After years of investing in self-development and inner healing work, I was drawn to coaching. Despite my increasing knowledge in these areas, I reached a point where I needed further help and knew, most likely, others did too. I was determined to move forward with my life and gain the skills to take others with me; I received my certification with The Life Coach School in March 2020.

Most recently, in May 2023, I received my Change Coach Certification through the Little School of Big Change.

Through coach training, I discovered coaching helps one discern how their thinking dictates their outcomes in life. Coaching deals with the daily minutiae keeping us stuck while empowering us toward future desires. However, most traditional counseling deals with our past, and I was more than ready to be free of my past, which is why coaching appealed to me.

You see, as a child, I experienced inappropriate sexualization. As a result, I have spent a lifetime coping with the ensuing mental challenges from this trauma. Shame, self-loathing, guilt, rejection, and fear were the primary emotions plaguing me most of my life. I have spent a lifetime using food to insulate me from the pain and further sexual advances. Years later, after my husband's life-altering accident, which left him with a traumatic brain injury, in addition to the food, I began to use alcohol excessively to numb myself when I failed to recognize the deep grief I was experiencing due to the devastating changes in our life.

Deep down, I knew my brain was holding me back from achieving what I wanted most-living the abundant life God promises, free from the bondage of food, alcohol, and the emotions controlling my circumstances. Learning how the brain is always trying to protect us, to help us seek pleasure and avoid pain, all with the least effort, helped me see how my brain was hijacking my best intentions.
Coaching taught me how to use the power of rewiring my brain to create the desired changes. I have learned to choose what thoughts serve me to free myself from self-limiting beliefs. I have learned to love, accept, embrace my uniqueness, and be kind to myself by giving myself grace through the transformation journey.

I am thrilled to say I am alcohol-free as of April 25, 2022. I was beginning to think I was hopeless, but I needed someone who believed in me to help me feel I was worth fighting for. My relationship with food has taken a bit longer to reconcile. But then, my food and body issues stemmed from early childhood, most likely requiring a bit more rewiring of neural pathways. However, I have recently had some insight that is not taught by the current diet culture; (BTW, the diet industry is a $71 billion dollar-a-year business capitalizing on your thinking,) which I believe will finally bring me to a place of peace and contentment with the body God purposely designed for me.

I finally realized I am not broken and never have been; my thinking was flawed. It wasn't the food making me fat; it was my thoughts about myself and the food. I continued to believe the lies childhood bullies and diet culture had told me. I now know that my future is bright, yes, there will be challenges, but I am equipped to navigate the storms of life as I embrace the truth of my innate wholeness.

After experiencing the transformative power of changing my thought life, I am passionate about helping others escape their limited thinking and discover their innate wholeness and well-being. Especially those who have experienced sexual trauma, alcohol abuse, abortion, and relationship challenges (I am now a caregiver to my husband due to his brain injury) and are seeking to be delivered from the lies telling them they are alone and broken beyond repair.

I want you to know that you are not broken. In fact, God tells us in the Bible that you are perfectly and wonderfully made; you have no flaws. I would be honored to partner with you and help you discover your innate well-being, facilitating your personal transformation and empowering you to find your wings and soar to freedom.