Health Journey:

After a 10 year career as an aerialist in the circus, I was grounded by the advancement of a life altering chronic illness. After nearly losing my life, six major surgeries and the loss of a major organ, I was down, far down. I dove deeply (and sometimes manically) into all things healing. On a quest to improve my quality of life, despite the “ live with it” approach I was hearing from medical professionals, I tried everything – acupuncture, shamanism, hyperbaric chambers, restrictive diets, naturopaths, functional medicine, more surgery, homeopathy, biofeedback, and much more. I was in a constant search for the thing that would “work”, that would “fix me.” I was chasing this elusive health that always felt out of my reach. After over a decade of chasing I experienced a shift. I started to see that living in a story of lack was counterproductive.

I shifted my focus from needing things to change in order to feel good, to learning how to cultivate feeling good within my present circumstances.

Ironically, this is also when things started to improve with my physical health as well. During that time, a functional medicine doctor asked me “Who is the captain of your ship?” I sat up straight and told him “Me.” He laughed and said; “Yeah, but who manages your care, your GI doctor? Your primary care doctor? Who is the captain of your ship.” Again, I affirmed; ME. He didn’t get it and he never did. I had stopped believing that I was at the mercy of doctors and healers and found my own agency over my wellbeing. I took back responsibility for my body and cultivated a deep love for myself. I now see doctors and healers as helpful people who I am thankful for, but not as having any type of authority over me. For me, this is where the magic lives, where my life and my health open up and things start to get really good. I come to my work with empathy and compassion. I know what it’s like to feel helpless and hopeless. I know what it is like to suffer and feel alone, afraid you will never know what it is like to feel good. I hold each person I have the honor of supporting in the light of my true belief that no matter what has happened in the past or is happening in the present, feeling good and loving the body you live in is always possible.

In the summer of 2022, I witnessed this when my husband and I conceived our first child. At 41, and with all the abdominal surgery in my past, I have been told by multiple top fertility specialists that it was almost impossible for me to conceive without IFV. I was told I would need to use donor eggs. I was told I needed to have my right fallopian tube removed. I have had doctors not want to see me because they didn’t want to take on the risk of having me as a patient. After so much of my adult life being spent in hospitals and doctors offices, I didn’t want my fertility journey to be a medical process . To be clear, I have no issue with IFV or fertility treatments, I am in full support, this was just not the choice for me. So I chose to have faith in my body and in my desire to carry a child. For over five years my husband and I lived in this faith and faced many moments of sorrow and grief, sometimes questioning if it would ever happen for us. As I write this, I feel our baby kicking in my belly, and I cannot wait to meet them in just a few months. The dreams you have for your health and life may not come as fast or easily as you would like them to, but every person holds within them the potential of their dreams. I believe and stand for this with all of me.

How I became a Simple Shui Certified House Therapist:

Feng Shui has been a passion of mine since my early 20's. It was even present in my life as a young child through my father who hired a classical practitioner to Shui his corporate office in the 90's (Hello desk on an angle, red carpet and water fountain :) Whenever I entered a new home space as an adult I would always look to both google, and sometimes even a consultant, to learn ways to harmonize my space and draw in my desires. Honestly though, I often approached this from a place of fear. I wanted to avoid setting up anything "wrong" and create protection from bad things happening.

In 2020 that all changed when I found my Feng Shui queen, Amanda Gibby Peters. Amanda has a way of working with Feng Shui that is expansive, joyful, deep and simple! There is no fear and there is always a solution. I began working 1:1 with Amanda and saw and felt the shifts in my life from our work together. When she started offering classes, I took them all. I never saw myself becoming a practitioner, I just loved learning and implementing things in our home. When Amanda announced she was launching a certification course, I felt called to join. I still didn't think I would practice in any real way, but I saw it as another layer of knowledge I could draw upon when working with my health coaching clients. During the course, something happened. I fell deeply in love with this wisdom and the potential held in our environments. I began to see the tremendous impact that working with space can have on our lives in SO many ways from health to love, to success to peace.

I am excited to bring Intentional Space to Agency Wellness and witness people change their lives through the magic of working with their space.

Training and Certifications:

• AADP board certified Health Coach from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition

• Further education and certification as a Therapeutic Nutritional Counselor with Holistic Health Educators

• The compassionate healing method through Tom Monte

• Certified Emotion Code practitioner

• Certified Simple Shui House Therapist

• In process of completing my certification as a Rapid Transformation Therapist with Marissa Peer

Drawing on this knowledge and my extensive personal experience, I offer a variety of modalities to help you develop a new perspective and find agency in your wellbeing. My clients and friends call me a wellness detective, as a nod to my gift for investigating and shifting chronic and acute health issues.