MY STORY

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 early on to minimize my own needs to feel safe and loved. That survival pattern carried me through school and into my early career. I checked the boxes of conventional success. But inside, I felt empty - like I was living someone else’s life.

So empty that it felt like my soul was slowly dying. I spent my daily commute wishing I could crash my car, just to make it all stop. After weeks of this, I did get into a car accident, and that became my wake-up call. Yet, even then, I still couldn’t articulate what was wrong. 

Over the years, my unresolved pain began speaking louder: stress, burnout, dread, anxiety. Constant hypervigilance. Then physical health issues, one after the other: a rare urological condition, infertility, and an autoimmune disease.

Which each successive health issue and their disruptive symptoms, I finally had to face the reality that I was in physical, mental, and emotional pain. Facing reality and learning to tune into the language of my mind, body, breath, and energy shifted everything. I learned my pain was a signal that I had strayed too far from myself, and my pain was calling me home.

After years of living behind layers of armor - doing what was expected, staying “strong,” and checking the boxes for external validation, I began asking what it meant to come home to myself. Slowly, I started making changes from the inside out.

What followed was a path of inner work, devoted personal practice, and a commitment to living in alignment - with mind, body, and spirit - and to discovering what it truly means to embody healing. Along the way, I learned to integrate holistic practices with conventional care, to reclaim self-agency and wholeness.

I bring all of that into Ignite Wellness, transforming pain into purpose, health challenges into insight, and training across disciplines into grounded, soul-aligned support.

My early career in accounting and organizational development shaped how I see systems, patterns, and change. It gave me a zoom-in, zoom-out lens I still use in my work today. Combined with training in yoga therapy, hypnosis, energy healing, sound therapy, psychology frameworks, and even tarot, I support each client with both intuitive depth and practical strategy.

I love that I'm a lifelong learner - continually evolving, refining, integrating, and expanding. This is truly just the beginning.

I pour all of me into Ignite Wellness so that you can have all of you back. If you feel stuck, disconnected, or fragmented from your true self - this space was made for your return.