My deep interest in healing developed in my early childhood. I was highly sensitive and aware of other people’s feelings, auras, and their emotions early on. I woke up many times to things moving in the night and hearing spirits talking to me. Back then, had a huge fear of the dark and spiders.

I grew up with parents who were clinically depressed and deeply submerged in their unprocessed grief. 

They both had experienced many traumas between them they didn’t know how to process, like my mom finding her alcoholic father dead on the couch at 16 and my dad slowly losing his mother to Parkinson’s disease. 

On top of being raised in mess and hoarding (secretly) my mother weighing over 550lbs at her heaviest and us living just above the poverty line, I was regularly bullied and teased at school. 

Watching my parents suffer so deeply and not being able to help them see their worth and value as a child was disheartening.

Growing up in that environment turned me into a codependent for many years. I repeated many of the same patterns from my family.  I developed addictions, like workaholism, and overspending. I found myself in a long-term toxic relationship with emotional and verbal abuse that played out the same dynamics I had growing up with my mom and dad. 

My mother’s sudden death, hanging up on her not knowing it would be the last time we ever spoke, and feeling her say goodbye when her soul left this earth were the catalysts for my transformation into forgiveness, health, and healing. I was in so much pain.