Where to even start… I started my corporate career out of college and like many, learned to embrace the challenge, politics and shenanigans of corporate life. In the first four years of my career, I was killing myself. Working 12 hour days, constantly stress dreaming about work, drinking or smoking to cope with even the smallest irritations. For what? 3 weeks of vacation and a promotion, maybe?

 

As a recovering people pleaser, I can now acknowledge that I did a lot of that to myself. It took a DUI for me to reprioritize my life, to learn to set boundaries, to realize...I couldn’t do it all on my own and what I had been doing was NOT cutting it. I hope for you that it doesn’t take something that traumatic to see that you are worthy of more. 

 

I kept my job, even got promoted later that year, but more importantly, I started therapy, my journey into sobriety, I cut the bullshit and started getting real about healing my childhood fears of abandonment and rejection. Most importantly, I consciously made a choice to choose me, love me, heal me, take care of me, because I still wanted to help others and contribute to the world in a positive way deep down to my core. 

 

Within my first year of sobriety, I became a certified yoga instructor.  I started to nourish my body and truly appreciate all it does for me through nutrition and movement. Bridging the healing of my mind with proper nutrition and movement lit a fire under me to do more for myself.

 

Within my second year, I started working with a life coach myself, something I had always had interest in, but was also slightly skeptical of - because, well, how do I know it will help if they’re not a psychologist or “trained to a level of my understanding”? It’s bullshit, I know, but I didn’t let fear stop me. That was a year of yes for me, a year to embrace anything and everything that could help me grow because I wanted growth and let me tell you, I regret nothing. 

 

Since then, I’ve received an additional Yoga certification in Yin Yoga, survived the pandemic year of 2020, became a pole instructor to help others fall in love with their body’s and feel comfortable in their own skin #empoweringAF and became a certified self love coach myself, because this ish is too good to not share with you.