What Loss Taught Me About Living More Deeply
I lost a close friend and business partner in an unexpected, tragic, and very public way. One moment she was here — laughing, making plans — and the next, she was gone.
The life you want is usually buried beneath expectation.
Together, we uncover it.
Most people don’t realize how much of their life has been shaped by expectations — family, work, relationships, responsibility — until they start to feel disconnected from themselves.
There are seasons in life where what used to fit… doesn’t anymore.
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What you’re really experiencing isn’t failure. It’s a signal that you’re ready to build a life that reflects what is true for you.
The feelings we tend to hide from are often the ones that have the most to tell us.
It can appear even in full lives — as a sense of distance, disconnection, or lack of inner alignment.
It is often less about people, and more about relationship: to yourself, your work, or the way you are living.
Feeling unfulfilled doesn’t mean your life isn’t good. It may mean that something within you is ready for more.
It can show up as restlessness, flatness, or a quiet sense that the life you are living no longer fully fits. You may know that something needs to change without yet knowing what comes next.
This in-between place can feel uncertain, but it can also be an invitation to listen more closely to yourself.
Loss changes more than the life around you. It can change your sense of who you are.
Whether you are grieving a death, a divorce, a relationship, or the life you thought you would have, loss can leave you caught between what was and what comes next.
Coaching does not ask you to rush forward or “move on.” It offers a place to honor what has ended while gently discovering how to live within what is now.
For two decades, I worked in public relations—helping people and companies shape polished stories. It was rewarding work, until life taught me that the real power isn’t in refining a story, but in living one that is actually true.
What followed was the kind of stretch that quietly rewrites you: a divorce, grieving the family life I had known, raising children through change, and the slow reinvention that begins when an old identity no longer fits.
Then my mother’s Alzheimer’s brought another kind of loss—one that asked me to let go, again and again. Loss has a way of bringing you closer to what matters. For me, it made the question simple: Am I living a life that is actually mine?
Today, my life is shaped less by what I planned and more by what I learned to honor when the plan didn’t hold. It’s from this place that I now help others find their way through change—and back to what feels true.
Today, I coach people who are standing at a crossroads — navigating divorce, grief, career changes, identity shifts, empty nesting, or simply the quiet ache of wondering, “Is this really the life I want?”
I work with people who feel disconnected from themselves after years of meeting expectations, caring for others, or trying to hold everything together.
As your coach, I don’t hand you a new story. I help you see the stories that have shaped you — both the ones you’ve been told, and the ones you’ve learned to believe about yourself — so you can begin to understand what is actually true beneath them.
Together, we look at where those old expectations and internal narratives no longer fit, and begin building a life that reflects who you truly are.
Because you are not bound by the story you’ve been told.
And you are not limited by the story you’ve been telling yourself.
You are living one already — and you have the power to reshape it.
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I lost a close friend and business partner in an unexpected, tragic, and very public way. One moment she was here — laughing, making plans — and the next, she was gone.
When my son once told me, “Your kinder and gentler divorce made me just the right amount of tough,” I knew I had done something right in the middle of one of the hardest seasons of my life.
After a decade of raising my kids full-time, my husband’s business went under when the recession hit, and suddenly, I had to go back to work. I was terrified.
Wherever you are in your story — starting over, questioning everything, grieving, growing, or simply wanting something more honest — I’ll help you reconnect with yourself and build a life that reflects what is true for you.
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