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.
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As your coach, I don’t hand you answers.
I help you uncover the ones already waiting in you.
Deep down, you already know the life you want.
You hold the pen; my role is to help you see it clearly and walk beside you as you write what comes next.
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.
I support parents who want to protect their children’s wholeness through divorce and change. I walk beside professionals whose careers no longer fit the person they’ve become. I also work with young adults who are just beginning to shape their lives — helping them recognize early that they hold the pen, that they can live intentionally, and that they can trust themselves even when the path ahead feels uncertain.
My coaching training under Martha Beck — one of the world’s leading voices in personal transformation — gave me practical tools for change, but it’s my lived experience that allows me to meet people with empathy, honesty, and without judgment.
I’ve spent my life studying people and stories. With a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and over twenty years in public relations, I learned how identity and perception are shaped — and how often people build lives around who they think they’re supposed to be. Over time, I discovered that the real power isn’t in polishing a story — it’s in living one that is true.
So much of my life didn’t go the way I planned — and I’ve come to believe that’s exactly how it was meant to be.
Divorce, loss, parenting through crisis, and eventually becoming an empty nester all cracked me open in ways I never expected. When the recession hit, I didn’t plan to reinvent myself — I had to.
After ten years as a stay-at-home mom, I went back to work because life left me no other choice. It was humbling, disorienting, and ultimately transformative. I’ve grieved close friends taken too soon and am slowly losing my mother to Alzheimer’s.
Each experience brought me closer to who I am at my core — reminding me that the moments we resist often hold the most meaning. They taught me that resilience isn’t about appearances; it’s about authenticity, acceptance, and the understanding that change often leads us exactly where we’re meant to be.
I was raised in a family rooted in unconditional love — the middle of three very different sisters — and that early experience taught me how differently people move through the world. I’ve raised two kind, grounded children, and I believe deeply that kinder people make the world better.
I helped co-found a charter school serving students who may not otherwise have had those opportunities, including many who will be the first in their families to attend college.
I’ve built lasting friendships, shared my life with beloved animals, and found love with a partner who meets life with honesty, humor, and heart — a relationship that feels both steady and grounded.
My life is full of connection, laughter, and meaning.
And I bring that same hope and care into my coaching — walking beside others as they build lives that reflect what is true for them.
This work is not about fixing who you are.
It’s about helping you see more clearly who you already are
…beneath expectation, conditioning, and old narratives.
Together, we slow things down enough to understand what is true for you now — and what is asking to change.
If something in your life feels like it no longer fits — even if you can’t fully
explain why — you are not alone in that experience.
And you don’t have to navigate it alone.
Notes on Being Human is my newsletter — an honest look at what it means to live, grow, and heal in real time. I write about the chapters that shape us: empty nesting, loss, love, breakups and divorce, co-parenting, reinvention, and the quiet moments of joy that remind us we’re still becoming.
It’s not advice — it’s a conversation. A reminder that being human isn’t about getting it “right,” it’s about being real. Each note is written with the hope that you’ll see a bit of yourself in it — and feel a little less alone, a little more hopeful, and a lot more alive.
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Because living in integrity starts with being human.
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.
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