MY STORY
THE VERY ABRIDGED VERSION OF
Heart-on-fire creative.
Wife, mom, & coach.
I grew up west of Sydney, Australia, a sensitive, imaginative kid with big dreams and a clothesline out the back. I built a career in graphic design and eventually ran my own branding and web business. From the outside, life looked full and successful.
But inside, there was an unrest, a sense of never quite being at home in the life I was building.
After the birth of my second child and a move to California, I entered a season of deep unraveling. The strategies that had always kept me moving, achievement, busyness, striving, slowly stopped working, and as they did, old wounds surfaced and burnout caught up with me. I found myself collapsing under the weight of it all, and it felt devastating.
What I could not see then was that this breaking point would become the beginning of something beautiful.
In the years that followed, I stopped trying to fix myself and began learning how to build safety instead. I unlearned old paradigms, explored therapeutic work, developed new skills, and slowly rebuilt my life from the inside out. Along the way, I learned how to stay present, expand my capacity for intimacy, and stop abandoning myself.
Today, the work I offer comes from lived, embodied experience. It is the hardest and most meaningful work I have ever done, and it feels deeply aligned. It is not work I expect to ever complete, and I am grateful for that. To be human and settled into this journey feels like home.
Learning to Stay
I remember sitting on the living room floor a couple of years after we moved to California. The house was quiet. The tops of the trees outside caught the light as it filtered through the wide windows. In the stillness, I could not stop crying.
Something had cracked open in me. What began as grief felt like something much larger, an ocean I had been outrunning for most of my life.
For years I had stayed busy. I had built, achieved, produced. I told myself it was passion and purpose. But sitting there in that unfamiliar calm, I began to see that much of my striving had been a way to escape an inner world that felt too heavy to face.
Nothing changed overnight. But somewhere in the middle of those tears, as the light and shadowy leaves danced across that spacious room, I felt a humble shift. A gentle invitation to stop running. To sit. To soften. To begin, gently, to stay.
If this moment resonates, you can read more of my story here.
An invitation.
To stop running.
MY AREA OF FOCUS
EMBODIED RELATIONSHIP & NERVOUS SYSTEM COACH, TRAUMA-INFORMED
My story is the foundation of my work today.
I support women who are ready to move beyond fixing and toward resourcing, building nervous system safety, cultivating honest intimacy, and learning to stay present with themselves and their relationships, even when things feel tender or complex.
I specialize in coaching women in connection, with a focus on marriage, motherhood, and embodied living. Through the lens of nervous system health and relational attunement, this work supports how we show up in our homes, navigate repair, and gradually rebuild from the inside out, beyond traditional talk therapy.
Come my darling.
Lay down your weary soul.
This work supports women experiencing burnout, overwhelm, relational strain, chronic stress, anxiety, anger, numbness, dissociation, or feeling stuck. Together we explore these experiences within the realities of marriage and motherhood, focusing on inner safety, reparenting, and how our nervous systems influence connection and response.
My approach gently supports you in noticing and loosening patterns and coping strategies that no longer serve you, creating space for steadiness, presence, and meaningful connection.
This space is best for women drawn to connection, repair, and staying engaged in their relationships. If that doesn’t feel aligned right now, that’s okay. If something in you is curious about what might be possible, even in difficult seasons, you’re warmly invited to explore ways we might work together, starting with a free discovery call.
“I no longer feel hijacked by my triggers. My nervous system feels safer, and there is more intimacy and softness in my relationship. Most importantly, I feel a grounded hope that healing is possible.”
–– PRIVATE COACHING CLIENT
About This Work
At its core, this work rests on a simple but profound foundation.
I help you cultivate a felt sense of safety in the body so that real choice can emerge. You will learn how to stay present with what arises, rather than overriding or abandoning your experience.
It is not about fixing yourself, performing regulation, or forcing trust, forgiveness, or connection before your system is ready. Change unfolds here through presence, attunement, and capacity building, not pressure or control.
I Invite you.
To work with me.
Who this work is for
This work is for women who are self-aware, feel the tension between wanting connection and needing self-protection, and are no longer satisfied with choosing one over the other.
It’s for women who sense that something meaningful is possible in their marriage, even when it feels activating, confusing, or hard.
This work may be a fit if you:
Love your partner and still feel dysregulated, distant, reactive, or shut down
Are tired of analyzing your patterns and want support that reaches your body and your real relationships
Want to stay in relationship without abandoning yourself or suppressing your needs
Desire deeper repair, intimacy, and emotional safety over time
Want to model presence, repair, and inner authority for your children
Are willing to move slowly, build capacity, and let change emerge through lived experience
This work supports women who want to remain in relationship with agency rather than obligation.
Who this work is not for
This work may not be a fit if you are:
Looking for strategies to fix, manage, or change other people
Wanting certainty, outcomes, or answers without engaging in the process
Seeking relief through premature positivity or rushing toward forgiveness before integration
In a relationship that is currently unsafe and requires immediate protective or crisis support
Not open to exploring how your own nervous system shapes your relational experience
Looking for traditional talk therapy or support focused primarily on cognitive analysis without embodied exploration
This work is not about enduring harm, denying reality, or staying at all costs.
It is about building the internal and relational resources that make conscious, sustainable choice possible.
This work is an invitation and if it resonates, you’ll likely feel a sense of recognition rather than urgency.
