There are many ways I can describe myself.

The more straightforward ways include:   Woman. Daughter. Sister. Friend. Professional coach and mentor. Facilitator. Lifelong learner. Gardener. Weekend Artist.

Then, there are the more colorful, authentic-feeling ways I can describe myself:  Soul-Centered Coach. Animist. Dream Worker. Artist of Life.

My path to where I am today has been a long and winding one, not at all clear cut or linear, as I once thought paths were supposed to be.

Today, what I know about living a life that’s true to oneself is that it’s much more like this:

…a scribbly, messy, perfectly imperfect trail that wanders here and there, to and fro, over all kinds of terrain. It’s a path full of uncertainty and doubt. Glorious successes and some messy failures. Of moments of losing the trail, and then slowly but surely, finding it once again. And, generally speaking, it’s full of more questions than answers.

During those moments when confusion and darkness has come calling in my own life, this quote by the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke has often helped to ease my searching, fearful, impatient mind:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

While wholly unsatisfying to those driven and striving parts of me (the parts that always want me to DO something, and not just simply BE), Rilke’s words have been a reminder for me that the path - even if I cannot see it - is always there, and always emerging. They have helped me to remember to ‘live everything’ now, and show up as fully as I can in each and every moment.

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The reason that I coach today is two fold:

One, when I’m coaching someone, I feel I’m on purpose, doing some of the most meaningful work I can think of. I feel that I’m getting to be part of helping another human become who and what they uniquely are.

The second reason I coach is that it’s my way of “paying it forward”. I know for a fact that I wouldn’t be where I am today were it not for all the coaches, mentors, elders, teachers and guides who have shared their time, attention, loving honesty, and fierce compassion with me along the way.

These generous humans have not only helped me to get out of my own way (more times than I can count), but they’ve also served as inspiring examples of what’s possible. Part of what I have admired most about these humans is their willingness to be vulnerable, real, and deeply rooted in service.

My work as a coach today is one way I know of to give back the many, many gifts I have received.

education + credentials

• Professional Certified Coach by the International Coach Federation (2014)

  
  

Wild Mind Training Program, Level 1 Graduate (2014- 2020)

• Bachelor's Degree in Art & Spanish, Humboldt State University (2002)

A Few Things I Believe…

I believe in Soul; that deeply personal, unique, generative, and creative genius that lives within each one of us.

I believe that our true work is to find, embody, and inhabit our particular genius (i.e., soul) as fully as possible.

I believe that when we’ve come up to a place in life where we’re feeling deeply uncertain about our direction or what’s next, that we’ve actually come to a very potent place: the end of a known road and the beginning of a path filled with possibility. At such junctures, we have the potential to experience life, ourselves, and the world in a completely different way.

I believe that imagination is one of the most potent and powerful resources we have as humans. I believe we are here to use our imagination in service to Life, and that our dreams show the way to exactly what the world needs now.

I believe that there is no time to waste. Now is the time to listen to that still, small voice within, and to start making steps (however big or small) toward that which you feel in your heart and see in your soul.