ABOUT ME
Why am I here?
I get it because I was there...
After 17 years in military intelligence, I knew how to perform under pressure, but not how to live without it. Nine deployments, high-risk operations, traumatic events swept under the rug to keep moving on.
I had spent my entire life in survival mode: reading the room, holding it together, and mistaking achievement for safety.
It took hitting rock bottom overseas - panic attacks, burnout, and total collapse - for me to finally reassess the life I was living.
In trauma recovery, I learned my drive to overperform was rooted in old survival patterns. I began to redefine success, not as constant motion, but as grounded clarity.
I reconnected to my body, my faith, and the parts of me I’d silenced for decades.
And from there, I rebuilt my life, one aligned with peace, purpose, and presence instead of pressure.
Now, I help other high-pressure professionals do the same: to stop surviving their lives and start actually living them.
My Mission
Why I do this
After years in military intelligence, I understand the cost of operating under constant pressure. I help professionals in high-pressure careers reassess, redefine, and reconnect with themselves to rebuild the life they’ve been too busy to live.
My Experience (the brief version)
I spent seventeen years in military intelligence, serving with some of the most elite special operations teams in the world. I thrived in that high-pressure environment, long hours, quick decisions, constant missions. From the outside, it looked like I had it all together. But underneath, I was running on adrenaline, perfectionism, and old survival patterns that had started long before the military.
I grew up in rural Colorado, in a home where connection was unpredictable and safety was earned by staying alert. That early wiring made me exceptional at reading a room, anticipating threats, and keeping control. It also made it nearly impossible to rest, to trust, or to stop performing.
Over time, I started to reassess. Panic attacks, exhaustion, and physical symptoms were showing me that my body couldn’t live in overdrive anymore. I began to see how my drive to achieve was tied to old wounds, how I’d learned to equate worth with performance. Reassessing meant asking hard questions: What am I running from? What’s actually driving me?
That awareness pulled me to redefine my life. When I finally broke down overseas - panic attacks, insomnia, and a body that refused to keep up - I had to let go of who I’d been. In trauma treatment, I learned that what I thought was strength was actually self-protection. Redefining meant releasing old identities: the fixer, the overachiever, the one who holds it all together.
The hardest and most beautiful part was reconnecting with myself, others, and God. Through Internal Family Systems, somatic work, and deep faith, I met the parts of me I had abandoned: the little girl who never felt safe, the inner critic who thought perfection was protection, the body that had been signaling distress for years. I learned to listen instead of override. I discovered that rest isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom.
Finally, I slowly started to rebuild. Today, my life looks completely different because it’s built from the inside out. My values determine my pace. My nervous system, not my schedule, sets my priorities. I live aligned, not just accomplished. And I help other high-pressure professionals do the same.
I teach them to reassess from adrenaline to awareness, to build nervous system intelligence, to create structure that serves peace, not chaos. Because when you lead from alignment instead of survival, your performance becomes sustainable, and your life becomes your mission.