Growing up, I learned to hide my pain and pretend everything was okay. One day, I experienced a wake-up call.

Born and raised in California, I grew up in an unstable home environment where I learned at a young age to minimize my own needs. This worked throughout my formative years and my early years as a corporate professional. So well in fact, that I ticked my boxes for success and was left wondering, “Is that all there is?” While everything seemed great on the outside, I felt empty on the inside.

So empty that it felt like my soul was actually dying, to the point where I would spend my daily commute wishing I could crash my car. After weeks of this, I got into a car accident and that became my wake-up call. Yet even then, I couldn’t articulate what was wrong.

In hindsight, it was clear that my unresolved issues were trying to get my attention. First through stress, burnout, inexplicable dread, and bouts of crying. Then through louder signals in the form of anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and physical health issues over a period of years: a rare urological condition, infertility, and an autoimmune disease.

I finally had to stop pretending and face the reality that I was in physical, mental, and emotional pain. I began to pay attention to what my body was communicating through discomfort and illness, and what I could do beyond conventional medicine to heal, grow, and thrive.

Over the years, I explored many holistic and complementary approaches alongside medical treatment. It’s now been 15 years since my eye-opening car accident that kicked off a journey of deep exploration, consistent personal practice, and embodying what works.

I bring the entirety of my life experience into Ignite Wellness – I’ve turned my pain into purpose, health issues into insight, my academic and corporate background into a strategic zoom-in and zoom-out approach, and my holistic training - from yoga, yoga therapy, hypnosis, energy healing, sound therapy, to psychology frameworks, and even tarot - into deep inner knowing and embodied living.

I plan to keep adding to my repertoire to deepen and broaden my experience. This is truly just the beginning. 

I pour all of me in Ignite Wellness so that you can have all of you back. If you’re living a life where you’re feeling stuck, empty, disconnected, or fragmented, Ignite Wellness is for you.