about
After my own life-altering medical setback began in 2011 I was left with the relentlessly repeating question:
Who am I now?
For me it has been a bittersweet, authentic, and inspiring experience of having an illness, and through it, discovering both my humanity and brilliance.
My mission has become to authentically inspire people who have experienced life-altering medical setbacks to gain perspective on their experience, both how it’s normal and unique, and, to make meaning of what happened, regain a relationship with their body, create new identity, and come out the other side more fearlessly human.
Through my personal life experience, and working with others, I believe that it is imperative to offer people coping with chronic and life-threatening dis-ease an option for deepening, rather than escaping, their relationship with body, mind, spirit, and community.
My vision is for people who have experienced life-altering medical setbacks to integrate their full body/mind experience, including: grieving the loss of their former identity, working with the concepts of illness and health, recognizing the impact of stress, living with uncertainty, finding their empowered selves, realizing the challenging and joyful experiences, claiming self-care, and cultivating awareness of post-traumatic growth.
I am a LPCC body-oriented psychotherapist, speaker, trainer, consultant, writer, performer, and catalyst.
I am encouraging people to re-discover and re-create the inner badass that has been in hibernation through illness, and is ready to emerge with #jazzhands!
Who am I now?
For me it has been a bittersweet, authentic, and inspiring experience of having an illness, and through it, discovering both my humanity and brilliance.
My mission has become to authentically inspire people who have experienced life-altering medical setbacks to gain perspective on their experience, both how it’s normal and unique, and, to make meaning of what happened, regain a relationship with their body, create new identity, and come out the other side more fearlessly human.
Through my personal life experience, and working with others, I believe that it is imperative to offer people coping with chronic and life-threatening dis-ease an option for deepening, rather than escaping, their relationship with body, mind, spirit, and community.
My vision is for people who have experienced life-altering medical setbacks to integrate their full body/mind experience, including: grieving the loss of their former identity, working with the concepts of illness and health, recognizing the impact of stress, living with uncertainty, finding their empowered selves, realizing the challenging and joyful experiences, claiming self-care, and cultivating awareness of post-traumatic growth.
I am a LPCC body-oriented psychotherapist, speaker, trainer, consultant, writer, performer, and catalyst.
I am encouraging people to re-discover and re-create the inner badass that has been in hibernation through illness, and is ready to emerge with #jazzhands!
does this feel true for you? ~
If so, take a breath. You’re normal. You’re having a normal reaction to abnormal and possibly life-threatening circumstances, and it makes sense that you’re reacting the way that you are. You’re both unique and human. And, the answers and meaning you seek, are inside of you.
Chronic illness is all about relationship. With your illness, your body, your mind, those you love, and the meaning of it all. And you get to be curious about the meaning and interpretation of your illness, and how it applies to both your everyday life and the empowered person you want to become.
Medical setbacks always suck, but sometimes they're also our initiation.
Chronic illness is all about relationship. With your illness, your body, your mind, those you love, and the meaning of it all. And you get to be curious about the meaning and interpretation of your illness, and how it applies to both your everyday life and the empowered person you want to become.
Medical setbacks always suck, but sometimes they're also our initiation.
