look like and refused to accept it. The Get Up Principle is a story of resilience, faith, and the hard-won discovery that identity is not lost in disruption — it is reclaimed.
FREE DOWNLOAD
The Identity Reclamation Manifesto
Most women navigating chronic illness or life disruption are handed a diagnosis and a treatment plan. What they are rarely handed is a framework for what happens to their identity in the process.
- Why your diagnosis is a medical description — not a personal definition
- How identity is quietly relinquished in disruption — and how reclamation begins
- The difference between surviving and authoring your own life
- Why reclamation is not restoration — it is transformation
- Permission to want a life that is fully and unapologetically yours
It is completely free. Download it, keep it, return to it.
“Your doctor gave you a diagnosis. Not a destiny.”
The Reclamation Series
5 Days to Reconnect with Who You Are Beyond Your Disruption.
One focused exercise per day, delivered to your inbox. This is the first step in separating who you are from what you are managing.