Beyond the Vision Board

A practical and profound new approach to building the life you’re meant to live.

A neuroscience-backed, story-centered method for shifting from static dreaming to dynamic becoming.

What if the real path to transformation isn’t about pushing harder… but about changing the story you’re living?

Beyond the Vision Board offers a transformative alternative to traditional vision‑boarding— one that honors both your story and your brain. Instead of relying on wishful imagery or curated dreams, this method brings together three powerful elements:

Neuroscience — understanding how your brain forms identity, habits, and belief patterns

Storytelling — using narrative clarity to call you toward your future

Aligned Action — building a life rooted in truth, values, and integrity

Inside these pages, you’ll move through a three‑act framework that helps you see where you are, understand what’s shaping you, and intentionally create what comes next.

This is an invitation into a deeper kind of becoming — grounded, honest, and aligned. It’s for anyone who feels the space between who they’ve been… and who they know they’re ready to become.

Your story is powerful. This book helps you learn how to direct it.

What You'll Learn

Rewrite the Story That’s Been Running Your Life

Understand the beliefs, survival identities, and internal narratives shaping your choices —and learn how to shift them using neuroscience‑backed tools and compassionate clarity.

Bridge the Gap Between Who You Are and Who You’re Becoming

Map your current reality with honesty, identify the archetypes and patterns that block your growth, and create a vision rooted in alignment, values, and true desire.

Live Your New Story in Real Time

Use the Storyboard Method® and the daily embodiment process to interrupt old conditioning, choose differently in the moment, and anchor the identity you’ve been becoming all along.

Meet the Author

Tanya M. Thompson

MPA, CPM

Tanya M. Thompson is a transformational coach, speaker, and creator of The Storyboard Method®, a process that helps women rewrite the inner narratives that shape their lives. Known for her grounded wisdom and her ability to turn lived experience into tools for growth, Tanya guides women through personal evolution, identity shifts, leadership, and healing with clarity and compassion.

With a B.S. in Criminal Justice, an M.P.A. in Organizational Change and Counseling, and certification as a John Maxwell coach, Tanya blends academic insight with the practical intelligence earned from navigating complex systems, burnout, and reinvention. Her work weaves together neuroscience, narrative practice, and embodied alignment to help women create lives rooted in truth and integrity.

She is the founder of Level Up Coaching, where she creates transformational spaces for women ready to step into the next chapter of their lives with honesty and intention.

When she isn’t writing or coaching, Tanya enjoys yoga, restorative practices, and time with community — choosing joy, alignment, and peace as part of her daily becoming.


Why This Book Exists

There comes a moment when the life you’ve been living no longer fits the person you’re becoming. Tanya reached that moment — not in one dramatic collapse, but through a series of quiet truths she could no longer ignore.

She realized she had been living inside stories that kept her performing, overworking, and shrinking. And when she finally stopped long enough to listen to herself, a new path started to reveal itself — one built on alignment, integrity, and a deeper kind of honesty.

Beyond the Vision Board was born from that unfolding.

It is an offering for women who feel the nudge, the whisper, or the pull toward a life that is truer than the one they’ve been tolerating. For women who are ready to stop abandoning themselves. For those who sense that their next chapter requires a different kind of clarity — the kind that comes from within.

This book is a reminder:

You are allowed to outgrow the stories that no longer honor you.

And you are allowed to author the life that finally does.

Be the First to Step Into This New Way of Becoming

Join the list for early book updates — and receive a free guided reflection to help you get clear, grounded, and aligned with the life you’re creating.

You’ll also receive my bi-weekly notes filled with soulful reflections, tiny shifts, and story-shaping wisdom to support you as you picture and produce your preferred reality.