My Story

 

​I'm so happy you're here!

If you’ve landed on this page, it's likely because you feel stuck or overwhelmed, frustrated with work, personal relationships, retirement or you've lost touch with yourself. Welcome.

 

After decades of working in helping professions, I needed to help someone I’d been ignoring for far too long: me.

 

When I retired, I expected to embrace freedom and finally enjoy what 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, professional 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 in 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 practices 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 parts of me that held 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.