August 2009. I was standing in the park, unstrapping my six-month-old from his carrier, handing him over to my husband. I was crying before I even got to work.
We’d repeated that handoff countless times that year. The market had crashed in 2008. My husband closed his business to stay home with our son, and I went back to work as the stable earner. On paper, everything made perfect sense. I didn’t feel that way at all.
My husband said something that day I didn’t want to hear: this unhappiness is in me. I’d take it to a new job, a new house, even if our roles reversed. I resisted that. I wanted the fix to come from the outside – the next job, the next move, the next thing that would finally make it different. Would finally make my life feel at ease, content, at peace.
It didn’t happen all at once. For six to nine months, a little nugget of insight, and then another, and then another – until I was standing in front of a door with a giant question over it: what if things could be different? I walked through it.
That’s the beginning of the work I do now. Not helping women discard who they are, but helping them reveal who they are underneath – the parts that are honest, steady, and already there once the noise clears. My baseline today doesn’t run from hard days. It grabs them, often with curiosity, knowing the wisdom from that challenge is already on its way.
My path includes an ICF Health & Life Coach certification through the Health Coach Institute, ERYT 300 & RYT 500 through JaiPure Yoga under master teachers Amba Wallace and Satya Riggiola, spiritual study under Reverend Jaganath Carrera (Guruji), and training as a Reiki Master. I’m the founder of Sattva Rising, where I now work with women through a free Clarity Call – a short, no-pressure conversation to understand your pattern and what change could realistically look like for you.
Beyond coaching, I’m a wife and a mom of two teen boys. You’ll usually find me outdoors, hiking, behind a camera, or getting outvoted at home by a dog, a snake, and a bird – all of whom I love anyway.
