I am a wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a Martha Beck Certified Life Coach, a school volunteer, a business owner and many other things.  Just like you, I play a variety of roles, none of which are exclusively me. 

Despite all these roles, I never felt true passion about my life.  I never felt like I had a special talent or purpose.  I had a pretty good life on the outside, but I was pretty miserable on the inside.

I was stuck.

Then quite "accidentally" I came to coaching.  I had never read a self-help book, been coached, or taken any self-improvement classes. 

I was a true Self-Help Virgin. 

I had been a stay-at-home mom, a domestic goddess, to two boys for 8 years and had become so lost in the role that I felt completely unfulfilled.  I gained a lot of weight prior to the birth of my first son, but a year later I began to see a glimmer of my true self when I started to prioritize myself and practice self care.

Even so, there I was after 8 years - a domestic goddess without any of the joy a goddess might enjoy.  That is when I suffered an achilles injury which hampered my exercise efforts.  The injury coincided with the difficult process of grieving a miscarriage. My grief was further compounded when later that week my husband was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. 

It was kind of like being hit over the head with a frying pan - completely disorienting and extremely frightening.  My whole world seemed to be crumbling around me.

A few months earlier, I read a magazine interview with Dr. Martha Beck, best-selling personal development author and monthly columnist for O! Magazine. I was intrigued. 

I had always felt drawn to helping others, but nothing ever felt like a calling. Then suddenly, coaching was plopped in my lap, and it felt perfect for me. 

But it also sounded incredibly not credible. 

How in the world could I become a life coach?  Everybody would think I had lost it.  I had always played things safe and taken the "acceptable" and "expected" routes and life coaching seemed neither. Then again, neither of those routes had brought me true happiness.

When I learned about Life Coach Training, my heart fluttered and I just knew it was what I was supposed to do, no matter how unexpected and unacceptable it sounded. I secretly enrolled. 

It took me almost a year to come out of the proverbial "life coaching closet".  As I did, however, to my surprise and boundless joy, I found that every friend and family member I entrusted with my "secret" supported me 100%.

Through coaching, I found an intense joy that was right inside of me all along: The joy of connecting with others and helping them find their own joy.

The joy of being authentically, truly Me.

"And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

Other Credentials & Stuff:

2 degrees from Arizona State University: Psychology, B.A. & Purchasing and Materials Management, B.S.

Certified as both a life coach and a career coach.

Featured expert for Mom Gets a Life.