Life Coach + Yoga & Meditation Teacher

For women navigating life transitions and burnout.

Helping you slow down, reconnect, and rebuild.

I know firsthand how life’s hardest moments can become powerful catalysts for transformation.

After navigating heartbreak, cancer, and corporate burnout and the emotional aftermath that followed, I was forced to pause, rebuild, and rediscover who I truly was. Through that process, I reclaimed my power, embraced healing practices, reconnected with my intuition, and learned how to open my heart to life and love again.

Now, I help other women do the same. Sometimes life breaks us open so we can rebuild something better.

Through coaching, yoga, and nervous system focused practices, I offer compassionate guidance and practical tools to help you reconnect with your inner strength, find balance, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

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Even in the chaos, there’s something so pure about being loved this hard by a little soul who just wants to be close to you all the time.

I moved through life looking fine for a long time.

I was successful.
Productive.
High functioning.

But internally, I was exhausted in a way rest alone couldn’t fix.

My nervous system never fully relaxed.
My body was constantly bracing.
I felt disconnected from myself, my body, and my joy.

The hardest part is that high-functioning burnout becomes so normalized, you stop realizing how much you’re carrying.

Healing wasn’t about becoming a new version of myself.

It was learning how to feel safe again.
How to slow down without guilt.
How to reconnect with myself through intentional rituals, nervous system work, and daily practices that slowly brought me back to life.

And honestly, this changed everything for me.

If you’ve been feeling emotionally exhausted, disconnected from yourself, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode… I want you to know there is another way to live.

I’m currently creating something for women who are ready to stop surviving and return to themselves again.

If this resonates deeply, send me a DM with the word “RETURN.” 🤍

Reset Your Nervous System in 15 Minutes with 5 key tools!

1. Breathwork for Down Regulating
2. Somatic Movement for Releasing
3. Forward Folds for Surrendering
4. Dynamic Twists for Detoxification
5. Heart Openers for Expansion

Full video at the link in my bio 🤍 message me with any questions you may have, I’d love to help you regulate your nervous system and understand it fully!

I was raised believing rest was the reward for a hard day’s work. And while that can be true… rest doesn’t always have to be earned.

Sometimes your body needs rest so you can create good work.
So you can think clearly.
So you can heal.
So you can be fully present in your own life.

For whoever needs to hear this: slowing down is not laziness.

Rest isn’t separate from your yoga practice.
Rest is part of the practice.
And honestly, part of being human too.

Sometimes the most healing thing you can do is stop trying to fix yourself and simply let your body be.

Understanding the nervous system seriously changed everything for me!

Your body whispers before it screams and mine had been trying to get my attention for years.

I thought I just needed to push harder through my days but really, my nervous system was exhausted and pushing just led to full on burnout.

Now, I go about self care, healing, and rest much differently.

I made a YouTube video on Nervous System 101 + burnout if you want to understand it too 🤍 I geek out on this subject so send me a message or comment below and let’s continue this conversation!

This week in paradise ☀️🌸✨
1 & 2 after cooking many meals this week, dinner out with a view
3 & 4 Friday morning at the beach, the trek down and up the cliff was no joke 🥵
5 family photo post soccer, a bit overdressed 😅
6 & 7 ai really comes in handy sometimes 🥰

You can look successful on the outside and still feel completely disconnected from yourself inside.

No one really talks about the high-functioning burnout.
The constant exhaustion.
The emotional numbness.
The feeling that your entire identity has been built around who you needed to be instead of who you truly are.

For years, I thought rest had to be earned.
I thought if I slowed down, I was failing.

Until my body forced me to stop.

And what I realized was, I wasn’t lazy.
My body needed rest to heal.

A lot of women don’t need to become a “better” version of themselves.

They need the tools to reconnect to themselves again.

If this resonates deeply, send me the word “BURNOUT” and I’ll send you my free YouTube video: Nervous System 101 🤍

What a luxury to have tears come from feeling safe enough to soften.

A tiny moment at an arcade a million miles from home.
My partner winning me a stuffed animal from the claw machine and telling me he chose that one because it looked like the dog I lost… the dog he never even got to meet.

And suddenly, tears.

Not because of the toy.
Because of what it represented.
Being seen. Being held. Being loved in the tender places I don’t always talk about.

I used to think emotions needed to make sense to be valid. Now I know sometimes the body just recognizes safety, care, and love before the mind can explain it.

Healing doesn’t always arrive in big transformative moments. Sometimes it looks like crying in an arcade because your heart remembered something soft. 🤍

I thought losing my 10-year relationship at 27 would be the hardest thing I’d ever go through.

It wasn’t.

The hardest part was realizing I had built an entire life that looked successful from the outside… but no longer felt like mine on the inside.

So I blew it all up.

The job.
The apartment.
The identity.
The version of me that kept choosing comfort over truth.

And somewhere between heartbreak, cancer, grief, healing, and a one-way ticket to Bali… I found myself again.

Not perfectly.
Not all at once.
But on my own terms.

This is your reminder that you do not have to stay loyal to a life that is slowly disconnecting you from yourself.

You’re allowed to start over.
Even if it makes no sense to anyone else.

And if you’re in the middle of your own unraveling right now… follow along. I’m finally ready to share how I rebuilt my life from the ground up.

POV: you’re trying to film calming yoga content but the production team is two playful and vocal dogs 🧘🏽‍♀️🐶

A little reminder from a recovering perfectionist:
life rarely goes to plan.
Do it messy.
Do it imperfectly.
Do it with barking in the background if you have to.

Better than not doing it at all.

You live a demanding life…
and sometimes rest just isn’t enough.

You’re still tired.
Still reaching for that mid-day pick-me-up just to keep going. But what if the thing you actually need… isn’t caffeine? It’s deep, intentional rest.

Yoga Nidra is the practice I seriously wish I found sooner because it doesn’t just relax you, it recharges you on a nervous system level.

I created a free Yoga Nidra Sound Bath to help you reset, refocus, and actually feel restored again.

Comment “REST” and I’ll send it to you 🤍

You don’t always realize you’ve outgrown your life right away.

Sometimes it looks like:
feeling off for no clear reason
losing excitement for things you once loved
questioning everything you built

And from the outside… nothing is “wrong.”

That’s the part people don’t talk about.

Outgrowing your life doesn’t always come with a breakdown. Sometimes it’s quiet. Subtle. Easy to ignore.

So you stay.
Because it looks good.
Because it makes sense.
Because starting over feels bigger than staying the same.

But that feeling doesn’t go away by ignoring it.

At some point, you have to decide,
do I keep maintaining a life that no longer fits…
or do I start listening to myself again?

You can’t heal your nervous system if you don’t even know what it is. There’s so many posts out there about HOW to regulate but let’s first start with WHAT it is and learn more about it. Be informed so you can transform!

Comment or DM me RESET and I’ll send you my quick nervous system reset video to follow when you need it most!

Today is a powerful new moon! This new moon is a perfect time to manifest. I’m speaking affirmations out into the universe and feeling each one as if it’s already happened and I’m reliving it.

When you start remembering instead of wishing, your body feels it. Your nervous system feels it.

Start asking, “Who am I when it’s already mine?”

You don’t create your future by hoping for it. You create it by becoming the version of you who already has it.

Life this week has looked like:

🐶 Integrating a puppy into our lives while juggling entrepreneur life.

🛵 Learning to finally drive a scooter after a year in Indonesia. I have not graduated to the road yet.

💐 Buying myself flowers and working on my arrangement was the self care I needed

🤍 Still showing up for myself in daily movement but allowing myself rest after looking at the computer for too long, even if my to do list isn’t finished yet

I created a short nervous system reset that I wish I had on the days I needed it most! For when long days at the office left me burnt out, my to do list was piling up causing anxiety and I just couldn’t let my body relax.

This reset is something simple you can come back to whenever you feel overwhelmed or not fully yourself.

Comment RESET and I’ll send it over!

I’ve had to start over more times than I ever thought I would.

Every time, I told myself the same thing: move on.
figure it out.
fix it.
stay busy.

And for a while, that worked...until it didn’t. Because no matter how many times I “rebuilt,” I kept ending up in the same place. exhausted.
disconnected.
wondering what was wrong with me.

It took me a long time to realize nothing was wrong with me. I was just trying to build a life from survival mode.

Slowing down felt uncomfortable at first.
Honestly... it felt wrong, but little by little I started to feel safe in my own body again.

I started doing things differently.
not forcing.
not rushing.
just... listening more.
and rebuilding from within.

AI share this because I know how lonely that “starting over” feeling can be.

Whether you chose it or it completely caught you off guard, it’s okay if it doesn’t make sense yet and you WILL make it out of this, stronger. 🤍

Sunrise in Da Nang surprised me in the best way.

I’ve always been a sunset girl, slow, reflective, winding down. But here, the sunrises feel just as beautiful… same soft colors, same stillness, just with a completely different energy behind them.

At 5:30am, the beach is alive.
People exercising, swimming, cold plunging, moving their bodies before the day even begins. There’s this quiet discipline in the air that feels really powerful to witness.

I’m usually someone who loves early mornings when I travel because everything feels empty and peaceful. But this is one of the first places where “early” is actually the busiest part of the day and honestly, it’s been so motivating.

Maybe mornings aren’t just for solitude.
Maybe they’re also for shared intention, for collective energy, for starting the day alongside people who are choosing to show up for themselves. ✨

This is not to say I lost my ambition? But l’ve outgrown the version of it I was taught.

At 23, it looked like titles, pressure, being the youngest doing the most.

Since then, the experiences throughout my life changed me. I’m no longer interested in chasing something that doesn’t have me waking up like it’s Christmas morning.

Now I’m building a life that offers me:
Slow mornings if I choose.
A peaceful nervous system.
Work that’s meaningful to myself and others.

I’m still ambitious. I still have goals I want to achieve, they’re just not tied to society’s version of success anymore! They’re tied to mine.

If this resonates or you’re in the middle of redefining what success looks like for you...

journal about it:
- ��what did I learn ambition “should” look like?
- �what does it look like for me now?
- ��what am I no longer available to sacrifice?

Vietnam Day 1 in Hoi An consisted of:
-12 miles on bicycle
-2 Bahn Mi’s and so much other good food
-2 coconut coffees (I broke no coffee for these 😍)
-views & memories 🤗

This is not to say I’ve lost my ambition.
But I’ve outgrown the version of it I was taught.

At 23, it looked like titles, pressure, being the youngest doing the most.

Since then, the experiences throughout my life changed me. Im no longer interested in chasing something that doesn’t have me waking up like it’s Christmas morning.

Now I’m building a life that offers me:
Slow mornings if I choose.
A peaceful nervous system.
Work that’s meaningful to myself and others.

I’m still ambitious. I still have goals I want to achieve, they’re just not tied to society’s version of success anymore. They’re tied to mine.

If this resonates or you’re in the middle of redefining what success looks like for you…

journal about it:
- what did I learn ambition “should” look like?
- what does it look like for me now?
- what am I no longer available to sacrifice?

I used to tell myself some of my dreams were unrealistic.

Too big.
Too far away.
Too unlikely for someone like me.

But then I started noticing something…
people are out there living the life I once thought was impossible.

So I made a decision:
Instead of assuming it won’t work, I’m going to see what happens if I try.

Here’s how I’m doing it:

Get serious about what those dreams actually are.
Write them down.

Envision your future self.
Who is she? How does she live? How does she show up?

Then start being her. Start living as her.

Limiting beliefs will creep in.
People in your life might say it’s unrealistic.
You’ll have to question everything you were taught success was supposed to look like.

But stick with it.

And see what becomes possible. What if the life you want isn’t unrealistic… you just haven’t tried living it yet?✨

I read something recently that completely shifted my perspective.

What if you knew you had to go through 100 no’s before you got your yes?

Would rejection feel so discouraging…
or would it actually feel exciting?

Because every no would mean you’re one step closer to the thing that’s meant for you.

Most people stop too early.

The ones who keep going long enough eventually reach their yes.

✨ What if the only difference between the life you want and the life you have… is a few more no’s?

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