THE VERY ABRIDGED VERSION OF
MY STORY
Wife, mom, & coach.
Heart-on-fire creative.
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. 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 meet myself with more care and support. I unlearned old paradigms, explored therapeutic work, developed new relational and somatic skills, and slowly fell in love with my life from the inside out. Along the way, I discovered how to stay present, expand my capacity for uncertainty, deepen intimacy, and honor my feminine energy.
The work I offer today has grown from this lived experience and the training that helped me understand it. It is the most meaningful work I have ever done, and it feels deeply aligned with who I am. It is also work I continue to live and practice. I do not expect to ever complete it, and I am grateful for that. To be human and settled into this lifelong 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.
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An invitation.
To stop running.
TRAUMA-TRAINED
MY AREA OF FOCUS
EMBODIED RELATIONSHIP COACH &
SOMATIC PRACTITIONER
My story is the foundation of my work today.
I specialize in helping women build nervous system capacity and relational skills for marriage, motherhood, and embodied living. My approach blends somatic practice with relational and intimacy skills applied through a trauma-informed lens.
Together, we practice caring for your needs, honoring your limits and desires, and bringing more respect, receptivity, vulnerability, and connection into your closest relationships. We explore how to stay present when things feel tender, navigate rupture and repair, and lead with softness while remaining connected to yourself.
This is where insight becomes something you can live and embody in your home, your relationships, and your everyday life.
Come my darling.
Lay down your weary soul.
This work supports women experiencing burnout, overwhelm, relational strain, chronic stress, anxiety, anger, numbness, or feeling stuck, especially when these patterns begin shaping how they feel within themselves, their marriages, and motherhood.
Together, we build the nervous system capacity and relational skills to meet these moments differently. We bring compassion to the protective patterns that have shaped your responses, while practicing new ways of caring for your needs, honoring your limits and desires, releasing control, and creating more intimacy and connection in the relationships you love.
This space is especially supportive for women who want to nurture their marriages and families while remaining deeply connected to themselves. If you recognize yourself here, you’re warmly invited to explore how we might work together.
“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 is about building the capacity to stay connected to yourself and the people you love.
Together, we bring somatic practice and relational skills into the moments where stress, old patterns, and protective responses tend to take over. You learn to listen to your body, care for your needs, honor your limits and desires, and practice new ways of relating with respect, receptivity, vulnerability, and choice.
As these practices become more embodied, there is greater room for presence, trust, intimacy, and genuine connection to grow.
I Invite you.
To work with me.
Who this work is for
This work is for women who love their families and want to nurture the relationships they have, while becoming more deeply connected to themselves.
It is for the self-aware woman who understands many of her patterns, yet still finds herself anxious, overwhelmed, reactive, shut down, or reaching for control when life feels tender.
This work may be for you if you:
Love your husband and want to experience more intimacy, respect, softness, and connection in your marriage
Want to care for your needs, honor your limits and express your desires without trying to manage the people around you
Are tired of analyzing yourself and want practices you can feel and use in your everyday life
Want to choose connection over control in motherhood and model the qualities you hope to nurture in your children
Are learning to trust your husband’s way of fathering and soften the pressure to hold everything yourself
Are open to building capacity gradually through somatic practice, relational skills, and lived experience
If you recognize yourself here, I’d love to support you in building more connection with yourself, greater intimacy in your marriage, and more capacity for the life you are already building.
