Passionate About Inspiring Others

My Approach

​I am a Transformation and Wellness Coach, CCP, Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Coach, Gene Keys Guide, self-compassion activist, trauma/human informed guide (see below), Reiki Master, and energy healing practitioner. I’m also an empath, highly sensitive person (HSP), and someone who has a passion for creating change and rising from challenges. I believe in relentlessly exploring what’s possible.  Anything I recommend comes from the very best of what I’ve tried, lived and learned, as I’ve risen through tough challenges, in-authenticity, self-doubt, trauma, anger, disappointment, setbacks, and fear; just like you. 

Guided by intuition, compassionate inquiry, experience, nervous system regulation, personal development, psychology, training, energy work, and deep knowledge of the human experience, I get to the core of what holds you back from living life on your terms and living your authentic purpose. I thrive on those special "aha" moments when you re-connect with yourself and those life changing moments.

I will offer you thought-provoking ideas, insight, deep wisdom, compassion, healing and empowering tools, support, and a commitment to helping you unlock your authentic voice to find success, meaning, magic, and purpose in everyday life using practical techniques and strategies. I am a guide who provides you with the optimal balance of structure, momentum, empowerment, compassion, truth, tools, strategies, resources, accountability, validation, encouragement, and support that accelerates and elevates the process. You will learn to take consistent and empowered actions towards the life you desire and one that more closely aligns with who you are.

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​Trauma/Human Informed Practice and Approach to My Work

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It’s important to share that my work with clients is based on being a “trauma/human-informed practitioner,” and this is critical for me with my clients. My intention is to provide a safe, educated, connected, authentic, attuned, oriented, compassionate, and non-judgmental place, which supports the human biology, physiology, and neurobiology, and understands what a person needs to feel safe, what it feels like to be safe, and what it feels like to be under threat, intense stress, and ridicule by those around them.

Trauma is anything that happens to us that is overwhelming and that we cannot fully feel, digest, process, be with, see, integrate and heal. There are many subtle and profound areas of trauma excluded by traditional psychology, at many levels, including personal, inter-generational, spiritual, "New Age", systemic, cultural, organizational, and sociological, and my approach is to do no harm by adding to the traumas we experience in life.

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Also, spiritual bypassing, a tendency to use spiritual explanations to avoid complex psychological issues, is not my approach and many forms of it that take place in the current spiritual culture, which can be harmful and retraumatizing.  Many popularized spiritual ideals, such as manifestation, affirmations, toxic positive thinking, and the law of attraction, often sidestep transformation, oppression, and trauma, and can be used as a type of defense mechanism or dismissal, rather than working through hard emotions or confronting unresolved trauma. Spiritual bypassing is a superficial way of passing over problems in a way that might make us feel better in the short term, but ultimately solves nothing and just worsens the issue.

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During my work, you will not hear platitudes, experience shameful or judgmental language, or experience a dismissal of your emotions, which are just ways of dismissing difficult situations, such as: "Everything happens for a reason", "You create your own happiness", "It was for the best", "Good vibes only!", “People have it far worse”, “Love and light”, “You are depressed, snap out of it”, “Release it to the Universe”, “It is what it is”, “Move on to better”, or other platitudes that don’t truly provide comfort, wisdom, transformation, or support. Emotions are a part of being human and often a sign that transformation and healing is calling. Ignoring these signs can lead to far more pain down the road. While spiritual bypassing may be less harmful than some other coping mechanisms, it can still lead to negative outcomes that hurt our ability to grow as a person and fulfill our potential. It can stifle emotional development and even stand in the way of fully realized spirituality. Growth is a process and wise, compassionate, and strong support is a critical part of the process.

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During our work together, I commit to:

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• Doing no harm.

• Providing a safe, supportive, compassionate, and judgment-free place for growth.

• Empowering you to step into your highest power, magical beauty, and octave of your life and make your own choices.

• Providing you with honest clarity, guidance, wisdom, invitations, support, and intuition.

• Re-connecting you with your own inner knowing, authenticity, and innate design.

• Helping guide you on your path, knowing you are the leader of your process and remind you of your free-will.

• Using a holistic, wellness, mind-body-soul based approach to healing and transformation by focusing on your entire well-being. To truly achieve optimal wellness in the physical, emotional, and spiritual sense, we need to view and support the body as the incredible system it is.

• Reminding you of your own expression of power, authenticity, and choices in each present moment.

• Referring you to helpful medical practitioners and/or therapists, when needed, and not making any diagnoses or prescriptions.

• Not claiming to know the future.

• Maintaining strict privacy.

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Before you work with me, I would suggest reading my Privacy and Services Guidelines to make sure we’re a good match. 

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“Tara Bennett-Goleman uses the metaphor of alchemy to symbolize the spiritual and emotional transformation that’s possible when we embrace our pain with caring concern. When we give ourselves compassion, the tight knot of negative self-judgment starts to dissolve, replaced by a feeling of peaceful, connected acceptance – a sparkling diamond that emerges from the coal.”

- Kristin Neff, Ph.D.

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“Trauma is the invisible force that shapes our lives. It shapes the way we live, the way we love and the way we make sense of the world. It is the root of our deepest wounds. Dr. Maté gives us a new vision: a trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviors, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms and judging, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviors and diseases spring in the wounded human soul.”

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- Dr. Gabor Mate, The Wisdom of Trauma

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​Are you ready to rise and thrive?

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