I know the body. And I know what it holds.

For over 30 years, I’ve worked with people through touch, breath, health and presence. On the massage table. During an Ayurvedic health assessment. In circles of grieving hearts. At the bedside at the end of life. Again and again, I’ve seen the same truth: the body remembers what the mind tries to forget.

How I Got Here.

I spent years in a corporate job that looked fine from the outside. Inside, I was coming apart. The same painful relationships kept showing up. My body filled with illness and pain no one could explain.

I’m a recovering people-pleaser and a highly sensitive person. I know what it’s like to love everyone else first and yourself last.

So I left. I followed the ache into massage school and an Ayurveda Health practice, and that’s where everything cracked open. Lying on the table, I felt what I’d been holding for years. Old grief. Old fear. Years of giving myself away. It was all there, stored in my body. When I finally made room to feel it, my body began to let it go.

That was the beginning of everything I teach today.

Why I Work With Grief.

Grief isn’t only about death. It’s the marriage that ended. The parent who couldn’t love you the way you needed. The life you thought you’d have. The child in you who never felt safe.

I’ve come to believe grief sits underneath so much of what we call anxiety, overwhelm, and pain. Unfelt, it gets stuck. Felt safely, it becomes a doorway.

As an End-of-Life Doula, I sit with people at the most tender threshold there is. That work taught me how to be with grief without flinching. Without rushing. Without trying to fix it. That’s what I offer you.

Why I Start With the Body.

It’s not all in your head. Most of us were taught to think our way out of pain. Analyze it. Talk about it. Push through. But feelings don’t live in thoughts alone. They live in your breath. Your belly. Your shoulders. Your jaw.

I’ve studied the body from every angle. The science of how it works, through graduate study in medical physiology. The wisdom of how it heals, through Ayurveda, bodywork, and somatic practice. And the quiet, felt sense of it, through years of meditation and hands-on healing.

So when I say my work is body-first, I mean it. We begin where the feeling actually lives.

The Heal Your Story Method

Everything I’ve learned comes together in the method I created. Four gentle phases:

Awareness. Noticing what your body has been holding.
Acknowledgment. Letting it be real, without judgment.
Empowerment. Giving it a safe way to move, and choosing differently.
Mastery. Coming home to yourself, again and again.

My training and background:

• End-of-Life Doula and Grief Specialist
• Licensed Massage Therapist
• Craniosacral Therapy
• Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner
• Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher
• Trauma-Informed Somatic Healing
• Advanced Consciousness-Based Healing Techniques
• Reiki and Healing Light Therapy
• Graduate Studies in Medical Physiology
• Faculty Member, The Shift Network
• Speaker at The Global Healing Summit
• Creator of the Heal Your Story Method
• Host of the Heal Your Story Podcast and author of Roots and Tendrils

When I’m Not Holding Space

I live in Maine, along a big, moving river. It’s my greatest teacher. It never holds on to anything. It just keeps flowing.

I write poetry. My book, Roots and Tendrils, is my own story of love, loss, and learning to come home to myself.

Your Heart Has Waited Long Enough

Whether it’s anxiety that won’t let go or grief that won’t soften, you don’t have to carry it alone.

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