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The journey begins within…

At some point, everyone needs healthcare. Whether to solve a health issue, prevent one, or maintain one’s health, all people turn to some form of healthcare interaction. Most people end up working in healthcare in order to help others. In the early 2010’s, I worked as a night shift paramedic, then as an ICU/ER nurse, and, eventually, I transitioned to the air ambulance service. Eventually, I found myself burnt out, suffering from severe adrenal fatigue, and on the edge of a breakdown. In 2015, I rediscovered yoga as a way to heal myself. When the opportunity presented to become a yoga teacher came along, I took it. Several months later, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). Great personal loss and healing over the next several years followed. My yoga practice saved me many times during this difficult period and helped me heal my injured body and spirit.

At the time, I was dealing with, and eventually recovering from, profoundly abusive situations in my professional and personal life. In doing so, I peeled back a huge layer of obstacles that prohibited me from following my dharma. I was a paramedic/nurse and an educator, and expected to always be in the service of others. In addition, societal pressures on healthcare workers caused me to ignore my own health needs. My professional workplace was toxic and abusive. There was no time allowed for self-care and those of us that developed serious mental health issues were marginalized and shamed. Because of this, I developed significant post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) which would negatively affect my life for years to come.

  • to be examples of health, but were never allowed a life that would support healthy living. We were required to sacrifice our health and lives in the service of “healing others,” mainly for the budgets of healthcare systems that failed our patients and us, time and time again. In 2015, I took a pause from direct nursing practice and spent the next several years honing my skills as an educator.

    After working my way up the academic and professional ladders, I earned my Master’s degree in Nursing in 2020 and returned to the nursing profession as a nurse educator in 2021. In a little over a year after my return to healthcare, I saw that it had only gotten worse for everyone, patients and workers alike. In 2022, I realized that if I was to continue pursuing professional success as a nurse leader, it meant risking all the health I had worked so hard to achieve and maintain after my MS diagnosis in 2015 and cancer scare in 2018. So, I quit the “dream job” at the ivy-league academic teaching hospital and gave up my long-fought-for career as a nurse educator and informaticist.

My road to recovery

For the next year, I processed many things: my mother’s impending death, a lifetime of denying my true calling, and how to navigate authentic relationships for the first time in my life, to name a few. In addition, it was difficult to detach my identity from my former occupations as a paramedic and nurse. Working through this ego attachment stripped away another layer of identity and attachment to my former self.

Through meditation and regular yoga practice, I discovered that the answers I had been searching for my entire life were within me the whole time. Now, I help others realize their own power through integrative serivces, such as meditation coaching, mindfulness mentoring, and psychedelic integration guidance.

My goal is to help others see what I see in them.

We all have the potential to become what we were truly meant to embody.  

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