As a dropout and felon, I thought I'd lost my future before it had really started. Dead-end jobs, periods of unemployment, a dependency on alcohol and the quiet belief that this was just how my life was going to go. What I didn't know at the time was that I was depressed. I didn't have the language for it, and I didn't have the internal resources to do anything about it even if I did.

I was stuck in survival mode. Toxic relationships, self-sabotage, and eight years of feeling like my life was wasting away. Then in 2012 I had a spiritual awakening that changed everything.

But the awakening opened my eyes, it didn't do the work for me. I still had to learn how to live without being in survival mode. I stopped drinking, went back to school at 34, and rebuilt my life piece by piece. More importantly, I learned how to identify the patterns that had kept me stuck and that once I could see them, they stopped feeling permanent.

That process is what eventually brought me here. I couldn't find anyone who described what I'd been through in a way that made sense of it, so when I started talking about it and discovered that countless others shared the same experience, something shifted. Listening to people share their stories is what inspired this work and what continues to deepen it.

What I've come to understand is that when a pattern reappears, it's not a punishment for making bad choices. It's an invitation to evolve.

My work helps people understand what that process looks like, what it's asking of them, and make the decisions that finally align with who they actually are.