I’m the self-development coach for uncategorizable people craving an on-purpose life

We’re on the path together.

I’m here to help you learn to work with—not against—your innate gifts so you can boldly imagine and then create a life that you love. 

…That little blurb sounds nice, right? 

The truth is, it took me a long time to get here (fellow late bloomers to the front!).

I spent most of my life talking myself out of all the things that lit me up, making decisions based on what I thought was smart or pragmatic instead. 

I told myself that someday, I’d pursue what I really wanted. At the same time, it had become increasingly obvious that my go-to coping mechanism—alcohol—was no longer offering me relief. 

You can probably guess how that story continued: all those wants and desires stayed crowding every available back-burner, and all that alcohol started taking more than it was giving. 

I found myself in my early 30s with a graduate degree, a hell of a lot of debt, and an increasingly sinking feeling as my peers kept hitting all those milestones I was trained to want while I sat there, wondering why everyone else seemed to have figured out how to be in the world while I was barely treading water.

The plot twist I most definitely did not see coming was that, about six months after I’d decided to quit drinking, a wild little window opened in my brain. I saw that all those things that I so desperately wanted for myself—all those big, audacious goals and desires and access to a meaningful, on-purpose life—might actually become possible because of my choice to quit, not in spite of it.

And now, as an Integral Coach, it is my utter privilege and delight to walk by your side as you do the same.

Working together 1:1 or in community, we nurture supportive practices so that we can sustain ourselves through the long game of healing, self-discovery, deprogramming social constructs, dismantling harmful systems, choosing things that make us feel better rather than worse, navigating all the things life will inevitably throw our way, and, most important of all, cultivating a world that works for all of us.

I believe COMMUNITY is essential

Genuine belonging changes everything. Being met with care and love is deeply healing and the best antidote to shame. Receiving compassion helps you freely give it to others and then, slowly but surely, offer it to yourself. (Plus, connecting to others is a great source of joy and fun.)

I believe REBELLIOUSNESS is visionary

It’s rebellious to choose to explore beyond the confines of “shoulds.” It’s rebellious to stay an oddball, to choose the margins over the generic middle path. It’s rebellious to choose liberation from drinking, or a career that doesn’t feel right anymore, or the expectation of marriage and children. It’s rebellious to choose to be present, to stay engaged with the hard stuff, to resist the urge to numb out and distract.

I believe we all deserve EASE

There is no point in doing the painstaking work of changing our lives if we don’t start to feel better and to experience more joy, goodness, and pleasure. There’s also no point in doing the work if we’re only ever living from our mind, rather than feeling fully embodied in the present moment. These are your precious days. You can learn to savor them.

I believe in the power of PRACTICE

Creating nourishing routines and rituals and devoting ourselves to them is how we fall in love with life. In order to change and grow, we have to make the process the goal and find our steadiness on the path. It’s about consistency over perfection.

I believe in the wild possibilities of CREATIVITY

Everything that exists today started inside someone’s imagination. Creating a new life and designing a future that aligns with your values begins with being able to imagine something different. And the practice of creating, just for the sake of making, for the joy of your craft or the wildness of self-expression, is life-giving.