My own life curriculum brought me to this work. One of pursuit, seeking, unraveling, and returning to myself.

Growing up, I was deeply sensitive and had a hard time making sense of the world around me. My response was adaptation. I learned to pay close attention, fit in, and perform, believing that this would lead me toward the safety and happiness I was seeking.

I worked hard. I achieved. I built a career and a life I was proud of. It looked beautiful on the outside.

Internally, I felt increasingly disconnected from myself. Numb. Lonely. Stuck. My life was full, yet I did not feel fully alive.

Subtle nudges grew louder until I could no longer ignore the sense that there had to be another way of being in relationship with myself and my life.

What followed was a gradual, soul-led reorientation.

I began saying yes to things that felt right in my body, even if my logical brain could not explain their role. A two-year ethnobotanical herbalism program focused on women’s health. Becoming a birth doula. Exploring many facets of spirituality and traditional practice that my soul sought out. I followed what stirred curiosity, resonance, and a sense of aliveness.

None of it felt like a carefully designed plan. It felt more like learning to trust a different kind of knowing.

Again and again, I was being invited to look inward, and to pay attention to what could not always be seen, measured, or consciously understood.

Intuition as a source of information.
The body as something worth listening to.
Imagination, dreams, patterns, and symbols as carriers of meaning.
The natural world as relationship, not backdrop.
Ways of knowing that had been quieted by a lifetime of looking outward for direction.

Eventually, that nonlinear path led me more deeply into coaching and depth psychology, both of which gave language and structure to something I had already begun to experience: the conscious mind is only one part of what is available to us, and when we are open to what lies beneath the surface, we can find a deeper sense of belonging, aliveness, and purpose.

That understanding shapes the way I coach today.

The Woven Wild grew from my own experience of learning to trust what I had once been taught to override: instinct, curiosity, the body, imagination, and the quieter pull toward what feels true.

This work is where those ways of knowing now come together, in service of helping others live with more connection, aliveness, and intention.