About Me

It began in college when I studied nutrition and dietetics. I studied Intuitive Eating, by Evelyn Tribole and Elise Resch and learned to make peace with food and heal my relationship with my body. I learned to feel basic signals in my body, like hunger and fullness. I learned to feel my emotions instead of suppress, ignore, or even deny them. I learned to trust that my body might actually carry wisdom for me if I could learn to listen.

My journey continued when I took a leadership role in the hospital where I worked, running the patient food service and formula operations. I had read a book in college called Bringing Out The Best In People and that became my mantra and purpose as a leader. As I leaned into supporting and growing my teams to help them be their best, our whole department began to excel. This nourished a deep belief in me of the potential in each human being and the early seeds of my desire to help others reach their potential on a larger scale began to take root.

My journey deepened to a level I could not have anticipated when I became a mother. As I struggled to hold on to my career while parenting my precious children, I learned self-compassion. Through self-compassion, I began healing my relationship with myself. My study in self-compassion led me to Internal Family Systems (IFS), where I learned that I had something inside of me that was eternally whole, unable to be hurt. The parts of me that seemed so flawed were actually trying their best to help me be safe, to survive in a tough world. I learned to love all of me and reconnect with my wholeness. Through my commitment to myself and my children to be the best mother I could be, I discovered the work of Dan Seigel. I learned about attachment theory and presence, and the power of showing up. I learned about the core needs we hold as humans to feel safe, seen, and soothed when we feel strong emotion. As I learned how to parent my children, I learned how to re-parent myself.

Through all of this, I learned to partner with myself with intention, to listen to and trust my intuition. I learned that parts of me that I had seen as weakness or liability, were actually my gifts, what the world needs most from me. I learned to have curiosity as I partner with my gifts to serve the world. This new understanding of myself and others through the lens of IFS ultimately led me to a new sense of my purpose, my gifts, and my path forward. This new sense of purpose found it legs to run through coaching.

I was trained as a coach at the Jay Shetting Coaching School, the Pisgah Coaching Institute, and the Center for Healing and Awakening. I developed skills to support others on their journey, to help them discover their own gifts, to uncover the vision and purpose for their own lives. I learned fundamentals of IFS and how to support my clients in discovering and healing their relationship with their parts. In short, I learned how to support others on their transformation journey.

My journey has been a slow and steady walk from feeling stressed, anxious, and stuck, to feeling confident, courageous, empowered, and full of love for myself and deeper connection with others.

As a coach, my work is to guide others along the path of self-nourishment until they, too, rediscover their connection to their wholeness. My work is to guide others to open their hearts, to be fully alive, to discover their own purpose with clarity, confidence, and courage.