After receiving my Bachelors in Neuroscience and getting my dream job at a children’s research hospital (and published in the same year) I had to quit. Not the job – the entire field. It wasn’t the stress of the work, my boss, the city, or even a failing relationship. It was a deep misalignment with my values. I saw that instead of recognizing the best chance at making discovery for children’s diseases, the PhD leaders I knew and worked with were all networking and competing solely for grant money. They relied on the system for their jobs and their future so they made the children secondary. I opted out of that system and continue to use my work to opt out of other systems that have tried to control and define so many for too long. I found meaningful work in dementia care and spent close to 10 years focusing on individual care plans, family/group culture, and meeting people right where they were at- all skills I bring into my Parts Work practice today.

In my personal life I was partnered and ready to take on life as a team but universe had other plans. In many acts of resilience against infertility, PTSD, and family/friendship trauma - I chose to honor my own needs over compliance to someone else’s plans for my healing. I stopped playing a role that served someone else’s best interests and found what I truly needed – myself. I learned to love who I was becoming, hear and follow my intuition, as well as hold integrity in situations that tested my commitment to self. I expanded my inner work into many modalities beginning in 2016, healed PTSD and trauma wounds using IFS in 2023 and became certified in Parts Work (the IFS equivalent for coaches) in early 2026. In the last few years I’ve also learned to pole dance, write poetry, and enjoy what I am creating -a life I love. This work has allowed me to have fun and flow while growing spiritually, relationally, and holistically. I’m hoping and praying to the universe that you find the same for your life.