As an International Speaker, Author, and Coach, I specialize in helping female entrepreneurs overcome the specific stress and overwhelm that often accompany the pursuit of success. I significantly reduce their stress and overwhelm through practical, aligned, and strategic strategies, enabling them to maintain a successful business and thriving personal life.
My journey has been a profound transformation. After dedicating over 25 years to the corporate sector, I embarked on a personal growth journey, tapping into my inner intelligence. Today, I’m a highly intuitive and nurturing entrepreneur, a certified energy healer, an Emotional Intelligence practitioner, and a Mind-Body-Spirit practitioner.
My unique strength lies in simplifying complex concepts, making them understandable and enjoyable. This approach, combined with my expertise in holistic practices, ensures a comprehensive understanding and integration of these concepts by the whole body (mind, body, spirit).
When I’m not empowering women entrepreneurs, I find immense joy in life’s simple pleasures with my loving husband and our adorable fur baby. We reside in a cozy condo in the heart of downtown Ottawa, where we often find ourselves exploring local venues, indulging in live music, and cherishing moments with our friends and family.
I always knew I was different. When I was a child, I could see spirits and interact with them. I also grew up in a loving but abusive household when I was really young. These situations taught me what it meant to read energy, what to keep to myself, and how to contort myself to ‘people please’ and to ‘keep the peace ‘. This ‘contorting’ involved suppressing my true self, my unique experiences, and my unconventional perspectives to fit into societal norms and expectations.
Once I started school, I realized that speaking my truths about what I remembered, imagined, or saw was not very well received as I couldn’t fit into the carefully defined box defined by the school. So again, I learned to contort myself to fit my school’s desired mold. This experience of not fitting in, of feeling isolated, is something I’m sure many of you have felt at some point in your lives.
Fast forward a few years, and I found myself dealing with a medical situation that didn’t fit into any defined boxes according to what science and the medical profession understood and accepted as truth at the time. It took a few long years of medical tests, being told it was all in my head and that I was “looking for attention” before they finally discovered what was happening. And, of course, it didn’t fit into any defined mold in the medical world. The frustration of not being understood by the very people who were supposed to help was overwhelming.
Fast forward again a few years, and now I’m married, with two beautiful boys, and constantly second-guessing myself due to my narcissistic husband (now ex-husband). Again, I was slowly being “snuffed out” of who I was to try to fit the mold someone else had for me.
In 2008, I finally said enough and left my narcissistic ex to start living the life I longed for. For the most part, I did. I found a fantastic man with two wonderful children, and we started our blended family life together. But still, something was … missing. Oh, did I feel bad about that! Here was this great guy whom I love with my whole heart; we have a wonderful family, a great home, and promising careers, but … something was still missing.
It wasn’t until 2017 that I reached a point of complete ‘breakdown.’ My life, on the surface, seemed perfect, yet I was a mere shell of myself. I felt as if I was trapped in a glass box, weighed down by invisible chains, screaming for help but unheard, even by myself.
I finally listened and sought external assistance in trying to get myself ‘fixed,’ and I thought I was doing a pretty good job. Yeah, I still had those nudges of “there’s more to life than this,” but I was getting better, so it was all good, right?
In May 2018, I broke both of my ankles at the same time. Talk about being forced to sit down, lean in, and really get to know yourself. The Universe decided I wasn’t truly listening to myself and that I needed more time to do so – I’m paraphrasing here. I spent many days and nights refusing to succumb to the sadness and overwhelm that tried to infiltrate my life. During this time, I started asking the Universe for assistance, seriously asking for assistance in helping me figure out the “more” I’ve been searching for my whole life.
Thankfully, I came across some pretty awesome people who helped me along my journey of discovering my “more.” The more I looked externally for the answers, the more I was continually guided to look internally at myself. That was HARD! After being taught that it was essential to think of others before yourself, to fall in line with what everyone else was doing, to be graded on how smart you were in school and how effectively you worked at work, it was challenging to cut through all of the chaos and noise that I needed to cut through to get to who I was. To get to the core of my inner intelligence.
My inner intelligence is a quiet confidence that I carry with me wherever I go. It involves the unlearning, re-remembering, and releasing of thoughts, patterns, limiting beliefs, baggage, and anything else that no longer serves our highest good.
It is realizing that we are all we need in this life, and everything else we choose to have around us is a bonus.
It is recognizing and believing that YOU are your own True North.
This is normal. We are taught from a young age to share, to think of others and to make sure everyone is included. We continue to learn this as we get older and it’s often how a lot of people end up feeling stuck between a “rock and a hard place.”
Hey, I get it, I used to be there too. I would always feel that I needed to be doing something for someone else to feel worthy and/or worth it. And don’t get me started on how I used to feel when my body was yelling at me to “take a break and rest.”
We feel like we need to say yes so that others like us and accept us. What if I told you there was another way? What if I showed you how it was actually really good for you to start saying yes to yourself?
Guess what? You can! It may not seem like it, it may seem that there is absolutely no other way to go other than putting one step in front of the other and keep moving, but there is. I was there, right where you are. For me it was like I was inside a glass box, weighed down by chains and I was screaming at the top of my lungs and no one could hear me – not even me. But I got out, I realized that there were actually options and choices. If you feel like you want to break free too, I can help you!
