Former Investment Professional Turned Wellness Coach

I continued to live this way until I became pregnant with my son in 2016.  Somewhere deep in my soul I knew that creating a life within me would be the catalyst for a drastic alteration to the path of my own life. I intuitively knew that this was my opportunity to begin to face fears within myself, and heal negative patterns that had existed in my family for generations. Shortly after the birth of my son I started to pay attention and noticed that the path I was on was seriously wrong.  I did not feel safe in my body and I struggled immensely with shame, self-loathing, deep-sadness, and extreme loneliness.  Loneliness that I would later learn did not come from a lack of connection with others, but myself.  

I took a deep dive into self-help books and sought out advice from friends who were in stable relationships, and had themselves put in work to become a better version of themselves.  I started looking more closely at my spirituality, and practicing gratitude for the blessings that the universe has provided me.  I started working with a therapist, and a counsellor, and realized that while many people may have influenced my life choices and caused me trauma, I had to accept the fact that I didn’t know what I didn’t know at the time. Throughout this process, I learned that the only person who could be truly held accountable for relieving my pain and suffering was me. 

That's when the real inner work began and my call to help others on their path was born.  

Fast forward to my current life where I’ve relocated to beautiful North Vancouver to be closer to my ex-husband. (yes, you read that correctly)  I have followed the call of blending my skills as a counsellor with my experience in the investment field where I wore many hats, integrated powerful coaching skills in both managing people and counselling clients on growing and protecting their wealth.  I believe deeply in transparency and I hope this will help build your confidence in my holistic work so that we can journey together into being a better version of yourself. 

Somewhere in the middle of the story mentioned above I also discovered a connection to spirituality.  It started in a forest as I was hiking with a girlfriend, and a bird was loudly squawking. For some reason as we traversed around the base of a mountain that bird kept following us.  I quickly became intensely aware of the bird, and was fixated on finding it and discovered it was a raven.  My friend Riley asked me if I watched for signs and knew what a raven spirit animal meant.  Of course I was like WTF are you talking about? Her explanation and my later research on a ravens appearance in ones life literally blew my mind.  My whole body lit up like this message was divinely meant for me.  I was already deep in introspection around how I was living my life, and had an intuitive knowing that the path I was on wasn’t right for me. The research confirmed for me even more that I was deeply entrenched in a spiritual awakening, and great transformation was ahead of me.  We booked a session with a medium for a couple of months down the road, and two days later I found a four leaf clover bending over to pick something up. The signs just kept showing up for me. 

It was just the beginning of beautiful and painful path for me where there were a lot of endings and new beginnings.  I decided that life was far too short to keep living disconnected, unhappy and unhealthy, but I had an ominous feeling something was coming.  I just didn’t know what, and it turned out to be worse than I expected. My dad suddenly passed away shortly after this feeling.  During my grief, I started seeing feathers everywhere and following the signs that my dad was still with me and believed in guidance from the universe to keep going down the spiritual path.  The timing of the visit to the medium confirmed everything I knew to be true but was still grappling with.  My dads favourite song was by a band called Trooper and you may not know them, but you’d surely know the song. “We’re here for a good time, not a long time.” So not only did we play it at his funeral,  I’ve used it as a mantra to continue to pursue a life where I am truly and authentically myself, one where I live every day to the fullest and remember that life is short. The feather is my inspiration, and I’ve got one tattooed on my side with the saying “life is short” is latin (Vita Brevis) as a reminder of why I chose to change my life in the first place. 

Now a self-proclaimed spiritual gal, I seek guidance from the universe in my regular meditation practice, yoga, energy healing, sound healing sessions, forest bathing and many other modalities.  I've learned to tap into my intution and integrate my connection to sprirt in work with my clients.  I offer a Holistic Therapeutic approach utilizing Counselling, Coaching, Energy & Sound Healing based in beautiful North Vancouver.