When Everything I Thought I Knew Fell Apart

Thirty years ago, everything I thought I knew unraveled. Loss cracked me open and sent me searching for answers:

Who are we, really?
Why are we here? 

Has anyone figured this sh*t out?

I’d grown up Catholic, boxed in by expectations, but knew there had to be more. So I went looking. I studied 3,000 years of ancient wisdom, earned a master’s in religious studies, and dove into everything from philosophy and psychology to mysticism and metaphysics. I worked with coaches, therapists, shamans, healers, and spiritual teachers. If it was (mostly) legal, I probably tried it. (Clearly, I don’t know how to do things half way. Ha!)

In the end, it left me with one question: So what? In a practical sense, how do you transform all this wisdom, theory, and insight into a life that actually works—one that feels doable, grounded, and truly mine?

That’s when I turned my own life into a living lab—experimenting, refining, and asking the questions that now guide my coaching:

What does alignment with our true selves look like in everyday life?

How do emotions, beliefs, and body/nervous system—aka, energy—shape what’s possible?

What is this “inner GPS” so many talk about and how do we use it to create the lives we came here to live?

Over time I realized there’s a kind of practical magic that happens when you apply these questions to daily life.

The result for me? I’m living a life I never thought was possible. I’ve achieved dreams I never imagined achieving. I live with less hustle, more flow. I listen to my inner compass and trust life’s unfolding more—the ups, the downs, the dance of opposites. Some days I nail it. Some days I faceplant.

As they say in yoga: the master isn’t the one who can hold the perfect, uninterrupted pose. She’s the one who knows how to get back into pose after falling out of it.

That’s the practice. That’s the dance. That’s Earth School.

My book Into the Flow arrives in June 2026 — join me then for the deeper dive!