“When we are born, our stories are already in motion. We add all we can and subtract what no longer fits, so that those who follow flourish.” -- Jeannette

Through inner work, outside help, study, humor, and faith, a sense of inner freedom and healing has emerged. Leveraging more than thirty years of experience helping others (including my three beloved children) determine their strengths, challenges, and passions as a high school teacher and mama bear, I decided to graduate a while back and am writing a new story for myself. Inspired by many authors and poets, family and friends, I heartedly agree with rupi kaur, “and now/ for the main event/ curtains up at fifty/let’s begin the show” (timeless).

My Personal Journey

• • My husband of fifteen years and I recently relocated to sunny Florida from the Pacific Northwest partly for his work on rockets but mostly to combat my intense seasonal depression. Menopause, burnout, illness, unresolved wounding, and depression created a desperation for renewal and were a few of my personal invitations to important changes.
  • My life’s twists and turns looked like divorce, remarriage, step-family relationships, miscarriage, depression, menopause, seasonal depression, thirty years in education, cross-country relocations, chronically ill children, military, while finding joy and gratitude along the way.
  • As a lifelong learner, I’ve recently completed training as a spiritual director from Denver Seminary and am currently learning about the Enneagram, leaning into creativity of all types, developing workshops / retreats, coaching teachers and people in or desiring transitions, volunteering at the local high school as a mentor and college application coach, and training our Bernese Mountain Dog.
  • In addition to learning and spending time with my family, I enjoy swimming, writing, quilting, riding my beach cruiser around the neighborhood, getting a Double Bergamot tea with a scone or muffin at the local bakery, making lists, and meeting up with friends for lunch or online.