All of my ideas about love were wrong. When you grow up in chaos, it can take years to rewrite your stories. For me, romantic, happy love was only on TV, and real life love was hard because that’s what I saw growing up. I thought love meant dysfunction and pain, lies and abuse, that…

I used to be terrified to say that out loud, but it’s actually one of my greatest passions. I was recently going through some old writings as I’m planning to finally finish my book in 2023, and I came across my very first piece that was published online in 2015. At the time, it was…

I had to break up with alcohol to finally be free. There isn’t an area of my life that hasn’t been positively touched by my choice to quit drinking. I knew from a young age that I would need to keep an eye on myself since both of my parents struggled with alcoholism & addiction.…

I’m a recovering addict of being too busy. I get a lot of my sense of accomplishment and feelings of worth by how much I get done every day. I freaking LOVE to check things off my list and can get stuck in an endless cycle of moving from one thing to the next without…

Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is let people go. I used to pride myself in my ability to forgive and not let the things that people did get to me. I wanted to keep everyone around and on my good side, and stay on theirs, so I always did what I needed…

You can’t tell me what to do. I’m not here to be a good girl anymore. I used to think this made me incorrigible or a little brat. You see, I was raised in a culture of “do what I say, not as I do.” I know many of you were, too. You should never…

I used to be codependent. Some of the characteristics of codependency that I used to relate to are: “Lacking trust in yourself and having poor self-esteem. Having fears of abandonment or an obsessive need for approval. Having an unhealthy dependence on relationships, even at your own cost.” In the months following my divorce I felt…

I recently started something new and a little scary in social media land, and you get to come along (if you wish)… Here’s the story: In my Nia white belt training one of the principles that has stuck with me was around ‘stepping in.’ With dance it’s about stepping into the studio, onto the dance…

I’m so glad you are here! My greatest passion has been in the realm of health and nutrition for several years now (around 20!) and while there have been many iterations of what my practice has looked like over the years, what I love at the root of it all is helping people improve the…