My path to health wasn't a straight line, and honestly that's what makes me good at this.

I wasn't an athlete growing up. My fitness journey began in my 20s, fresh out of college and newly minted as a Flight Attendant. I fell in love with step aerobics, weightlifting, yoga, and long layover walks with my Walkman (yes, I'm dating myself). Movement felt good. Life felt manageable.

Then my 30s and 40s happened.

Motherhood, volunteering, keeping a family fed and functioning, and a demanding airline career had me juggling everything — except myself. I convinced myself that more was always better: more workouts, more commitments, less sleep, nonstop multitasking. I was doing ALL THE THINGS, and I was proud of it.

Until my body said otherwise.

By 2012, I was exhausted, living with chronic pain from a lumbar herniation, pre-diabetic, dealing with some unresolved grief and at my lowest point emotionally and physically. What pulled me through wasn't a program or a plan — it was therapy, a real shift in priorities, and learning (slowly, imperfectly) to treat myself with the same curiosity and compassion I'd always extended to everyone else.

That shift changed everything.

I left my airline career, became a certified trainer, and eventually built a coaching practice around the thing I wish someone had handed me years earlier: a way of approaching health that leads with curiosity instead of criticism. Not "what did I do wrong?" but "what can I learn here?" Not perfection; information and small, daily action.

I know what it's like to put yourself last. To carry everyone else's needs while quietly running on empty. My work is about helping women build the skills to care for themselves, not as a reward for getting everything else done, but as the foundation everything else runs on.

My four mantras:

1. Eat real food. No supplements, no quick fixes, no gimmicks.

2. Progress, not perfection. This applies to your eating, your movement, and especially how you talk to yourself.

3. Stress resilience is a life skill. It can be built, practiced, and strengthened — and as we age, it becomes even more essential.

4. Move well, move often. Functional, intentional movement isn't optional as we age — it's the investment that pays every decade forward.

As women, we face real and specific risks: sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, blood sugar dysregulation, and the cumulative weight of chronic stress. My work addresses all of it, not through rigid protocols, but through habit building, mindset shifts, strength training, and nutrition education that actually makes sense for your real life.

When I'm not coaching, you'll find me in our vegetable garden (19 raised beds, mostly started from seed), sipping coffee, hiking, strength training, or brewing kombucha in my kitchen. I'm also a recovering perfectionist (still a work in progress), which means I know firsthand that the inner critic is loud, persistent, and almost always wrong.

You don't need to be harder on yourself. You need a coach who gets it — because she's lived it.

Let's figure it out together.