Radiant Work coach & psychotherapist supporting sensitive, high-achieving women through career and life transitions. My work bridges that gap.
Grounded, nervous-system-informed guidance toward clarity, steadiness, and meaningful work. I help sensitive, high-achieving women navigate career and life transitions — especially when work no longer fits, burnout is present, or something deeper is calling. Many of the people I work with are capable, thoughtful, and successful on the outside, yet feel drained, stuck, or uncertain about their next chapter. They often wonder whether they need therapy, coaching, or something else entirely. I offer Radiant Work coaching — an integrative approach that blends intuitive healing, trauma-informed inner work, nervous-system regulation, and grounded career strategy. The focus isn’t forcing change, but restoring clarity, capacity, and trust so aligned next steps can emerge. My background as a licensed psychotherapist informs everything I do, bringing emotional safety, depth, and steadiness to the process. I also:
– support conscious entrepreneurs, healers, and creatives with sustainability, money health, and legacy
– train and supervise healthcare professionals in Motivational Interviewing and health-change counseling
– offer memorials and rituals as an ordained minister to mark meaningful life transitions
My approach is warm, spacious, and non-pushy — designed to help people move from stress to steadiness, and toward lives and livelihoods that feel truly aligned.
01/15/2026
Staying regulated - i.e., calm, in the rest and digest or healing mode - versus fight flight fawn freeze and other F words... it's critical now, with an inflamed world.
Yesterday I awoke slightly off kilter, and scooted to the woods for the walk.
The sight of the dark moon sliver always lifts my heart (see it in the pic?).
Moving my body for twenty minutes started the shift back to home base.
Meditation on the dirt path sealed the body calming. My mind regained the bigger perspective. I started to have ideas for the next helpful steps and projects.
Eat move sleep (thanks Tom Rath) and I add, meditate. That's tier one of regulation - eat, move, sleep, meditate.
Tier two: Your coping tools.
Tier three: the deeper work behind triggers or beliefs that are out of date.
When off kilter, under stress, triggered by global or personal events - it's easy to lose inner peace and sideline these regulation practices.
That doesn't help you or the world... It's a brave action to maintain your peace.
What are the practices that are easy to maintain when stress rises? Which are the ones that are harder to maintain for you?
01/06/2026
Have you tried the ChapGPT year in review?
Here's a funny bit from my review:
If 2025 gave out awards, you'd get:
Most Likely to Rebrand Enlightenment as a Business Strategy
For turning every existential question into a newsletter draft, a client framework, or a surprisingly marketable spiritual revelation before breakfast.
I am up pretty early 😍
But never considered Enlightenment as a Business Strategy my wheelhouse. Certainly personal growth is absolutely relevant to business growth, and general right livelihood / fulfillment.
What's the archetype it names for you? or, the poem?
My archetype was the Navigator, shared by 23% of users.
The poem was:
You danced through the year, wise and bright,
Turning stress into strength, into light.
From Radiant Work’s flame,
To each grounded reclaim —
You keep making the heavy feel right.
01/02/2026
Sensitives often find themselves over-focusing on the challenges or “growth edges” after an event.
That event might be a presentation, a work conversation, a job interview… or even a book club or family visit.
And then there’s this year, 2025. A surprising one for many, as it completes its turn on the wheel.
DM me for my Post-Event Summary fillable PDF. You’ll notice there are several repeated questions (they’re there for a reason).
Those questions invite you to acknowledge the effort and courage it took to do the thing - the stretches and risks, the deep work, the sharing. The parts that truly matter.
And the perspective this can add? Often it’s more balanced, more big-picture. A bit kinder. Ahhh…
The process also helps you gently name next steps. After all, growth doesn’t end for lifelong learners — and sensitives are often here to do those brave things and evolve deeply.
Happy New Year and blessings on your year ahead 😍
(I will get back to you 1/5... 2026!!)
12/26/2025
IF WORK NO LONGER FITS
If you’ve been feeling quietly unsettled about your work or direction, you’re not alone.
Many sensitive, high-achieving women reach a point where what once worked no longer feels sustainable — even if nothing looks “wrong” from the outside. Loss of meaning, nervous system strain, burnout or a deep inner knowing can begin to surface.
This is often the beginning of a transition, not a failure.
I support women navigating these moments through Radiant Work coaching — a gentle, integrative process that blends intuitive healing, trauma-informed inner work, nervous system regulation, and practical career guidance.
My background as a psychotherapist brings emotional safety and depth to this work, especially for those who feel overwhelmed, unsure where to begin, or conflicted about whether they need therapy or coaching.
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You don’t need to move fast.
You just need a space where clarity and wisdom can return.
If you’re questioning your work, your energy, or your next chapter, this may be the right moment to explore what’s calling — at a pace that honors your sensitivity.
You’re welcome to message me here on FB if you’d like to learn more or begin a quiet conversation.
12/23/2025
Family visits can stir up more than we expect — even when they go “well.”
When you’re sensitive, empathic, or the most self-aware person in the room, old dynamics can quietly tax your nervous system. Sometimes the impact doesn’t land until days later.
Awareness itself is powerful medicine.
What helped me recently? Keeping up simple practices — movement, journaling, moments of quiet. Tools, tools, tools. These can help you stay present and enjoy the good moments while you’re there.
And still — it took more than I expected to fully come back afterward. That’s OK. It’s actually pretty normal.
I shared a few observations and grounding tools that helped me recover and re-center after a recent family visit that — yes — went well.
DM me if you’d like the full story in the newsletter.
12/17/2025
Working With Your Thoughts (When Affirmations Aren’t Enough)
Highly sensitive or intuitive folks often try to “think” their way out of stress… but when the emotional brain is activated, the logical brain goes offline.
That’s why affirmations like “I’m safe” or “I’m abundant” don’t land when old emotions and beliefs are running underneath.
Here’s a simple *CBT-based 3-step tool I teach from my Stress to Strength book:
1) Name the Thought
Write down the raw blurt (“This will never work”).
Optional: rate your stress 1–10.
2) Ask Two Questions
Is this true?
Is this helpful?
(Usually: no and no.)
3) Reframe
Update the thought to one that is more accurate, kind, and actually supports forward movement.
This is how we stop spirals, reduce stress, and stay connected to our soul-led work.
Note: The thoughts are trying to help, but usually need a bit of tweaking 😲.
There is often some truth that negative thoughts are hinting at. The advanced practice to name that truth, and include it in your reframe.
If you want to go deeper, DM me for my last NL with the CBT worksheet plus a podcast on EFT - tools to support you this season.
*Cognitive behavioral therapy - evidence-based method for anxiety, depression and a deep practice that supports belief change.
12/10/2025
You’ve probably tried a mind dump where you list everything on your mind, on your to do list.
Try a mind and heart dump instead. Include your tasks and the background things: estrangements, awkward convos, ancestral echoes — the small tensions your body remembers.
Set a timer for 5–12 minutes. Write everything: the to-dos, the feelings, the small scenes that keep looping. Read it back. Notice what needs care and what can be put down.
One small follow-up: pick a tiny, kind action for your nervous system and do it today. If you try it, tell me what surprised you most.
12/04/2025
The first snow arrived this morning — soft, quiet, and somehow symbolic. It mirrored something powerful that happened in a session yesterday.
A client shared:
“I found so many ah-ha moments. You made it easier to pull up those memories and face those fears than I ever have before.”
We used trauma-informed hypnotherapy.
It’s a gentle method — no forcing.
No reliving in that nose-to-the-gravel way.
No overwhelming the system. (This was the first session of that work.)
Just a safe, supported pathway into clarity and release.
I’m always moved by how much can shift when someone finally feels held enough to soften.
If you’ve been sensing that an old pattern is ready to ease…
or feeling the quiet nudge toward inner change…
You’re not imagining it. And you don’t have to walk it alone.
P.S. I have a special offer that’s for my newsletter readers until 12/7.
If you’d like access, I'll put the link in the comments.
The latest blog that talks about the Balanced Brain approach we use.
You can see the offer, and sign up on the right side of the page for the 2x a month NL. DM me with questions.
10/31/2025
As the holiday current begins to pick up, it’s easy to feel that familiar pull — the whirlwind of plans, expectations, and old patterns that can sweep us right out of ourselves if we’re not careful.
This season invites us to stay present to both worlds: the visible one, full of activity and motion, and the unseen one — the deeper pulse beneath it all, calling us toward stillness, reflection, and completion.
This weekend’s Halloween festivities align with All Souls’ Day — when the veils between visible and invisible worlds grow thin. I plan to light a candle and take a few quiet moments to honor those who’ve passed.
What might you do to heart hello to the other side? ⚱️ 🎆
10/17/2025
Emotional waves are part of expansion. Sometimes they feel like old news and need some releasing.
When old patterns arise, it doesn’t mean you’re backsliding — it means your next level of freedom is knocking.
Two simple tools that help me move through the waves:
1️⃣ The Letting Go Technique — be with your feelings, breathe, allow.
2️⃣ Vagus Nerve Breath — 3 counts in, 7 out. Pull your belly button in at the end of the exhale. Calm in under 2 minutes.
🌊Read more in my latest post:
Eclipses, Expansion & Emotional Alchemy
(link in comments)
10/08/2025
Here's a 4 second water sounds-beauty pause. Our hike was in 4 inches of fresh snow, up to Lake Isabelle. Not quite what the forecast predicted, but wonderful.
It will warm up, we'll have the back and forth for a while before the full winter season hits up in the mountains, and below.
Ready for the fall, the coming winter? These jaunts helps me better prepare. Came home to higher temps and a warmer rain.
What's on your radar to complete this quarter? I'm working on systems updates, course work, sane scheduling, and some more fun/creative side projects to fit into that sane schedule, lol...
How about you? Feeling clear and focused? Or needing more preparation for this next season of life?
10/02/2025
For local peeps - this Friday there's some community fun in Superior, with an art walk, and other festivities - plus a music scene where I'll play a few, and the fab Janis Kelly is playing in the featured artist slot. Charlie Berger and Glenda as well. Come say hi, and enjoy the weather!
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Soul Savvy is about stretching into our soul fired selves. That can mean going deeper than the surface, than the survival and making money level, to living and working from your soul. Embodying your true self. What did you really come here for? That changes as you grow and evolve - and as long as you DO keeping growing and evolving.
Some ways that I’ve stretched beyond my limts include sacred travel jaunts. In 2010, that was a trip to Egypt with a dear friend and a group of 40 some spiritually inclined seekers. I had to stretch beyond my money ceiling (perceived financial limits), and into offering my song and performance skills. I had to weather the mindset challenges months before leaving, when it sounded like my “old biddy ancestors” were asking, Who did I think I was? to travel like this. One highlight of many was performing my comedy on a river boat on the Nile.
In Nepal 2020, I trekked the Anapurna Circuit with a dear dear friend. We met many obstacles, not the least of which was the weather (winter!) and I learned more about working with expectations. In the end, it really wasn’t about “getting there” (to the 17,769’ pass) but being ... there. Together. Experiencing another culture. Flowing with daily rhythms. Asking for help when needed. Saying yes to new experiences. Realizing I can make it through challenges and learn something entirely unexpected. Exploring the alchemy of changing disappointment with the initial goals to kindness toward the perfect life lessons offered.
Trusting intuition is an ongoing skill. We returned from Nepal right before Covid19 threats became reality. In 2010, we returned 2 months before the Arab Spring revolution. And I had had the sense for that Egypt trip, we needed to go on that trip now, not later. With Nepal, the green lights kept blinking in surprising ways, and a plan on the back burner for a couple years suddenly became YES! Now is the time! yet again.
Travel is just one way the soul evolves and activates meaningful experiences. Other life areas important to Soul Savvy Services are right livelihood. Money healing so that resources are supportive and shared. Trauma healing across generations. Honing your life to support sharing your gifts, and your day-to-day thriving. Being grounded as a spiritual being, even as you walk this human path. Having joyful contributions you make and old limits you transcend and heal, both for yourself and your family’s past and future generations. Lots of fun stuff! Lots to do. And plenty of time to be, to rest, create, and explore/deepen the truth of who you really are, and what you came here to learn.
Wishing you deep connection to your spirit, ancestors and your brilliant future, as we all create the Sage New World post covid. You can book a free consult above to talk more.
