Courtney Stough

Author, Speaker & Life Force Coach

Courtney Stough is an author, speaker, and coach challenging the way we think about burnout, high performance, and what it means to feel fully alive. She spent years asking why so many high achievers are told they are burned out when the problem runs deeper. Her conclusion: what we call burnout is often disconnection – from ourselves, our bodies, and what makes us feel alive – not simply the result of doing too much.

She came to that conclusion the long way. A graduate of Yale University and Tulane Law School, where she earned her J.D., Stough spent nearly fourteen years in corporate law across transactional, M&A, and in-house practice, ultimately making partner at an AmLaw 100 firm in 2020. By every external measure, she was succeeding. She was also depleted, in chronic pain, and overmedicated. Nothing in her life looked like a problem. That was the problem.

Her own reclamation became the foundation of The Prana Rising Method™ – a grounded approach to sustainable aliveness built on the Four Energy Generators™: Embodiment, Mindfulness, Creativity, and Community. Underneath all of it sits discernment: the practice of trusting your own internal resonance rather than outsourcing authority to the next teacher, expert, or program. Her stance is deliberately anti-guru. The destination is never her method; it is your own inner compass.

Stough holds a 200-hour yoga certification and has trained with transformational leaders in somatic, energetic, and embodiment practices. She is a graduate of the Feminine Frequency Business School™, founded by USA Today bestselling author Jessica Zweig, and of Jen Gottlieb's Stage Leaders program. She brings the same precision she honed in law to the embodied work of helping high-achieving people reclaim their life force.

Her mission is to help people stop performing their lives, reconnect with themselves, and move through modern life with sovereignty – and with more moments of what she calls Blissence™: the bliss of being fully present in your authentic essence.

Her debut book, Prana Rising: Reclaim Your Life Force & Amplify Your Personal Power, publishes September 15, 2026. Stough lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.