Your Personal Strategist
My Story
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​I'm so happy you're here!
If you’ve landed on this page it's likely because you feel stuck or overwhelmed by life—frustrated with work, personal relationships, or lost touch with yourself—welcome.
After decades of working in helping professions, I found myself needing to help someone I’d been ignoring for far too long: me.
When I retired, I expected to embrace freedom and finally enjoy the things I loved. Instead, I fell into a depressive, frozen state that I couldn’t explain. I had all the time in the world, yet joy eluded me. Slowly, I realized I’d been carrying a hidden inner agitation for decades—masked behind perfectionism, achievements, and people-pleasing.
When the busyness of life stopped, Mother Nature stepped in and made me confront the knots I’d been avoiding.
Even with my background in psychology, I couldn’t see what was holding me back. As the saying goes, “We can’t read the label when we’re inside the jar.” I came to understand that the struggles I’d faced throughout my working years—self-sabotage, imposter syndrome, and self-doubt—stemmed from the same inner turmoil.
I’d spent years trying to willpower my way through with affirmations, visualizations, and manifesting. While those tools had their place, they became band-aids for the deeper work I was avoiding.
Eventually, I had a breakthrough: the issues I suffered from were in the part of my brain that needed reprogramming. My willpower and determination weren't the problem, nor were the external issues I was blaming. Everything changed once I shifted my perspective and worked on the part of my brain that held all the power.
Here’s the good news: When we identify that the root of our struggles is almost entirely within our control we're empowered to see the world from the inside out and go after what we want in life.
A Little More on What My Journey to Feeling Better Entailed:
On the outside, my life looked like a picture-perfect dream, but underneath, I was harboring buried trauma. My healing journey required me to face, accept, and process past events and toxic relationship patterns. I had to dive deep into the world of C-PTSD, uproot my old beliefs, and do some reprogramming.
Thanks to COVID, local professional therapists were as hard to find as toilet paper in March 2020. But this turned out to be a blessing in disguise. I had no choice but to take my mental health into my own hands. I embraced holistic approaches, incorporating the latest breakthroughs in bio-neuropsychology.
I leaned heavily on journaling (and even art journaling) and applied the likes of therapies (Narrative, IFS, CBT, EFT...) by authors, influencers and professionals like Bessel Van der Kolk, Nicole Lepera, Dr. Ramani, Pete Walker, John Bradshaw, to name but a few. The bottom line? Once I started accessing the right part of my mind, body and soul for healing, the benefits were mind-blowing. I’m not talking about feeling a ‘bit’ better but ‘shout it from the rooftops’ better.
The transformational growth came from moving the needle in self-worth, self-trust, and self-advocacy. My relationship with the world shifted from fear-based to love-based, all because my relationship with myself changed. Since then, I've combined all of what I learned from the gurus and experts into a solid daily practice to help others.
My friends, I can help YOU do the same!
My Credentials
Post Secondary Education, BA, (MSc.)
Certified Coach (EMCC)
Certified Narrative Therapist (Candidate Diploma)
Former Therapist Cognitive Therapy (CBT)
Former Certified Human Resources Professional (CPHR)
Former Certified Consultant (CMC)