Life and Career Coaching for Authentic,
Empowered, and Inspired Living
Life and Career Coaching for Authentic,
Empowered, and Inspired Living
My Story
In 1998, I left a successful career in public radio journalism to follow my heart and “take the leap” in the direction of what promised greater joy and fulfillment. My journey of personal growth led me to live and train for two years at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, where I became a yoga teacher and transformational workshop facilitator. In 2002, I landed in the Boston area and began teaching Kripalu yoga, and workshops on The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, the book that set me on this path of recovery and transformation in 1997. Today I’m a certified life and career coach specializing in Positive Psychology (aka the “science of happiness” – learn more here), creativity, soulful living, and midlife transitions. It’s a career that fits me like a glove and makes my heart sing, as I help my clients to know, love, and trust themselves more deeply, re-frame painful experiences, cultivate an optimistic mindset, and take their own leaps into wonderful new circumstances.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, I have additional training and certifications from Wholebeing Institute with Tal Ben-Shahar, Positive Acorn with Robert Biswas-Diener, and Deep River Facilitation with Abby Seixas. Since 2020, I’ve added energy healing techniques to my coaching as a graduate of the Tollera Energy Mastery System and practitioner of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT, aka “tapping”). My coaching is also informed by the powerful work of Mama Gena and her School of Womanly Arts. Ready to go for your dreams, too? Please contact me for a free phone consultation or a paid sample coaching session via Zoom or in person. The investment in my 6-session/3-month coaching package is similar to the cost of out-of-pocket therapy and bodywork, and I see life and career coaching clients from around the Boston area in my Arlington, MA, office and from anywhere via Zoom.
I live near Boston and also spend time on Cape Cod, where I grew up. I believe in and practice kindness, courage, lifelong learning, inclusiveness, authenticity, joyful service, and following our passions. My own passions include singing, drumming, writing, traveling, enjoying friends and family, and walking the Minuteman Bikeway. I’ve written for Chicken Soup for the Soul, Natural Awakenings magazine, Wholebeing Institute, Kripalu Center, Grub Street, and my own blog, A Pilgrim on the Path. I’ve also volunteered with South Sudanese Enrichment for Families, an organization that’s helped the “Lost Boys and Girls” of South Sudan to start new lives and families in the Boston area. As my spiritual teacher Swami Kripalu once said, “The whole world is one family.”
Sharing songs and love in South Africa
Singing jazz at the Tremont Temple
Speaking and teaching are also my passions
Me and Majak Buoi, a member of the Boston area South Sudanese community
Drumming in joy!