I didn't arrive at this work from theory. I arrived at it from survival.

I've faced my own reckonings with the body — a breast cancer diagnosis I had to walk through and come out the other side of. And I grew up with a loss no one should have to carry: my mother took her own life when I was in my twenties.

I'm not telling you this for sympathy. I'm telling you because it's why I refuse to offer you anything vague, trendy, or purely energetic. After cancer, I experienced severe anxiety myself. I knew logically that I was healthy and safe now, but my body didn't always get that message. That experience changed the way I understood fear, stress and recovery, and showed me very clearly that insight alone isn't always enough.

So my approach is grounded, structured, and deeply human. I trained in Root Cause Therapy, Embodied Processing, trauma-informed coaching and Somatic Release Breathwork, Mental Fitness Coaching, and Holistic Nutrition – not to collect certificates, but because I wanted to understand what actually helps people shift the patterns that logic and insight alone don't always reach.

Cancer recovery and empowerment has increasingly become a central part of that work. I now offer dedicated support for the mental and emotional side of life during and after cancer, because I know that terrain both personally and professionally. In fact, this is the last retreat I am offering that is open to anyone. After this, I’ll be focusing much more closely on cancer recovery support and retreats.

I'm not a "woo-woo" facilitator. I'm someone who takes your nervous system seriously — and who also knows, from the inside, that healing needs more than logic alone. It needs a body that can begin to feel safe enough to soften, reconnect and move forward.