Hello there, lovely lady. I am honored to have the opportunity to work with you and support you along your personalized path to holistic healing and personal empowerment. Embracing the journey towards transformation is a courageous step - one that takes immense strength and vulnerability. When seeking support along this path, it's vital to have a guide who understands the depths of your story, who can walk beside you through the shadows and the light.
As you move through your journey, I offer you a haven - a gentle sanctuary where your soul can find solace and your spirit can soar. Together we will cultivate the conditions to overcome stress, burnout and trauma.
I invite you to join me in this intuitive dance of healing, where each step breathes life into your inner strength and illuminates the path to self discovery.
Trust in the power of transformation that resides within you. Let us embark on this journey together and embrace the beauty of your growth and limitless potential that awaits. As your guide, I will offer you compassion, understanding and encouragement, while guiding you towards a brighter future full of growth, strength and resilience. Let's unleash your inner power!
welcome!
Certifications include:
~ Somatic Stress Release Practitioner
~ Trauma Informed Breathwork Facilitation
~ Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
~ Sexual Violence Crisis Counselling
~ Adult Survivors of Sexual Violence Counselling
~ Holistic Wellness & Life Coach
~ BellyFit Instructor
~ Dare to Lead Trained
* I am not a licensed psychologist or counsellor *
Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner, Holistic Wellness Coach and Movement Enthusiast
I am devoted to the study and practice of embodied, authentic and connected living. Supporting women while they return to their true and whole self. I have spent much time learning and focusing on sexual violence and the resulting trauma created.
Education & Learning
Deep dive into the real work. Getting my body, my intuition and my soul into alignment
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Moving to a new home - a mini-reset by purging and starting fresh
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Feeling empowered, free, strong and at ease. Coming in to my authentic and embodied self
03.
First vacation in a new romantic relationship. Staying in my self while being a part of two
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2015 - Recently divorced and working to find my way back to my true self
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The journey that brought me here.
THE timeline
Through many years of suppressing my own needs and living for other people, I have found my way back to ME. It has been a long and arduous journey of trauma, healing, setbacks, continuing to live in a state of overwhelm, exhaustion, a fluctuation of hyper- and hypo-arousal, and slowly putting myself together in order to allow for my needs to come first.
Ranging from sexual trauma, emotional abuse, abandonment, familial addictions and mental illness. These experiences resulted in significant health issues beginning as a young teen and continuing into the present. The majority of these issues surround my gut, and have led to being hospitalized every 1-2 years for over a decade. Other physical health issues include auto-immune conditions, epilepsy and experiencing multiple miscarriages. From a non-physical perspective there has been burnout and an inability to connect and to maintain relationships.
For me, healing was slow. Moving through divorce; time spent solely focusing on my children; beginning to set boundaries; eating healthier and starting to exercise; finding a loving partner; and finally quitting my corporate job of over 20 years. At this point, I had been a CEO for 4 years. With 17 locations and 160 people in 3 provinces. My final year of work was as Co-COO for a national company with 56 locations and over 700 people across Canada. Yet none of this was in alignment with who I wanted to be - who I knew I was.
The freedom I experienced at this point, was like no other. My body began to change, release, heal and align. Being immersed in learning somatics, trauma healing, breathwork, coaching, counselling and dance has made it so that living for myself was now an option.
Doing what I WANTED to do was now possible.
My journey has been long and slow with many, many steps backwards, while trying to navigate forward, towards the light. As I am able to look back, I didn't exactly know what that meant. What I did always know, was that there had to be a better way. That this was not what life had to be and there could and should be so much more love and joy to experience.
How Did I Get Here?
