Living What I Teach.

My path began in words and design, first as a writer, then as a designer, and eventually as a marketer. By my early twenties, I was living in Philadelphia and building a future in the corporate world. Yet grief had already left its mark. I lost my mom at nineteen and my dad a few years later, and their absence reshaped everything I thought I knew about success and purpose. Loss became the quiet current beneath my life, pulling me toward questions no career could answer and preparing me for a journey I could never have imagined.

Out of that broken ground came a dream that felt like a message. Soon after, an opportunity appeared that I couldn’t ignore. I left everything behind and set out for the other side of the world, carrying only trust that I was being called to begin again.

China became home for more than three years. I taught English, experienced Traditional Chinese Medicine firsthand, and immersed myself fully in the culture. Daily life became as much my teacher as formal study. Later, in Cambodia, I spent six months volunteering and meditating alongside monks. I lived simply, often in silence, surrounded by rituals that slowed me down and returned me to what really matters. Those years abroad opened me in ways I never expected. They showed me that healing is not something you chase. It is something you receive when you live with presence, gratitude, and connection.

When I returned home, I carried those lessons into both my work and my personal life. As a single parent, I’ve learned that balance doesn’t always come easily. Mindfulness reminds me it was never about perfection. It is about practice, a way of being that weaves through how we work, how we lead, and how we live.

To deepen what I’d lived and learned, I trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, studying with leading experts including Deepak Chopra. The program helped put words and structure around the lessons my own life had already shown me.

Today, I share this work with individuals and organizations who want to navigate change with clarity, build resilience in the face of challenge, and cultivate balance and creativity in their lives and workplaces. This is not theory. It is lived experience, shaped by both loss and renewal, and strengthened by years of practice. It is the path I continue to walk, and the one that continues to teach me how to live fully.