For over a decade, I devoted myself to improving my health, mindset, and daily habits. I did everything “right.” The routines. The discipline. The personal growth checklists.
And still, I didn’t feel at home in my own mind or body.
The truth is, I was living from the outside in—chasing stability, achievement, and approval, hoping they’d quiet something deeper. They didn’t. What I didn’t yet understand was that old patterns, unconscious beliefs, and survival strategies were still running the show. (And sometimes, they still do.)
Everything began to change when I stopped striving and turned inward—toward the nervous system, emotional wounds, and long-held stories I’d never questioned. For the first time in years, I felt something unfamiliar: peace.
After retiring from a 25+ year corporate career in 2019, that inner work intensified. On the outside, my life looked successful and settled. Inside, I was unraveling. I was in my fourth marriage—something I share without shame—and despite appearing happy, I felt unseen, disconnected, and emotionally alone.
A solo trip to Sedona became a turning point. It cracked open the life I had carefully constructed and began a slow, honest reckoning with who I was beneath the roles I’d learned to perform.
That journey led me deep into trauma-informed training, holistic health, yoga, Ayurveda, somatic work, and nervous-system regulation. I became a board-certified, trauma-informed health coach not to reinvent myself professionally, but to understand myself more fully. That work reshaped me—and it continues to inform everything I create.
Somewhere along the way, another truth emerged: I needed to write.
Not self-help. Not advice. But stories—novels that hold up a mirror to the inner lives so many people are quietly navigating. Stories that explore conditioning, self-abandonment, healing, and what happens when we finally stop performing.
Today, I write, speak, and share stories—on the page, on stage, and in conversation. My work blends lived experience, psychological insight, and narrative depth to invite self-awareness and reconnection.
At the heart of everything I do is a single question:
What becomes possible when we stop trying to be enough—and finally come home to ourselves?
