About Me

The Journey Home

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I created Wholly Woman because I grew tired of hearing the same stories that fed a perpetual search for healing. As I've grown to know myself, my life experiences, and my purpose better, I craved to gather around different stories—stories that spoke of the female initiations I was living, stories that oriented me to the powerful opportunities life was offering. Opportunities that required me to let go of ideas of wrongness and brokenness, and instead gather with women to share each facet of our experience and begin to see the beauty and wholeness within.

But this knowing didn't come easily. It was forged through fire.

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The Early Years

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Growing up in a chaotic family, I developed an autoimmune disease at 13 years old. My body was speaking, but I didn't yet know how to listen.

I decided to move away right after college and joined corporate America as a financial auditor. At 22, I became pregnant with twins. Disenfranchised from my original family, my then-partner and I decided to marry and start our family. I had just said yes to one of the deepest initiations I would ever receive: the path of motherhood.

This didn't start with rainbows and unicorns.

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The Breaking Open

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At 31 weeks, my body went into labor. While the team of doctors and hospital staff tried to placate all the risks of birth at 31 weeks, I saw my voice, my body reduced to a statistic. My twins were in delicate condition, and so started my journey into motherhood with confusion and disorientation as I had to head home without my babies.

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Three years later, I would find myself doing it all over again—but this time I had done the homework. I understood the risks, I understood what I would need support with, and surrounded myself with a fantastic, supportive team of midwives and doulas. Surrounded by love, at home, my youngest was born.

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It was during that birth that I faced the inner predator for the very first time. A cruel, relentless voice that bound me tight into other people's perceptions of me. Every moan, every cry for relief was met with agonizing criticism and disdain. I couldn't believe I had just triumphed over the most important challenge of my life—safely bringing my baby earthside, at home, after a cesarean section—and it was met with such cold criticism and shame. I thought I would feel whole after that experience, but instead, I had descended deeper into myself, meeting my own inner predator at my most vulnerable and triumphant moment yet.

 

The Journey Back In

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The journey back in has been the story of my life. Through relationships, marriage, mothering, divorce, co-parenting, work, searching for purpose, and healing my body—they have all been fires that forged my soul.

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Yoga, meditation, prayer, and embodied movement showed me a way back into connection with my own experience. It revealed the oneness of my embodied experience with that of my soul's path. They are one and the same. And this body that once seemed to be an obstacle, or the symbol of my brokenness, became the unconditional partner to my soul.

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Four years of Vision Quest with the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan taught me simple, yet deep understandings about how life is organized, our purpose in life, and how to walk our lives in harmony and in peace with all that is.

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Authentic Relating gave me tools to track and bring my own inner experience into relationship, empowering me to know myself more deeply and reveal my experience to others in the name of connection.

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Becoming a Jungian Coach through Creative Mind helped me access the wisdom and stores of energy hidden behind my shadow, recognize central themes in my own life through dreamwork, myths, and fairytales, and reignite the creative fire in my life.

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What I Offer

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I'm a Trauma-Informed Jungian Coach, an Authentic Relating Facilitator, and a Reiki Level II Practitioner. I have studied the Enneagram, Ayurveda, Resonant Language, Reichian Body Structures, and the Freeman Development and Attachment Model.

But more than my credentials, what matters is this: I know what it's like to live at war with yourself. And I know what it takes to come home.

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My Wish for You

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I want you to know that no matter how difficult your journey has been, you are not broken.

 

Once we learn to honor our bodies, recognize the themes at play in our lives, and reconnect with the creative fire of our souls, there is nothing we cannot walk through.

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Not because it won't be hard. But because we'll finally be walking as ourselves.

We may start with a myth, but we always land it in the practicality of living fully embodied, in love with how we move through life.

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Work With Me

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Wholly Woman — Monthly membership exploring myth, embodiment, and feminine initiation
Body as Soul — 3-month 1:1 coaching package
The Art of Being Seen & Heard — In-person Authentic Relating workshops in Annapolis, MD and in the Washington DC area.

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Based in Southern Maryland, serving women globally.