I found my way to this work through my own process of discovery. Being a seeker and naturally curious, I wondered over and over why feeling good and being good was so hard. I cycled through Western logic, organized religion, mystical practice among other things before finding mindfulness through the writings of Thich Nhat Hanh in 1993. The practices of mindfulness felt like coming home. When I began practicing meditation, miraculously, space began to appear between what was bothering me and what I said or did about it. In that space, there was a choice. The foundation of meditative awareness and attunement has accompanied me on my journey.

I became a certified mindfulness-based stress reduction instructor while working as a physician assistant. I made the transition to teaching mindfulness full time in 2009. Along the way, I learned about mindful and intuitive eating and got trained in three programs: MB-EAT, Eat for Life, and Intuitive Eating. I am now a certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.

After working with indiviuals exploring Intuitive Eating and continuting to heal my own relationship with food and the body, it became apparent that many issues with food can be traced back to trauma. So I began the study of Somatic Experiencing® and am now a Somatic Experiening Practitioner (SEP). It’s an amazing approach that brings people into their bodies, out of stuck patterns and into ease.