Curiosity is essential when it comes to coaching, so I’m glad you’ve brought yours here. I think one thing that stands out about me to most folks is the sheer amount of change I’ve been through in a single lifetime.

I’ll start with professional life. Over the past 30+ years, I’ve worked in recreational boating tours, international exchange coordination, corporate law, financial services, wholesale coffee production, a running specialty goods shop, coaching Division 3 track and field, massage and bodywork, and philanthropic research.

On the personal side of things, I’ve experienced long-term recovery from multiple addictions including alcoholism (sober since 2006), exercise addiction, workaholism, and codependency. I’ve lived identities on both sides of the gender binary (and a few places in between), birthed a child and survived the heartbreak of relational ruptures like divorce, co-parenting, family estrangement, deaths, and a gaggle of other ambiguous loss. I’ve also come to find belonging in my identities as an introverted empath and highly sensitive person.

Along the way, I’ve confronted trauma, chronic pain, exhaustion, abject loneliness, and a slew of other demons. 

All these things are important parts of my coaching origin story and who I am as a human. But what’s prepared me to serve my clients more than anything is my experience, at depth, of both self-abandonment and self-reclamation.

I know what it’s like to feel like an impostor as a result of living for years in identities that didn’t fit. I know what it’s like to chafe against your own skin and recoil at the sight of your own reflection. I know what it takes to swim your way back up to the surface after you’ve sunk deep into the mucky bottom. And I know what it feels like to break through that surface and gulp the fresh air of self-alignment. 

So, why do I coach? Lots of reasons, but the primary one is freedom. I choose to coach because I believe that by helping you find your freedom, mine grows stronger. And so does the world, which is sorely in need of more freedom.

If you’ve read this far, I think there’s a good chance something in this little snippet about me that resonates for some part of you. If my hunch is right, that means there’s also a good chance that you’re in the right place. And that there’s a reason you arrived here.

 If you’d like to continue following that pull and investigate the ways in which I might help, I invite you to schedule a free call with me. It would be my pleasure to explore possibilities for transformation with you.