About me
As a coach, I help people reconnect with their innate knowing, sometimes referred to as Self, intuition, gut feeling or interoception (for scientifically minded folks). My clients learn to recognize this innate knowing by reconnecting with their body’s sensations. They begin to trust these messages and observe when they are overridden by their reasoning mind. In our sessions, we often question cultural norms, social and familial expectations, and our own limiting beliefs. This work leads people towards their aligned, purpose-filled life and away from feeling lost, dissatisfied, and purposeless.
I experienced these feelings myself starting in 2018 and things came to a peak in 2020. I began looking for a therapist, and my search led to my first coach, Janet Lovegrove. Janet guided me through a program called Life Process Transformation (created by Viola Fiodor, former psychotherapist and wellness educator). Those were the most impactful six months of my life. I went from crying in the first sessions, not knowing what I was doing with my life, and feeling alone, to reconnecting with my creativity, movement, curiousity, and Self. The most impactful change was my move from the city to living with the trees, rocks, and water I love. I bought a house I knew in my body was “home” the moment I walked through the door. I’ve continued to work with other coaches, doing the work to reconnect and trust my own innate knowing.
My curiousity always leads me to a desire to understand “why” and share information with other folks. This led me to join Martha Beck’s Wayfinder Life Coach training in 2022. I’m currently in the final steps for certification and will complete them early 2024. The Wayfinder process aligns with my own experiences with coaching. It’s based in the belief that each individual has the answers within themselves, it’s a matter of reconnecting to our innate knowing/Self through mind-body awareness. It’s my role, as coach, to partner with my clients, ask questions and provide tools, like the body compass, to reconnect them with their innate knowing and realize what’s true for them.
When I’m not learning, you’ll find me following my own mind-body awareness. Doing the activities that energize me, in my favourite environments. Most often that includes being outside (camping, swimming, reading, walking with my Golden Retriever), doing something creative (writing, photography, needlework), traveling and supporting my nieces and nephews as they grow up.
“These deepest desires may not noisily announce themselves. They may appear as nothing more than a vague impulse, a feeling you can’t quite settle into, a shapeless longing that takes the form of dissatisfaction and the vague suspicion that there has to be something more. These desires may seem mysterious or confusing, contradictory or impossible at first.”
