My OMazing Story
I grew up outside of Chicago and moved to London in 1988 . I graduated from the American School in London in 1992 and went to Colorado College where I met my husband and best friends. I graduated in 1996 and moved to the Bay Area. After eight years in San Francisco, my husband and I moved to Park City in 2004 just a few months before our son was born. His sister arrived nearly four years later.
Both kiddos enrolled in a dual-immersion French program in first grade. In 2018, the three of us moved to Aix En Provence for a semester. The kids attended a French school each day and I wandered around and reset.
I refer to this time as my “Spiritual Sabbatical.”
The dream of living in France started with the seed of intention. I believe in the power of intentions not because they are magical, although maybe they are….but when I named specifically what I wanted, what it looked like, what it felt like, I could then start to make actionable steps.
I returned from France and certified to be a birth doula and a childbirth instructor. I worked with couples teaching for the University of Utah and privately for the next six years.
I followed the thread of curiosity. One thing lead to another and from 2019-2021, I certified to be a prenatal yoga teacher, postpartum doula, lactation counselor and a perinatal mental health provider.
In 2023, I graduated from the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. My teachers Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach, mentor Emily Horn and my peers showed me the way to a more peaceful path. I continue to study and teach both yoga and mindfulness. I work with a few clients 1:1 to support their journey navigating messy lives.
The following year, our family moved down Parley’s Canyon and split our time living between Park City and Holladay. I took a position as a substitute teacher of mindfulness and yoga at a psychiatric hospital in Salt Lake City. I traded the time I spent focusing on my doula and childbirth clients to my writing projects and continued to be involved with Hive Family Collective and private mindfulness coaching.