When I was 15,
She told me I wouldn't live a long life. She told me not to have children. With a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis in hand, she handed me a future of fear — and sent me home to live inside it.
I believed it for a long time. It kept me small. It kept me hidden. It built a ceiling I couldn't see but could always feel.
Then I went on to have two children. One at thirty — an age the doctor had made feel like borrowed time. Both just fine. Both a living refusal of the story she handed me.
That doctor gave me something, though. She taught me — viscerally, in my body — what it feels like to have your power stripped by someone else's story. And she made me utterly committed to making sure no woman I work with ever stays inside a story that was never hers to begin with.
"I never want a woman to have her power stripped from her. To stay small because someone else's story had more authority than her own truth."
I gave 16 years to nursing.
I loved the work of healing. I did not love what the system did to the healers. I watched nurses run themselves into the ground while patients became numbers. I watched the humanity get squeezed out of a profession that required it most. And I felt what it does to your spirit when the institution you're serving stops seeing you.
Then I had an experience that cracked everything open. A cyst on my ovary. Energy work done. It was gone. I couldn't unfeel what that meant — that the body holds more than medicine acknowledges, that healing runs deeper than protocol, that there was a whole territory of transformation being left untouched.
In 2014, I left. Not because I gave up on healing — but because I refused to do it the way that had stopped working. I left to do healthcare differently. To bring the depth back. To help women access what institutions never could.
Life and business.
The magical and the practical.
I help women see their golden shadow — the brilliant, powerful parts of themselves they've been taught to hide — and then build a life and business that actually reflects who they are. Visibility isn't a strategy. It's an inside job. And it requires going somewhere most coaches won't take you.
Jungian Shadow Work
The golden shadow holds your most magnetic, powerful, and authentic qualities — the ones you've been taught to suppress. Reclaiming them isn't just healing. It's the fastest path to genuine visibility.
IFS & Parts Work
The parts of you that stay small, stay hidden, or stay stuck aren't enemies. They're protectors. Understanding what they're protecting — and what they're ready to release — is where the real shift lives.
Somatic & Intuition Work
Your body knows what your mind is still arguing about. Somatic attunement and intuition development open the layer beneath the story — where the actual change happens and sticks.
Projection Mapping as a Visibility Tool
What activates you in others is a direct map to your own disowned power. I use projection mapping to turn your relational triggers into a precision tool for reclaiming exactly what you've been taught to hide.
The depth behind
the work
Shadow Coach & Co-Founder — Shadow Coaching Institute (SCI). Advanced shadow work methodology, projection mapping, and the Shadow Transformation Process.
16 Years in Nursing — RN with a front-row seat to how institutions fail healers, and what genuine healing actually requires.
IFS-Informed Practitioner — Parts work and Internal Family Systems applied to visibility, business, and deep identity transformation.
Somatic & Energy Practitioner — Body-based work, intuition development, and energy medicine woven into every process.
Business Strategist for Women Entrepreneurs — The practical architecture of building a visible, profitable business — integrated with the shadow work that makes it sustainable.
The first conversation costs nothing.
Bring what's actually happening — not the cleaned-up version. That's where the real work starts.