Hello, I am so happy your curiosity led you read more about my life and healing journey. I am a married mother of two Neurodiverse children and live in Sag Harbor, NY with my husband, dog, backyard squirrels, and wild turkeys! ​After decades of remembering who I AM and AM NOT, I have arrived at a place that is mostly in balance with the people and things I love, space to tend to my needs and cultivate my passion & gifts to share in the world. That is what I wish for you and I want say that it is all possible as you heal and remember too!   

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I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s, a time of social upheaval. My parents were divorced and remarried multiple times and were preoccupied with their relationships, money and careers. In my childhood, I experienced abandonment, neglect and the absence of safe, reliable adults so I had to navigate my way at a young age. I never felt like I was enough, that I fit in, or that there was enough for me.  The only person I trusted was me - or so I thought. I was abandoning myself all the time without realizing it.

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Like many teenage girls, I had an unhealthy obsession with my body image, food, and weight. That led to pursue an education in nutrition and becoming a Nutritionist at a major NYC Hospital. I continued my education with a Master’s in Public Health (because a B.S. wasn't enough) and moved to NYC to pursue my career. I was ambitious and driven. However, my emotional maturation was arrested from childhood wounding that included rejection, abandonment and betrayal. This eventually led to my ‘bottom’ in my mid-30s ~ I was in a constant state of activity as a workaholic, a shopaholic, a work-out-aholic, a binge eater and a date-aholic. I began in ernest to try to understand why I was sabotaging my hapiness and began seeing therapists, going to retreats and attending Al Anon meetings. 

 

At the same time, I managed to have a successful 25-year career in Corporate America in NYC and eventually bought a home in Sag Harbor for my mental health and well-being. A year later, I took a vacation to St. Lucia and met my future husband. We married 18 months later and I was pregnant within three months—a true miracle at 40! My entire life changed.  Six years after my son was born, we adopted our beautiful daughter at five weeks old. This was another miracle.

 

Although I had acheived what I longed for, I was exhausted and overwhelmed trying to maintain the same level of performance in my career while taking care of my young children and maintaining a relationship with my husband. Everything suffered and there was no space for me and my needs. I was literally breaking my neck trying to do it all and I didn’t like my life.

 

Something had to change and change it did. That's when I found my way to a local Energy Healer. 

 

Through events I consider to be Divine Timing,  I hit my next bottom. My body was hurting, I had neuropathy in my hands and discovered I needed major surgery to fuse 3 vertebrae in my neck from an old ski accident. As I healed, my world stopped spinning and for the first time in my life, I did nothing. As I convelesced for several months, I started to feel new clarity in my priorities. I heard my guidance in a small, still place within me saying that my Soul was dying and I had to rediscover who I truly was.

 

I decided to leave my corporate career and enroll in the highly respected 4-year Brennan School of Healing Science (BBSH), an accredited college in Florida, and began to transform my life. I never looked back. I loved everything about the school, the teachers, classmates and learning. I finally felt a deep sense of belonging. 

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After I completed the four years, I continued my training in the Advanced Studies Graduate Program at BBSH and am now in private practice.  During COVID, I established weekly free Zoom meditations and led workshops which continue today.  I offer my therapeutic healing modality 1:1 in person, in groups, and on Zoom. Now, as a practicing Brennan Integrative Energy Therapist and Healer, I am also living in the fulfillment of another dream, to be a teacher at BBSH in Florida.