From who I was supposed to be — to who I was meant to be.

Where it began

My path toward something different started in college, when I studied nutrition and dietetics. Through the work of Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, I discovered Intuitive Eating — and began, for the first time, to understand what it means to listen to your body rather than manage it. I learned to feel hunger. To feel fullness. To feel emotions I had been suppressing and ignoring for years. The idea that my body might actually carry wisdom, if only I could slow down enough to hear it, changed the direction of everything.

After seven years as a clinical dietitian — including running patient food service operations at a hospital — I went back to school for an MBA in organizational behavior. I wanted to understand what unlocks human potential at scale.

What I found in the corporate world was something I hadn't fully anticipated. Those years in HR, designing leadership and development programs, working across the US and in London, gave me a perspective most coaches don't have. I could see what happened to people when their environment nourished them — or slowly depleted them. And I was living it myself.

Somewhere in the middle of a promising career, I lost the thread back to myself. Work stopped being a calling and started becoming a job. The things that had once lit me up went quiet. For years I had designed and run high potential assessment programs — identifying the people in the organization most likely to rise, and building the systems to develop them. The quiet irony was that I was running those programs while slowly falling off my own internal list. I started questioning my own capabilities in ways I never had before — second-guessing contributions I would have made confidently a few years earlier, pulling back in meetings where I used to lean in. I went from feeling like someone with potential to feeling like someone going through the motions.

The anxiety that had always lived quietly underneath me began to surface in new ways — a nervous energy that would surge when I spoke up in rooms, a hypervigilance I couldn't turn off at the end of the day. I looked capable on the outside. On the inside, I was slowly losing access to myself.

I didn't have language for it then. What I know now is that I was living the Invisible Performer pattern — delivering consistently, quietly carrying more than anyone knew, and gradually dimming to protect myself from a disappointment I couldn't quite name.

The deeper work

Then I became a mother. And everything changed in ways I hadn't anticipated.

As I struggled to hold a full career while raising my children, the armor I'd spent a lifetime building began to crack. What emerged in that crack was something I hadn't expected: the beginning of real self-compassion. Not as a concept, but as a daily practice that slowly started to heal my relationship with myself.

That path led me to Internal Family Systems — IFS — where I discovered something that reordered everything I thought I knew. The parts of me I had spent years trying to suppress, outrun, or hide weren't flaws. They were protectors, doing their best to keep me safe in a world that had felt uncertain and overwhelming. Learning to meet them with curiosity instead of judgment, to understand them instead of fighting them, was the beginning of coming home to myself.

I studied the work of Dan Siegel — attachment theory, presence, the core human need to feel safe, seen, and soothed in moments of strong emotion. As I learned to parent my children with greater attunement, I was quietly re-parenting myself. And slowly, steadily, something I had never quite felt before began to emerge: a sense of being whole. Not because I had finally achieved enough. Not because I had fixed what was broken. Because I had reconnected with a part of myself that had always been there.

Now

I trained as a coach at the Jay Shetting Coaching School, the Pisgah Coaching Institute, and the Center for Healing and Awakening. I bring to this work everything I've lived: the clinical nutrition knowledge, the corporate and leadership perspective, the IFS lens, and the personal journey from anxious, over-achieving, and disconnected — to someone who has found her way home to herself.

My journey has been a slow and steady walk from stressed, stuck, and striving — to confident, courageous, and full of love for myself and deeper connection with others. That walk is what SPACES is built on.

I'm not here to give you a plan. I'm here to help you build the inner capacity to lead yourself in the moments that matter. The answers are already in you. My work is to help you hear them.