My father died when I was twenty-one, and for many years I didn’t understand how to process the pain I was carrying. I became very good at pushing through, performing and appearing capable. Like so many people, I knew how to keep going, but I didn’t yet know how to feel safe, present or at home within myself.
Meditation entered my life more than twenty-five years ago. It opened the door to a different way of living and began a lifelong exploration of the relationship between the mind, body, emotions, energy and spirit. Over the years, I studied mindfulness, nutrition, breathwork, neuroscience, nervous-system regulation, coherence, NLP and ancient healing traditions. But my greatest education has always been life itself.
When I gave birth to my son, James, my life changed completely. I became a single mother and, financially, I had lost everything. I had to start again from scratch while raising this beautiful little boy on my own.
For sixteen years, I have had the enormous privilege and responsibility of being his mother and building a life for us. Motherhood invited me to look honestly at the patterns I was carrying and ask what I wanted to pass forward and what needed to end with me. It also showed me a strength and capacity I didn’t know I had.
In 2015, I got sober. That decision changed the course of my life.
Sobriety was not simply about removing alcohol. It was about learning how to stay present with myself instead of escaping, numbing or abandoning what I felt. It taught me that healing is not one dramatic breakthrough. It is built through the small choices we make every day: the boundaries we honor, the promises we keep to ourselves and the ways we choose to spend, save and invest our energy.
In 2019, I moved back to the United States with my son to follow a long-held dream. When the pandemic arrived, the work I had moved to America to do disappeared almost overnight. Once again, I found myself rebuilding: personally, professionally and financially.
I am no stranger to starting over. I am no stranger to building something from nothing. I know what it is to feel incredible fear and adversity, to wonder how you are going to make it through and to have to pull yourself back from the brink.
It is terrifying. It is overwhelming. And it is deeply human.
But I also believe that human beings are capable of far more than we have ever been taught or told. We are not powerless in the face of our circumstances. There is an intelligence within us, a capacity to heal, adapt and begin again, even when we cannot yet see the way forward.
The Energy Bank Method grew from this lifetime of experience.
It brings together science, ancient wisdom and simple daily practices to help people understand where their energy is going, what is depleting them and what genuinely restores their capacity. Because energy affects everything: how we think, how we feel, how we communicate, the choices we make and the way we lead.
Today, I bring this work to organizations and stages around the world. I don’t stand in front of a room pretending to have lived a perfect life or mastered every challenge. I stand there as someone who has done, and continues to do and study, this work.
My belief is simple: when we learn to manage our energy with greater awareness, we begin to remember how powerful we truly are. We change more than our performance. We change our relationship with ourselves, with one another and with the life we are here to live.
This is more than my work. It is how I came home to myself and it is my privilege to help others find their way home too.
