About me
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As a trained lawyer and certified executive coach, I help clients identify areas in life where internal conflict is holding them back. The root of my work is found in each person’s integrity: the knowledge and guidance that is in each of us leading towards what is true. If you feel frustrated, stressed, unhappy, or unfulfilled, you can take control of your life to create balance and joy.
Coaching for success
Now certified by the International Coaching Federation and the Wayfinder Life Coach Training program, I came into to this field feeling like a lot of you probably are: skeptical.
Yes, me too!
But it works. Wayfinder Coaching specifically teaches that when we tune into the signals of the feelings of our body - doing more of the things that make us feel great and less of the things that make us want to curl up in a ball under our desks - we are led in the direction of purpose and fulfillment. Over the past three years I’ve been consistently applying these tools, what I know to be true for me is that it feels good and right to follow the voice inside you. When I have done that, I have felt supported even in some of life’s most difficult times. Especially during life’s most difficult times. I credit what I have learned to:
Reducing my overall stress levels and increasing my happiness.
Getting a substantial raise and increase in authority at my previous job.
Reducing my working hours to spend more time with my kids, including working half-time over the summer.
Speaking out publicly about causes that are important to me.
Buying a new home and re-designing our family life.
Navigating the grief of the unexpected of death of my mom from cancer with presence and gratitude.
Loving my life, my home, and my family like never before.
The W. B. Yeats poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree - the company’s namesake - describes an island paradise. It is a call to return, even in the middle of our daily stress, to the calm and peace that is always with us.
We are going to experience conflict and pain, but it doesn’t need to take over. Life really just is too short. The paradoxical and frustrating truth is that sometimes our stress or unhappiness can turn us in exactly the right direction to feel freer, truer, and more content. That is what this is really about.
People are experiencing record levels of chronic pain. Systems we rely on are not working. Lawyers are burnt out. We can navigate life events with confidence when we are centred in our truth. Making small changes not only bring us joy, but helps us align with who we really are, and these changes are echoed in the world and those around us.
If you’re interested in hearing more, contact me.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy
Most of my legal career has been working with people who’ve experienced trauma. What I find again and again is that the systems that we rely on to bring justice aren’t designed to give us what we’re looking for.
For so many, the insurance and legal systems work to re-traumatize injured people and lengthen their recoveries rather than shorten them.
Pain Reprocessing Therapy is a proven therapeutic approach that addresses neuroplastic pain - pain that is very real but that originates in your brain rather than the area that is hurting. Using techniques like guided imagery, mindfulness, and cognitive restructuring, pain reprocessing therapy helps re-train your brain that areas that it is working hard to protect areas that have physically healed.
If you are living with chronic pain and want to learn more about this method, please contact me to learn more.