My Story
I didn’t come to this healing work through theory alone. I arrived through lived experience.
I have been to the depths of darkness and reemerged anew. I fully understand what it means to walk through life’s greatest challenges and I am living proof that transformation is possible.
As a teenager, I was lonely, felt unseen and felt like I didn’t belong here. The world felt confusing and unsafe in my own home and in my own skin. With an absent mother and an emotionally detached father, I learned early how to disappear into the comfort of my own loneliness and developed unhealthy coping mechanisms for the intense emotions I felt inside. I searched for love, safety, and belonging to fill the emptiness I carried within.
That search led me into unhealthy relationships, reckless and impulsive behavior, alcohol and drugs. I ignored my gut and chased what I thought made me feel more alive…or to numb painful emotions.
In the late 1990s, I became the center of attention of an older man who wooed me with fancy dinners, a luxury car, and VIP entry into some of the top nightclub scenes in NYC. The illusion was thick. I couldn’t see past the substance-induced bliss and the false adoration of someone who made me feel chosen. Believing in the promise of “better life,” I ran away from home.
What began as illusion quickly became control and dissolved into imprisonment.
At sixteen years old, I had been exploited and human trafficked. Used as a vessel to transport illegal substances into spaces, undetected. I was pulled into the dark world of an international drug-ring, one small pawn in a much larger game.
After one awful night, I said, “no more” and I planned my escape…
What followed was not an easy road.
Teen motherhood. Living in a women’s shelter. Public housing. My climb up the mountain was steep, but propelled by sheer will, determination, and hope for a better future knowing that there had to be more to life than this for me and my kids, I kept going. When I gained enough stability and support to apply to college and graduate from nursing school, I became a Registered Professional Nurse.
Eventually, I was earning a good salary, and independently caring for myself and my children.
I believed I had finally “made it.”
But functioning is not the same as healing.
In 2018, after another hopeless collapse, I prayed for change. I got divorced, I moved, changed jobs, left my old life behind, and tried to gather the shattered pieces of my life once again. This time, I turned inward.
I found yoga, reiki, and meditation. I adopted a rescue dog, spent time in nature and with family. Slowly, I began to heal and feel a glimmer of hope again.
Despite external success, I continued to battle depression, anxiety, shame, and low self-worth. The pressure and intensity of single motherhood, combined with the stressors of working in healthcare and unhealed trauma, eventually caught up with me. I collapsed under the weight. I felt like I had sunk to the bottom of a deep, dark hole, helpless and collapsed from exhaustion.
What followed was a cycle of hitting rock bottom, climbing out, only to fall again. No amount of religion, psychotherapy, self-help books, or seminars could help me break the chains I desperately wanted to be freed from. Yet, I kept repeating patterns I couldn’t escape, unable to truly put my past behind me.
Then, in 2019, during a chance encounter at a yoga day retreat, I was offered a Life Activation. From that moment on, everything shifted.
My healing accelerated in ways I never imagined possible. Old patterns dissolved. My intuition and spiritual gifts strengthened. A deeper sense of purpose emerged. I experienced true stability in my life, emotionally and financially. I found healthy friendships, a loving partner, and cultivated a greater sense of self-love. I discovered long lost family members, built new relationships with them and learned the truth about my family’s past. What once felt impossible became a living reality for me.
In a desire to share what has helped me to thrive, I pursued the trainings and certifications in multiple healing modalities.
Today, I walk the path of a Modern Mystery School initiate (which is simply a more modern name for an ancient spiritual lineage) with deep reverence and responsibility.
My passion is helping others activate the wisdom, resilience, and power that already reside within them, so they can overcome trauma, life challenges, limiting patterns, and step into clarity, confidence, and alignment.
I have been to the depths of darkness and reemerged healed and whole. I fully understand what it means to walk through life’s greatest challenges, and I am living proof that transformation is possible.