The picture to the left (see below) is of me at 18 years old when my eating disorder was at its worst. I weighed 118 pounds and was binging and purging 8-12 times per day. Multiple sexual violations by this time left me with a deep sense of self-loathing and disgust.

After years of being made to feel that the only purpose for my existence was to please men, at 24 years old, I finally found a man who made me feel like I was deserving of love and respect. He provided me with a glimmer of hope. But that hope disappeared the morning I found him dead.

After that, my life began to spiral out of control. I tried pushing away my sadness with food. I reached 222 pounds (middle picture) and had high cholesterol and sleep apnea before the age of 30. I couldn't work for a while because of my deep depression, which resulted in stacks of unpaid bills and constant calls from debt collectors. I contemplated suicide daily because I thought that life would not get any better. But it did!

The last picture is of me in 2021, at 39 years old, standing in my freedom pose. This pose symbolizes the freedom and sense of victory I feel over breaking free from my traumas.

I've emerged from my darkest days into a life that is barely recognizable. I now have many loving relationships, I completed my doctorate degree, I'm a college professor, I've traveled around the world, and I use what I've learned on my healing journey to help others on theirs.

• Do you find it difficult to trust yourself or others? 
• Do you find yourself crying for no reason?  
• Do you resist speaking your thoughts and opinions for fear of rejection? 

• Do you have goals you want to achieve, but you feel that something is holding you back?
• Do you feel like the weight of the world is crushing you?
• Do you suffer from chronic pain?
• Do you get so overwhelmed at times that you feel hopeless, and that life will never get any better?  

If you answered yes to any of these questions, this course is for you! Through this course, you will become aware of how your past trauma is still affecting your life even if it has long since passed. Through this awareness and the tools you will learn in this course, you will be able to take control of your life instead of letting your trauma control you!

I've taken what I've learned from my years of healing, my years of studying and teaching about the human body and mind, and my years of studying human potential and condensed it into this program. 

As a life coach, my job is to challenge you and push you farther than you would push yourself, to encourage you to grow and experience change, and ultimately the transformation you're looking for. Transformation cannot occur without growth, without change, and without becoming someone you never were before.

I would be honored to partner with you on your own healing journey.

Like many others who’ve experienced trauma, I used to be inflamed by phrases like, “You’ve gotta move on” or “You gotta move forward.” Early in my life when my traumas were at their worst, I would want to scream, “But you have no idea what I’ve gone through!” I would be enraged at their ignorance or disregard of the pain I had endured. As I got a little separation from my pain, I would want to put my head down in defeat when I heard these phrases, frustrated by the enormity of what they were suggesting. It seemed impossible. What made these comments worse is that these individuals were never able to tell me how to move forward. They would just spout the little bit of knowledge and understanding they had of trauma, which always culminated into some version of “Just get over it”.

Given the little appreciation I have for the times I’ve been told to “Just move on”, you may find it odd that I chose to use the words “moving forward” in the title of this program. It’s, of course, on purpose. I feel like this message is on replay in various shapes and forms in the lives of all of us who’ve experienced trauma, with very little, if any, explanation on how to even accomplish that task. It usually comes from people who want us to stop making them uncomfortable when we share our stories of suffering, who’ve never experienced trauma, or they’re just parroting back the same destructive messages they heard after experiencing their own trauma.

That’s why this course is not about giving you information. This course is about giving you tools that you can immediately begin using to pick up your broken pieces and mend the jagged edges back together. It’s about finally giving you a path so you can achieve the difficult, but not impossible task of moving forward after your trauma.

You might be surprised that a course on trauma recovery only includes three components—self-care, goal setting, and reframing. However, these three tools were what I needed to move through and beyond every single one of my traumas. I continue to use these three tools to move through and beyond any difficult situation in my life. You will learn how you can do the same!

This course will teach you how to use these three tools to evaluate where you currently are and create a plan to change. What's even better is that you won't be doing it alone! I'll be your partner on this journey.