Your birth story matters.

Your birth story is a living, breathing part of you - and it deserves to be met that way.

Birth stories have devolved into numbers, timelines, success/failure, and other diminished ways of relating that leave the felt sense, and the woman’s deeper inner journey out of it. By normalizing this in our culture, we are failing women, and robbing future generations of the collective wisdom to be found in this most profound experience.

Birth invites every woman to meet unexpected challenges and unmet parts of her Self - no matter how it looks on the outside.

A birth story breakthrough session with me is dedicated space to share and explore what feels unresolved, heavy, or taking up precious energy in your mind - so you can reclaim the peace, joy and trust in your Self, and a greater sense of ease and confidence in your mothering that is inherently yours.

Whether you are preparing for birth, or in the years after - exploring your story in a healing way holds the key to more peace, confidence and ease as you integrate your identity as a Mother.

You will be amazed at what can change in just one hour.

A peek into my personal rebirth

“I saw my birth not as one singular event, but a pivotal point in the arc of my life, in which there was a “Me" before, and a “Me" after.”

As a “high-achieving” woman, I sought out to be the “expert” in my own birth, consuming all of the information I could gather (with discernment), hiring a doula, and ensuring my husband got properly educated as well.

It felt like I was preparing for a test - a test of my personal will, my body, my mental strength, and one that I desperately did not want to get outsmarted in or fail. I was armoring up in all sorts of ways. Looking back, it felt so urgent, and so heavy. I felt so much pressure to perform up to my potential, for the sake of my baby — but also, for the sake of my own ego.

Much like in life, Birth often has her own plans. Even with our best efforts to prepare, it will initiate us, bringing us face-to-face with our own shadows. And, that it did.

In the months following my first birth I was reeling and in what I’d describe as a freeze. On top of the trial-by-fire of being a newborn mother, I was healing significant physical debilitating injury, stuck in mental loops and emotional turmoil. I felt shaken to my core. It was affecting my ability to witness and show up for my baby, and that broke my heart the most. I decided to gather the courage to open the ‘Own Your Birth Story’ chapter in Kimberly Ann Johnson’s book The Fourth Trimester. It's through her embodied work that I found Pam England and her world-shifting Birth Story Medicine® work.

In a one-hour session, I disassembled the debilitating narrative I had taken on from my birth story, opening the door for me to see my whole Truth. It was nothing like I had expected. It felt like magic. I half-expected the old feelings and the looping story to come back around — but they never did. I never told my story the same way again. I couldn’t. The best part was — it felt even more true and full than the disempowering one. It wasn’t something that I bypassed or “should’d” my way into thinking. The facts hadn’t changed, but I had changed my relationship with it. I had a new framework and way of seeing, of telling.

That first session was the catalyst that blew my story wide open, and set the full, embodied transformation of my birth story into motion. The very next month, I began learning directly from Pam to bring this profound medicine forward, and I haven’t stopped since. Using the same Birth Story Medicine® model, I worked through the many layers of what I was carrying from my birth, as they bubbled up - until a single moment 15 months later that I physically felt the last (and deepest) layer of my story dissolve into what I describe as “grounded smithereens”.

Along the way, I was able to integrate so many lessons and life-altering insights, some were not related (but inextricably related) to my birth story. Through looking at the deeper truth of my birth story, I see my son’s birth not as one singular event, but a reckoning, a culmination of all the selves I once was meeting at this one critical time. It was a pivotal point in the arc of my life, in which there was a “Me" before, and a “Me" after. Doing this work within myself has forged my embodiment as Mother.

What is your professional background?

For over eight years, I’ve run both virtual and in-person workshops for women to help uncover, unify and integrate where the physical body meets the inner voice.

My continued exploration of life & learning is a steady, ever-flowing river. In the decade prior to becoming a Mother, my winding healing path led me to study across a spectrum of subjects, including interpersonal neuroscience, attachment, somatic psychology, jungian archetypes, and indigenous wisdom. My biggest influences, prior to stepping into birth work, have been Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, Kimberly Ann Johnson, Elena Brower, Pixie Lighthorse, and Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

I have a lifelong passion for travel & culture, which greatly influences my perspectives and how I "see". While I most value the school of life, I hold certifications in trauma-informed yoga therapy (TIYT™) and incorporate deep mindfulness, Dr. Heller’s somatic attachment (DARe) and Dr. Matés Compassionate Inquiry framework into my own approach. I'm also an experienced restorative yoga, yoga nidra & meditation teacher.

For me, it’s a vital combination and natural overlap - where the living story meets the felt sense. Creating felt experiences comes naturally to me, both as a somatic-led coach and in my past lives as an event planner and corporate experience designer for Fortune 50 companies.

In present time, I am a student of my toddler son’s passion for life, expanding my capacity to receive love from my husband & chosen village, extending that into self-witnessing & compassion as a new mom and entrepreneur, and practicing comfort with uncertainty and non-attachment while I tend to my garden.