What if the contribution you were born to make was simply slowing down and loving your small corner of the world?
My Story
After ten years in my coaching business, I had attained everything successful people in our culture are supposed to want. But inside, my thoughts were at odds with my reality.
I had a thriving coaching business and a loyal audience but was constantly trying to prove myself and was exhausted. I was in the top 1% of income earners as a coach but I felt like too much and not enough at the same time. I had the money to build a beautiful home, but I didn’t feel like the work I was doing really mattered
I felt empty.
My definitions of success, impact, and purpose no longer fit me. But I didn’t know what to replace them with. With no other choice, I stayed curious about the gnawing emptiness and the question it kept asking me:
“If not this, then what?”
A seed was planted in that inner emptiness back in 2019, when I read Stephen Cope’s book The Great Work of Your Life. He explained that we were each here to make our contribution to the world by tending to our small corners of it.
This idea challenged every fear I had about what it meant to live a purposeful life. If people didn’t see me striving and achieving, I was certain they wouldn’t hire me. It didn’t feel like there was enough room in my life, or business, for all the different parts of me. And I didn’t believe I could make a big enough impact in the world unless I cultivated a huge following.
Still, something about simply tending to my small corner of the world felt like finally breathing clean air.
A second seed took root in the fall of 2024, during a class called The Decade Game. I was asked to give my life leading up to that point a title, as if it were a memoir. I came up with: The Hungry Ghost: One Woman’s Restless Quest for Fulfillment Through Grand External Validation.
In Buddhism, the hungry ghost represents the aching ego, forever yearning for fulfillment through endless consumption. The great irony? It always remains empty and is always hungry.
That November, while reading The Seven Whispers by Christina Baldwin, I encountered the idea of centering life on what nourishes the human spirit, rather than the cultural priority of productivity.
“Yeah,” I thought, smiling. “That.”
I imagined what it would feel like to live a life that fit me. In a place—and at a pace—that resonated in my bones. I wasn’t done with coaching, but it was time to reimagine my relationship with it. And reconnect with the person doing the work.
On the spring equinox, my wife and I sold our home, moved everything we owned into storage, and said goodbye to Oregon, a place I had called home since 2008.
We spent the next twelve-plus weeks traveling the West Coast, from the Olympic Peninsula to Joshua Tree and back through the High Sierras. That break from structure and familiarity was a liminal space for me—a space between what was and what could be. One day, I was meditating on a question that felt very personally relevant at the time:
“How do we thrive when the structures we thought we needed no longer exist?”
Later that day, I visited a Sitka called The Tree of Life (photo to the right). Time had eroded the earth beneath it—but instead of collapsing, it had simply rooted itself into new ground. Even without the support it once counted on, it endured. Thrived, even. That was the answer I was looking for, and the reminder I needed.
What started as a time of purposeful wandering became a time of purposeful removal. A time of resistance to the pressures of productivity, where I began shedding the roles that had been imposed on me by a world that often demanded more than it gave.
In the awe-inspiring bigness of nature, I felt small again. Not insignificant, but somehow pared-down—liberated from the expectations of a culture that couldn’t care less about the nurturing of anyone’s True Nature. In that purposeful smallness, I found my true essence. And my true self found her voice.
I began to imagine what success could look and feel like if I defined it on my own terms. I could see that my most fulfilling life—my sacred calling—demanded every facet of who I am. But the impact I’m here to make comes from simply tending to my small corner of the world. And with that, my whole being eased.
Reconnecting with my true self was never about answering old questions. It was about asking new ones—and trusting that I would find their answers in my small corner of the world.
When you’re ready, I’m here to help you do the same.
My Approach to Depth Coaching
As your Depth Coach, I support you in navigating midlife not as a crisis to manage, but as an awakening to who you truly are. Many women reach this season of life feeling restless or uncertain, wondering what’s next. But what if midlife isn’t a time to fix yourself, but a time to find yourself?
Not the self conditioned by “shoulds,” obsessed with achieving, and always feeling like both “too much” and “not enough.” But the self buried beneath all that — your true self, which never doubts it’s enough.
Slowing down and loving your small corner of the world is more than enough — by being present and rooted in your true self.
Depth Coaching offers a space to slow down, turn inward, and listen to what’s been waiting to be heard. Together, we explore the patterns, stories, and beliefs that have shaped your life — not as problems to solve, but as pathways to deeper understanding and self-trust.
At the heart of this work is the most important question of all:
Who are you truly called to be in this life?
Depth Coaching
If depth coaching is a good fit for you, you might be thinking…
"As I arrive at midlife, I feel called to something bigger—but I don't know what it is or how to honor it."
"Even though I’m successful, I feel hollow—like I'm living someone else's life."
"I sense there's a truer version of myself, but I'm terrified to let her emerge."
Therapy
If therapy is a better fit for you, you might be thinking…
"I’m having a midlife crisis. I’m anxious about the unknowns of my future and need help managing that uncertainty."
"I'm depressed because I've achieved all my life goals, but none of it brings me fulfillment."
"I’ve lost my self-confidence, and I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
* Please note that while Depth Coaching is therapeutic, it is not a substitute for therapy.
The Roots of My Practice
Since 2011, I've worked with over 300 individuals in one-on-one coaching, facilitation, and teaching, accumulating more than 10,000 hours of practice along the way.
I maintain an active commitment to ongoing learning through mentoring and continued coursework in depth psychology, somatic practices, and transformational coaching. This ongoing education ensures my practice remains grounded in both established knowledge and emerging insights in the field.
Credentials & Training:
PCC ICF-Accredited Certified Life Coach (ACTP)
Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnosis, and Mental Emotional Release™ Therapy
Certified Master Practitioner of Integrative Wellness & Life Coaching
BodyMap Coach Level 1 & 2
Certified Journal to the Self Instructor
Graduate coursework in Systems Counseling
B.A. in Social Work and Human Services
To learn more about my training, influences, and philosophy, check out this page.
A few facts about my small corner of the world…
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Life on an island has its own quiet magic—more trees than people, little noise or light pollution, and air that always smells like the sea. But my favorite part is how a place so small can feel so vibrant and full of life.
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Likely hiking with my dogs, sharing wine with dear friends, reading, sipping coffee, baking, buying another crystal I may or may not need, writing, listening to jazz, thrifting for hidden gems, or road-tripping through the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest with my wife and our pups.
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Fully lived in—too many belly laughs to count, a full kitchen table, a deep appreciation for what’s right around me, and the knowing that it was enough.
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Romance novels swept me off my feet again this year… I’m hoping to become everyone’s go-to for spicy recommendations. Need one? I’ve got you. 😉