My Story

The biggest challenge I’ve had throughout my life has been getting into my body, feeling safe and knowing I belong.

My personal journey has been a fierce one. Through decades of spiritual work and embodiment practice, this has become the very gift I offer to the world: supporting young leaders in their own embodiment.

My own life experiences—what I’ve done and lived, from my childhood to the professional work I’ve done to the fact that I’ve been single more than partnered—have created a well of being inside me, a web of wisdom that I offer in the conversations that happen when I meet people.

I understand what it’s like to have big visions and dreams, yet be held back by strong contractions in the body. My own journey with anxiety created a drive that kept me going, yet kept me from being able to sink as deep into my being as I now know is possible. 

My life work has been to help babies incarnate into their bodies. I spent forty years as a pediatric physical therapist helping babies feel safe in their bodies, so they could do what they’re meant to do.

For years it took the form as literal babies, but deeper than that…

there has always been this impulse in me to help us all incarnate.

Just like with babies, so with the leaders and facilitators I meet now that I’ve retired from my pediatric bodywork.
The work I do with other women, my pull to serve and reflect back to them is the very same work.
I see where souls can incarnate more in their innate expression.

My Background

I have spent the last two and a half years mostly in a pause and refresh phase of being in rest, retreat, and recovery after stepping back from a more than forty year career as a pediatric physical therapist. I felt called only to do what was joyful, nourishing, and freeing for me; it has been quite the journey! 

I feel deeply fulfilled when able to share what I have learned through the variety of life experiences I have known, especially when sharing to support someone going through something similar.

This includes being single way more than partnered in my 63 years and all that has evolved from that unexpected path. I was part of a spiritual community for over twelve years that began as a profound supportive circle of people and devolved into a cult, resulting in my departure from the group, which brought an end to most aspects of my life as I had known for a long while and in being shunned by those I had loved and been closest to for those years. I underwent what I call a kundalini rising /spiritual emergence gone awry - a deep and profound opening into the mystery of life and into the union of my divinity and humanity that because I was misguided in how to be with this/manage this, I nearly died. This was a profoundly difficult experience that led to my being stronger, capable, vibrant, insightful and more than I could have believed. 

I have struggled to feel safe and at ease in my physical body much of my life, while having a deep longing to be embodied and comfortable; this has led to much understanding of what interferes with being in the body, ways to support being in the body, and being acutely aware of the struggles in feeling and in taking action when feeling this acute disconnect between my body/soul/heart. I am acutely aware of what I have learned to call an inner anxiety that comes about simply because one is living in a human body; and, I have learned how to embrace life right along with this anxiety.

The thread through all of these experiences is my deep devotion and dedication to my inner life, to my inner and outer growth, to being authentic/genuine, to communicating effectively, to gaining understanding of the dynamics of relating to my own self and to others. 

My Experience

I have over forty years experience as a pediatric physical therapist, specializing in babies from birth to three years, and I have worked with all ages of children with special needs who are experiencing difficulty moving their body. I am skillful in teaching parents/caregivers ways to PLAY with the baby that release restrictions and improve the ability to move. I have a gift for helping a baby feel safe and comfortable in their body through this form of movement that brings a greater embodiment and improved overall wellbeing. Because of the decades immersed in this work, I also bring skill in supporting families in navigating the likely overwhelm of this journey of loving a baby/child who is having difficulty moving or experiencing medical challenges. Along with this is the ability to help sort out what services to use and how often; as well as how to find hope, trust, and even rest and ease in the midst of the demand and overwhelm, thus acting as a consultant to the family. While I have stepped back from full-time work of this kind, it remains an innate part of me and I would welcome any questions.