I’m a very positive, vibrant person by nature but I spent many years not excited to be alive. I have lived with chronic illness on and off for more than twenty years. I spent much of that time operating under different diagnoses that did not feel right until I was eventually diagnosed with chronic Lyme Disease, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, dysautonomia, and a heart condition.

in 2014, After four heartbreaking burnouts that resulted in me leaving work that i loved, I hired a coach, determined to find a career path that would inspire me and support my healing.

I got that and a lot more. In just a couple months of being coached, I had several important breakthroughs. I found doctors and healers I loved, I built the support network I had always wanted but never had, and ultimately achieved the healthiest period of my life since childhood. I fell in love with coaching and knew that I wanted to use the skills and tools I learned to support my people: folks with chronic illness, queer folks, and people who live and breathe social change.

Today I love devoting my energy to supporting others in their physical and spiritual healing journeys, and helping people get or create social impact jobs they love.

Before becoming a coach, I was as a grassroots organizer, a regional director in the 2008 election to elect Barack Obama, a recruitment director, an event planner, assistant manager of an inside sales team at a solar company, a food service worker, and a nonprofit board president. I became a yoga teacher after my third burnout in 2013 which served as a gateway into deeper spiritual and somatic practice.

I believe strongly that our bodies are our greatest teachers and when we learn to listen to and honor them, we are able to achieve success in all aspects of life. I also love supporting people to cultivate and trust in their intuition.

People who work with me begin to see that they know what they want and have what they need to create it.

I can support you to stop overthinking and second-guessing so you can see what's really true for you and take action that's aligned with your deepest truths. This alignment facilitates profound inner and outer healing and will allow you to make a bigger, more integrated impact in the world.

I have been trained as a coach by the Academy for Coaching Excellence and I am certified at the PCC level with the International Coach Federation. As of July 2022, I have logged more than 900 coaching hours. From 2019-2021, I worked as a career coach for graduate students at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

A perpetual student, I enjoy learning how to make my work more effective, inclusive, and accessible. Among other trainings, I have participated in Diversity and Equity for Coaches with Trudi Lebron and the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute Immersion in Detroit with adrienne maree brown. I studied folk herbalism for two years with Hannah Morano of Sweet Birch Herbals. I am a Gateless Writing teacher, and have studied intuitive healing with Katina Makris, Heather “Mist” Smith, and others. I am also trained in Psychological First Aid and lead workshops on stress-reduction and the nervous system.

I am committed to being an anti-racist and anti-oppressive business owner and have deep gratitude for my teachers and leaders in the racial, disability, and healing justice movements. I am also grateful to my ancestors, who assist me daily and have made it possible for me to do this work. I live in deep reverence and gratitude for the land I reside on, unceded land of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc people, in Western Massachusetts.

In addition to providing mutual aid to queer, BIPOC, and disabled folks, in recent years I have made financial contributions to Political Healers, Intelligent Mischief, BEAM, Nolumbeka Project, Boston Cyclists Union, Anera, my local NPR station, and more.

You can read more about my experience and check out testimonials from past clients on LinkedIn here.

My book Rebel Healing: Transforming Ourselves and the Systems That Make Us Sick is available as of 9/19/2023. My writing has appeared on The Mighty, Elephant Journal, and here on my blog. 

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