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 messy failures. Moments of losing the trail, and then slowly but surely finding it once again. And, generally speaking, my experience has shown me that it’s a path full of many more questions than answers.

During those moments when confusion and darkness have come calling again in my own life, this quote by poet Rainer Maria Rilke has helped to ease my searching, fearful, doubtful, and 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.”

Rilke’s words have been a great reminder that the path - even if I cannot see it - is always there, always emerging. They have helped me to slow down and ‘live everything’ now,

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The reason that I coach today is twofold:

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

The second reason I coach is that it’s my way of paying it forward. I wouldn’t be where I am today were it not for all the coaches, mentors, teachers, elders, and guides who have shared their time, attention, loving honesty, and fierce compassion with me. These people have helped me get out of my way (more times than I can count) while also being truly inspiring examples of what’s possible.

Part of what I admire most about these humans has been their willingness to be vulnerable, real, and deeply rooted in service, passing on what they have received. It’s my hope and prayer to be able to do the same through my work.

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.