Welcome!

I am a California native who loves exploring life and the mystical through writing.

Wakeful Being emerged from writing I began while traversing a difficult season of my life spanning a decade. At the time many aspects of my life were brought to a screeching halt. During this hiatus, I began putting my experiences on paper. What started as inquiry into unrelenting emotional and physical struggles, turned into Soul Conversations reflecting much larger truths and life lessons.

While I’m not a writer by trade, it is a favored creative outlet, and also provided the foundation for my social-emotional learning (SEL) based mentorship offering.

The pieces of my background I’ve enjoyed the most are my experiences with teaching, mentoring and counseling. I’ve spent decades learning about human development and personal growth including completing graduate studies in psychology and working in the mental health space.

My lifelong inquisitive nature has taken me from west to east (metaphorically) exploring all things that bring the body, mind and spirit into harmony. However, it was mainly my own struggle with anxiety that fanned the flame of my curiosity in these topics. Anxiety was the teacher I’d tried to run from my whole life. So, I set out to see what it was trying to tell me and it had a lot to say.

I ultimately learned that whether exploring challenges with body, mind or spirit, an essential question became: what would my Wisest Self have to say about this situation?

This inquiry has been life changing in the way I walk through life’s ups and downs. It’s also what informed a long overdue leap of faith to leave the familiarity of the corporate world after 18 years, for something far more purposeful and heart-centered.

The shift from existing to living intentionally has taught me that peace is found when we inhabit all of ourselves in our Wholeness. It’s an ongoing process but it gives me tremendous hope for living an authentic life aligned with my values. I hope you will join me in this intention and find ways you can access your own innate Wisdom.