MyStory

Follow my life-long devotion? Or listen to my body?

The acceptance letter with a full tuition scholarship to the college of my choice sat on my lap. As a top high school graduate, it wasn’t momentous. What was? The ringing emanating from inside my body telling me that I was shedding my career as a professional ballet dancer to pursue my path in the field of mental health. 

I had a tendency to overachieve and people-please to escape judgment.

It's true that I loved to dance - I still do - but the die-hard commitment that led to my success in such a competitive field was driven by fear of not being good enough in the eyes of others and striving for an unattainable perfection.  The decision to leave a profession at the height of my career was guided almost exclusively by this intuitive knowing that it simply was the right next step. 

So I set off toward the life I imagined, guided by my heart, which was telling me that there was a greater impact that I could make in the world. With all the competitiveness and promise of accolades that academia has to offer, however...

I quickly fell back into my perfectionist, overachieving ways.

I did all of the “right things.” I completed a four-year degree in two years, got into an elite doctoral program, landed a coveted internship, and sailed off into my career complete with a pension, a husband and two beautiful children. I had all of the outward trappings of success. But with my ego leading the way again, I started to feel lost, drained of my vital energy, and dissatisfied in both my career and relationships. 

The Universe helped me course-correct with a major car crash.

One night during my final year of grad school, I was in a serious car accident. My body was wrecked by the impact, my mind in shambles from a head injury and the trauma, my emotions raw and fragmented. My entire sense of who I was based on my intelligent and curious mind, my strong body, was destroyed in an instant. And what a blessing this was.

I learned how to really listen to and honor my body.

Within the pain of a difficult recovery, I explored every method of healing available to me: conventional allopathic medicine and psychopharmacology all the way through energetic and spiritual healing. I soon learned that I was the expert on my experience and that my body was always speaking to me if I had the courage to listen. 

I started weaving more holistic methods into my straight-laced career as a psychologist.

My recovery from trauma taught me that healing happens at all levels of the body, spirit, and mind. It was the catalyst (and then itch in my side) that led me to weave less conventional methods of healing into my straight-laced career as a psychologist. I sought out any training considered “complementary” or “integrative,” including Yoga Teacher training, Reiki,  iRest Yoga Nidra, and CMEs/CEUs that explored intuition or spirituality. 

For five years I played it safe in my career, gently pushing the boundaries of what was accepted as “best practices”. Until finally I realized that I was actually dropping a huge part of myself every time I walked through those glass doors.

My career, while heading upwards, was sinking me fast. 

I arrived home to my husband and two young children each day drained, irritable, distracted. I was burned out, closing off to my patients. This was not the life I imagined for myself. 

With a few additional not-so-subtle hints from the Universe, I finally acknowledged that this illustrious career in a major medical center and academia was not the right fit for me. So I made the next sensible leap into private practice. 

I embraced being a healer.

It was within this safe container of private practice that I was able to truly explore what it meant to me to be an intuitive healer. I began to understand that the greatest benefit of my mindfulness-based psychotherapy practice was the ability to get below the ego and into the soul. To be able to connect with the deepest part of ourselves and our values while infusing aspects of energetic and spiritual healing.  

I am here to help you live the life you are meant to live.

I am breaking down my own container as a psychologist to help you live a life guided by your intuition as much as (if not more than) your intellect. To help you take action that is aligned with what truly works for you, not with the expectations of other people or institutions. To guide you in honoring all of the parts that make up the whole and amazing being you already are. 

I will share with you the collective wisdom I have gathered through decades of working with gifted practitioners, renowned in their areas of holistic medicine, spirituality, and energetic healing. 

Together, we will work to really get to know YOU, beyond your credentials, using time-tested tools for self-inquiry drawn from modern psychology, astrology, numerology, reiki, yoga, ayurveda, and meditation. 

Just like I did, you will: 

• Learn to anchor into your intuition and begin listening to your body to make choices and express yourself clearly and confidently with loved ones and in your professional life. 

• Shift your mindset through mindfulness practices to connect with your inherent worth supported by ancient wisdom traditions and eastern spiritual philosophies. 

• Engage in body-based meditations and energy healing designed to free you from negative self-talk and blocked emotions so that you can finally live a life of self-acceptance and love – which will benefit your relationships, career, health and finances.

• Clarify your personal holistic health and spiritual practices that work best for you to support and nourish your continued growth and development, while identifying and breaking through barriers to self-care. 

Ready to jump in?

Schedule your complimentary 20-minute clarity call today. Let’s get you closer to living the life you imagine!