I came to this work the long way around
Thirty-five years in financial services leadership. Twenty-five years of yoga. Raising children, and navigating divorce, empty nest and a career reinvention of my own somewhere along the way.
This is the story of how the threads of my life became one, and why I spend my days now helping other women weave their own.
01 | THE YEARS THAT BUILT ME
I loved my career, and I loved being a mother.
For most of my children's lives, I was always in motion. Between the office, the kids' activities, the dinner that still needed to happen — there was no zone that wasn't asking something of me. The career was demanding. The children were young, and they needed me. My marriage ended somewhere in the middle of all of it. Most of the time, I made it look like I was handling it.
The career taught me how to lead organizations through change, manage global teams, and stay steady when the markets weren't. What it couldn't teach me was how to know when my own steadiness was costing me.
I learned how to perform. I learned how to keep going. Most of all, I learned how to push through the kind of tired that doesn't go away on a weekend or a vacation. What I didn't learn was how to know when pushing through had become its own problem.
02 | WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN THEN
The lie I was sold was that the burnout was the price of admission.
For a long time, I believed the exhaustion was just what it cost to do all of it well. I held high standards for the career and high standards for being a mom. I assumed that if I could just become more efficient — better systems, earlier mornings, fewer dropped balls — the strain would eventually ease. It never did.
The patterns underneath weren't time management problems. They were people-pleasing and perfectionism, dressed up as competence, and I was running them on autopilot. They were quietly costing me — my health and the version of myself I wanted to bring to the people I loved.
What I wish I had known is that boundaries aren’t selfish. My needs aren’t negotiable. The version of me running on fumes wasn't the strongest version of me. None of that was easy to see, and it took me a long time to realize.
My analytical brain and my inner wisdom weren't in conflict.
They were pointing at the same thing, from different angles.
Tree pose | Trolltunga, Hardanger, Norway
03 | WHAT I CAME TO UNDERSTAND
Yoga had been quietly working on me for twenty-five years.
I started practicing yoga in my early career, mostly for the fitness and the relaxation. From the very first class, something else was happening — but I didn't have language for it then. I just knew I felt different on the mat than I did anywhere else. Meditation came in and out of my life over those years, with some seasons of practice and some seasons of nothing.
Then I hit a stretch when nothing was working. The anxiety wouldn't quiet. The overwhelm had become a kind of weather. I had built a rich life by every external measure, and I couldn't find my way out of my own head.
Mindfulness meditation is what changed the trajectory. It changed my relationship to my own thoughts, and it changed which ones I believed. Jud Brewer's book Unwinding Anxiety gave me language for what was happening in my brain and a framework for what to do about it. The rumination loop I had lived inside for years finally began to loosen.
What I'd thought of as "me" turned out to be patterns. And patterns can change.
Once I had experienced the change in myself, I wanted to be able to offer it to other women. Not as someone who'd read about it, but as someone trained to actually do this work. I pursued certifications in coaching, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and yoga. I even found Jud and have taken a couple of his trainings on habit change. Because doing the work yourself is one thing and meeting another person where they are is something else entirely. The training matters.
04 | THE WORK NOW
I work primarily with high-achieving women in transition.
I bring the analytical rigor of the career, the years of contemplative practice, and the insight and compassion of having walked through real transitions of my own.
The women I work best with are thoughtful and ready for some honest work. They're looking for a coach who can hold the analytical and the intuitive sides of them at once, and help them design what comes next on their own terms.
If that sounds like you, I'd love to hear from you.
A complimentary 30-minute call is a good place to start. No pitch, no pressure. Just a real conversation about where you are now and where you want to be.