MY STORY

A Journey of Better Being

I’m an imaginative seer of possibility, business consultant, experience facilitator, and inner wisdom guide. Like many, I was called to a quest for Better Being by disruptive events and a deep desire to create a more balanced, joyful and purposeful life.

I enjoyed a diverse and successful corporate career for more than 20 years, moving from marketing, innovation & creative services leadership with Baxter Healthcare and Cox Communications to an embedded consulting role with The Coca-Cola Company’s global headquarters in Atlanta. It was a thrill to work with world-class visionaries managing billion dollar brands and cross-functional teams chartered with pushing the boundaries of insight-driven strategy, marketing innovation, design thiinking & activation excellence on a global scale, Although I was enlivened creatively by my work, I valiantly and blindly led myself into physical and existential burnout.

Learning a Better Way

Life is a constant teacher us when we learn to listen with an open heart. In my mid-40s, I received a wake-up call that changed everything … a cancer diagnosis. Fortunately, I was surrounded by a supportive team of people and was in recovery in 6 months with clear inner knowing that I wanted to rebuild my wellbeing from the inside out.. For too long, I valued hard work over life balance, tended toward people-pleasing and believed my harsh inner critic. My heart longed to slow down, find a softer way of Being with myself, others & life itself. So I followed the call into deep self exploration, experiential awareness training, spiritual study, meditation and healing mind-body modalities.

This learning journey has spanned several decades now, including sobering “Dark Night” periods of excavating unhealthy protective patterns and the realization that at our quiet sovereign center … we are clear presence, intuitively wise, compassionate and joyful regardless of external circumstances. From this sense of embodied presence, we meet every moment with our whole heart, our clear mind and our will to live intentionally. For seven years, I studied, practiced and assisted with deep personal transformation group retreats, grounded in interactive Gestalt and NLP (Neurolinquistic Programming) facilitation, meditation, self inquiry techniques and somatic awareness training.

Now I know life serves as a masterful teacher, growing us forward when we are ready. Building a circle of soul friends has been critical..  We are not meant to live this rugged, mysterious and beautiful life alone. Which is why I hope to pay forward all I’ve been given and all I’ve learned to liberate the joy, compassion, wisdom and creative potential that lives within us all.

The world is calling for our wisdom and wise action.