When Understanding Changes, Families Change.
For women who are trying hard...
and wondering why life still feels
harder than expected
About Me
For most of my life, I thought more effort, more learning, and more love would make things feel easier. I
I built a career in healthcare spanning more than three decades, earned my Master’s degree despite the odds, raised a family, and kept showing up the way many women do—doing more, carrying more, and pushing through.
Years later, I realized some of what I was carrying started long before I became a mom.
Looking back gave me language I didn’t have then—not to judge the past, but to move forward differently. That shift changed not only how I understood myself, but also how I understood stress, parenting, health, and resilience.
Like many high-functioning women, I became very good at pushing through. Over time, I began to recognize a familiar pattern: push harder, keep going, eventually crash, recover, repeat.
Eventually, professional burnout and personal loss became an invitation to ask deeper questions.
Instead of focusing only on habits or mindset, I began studying stress physiology, early life experiences, and the connection between body, behavior, and relationships. What I discovered changed everything I thought effort had to fix.
That season became the foundation for the Burnt, Not Broken (BNB) Method and the FREEDOM Foundations.
Today, my work offers support to families where we explore how to understand stress differently and build everyday practices that support how we live, connect, and grow. The FREEDOM Foundations include:
• Faith
• Resilience
• Energy
• Environment
• Diet • Sleep • Movement Together, these foundations support healthier rhythms, stronger relationships, and more resilient families—through an approach that is evidence-informed, realistic, and designed for real life.
What We Do
The women I work with are often raising children, managing households, balancing work and family, and carrying more than most people realize.
They don’t need more information, more pressure, or another complicated wellness routine. They need practical support that fits real life. My work focuses on helping women understand themselves differently—so they can move forward with more understanding, connection, and less pressure to do it perfectly.
Together, we explore how life experiences, stress, and everyday demands shape the way we show up in our health, relationships, and parenting—not to blame the past, but to create more choice for what comes next.
Because when understanding changes, families change.
Your kitchen is more than a place to make meals—it’s where connection, routines, and everyday choices shape how your family feels.
Let’s take the confusion out of the kitchen.
Together, we’ll create simple, realistic rhythms for grocery shopping, meal prep, cooking (yes—even the “what’s for dinner?” panic), and everyday food choices that support your energy and your real life… without losing your sanity or living off cereal.
Life feels different when you’re supported by rhythms that actually work for you.
From rest and recovery to navigating everyday challenges, small daily choices can make a meaningful difference.
Together, we focus on realistic habits that support energy, confidence, and self-compassion—creating routines that feel sustainable, not perfect.
Resilience isn’t built overnight. It’s built in everyday moments.
The FREEDOM Foundations bring together everyday practices that support how we live, connect, and grow.
Through a blend of lived experience, practical tools, and evidence-informed strategies, we focus on understanding—not perfection.
Because when we better understand ourselves, our stress, and our needs, it becomes easier to make choices that feel supportive, realistic, and aligned with real life. Small shifts create ripple effects. And when understanding changes, families chang
Credentials
As a mother of two and a grandmother of three, I bring both professional training and real-life experience to my work with women and families.
My goal is simple: to offer women language, perspective, and practical tools that make life feel more connected, sustainable, and aligned with what matters most.
Over the past 30+ years, my work has spanned healthcare, care coordination, leadership, coaching, and community support—while working alongside individuals and families through seasons of stress, growth, and change. Combined with my own lived experience as a mother and grandmother, that perspective shapes how I approach health, relationships, and resilience.
- Trauma-Informed Certified Functional Health Coach
- Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health Administration
- Youth Mental Health Certificate
- Brazelton Touchpoint Trained
- Trauma-Informed Certified Functional Health Coach Certified Mental Wellness Coach
- Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health Administration
- Specialized Training in Youth Mental Health and Family-Centered Development
- Brazelton Touchpoints Trained
- Co Author- Research and Community Engagement Supporting Families and Early Childhood Well-Being
