I was adopted at birth.

Just before I turned 49, I found my biological family through 23andMe, and discovered that the name and birthdate I had lived with my entire life were not the ones I was born with.

A few months later, my adoptive parents stopped speaking to me.

I was already 30 years into a corporate career that had become my entire identity. Then came the pandemic. I started a new position at the beginning of the pandemic, and by summer, I realized that I no longer found my career as a marketing executive fulfilling. The big trip I had planned for my 50th birthday was cancelled. And I found myself sitting in the rubble of everything I thought I knew about who I was.

I wasn't just having a midlife crisis.

I was having an identity crisis, a family crisis, and a career crisis all at the same time.

So, when my position was eliminated in October 2020, I hit the road to find myself. I read everything I could find. I took courses, explored healing modalities, and searched desperately for something that would help me make sense of what was happening. I was grasping at anything that might give me answers.

What I eventually found changed everything.

I discovered that I was in the middle of my Chiron Return — one of the most significant astrological transits of midlife. My Chiron sits in Aries in the 4th house. Family. Identity. Belonging. Rejection. Home. The exact wounds I had been managing my entire life had come rushing to the surface right on schedule.

Suddenly, everything made sense.

The over-functioning. The people-pleasing. All of it connected back to wounds I had never fully faced — and a transit that was demanding I finally deal with them.

Once I had that map, I stopped feeling lost.

I started healing the real stuff: the abandonment, the worthiness wounds, the lifelong habit of performing a version of myself that felt safe instead of true. I found somatic work, which gave me the internal safety I had been searching for everywhere else. I stopped chasing people who only wanted the version of me that served their needs. I stopped asking permission to be myself.

And I thought: what if I had known this was coming?

What if someone had handed me a map before the ground gave way?

That is exactly why I do this work now.

I am professionally trained in astrology, certified in Human Design and somatic work, and I bring 30 years of real, practical business experience into every conversation. I use these tools the way a good diagnostician uses a chart. Not as a belief system, but as a way to understand what is actually happening beneath the surface, and what to do about it.

My clients are not confused. They are smart, capable women who can feel that something big is shifting — and who are tired of trying to figure it out alone without a map.

You don't have to believe in astrology for this to work.

You just have to be willing to stop guessing.

• Certified Master Life Coach
• Training program in Midlife Awakening/Transitions coaching 
• Human Design Certification, The Inner Institute
• 60 hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate, The Embody Lab
• Attachment & Neurodevelopment Certificate, The Biology of Trauma
• Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management
• Bachelor of Science in Business, Eastern Illinois University