About Me

I was trained inside a system that loves a checklist—assess, treat, document, repeat. And I was good at it. As a post-op bedside RN, I knew how to move fast, follow protocol, and do it “right.” I knew how to look at what was in front of me, decide what it meant, and do the next thing.

Then I had my own child in the early 2000s and started noticing how much didn’t fit.

There wasn’t a constant stream of voices telling me what to do then. No endless scrolling. No experts in my pocket. I had to pay attention. I had to notice my baby. Notice myself. Try something. Watch what happened. Change course. Try again.

That’s where I started learning to follow instead of lead.

I moved into postpartum and lactation and kept following. IBCLC, craniosacral work, fascial work, reflex integration. I worked with the babies who didn’t fit neatly anywhere. The babies where feeding wasn’t just feeding. Movement wasn’t just movement. Behavior wasn’t just behavior. The body was telling us something, and the more precise I became in reading it, the less interested I was in shoving it toward what it was “supposed” to be doing.

And I kept going.

Into parents. Couples. Family systems. Trauma. Nervous systems. Behavior. Psychology. Linguistics. Nonverbals. Consciousness. Shadow. The way humans protect and perceive. The stories we build from the distortion in the field. Opening new doors with each layer of learning. That changed the work again.

IBCLC, CST, CFT, RMTi and everything I learned inside those worlds are still part of me. So is the nurse who knew how to assess a room quickly. So is every baby whose body made absolutely no sense according to the thing I had been taught and perfect sense once we stopped insisting it should.

I don’t have a title for what I do now. I don’t have credentials that contain it. They've all been dropped.

I follow information.

The body is brilliant. Behavior always makes sense. What we notice and don’t notice matters. What we do with what we notice matters.

There’s nothing I need to teach you that your body doesn’t already know. This work is a return to what was already yours before you learned to look everywhere else for the answers.

And then.....another shift.

COVID blew the doors off.

We got to watch humans human on a scale we had never seen before. People looking at the same information and experiencing completely different realities. Families together differently. Relationships changing. Bodies responding to bodies. So much happening at once, and so much information available right in front of us.

My field just kept getting bigger.

Things that had lived in separate places started running into each other. What I had learned from babies and bodies showed up in adults. What happened in a nervous system changed what someone could see, hear, remember, say and do. The relationship changed the body and the body changed the relationship. Something happening in milliseconds could become an entire story by the time we consciously entered it.

The work started getting much more precise and much less interested in where any particular piece of information came from. The body kept showing up.

We spend an enormous amount of time trying to change what the body is doing. Regulate it. Calm it. Heal it. Get it somewhere else.

We are missing the brilliance of what it’s already doing.

I am here for you.

I’m in this with you.

I’m doing the same work. Noticing myself, missing things, getting things sideways, finding them later, changing my mind, learning something new and realizing it changes something I was certain about before.

There isn’t a place where I finish this and then turn around and teach it to you. I’m living it too. I miss things. I find them later. I learn something that changes what I thought I knew. I get more information and look again.

What you bring changes what becomes available. So does what happens between us. There is always more information coming in.

We’re on the same team here. We’re going to notice a lot. We’re going to miss a lot. And we get to keep looking.

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