I am a body centered creativity midwife, mentor, guide, group facilitator performance artist poet and trauma-informed educator with over a decade of experience helping people reconnect with their voice, creativity, and sense of aliveness.

For eleven years, I taught special education after abandoning a twelve year career in acting and directing theater. By year nine as a teacher, my body knew I couldn't stay-but I had no idea what else was possible. I had an hour and half commute each way, was a new parent, and while I was deeply grateful for my job, my nervous system was beyond capacity. Leaving felt impossible like wanting something different was irresponsible or selfish.

At home, the strain was showing. I was exhausted, resentful, getting sick often, increasingly disconnected especially from my husband. I envied people who seemed to have more choice in their lives, who were doing work they loved, but I didn't include myself in that category. That kind of life felt like it was for other people. Not me.

One night, during a near fight, my husband suggested I try The Artists Way. I snapped back, " I don't have time for that"

He replied gently, "Maybe that's exactly why you should"

This moment saved my life.

Opening that book and reconnecting to my creative energy cracked something open. It led me into therapy, writing circles, performance art, and embodiment communities - spaces where I was witnessed, supported and allowed to listen to myself again. Through that support my inner knowing and sense of worth slowly came back online. I began to trust my body, reconnect with creativity as a source of truth, and believe that I actually had choice.

The path wasn't liner and still isn't but it taught me something essential: I wasn't broken, and I wasn't meant to do this alone. That lived experience is what shaped the way I work today.

My approach is shaped by over a decade in theater and storytelling, eleven years of teaching special education and extensive training in trauma informed care. I weave in creative frameworks inspired by Julia Cameron's The Artists Way. I am trained by Adriana Rizzolo, in Body Temple dance, which is a free form guided intuitive movement practice that connects the emotional body and soul to the physical and creative. As well as an ongoing experiential practice in Authentic Movement under the guidance of Gretchen Cohoon Blackmore.

I believe creativity does not thrive in shame or isolation, it needs relationship and witnessing. And when it is honored, it has the power to return us to lives that feel alive, aligned and our own.