It all started when…
Ever since my childhood, I have always been a seeker of truth and curious about the world around me. At a young age, I vividly recall experiences of feeling connected to all things and able to tap into the universal rhythms that play out through different phenomenon and experiences of life. This awakened in me a passion for understanding more deeply the world I was living in. As an empathic and sensitive child, often feeling overstimulated by the numerous inputs of our world, I was confused about the depth of emotions I could sense in myself and in others.
Throughout my teenage years into early adulthood, I went through a period of darkness and confusion while experiencing symptoms of severe anxiety and depression. I struggled many years with panic attacks, low self worth/self esteem, and ADHD. I felt completely lost and alone for a number of years. I had always been very comfortable expressing my emotions and wanting to talk about things that most people didn’t want to address. I felt shameful and took the reactions I received from others as negative messages about myself or that people didn’t like me. My conclusion was that just by being myself I made people uncomfortable. Throughout my teens and twenties I was led to believe that there is something wrong with me and I am simply not good enough. I looked in all different directions, but nothing filled this insatiable emptiness and I was utterly lost and alone.
In 2007 my journey as a yoga teacher and practitioner began helping to set me on a path of awakening and realization. After years of looking for answers within the limits of traditional medicine and mental health approaches, I knew there was more I needed to find. Through many years of being in the depths of my own pain and darkness, my life began to transform. My path unfolded down a variety of avenues, including studying the relationship between mental health and nutrition, as well as diving deeper into a meditation practice and learning to connect to deeper parts of myself. I attended a variety of meditation and yoga retreats along with time spent in Hawaii, California and Greece helping me learn that all of my years of seeking for relief from the outside was not the answer. I began experiencing deeper parts of myself and re-established a connection that was missing for most of my life.
Once finding some grounding within myself, I followed a deep calling that I wanted to help others deal and heal from pain and suffering as I had learned to within myself. I wanted to help people talk about the depths of their pain without the shame associated with it in our culture. I attended graduate school and earned a masters degree in Clinician Mental Health Counseling with a holistic specialization. Upon graduation, I did extensive training in Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) which has also played a significant role in my healing and built excitement in me for what is possible in the healing process for others. The combined effect of these experiences developed a deep knowledge in myself that my path and passion is to assist in the healing of others. I am committed to my continued growth and evolution and am completely humbled and grateful that I get to do this work with people.
I continue to grow and evolve regularly and have completely dedicated my life to this work and helping others.