Why I do this work
I didn’t plan this career. I planned humanitarian work: helping refugees recover from war. I studied Missions and Psychology, minored in theater, and prepared to serve people facing the worst circumstances.
Then my own life became one of those circumstances.
My sister Bethany was killed by a drunk driver. I handled it the way high-performers handle everything: stayed busy, pushed through, kept performing.
But the body keeps score. Years of disrupted sleep and a nervous system stuck in overdrive collapsed into a diagnosis at the Mayo Clinic: PTSD, Conversion Disorder, and slim odds of full recovery.
What I learned from my own recovery completely changed how I understood human performance. The patterns keeping people stuck (whether in their body, their relationships, or their income) do not live in the parts of the mind that judge them as being good or bad. They live in more primal, subconscious parts of the mind and the nervous system. Those patterns and parts respond to completely different kinds of interventions. These methods aren't what most people are using in therapy or coaching in an attempt to change how they're working.
For 16 years, I have worked with executives, entrepreneurs, and high-earners who can articulate their patterns perfectly and cannot stop them from running. The mindset work didn’t hold. The business coaching helped strategically but not somatically.
That gap is what I specialize in closing.
