ABOUT.

Today, I am proud to say I identify as a highly sensitive introvert, mother, partner, friend, lover of Mother Nature, and deeply caring Co-Active Coach. I bring curiosity, support, and a desire for deep connection, spaciousness, grounding, and joy to my coaching.

A Co-Active approach means I believe each of us has all we truly need to feel fulfilled and joyous inside of us already, but that doesn’t mean we need to figure out life on our own.

We often need a partner as we discover, acknowledge, and help us work toward specific goals. We need someone who “gets it” and can gently hold us accountable to be our best selves.

My mission as a coach is to help you get to know, trust and accept yourself so that you can access those internal wells of joy and purpose. I can help you uncover the wisdom waiting within your soul. I am by your side to ​​be curious, present, listen, reflect, acknowledge, and champion.

This work can be particularly challenging for HSPs like me, who are female-identifying individuals experiencing a high level of pressure to perform perfection for themselves and those around them. It’s vital to have someone we can rely on who will notice patterns and themes that emerge during coaching.

Like a weaver at the loom, I can help you connect seemingly disparate actions or ideas to unlock new paths you could not have imagined possible. We can strengthen your life’s foundation together, and I can help you see the bigger picture you’re creating.

I like to focus my coaching on people I can assist with what I have learned from firsthand experiences. You can find out if I would be a good match for you by learning more about the people I best support here.

If you feel a nudge to reach out to me, I’d love to hear from you through email or through an introductory call. From there, we can decide if working together makes sense.

I will always hold space for whatever comes up in our sessions. Change requires a balance of hard work and delicacy around the softness of our humanity, which I will ensure we maintain.

I used to struggle with indecisiveness and a lack of self-trust.

I held myself to extremely high standards without really understanding what they were or how to meet them, creating an anxiety-provoking perfectionistic paralysis.

Growing up, I often received messages that I was “too sensitive” or “too much.” For the comfort of those around me, I internalized these criticisms. I minimized and created a wall around my true self. I was unable to fully know, accept, and love myself.

I believed that something within me needed fixing or changing for me to be successful because who I was naturally was not good enough. That I didn’t know enough because I had made certain educational or experiential choices that I perceived as limiting. But I didn’t even know what my own success might look like, let alone how to get there.

I doubted myself so often that stagnant inaction became a driving theme of my life. I chose my work mostly based on happenstance opportunity–not intentionality or with consideration of how it aligned with my values, strengths, or energy.

This made massive, impactful life changes—like becoming a new mother and navigating that in my career—almost impossible for me to deal with. Having children made me so happy, but I still had this doubt about my work trajectory buzzing around my head.

I had a nagging feeling that I was “really” meant to be doing something very different in my career. I deeply desired the freedom to discover, and then to be able to pursue, what I was put in this world for.

It became challenging to fully experience the joys of motherhood and focus on my job as my resistance to my current path kept building.

Sitting at my computer felt like being caged at work. My body was locked into a chair and trapped under my desk. I yearned to be outside, free of the tasks at hand. On Friday nights, I was already dreading my Monday morning.

My therapist was helpful in many ways, but our sessions weren't helping me make the kind of tangible career changes I desired.

Desperate, I began Googling:

”How to find a job that feels good”

”Top most satisfying careers for people who love being outside”

”How to change careers”

”What should I do with my life?”

”How to not cry at work”

Yes, you read that last one correctly. I was reaching a tipping point.

Eventually, I came to the idea of hiring a career coach, and over a period of several months, my coach helped get me un-stuck through self-exploration and feasible action.

She helped name and clarify this trait I possessed, of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), and that there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, she helped me begin to begin seeing it as a gift.

We identified my personal values and even drafted a purpose statement for my life so I could begin to see myself more clearly in the context of my life. I began to notice how I was already living my purpose, even in seemingly small ways, and think about the ways in which I could make some changes to live more aligned with my values.

This work cultivated a sense of grounding, leading me to a space that allowed for self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-love.

I was shown the power I already had within myself to work with my unique talents, discover my strengths, claim my purpose in life, and, amazingly, experience true joy again.

This coaching helped me handle my acute perfectionistic expectations and taught me methods of dealing with perfectionism as it continues to crop up in my life.

This experience laid the foundation for my work coaching others.

It turned out that my wanting to cry at work was my wise body trying to speak to me, for it knew my truth before I could fully accept it. I’m so glad I finally listened.

I have a Bachelor’s in English.

I have completed Co-Active Professional Coach Training with the Co-Active Training Institute and DONA Birth Doula Training.

I have two small children and co-parent with my non-HSP spouse.