About Me

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I created Lighthouse Healing as a space for exploration, awareness, and connection.

For much of my life, I thought understanding myself would automatically create change. If I learned enough, reflected enough, or found the right answer, things would be different.

What I eventually discovered was that awareness and change are not the same thing.

I could understand a pattern and still repeat it. I could recognize a behavior and still struggle to change it. I could know exactly what I wanted to do and still find myself doing something different.

Those experiences led me to become deeply curious about the relationship we have with ourselves.

Why do we do things we know aren't serving us? 

Why do certain patterns feel so difficult to change? 

How do repeated experiences become identities? 

What helps us move from awareness to action? 

And what does it actually mean to create a life that feels good to live?

While I didn't know it at the time, that curiosity would eventually become Lighthouse Healing.

Before this, I didn't realize how disconnected I was from myself.

I was moving through life with drive but very little awareness of what was happening within me. Most of my responses felt automatic, leaving very little space between what I felt and how I reacted.

As I continued practicing yoga, mindfulness, and other body-based approaches, I started noticing things earlier. Sensations. Emotions. Patterns. Needs. Choices.

What surprised me most was not what I discovered. It was what became possible once I noticed it.

Over time, I learned that awareness creates options. The more connected I became to my own experience, the more space I had to respond intentionally instead of automatically. That understanding continues to shape both my life and my work.

Many of the reflections, practices, and ideas shared throughout Lighthouse Healing grew out of those experiences.  They began as questions I was trying to answer for myself and observations I was making about my own life.

I realized that many of the experiences that felt uniquely mine were actually deeply human. The more openly we talk about patterns, relationships, uncertainty, shame, growth, and change, the more we realize we are often navigating similar struggles.

My hope is not to provide answers. It is to offer questions, perspectives, and experiences that invite people to become more curious about themselves.

Working with children and families has become one of the most meaningful parts of my work.

The more time I spent exploring awareness, self-trust, emotional regulation, and the relationship we have with ourselves, the more I found myself thinking the same thing:

"I wish I had learned some of these skills earlier."

Not because they would have prevented every challenge, but because they would have helped me understand myself sooner.

Many of the skills we spend years trying to develop as adults can begin much earlier. Learning to recognize emotions. Learning to listen to our bodies. Learning to understand what we need. Learning to trust ourselves.

Through Lighthouse Explorers, I help create opportunities for children to build self-awareness, confidence, emotional understanding, and practical tools they can carry with them as they grow.

Helping children develop a relationship with themselves before they spend twenty years trying to rebuild it has become one of the guiding ideas behind this work.

Self-awareness is not something we suddenly develop as adults. It is something we can begin building from the very beginning.