About Me

I always knew I was a healer, but I never imagined it would create a life of such awe and wonder.

I ask myself and my clients: Are you ready to expand beyond who you believe you are to become the woman you are meant to be

Certified Nurse Midwife  •  25+ Years in Women's Health  

Spinal Energetics Practitioner

What I was born with

I was a highly sensitive empath in a family that didn't know how to hold me.

Growing up in Pacific Palisades, CA, my permeable sense of feeling energy was a chore before I ever realized it was a gift. I could read a room before I could read a clock, because reading the room was how you stayed safe. Some of what I was carrying came down the family line, the way trauma is inherited before someone comes along who's willing to FEEL instead of fight.

Mostly, my sensitivity felt like a burden. Crying easily, ruminating on unsettling events and lengthy, deep processing of conflict all added up to feeling lost in a large family. Violence in the the home and childhood abuse drove me to hiding my feelings.

At seventeen, my boyfriend dropped me off to start school in Santa Cruz, CA. During our goodbye love making I immediately knew I was pregnant. Psychically, I knew. Even though conception isn't instant, my knowing was.

I chose an abortion for many reasons, and firmly believe in a woman's right to choose. But growing up in a conservative household and walking through a protest line at Planned Parenthood contributed to the grief and shame that sent me into a deep depression for most of my early 20's. In my search for meaning I found Dr E Aron's work on the Highly Sensitive Person and I came to understand myself and my sensitivity as a precious gift.

My passion to share my awakening lit a fire in me that guides my life's work, to this day. I knew I wanted to turn my pain into service and became a Nurse Midwife to guide women through the sacred portals of  feminine mysteries. After 1500 deliveries, I retired from a medical system built on volume and profit to offer care that is in even deeper alignment with my soul's mission.

My past has taught me that the path has purpose. Everything that led me to this moment was in service to me understanding and claiming my gifts and to leading other women to theirs. I am fiercely aware of how brave I am and how much I have to offer.

a rite of passage

Perimenopause was a spiritual awakening.

When I entered midlife, I didn't realize it at first. At 35, my earliest signs of perimenopause were night terrors - I would wake up screaming and not know why. What I didn't know then was that my shifting hormones were creating increased sensitivity. I wish someone had explained it to me then and I could have taken such better care of myself.

What actually happened was me barely surviving a storm of stressors.  A demanding job, multiple abusive relationships and maladaptive coping had me almost drowning in a struggle for hope. I was drinking, depressed and, at times, suicidal. What followed was a decade of talk therapy, worsening anxiety and functional alcoholism.

Struggling to leave the last abusive relationship, my insightful therapist referred me to Somatics. You see, during talk therapy I was evasive and deflected direct challenges.  She knew I needed a different approach and what I experienced next changed my life. 

In Somatic therapy I was faced with what my body was holding. All the old fears, guarding and resistance came to the surface. No longer could I mask and hide. The conversation was now between me and my body.

I learned to stay with what I was feeling. I built more capacity for my sensitivity. I brought curiosity into relationship with my triggers. I came to understand and love myself in a whole new way.

All along, my care for my clients has reflected this evolution. Somatics is integrated into my coaching and the cornerstone of my practice. My intuitive energy work easily combined with somatic processing and Spiritual Somatics was born. My training in Spinal Energetics advanced my practice even further and now my sensitivity is my most important skill.

My midlife transformation brought me into deeper understanding of my sensitive and spiritual nature. Hormonal shifts removed the masking and forced authentic presence - because there was no more bandwidth for anything else. There came a sense of "who am I preforming for, anyway?" ' The hormones weren't just changing my body; they were dissolving a role I'd built a whole identity around. The Perimenopause Portal synthesizes this journey into a course to help others experience this rite of passage as a path to empowerment and spiritual becoming.

Spiritual III. What I Teach Now

Spiritual Somatics is a deep conversation with your best friend...your body.

I bridge twenty-five years of clinical training with somatic work and Spinal Energetics, because I believe in a woman having holistic health treating body, mind and spirit. I’ve watched enough women shake, cry, rage, and come back into their bodies in a single session to trust this method completely.

I teach embodied sovereignty — the ability to live from your own internal point of reference instead of everyone else’s expectations of you. I have to embody that myself, long before I can hold it for anyone else. It's a daily choice, in any given moment, to show up as authentically as possible and not slip into old patterns.

There are many thresholds in our lives; maybe it's perimenopause, or the end of a relationship or career, maybe is the urge to change something but you're not sure what that is. Thresholds are the crossing of the old into the new, when the old system can't hold your new dreams and something has to shift. We often don't realize what's happening - just that it's intense and dys-regulating. I’ve done this work in the dark wishing I had someone to hold a light, so now I hold a torch. The women I work with become lanterns of their own — for their daughters, and generations of women coming up after.