by Anastacia Sams (Author)

Do you feel like you're doing all the right things-yet still feel rushed, disconnected, or unfulfilled?

LEGACY BY DESIGN is a guided workbook for high-achieving professionals, leaders, and creatives who are ready to move beyond survival mode and build a life rooted in alignment, clarity, and sustainability. Created by a licensed marriage and family therapist and legacy coach, this 12-week process blends emotional wellness, values-based reflection, and intentional life design.

This workbook supports individuals navigating burnout, over-functioning, chronic pressure, and inherited expectations-offering a grounded framework for personal development that prioritizes wellbeing alongside success.

Inside this 12-week guided workbook, you will:

Identify survival-based patterns

• Recognize habits rooted in urgency, people-pleasing, and overachievement
• Understand how stress, identity, and intergenerational patterns shape behavior
• Build awareness of nervous system responses and energy depletion

Reconnect with your authentic self

• Clarify personal values, needs, and priorities
• Strengthen intuition and internal authority
• Rebuild self-trust beyond productivity and performance

Make intentional, values-based decisions

• Practice aligned decision making
• Develop internal and emotional boundaries
• Choose from clarity instead of obligation

Design a sustainable, fulfilling life

• Create rhythms that support emotional wellbeing and balance
• Protect time, energy, and capacity
• Define legacy as how you live-not just what you accomplish

By the end of the workbook, readers gain:

• Greater emotional clarity and spaciousness
• Reduced stress and reactivity
• Stronger alignment between values and daily choices
• A practical framework for sustainable success
• Tools for long-term personal growth and intentional living

Each week includes educational insight paired with reflective prompts and practical exercises, making this workbook ideal for self-guided use, coaching programs, therapy-adjacent personal growth, leadership development, and group facilitation.

LEGACY BY DESIGN is part of the HealingWorks(R) Legacy Framework(TM) and supports individuals, practitioners, and organizations seeking thoughtful, values-centered personal development.