About Me
My Recovery Journey
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I have battled with alcohol use disorder for the majority of my adult life and began my recovery journey in 1993. Following a family intervention, I began my recovery in a 12-step program and gained much insight about my addiction. While I stayed sober for 8 years, beyond abstinence from alcohol, nothing much changed in my life. When I relapsed in 2001, I quickly returned right back to where I had been 8 years before: consumed with drinking. In 2012, I entered rehab and participated in an 8-week outpatient program, and found sobriety again. My half-hearted effort at recovery lasted 16 months; I relapsed again and continued drinking until I could no longer bear the weight of the shame associated with what I was doing...shame from years of lying to and deceiving everyone, most of all myself. In a last-ditch effort for my life, I reached out for help from my sisters. With divine intervention and deep-down courage, I found myself in rehab once again. I committed to a 90 day residential program in a Christian Women's drug and alcohol treatment facility. It was there that I found my way home...home to myself, home to my knowing, home to who I was created to be. Those 90 days stretched to almost two years; I was finally on firm footing. To say that I was changed is a woefully inadequate understatement; I was revived, redeemed, restored, reborn. And I had uncovered my life's calling: to serve other women, both cis and transgendered, as well as non-binary individuals who align with women's communities to seek what I had found.
In my coaching I work to create spaces where connection, authenticity, and healing unfold naturally. II gently encourage my clients to discover the courage to be vulnerable, to explore the shadowed corners of their hearts, and to reconnect with their authentic selves. I work to offer gentle and steady guidance to help my clients to challenge long-held limiting beliefs and to see their own light—often for the very first time. Through individual and group coaching sessions, I work to create transformative experiences where my clients feel truly seen, heard, and held exactly as they are. My work has been described as "the missing puzzle piece" in recovery journeys—the element that helps us move beyond stuck places into genuine healing.