Forged in the Fire

My life unraveled through many initiations.  Motherhood, grief, illness, loss, and awakening but each one was preparing me for the work I now hold. The first crack appeared the moment I became a mother.  Three weeks after the birth of my first born son in the spring of 2013, I was laid off from my job and my successful professional career in the corporate world - over. Overnight, the life I thought I was building shifted. I went from career woman to full-time mother, and although I had believed I could hold both roles, life began dismantling the identity I had built around work and productivity. In hindsight, this was the beginning of my great unbecoming. ​Two years later, life brought deeper initiations. While seven months pregnant with my second son, my older brother died in a tragic hiking accident. Grief, pregnancy, and profound change collided at once. We moved homes just one month before my youngest was born, my husband started a new job and could not take paternity leave, and my own health began to decline. With two small children, postpartum blues, and physical exhaustion, I entered a season many describe as the dark night of the soul. It was overwhelming, and for the first time in my life I knew I could not continue doing life the same way yet I didn't know where to turn.  As it goes, a divinely timed conversation with a loved one led me to begin a daily meditation practice that I feel  literally saved my life at that time.   I realized it was ok to take time daily to care for myself and that realization began my search for healing. I started meditating daily, simply learning to come back to my center one breath at a time. I had been studying natural remedies, but I dove into emotional healing, and holistic approaches to health because I wanted a different way of caring for my children and myself. What began as personal healing soon became a deep path of study, reflection, and inner work. Then a house fire changed everything. ​That experience became the catalyst for a profound spiritual awakening. My life began unfolding in ways I could never have imagined. I connected with mentors, spiritual healers, and teachers across the globe. I studied emotional healing modalities, ancient practices, stone medicine, and the deeper spiritual traditions that eventually shaped the work I hold today. Along this path I began experiencing the presence of spiritual allies -angels, dragons, and the living intelligence of sacred stones—who became powerful guides in the transformational work I now share with others. ​What I discovered through all of these initiations was this: I was not here to be a victim of my life circumstances. I was here to remember that I am a soul having a human experience. The challenges I faced were not random misfortunes—they were preparing me for the work I am now called to hold. ​Because of that dark time after the birth of my youngest son I began studying emotional healing techniques and became certified as a practitioner. At the time, I thought I would simply offer that one modality to support others in their healing. I had no idea that it would become the first doorway into a much deeper body of work that now includes many tools, traditions, and sacred allies. ​Today, the work I hold with women is rooted in those experiences. I guide women through their own corridors of transformation—the seasons when life begins to unravel so that something truer can emerge. ​Because sometimes the moments that break us open are the very moments that prepare us to step into who we were always meant to become.