My Story

 For the last 25 years I have been working as a marketing consultant in the healthcare industry and dedicated both my professional and personal growth to helping others through transformation. Whether that is promoting a product/service, organizing an event, or caring for a friend or family member in need, I have a passion for coaching those who are spiritual and eager to make positive and healthy changes in their lives.

As a holistic life coach with a specialty in career and health challenges, work life balance, and decluttering/reorganizing home and office spaces, I honor my clients awareness of the many levels of personal change involved in every life transition from a physical, mental, and spiritual perspective. My own journey started with a health scare causing me to pursue a new lifestyle, fitness routine, and nutritional plan for myself and family. This led me to Louise Hay, the Hay House family, and eventually to Alan Cohen’s Foundation for Holistic Life Coaching for a certification. Through this new level of awareness, I have realized that my joy lies in empowering others to dig deep and look within to find their passions and purpose.

In my early 50’s, facing a health challenge of very high cholesterol and a history of heart disease in my family, I decided it is time to change the way I nurture my body. Through Hay House and a Wayne Dyer radio show, I was introduced to Pam McDonald, Nurse Practitioner and Founder of the APO E Gene Diet and the best selling book, The Perfect Gene Diet. This comprehensive work by Pam reveals the latest breakthrough in health and nutrition focusing on the APO E gene, which affects cholesterol levels, heart and Alzheimer’s disease, and much more. Through only six months of her health coaching program, my cholesterol is well within normal levels and I feel better than ever.  By following her nutritional, exercise, and mindfulness plan for my specific gene type, it has literally changed my life.  

As far as my credentials and life experience, I am an engineer by education with a masters degree in business administration so have worked with both large and small companies and people of varying professions. Most of my career has been spent in project management so I have a strong background with setting and achieving goals, organizing and implementing programs, and training others to grow and succeed. Besides my certification in holistic life coaching, I have also obtained a certification in health coaching through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN).

Being part of a military family has provided me the gift of traveling and living in many places throughout the world. I’ve also been blessed with caring for my mother who was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer before her passing and looked after my younger sister through her middle school years after my parents divorced.

My early childhood was spent living with a birth defect. I was born with a large growth on my bottom lip called an hemangioma.  It grew to the size of a large cherry and was very noticeable by anyone I came in contact with. I lived through quite a bit of ridicule and judgement by others.  It also became very painful as it continued to grow and there were many doctors who tried to treat and reduce the size of it. Fortunately at the age of ten, I was able to have it removed after three operations by an oral surgeon with no trace or noticeable scar on my face.  So I have a lot of compassion for those who face birth defects and disabilities knowing how this shapes your self esteem.  These life skills have served me well as I help others in my holistic life and health coaching career.

I reside in the Boston area with my husband and 2 teenage boys, am a health food cook, avid reader, and nature lover. And absolutely love spending time in the mountains with my family hiking, kayaking, and skiing.