My Story

But something was still off.

I realized I had fallen prey to the illusion that life was all about my personal successes and that somehow if I was successful, I’d be “happy.” I followed the predictable path of working hard, doing what I thought was expected of me, got married and had two beautiful children.

Life has a funny way of intervening and letting you know there’s a different path you might want to take, right?

For me, it was the birth of my second child when she was born with Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic, progressive, life-shortening and incurable disease. I literally felt as though I had been hit over the head with one of my grandmother’s cast iron skillets! It didn’t fit the pictures I had in my head of what my family would look like. And I sure as heck wasn’t up for watching my little baby slowly die before her eighteenth birthday.

It literally stopped me in my tracks.

Wait a minute! This wasn’t the life I had envisioned! Still chronically stressed out, living from my “to do list,” constantly worrying about the future for my children, always depleted and putting myself last. Talk about living in survival!! I felt as though I was hyperventilating through my life every single day. In and out of doctor’s offices for my daughters health, on the phone most days with insurance companies or pharmacies, two week hospitalizations twice a year…all the while also tending to my older child who was then only three years old.

I knew there had to be more to life.

But what? And even if I knew the answer to the what, how would I go about taking the actions necessary to fulfill whatever that “what” was?

I wanted to live a life that lit me up in every way instead of a life that depleted and exhausted me. I wanted to stop spinning my wheels and letting my life live me. I wanted to wake up excited for the day ahead knowing I was using my gifts and talents not just to serve my family, but to serve some greater purpose. I wanted to live a life of passion, meaning and purpose, excited for the day ahead.

This yearning for an awakened life is what drove me onto my own personal spiritual path. Looking back, few of us embark on a path without some sort of life event that wakes us up.

I started practicing meditation and mindfulness and, for over a decade, sought to train and practice with some of the most recognized spiritual and psychotherapy teachers in the world. I earned my certification to teach meditation from the Chopra Center and in contemplative psychotherapy from Nalanda.

Piece by piece, I began to reconnect to my true self; to that person who felt invigorated and inspired to live a life of meaning and purpose. In walking my own spiritual path, doing the “heavy lifting” so to speak, I discovered how to access the true freedom, passion and purpose that I hadn’t before realized is available and accessible to us all.

Before long, I had literally embarked on a lifelong journey which truly reignited my life. I started to understand that transforming my life had nothing to do with changing the circumstances in it but rather changing ME! That sure was good news given that there was no way I could actually cure an incurable disease!  Contrary to what I had previously thought, I wasn’t in control of any of that.

My daughter taught me that.

I had to look deeply and deconstruct my limiting beliefs and habitual patterns so I could recognize that everything I really need to be happy was sitting right where I was seated! Right there all along. Literally, my false notions of reality were preventing me from realizing that I already have everything that’s necessary to live a beautiful, fulfilling, love-filled and awakened life! We all do.

As life will always do, I was handed an additional series of obstacles along the way that forced me to stay on the path and deepen my practice even further. Beyond teaching meditation and providing spiritual counseling and life coaching to my clients, I felt a pull to deepen my practice recently studying with the Peruvian Shamans of Machu Picchu. Putting my recent learnings into practice, I have recently added energy healing to my existing practice and once again, have found my life permanently altered in a way that was completely unforeseeable and totally unpredictable.

And now, it’s my mission to walk beside you, hold your hand and support you as you traverse your own spiritual path providing you with guidance and incorporating my decades of insight along the way.