A B O U T

I started my own journey of healing 20 years ago at a weekend retreat. At that time, I had become an adult woman who had perfected self-control in the expression of my feelings. I knew I needed to learn how to be vulnerable, but I struggled to understand how to align that need with my dedication to hiding my true feelings.

I didn’t really know when or why I had gained a hypervigilance about controlling my emotions. There were experiences in childhood and adolescent that provided clues, but I couldn't put all the pieces together. The only thing I knew for sure was that I was tired of worrying about what others perceived of me, or what would happen if I showed my inner self.

At that weekend retreat, I felt myself leaning into one of the guest speakers who was talking about unaddressed feelings and unexpressed emotions. She was illustrating how this is the backdrop for emotional, mental and physical illness. She discussed how our beliefs about love, money and success are formed in the first two decades of our life, and how they’re influenced by our family, teachers, peers and religion.

In that moment, I felt like she was talking to me directly – that she knew me – even though I had never met her before. Somehow she knew that vulnerability scared me.

During her talk, she said something so empowering: “You have the power within to heal anything in your life—you just have to make the choice.”

Right there, in that moment, I privately made the choice to heal. I signed up to work with her one-on-one. I committed to doing deep healing work and peeling back layers of conditioning. I’ve since dedicated my life to supporting others in their transformation.