I know what it is to fight for your body.
And your life.
MY STORY
At 29, my kidneys failed from childhood Diabetes. I spent years in dialysis before a kidney and pancreas transplant gave me my life back. I didn't waste it.
Seventeen years later, I am a board-certified health coach, an advanced yoga teacher, a Yoga of Recovery practitioner, and the host of Ferally 50. I live in Baja, Mexico, with my husband and a house full of scrappy animals. I run half marathons, scuba dive, and rescue street dogs. I am California Sober, with eight years free of alcohol and nicotine.
1000+Hours
YOGA TRAINING
8 Years
SOBER + NICOTINE FREE
30 +
17 Years
POST TRANSPLANT
RACES RUN
WHO I AM
THE BODY
Survival is where I started
Cancer. Diabetes. Miscarriages. Dialysis. A kidney and pancreas transplant at thirty-two. My body has been through extraordinary things, and so has my relationship with it. I learned to breathe through pain in a hospital bed. I learned to trust my body again on a yoga mat. Everything I teach comes from that.
SOBRIETY + RECOVERY
8 Years free.
Yoga of Recovery.
I am eight years free of alcohol and nicotine. Yoga of Recovery — a program that weaves the tools of yoga with the principles of recovery — is central to my practice and my teaching. I know the restless body. I know the craving that arrives uninvited. I know the breath that carries you through it.
BAJA + THE FERAL LIFE
I’m living happily feral in Mexico + San Diego
I live in Baja, Mexico — barefoot on a terracotta deck, watching the Pacific with three rescue dogs beside me. I’ve created a vibrant life, without the children I wasn’t able to have. I run half marathons on a transplanted kidney and pancreas. I scuba dive. I do my morning breathwork facing the ocean. I feed strays, rescued horses, and goats. This is not a retreat from life.
This is life, fully inhabited. This is facing 50 with vitality and no more f**ks left to give about the stuff that no longer matters.
COACHING + TEACHING
From surviving to building
I became a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach because I wanted to do with others what no one had done with me — meet them exactly where they are and help them build what comes next. I hold degrees in psychology and behavioral science. I am also an RYT 200/300 yoga teacher, somatic practitioner, breathwork instructor, and speaker.
Ferally 50
“Ferally 50 started because I couldn’t find a podcast for women like me, so I created one.”
Women 40+. Health reinvention. No toxic positivity. Honest, grounded, and recorded from Baja.
FULL CREDENTIALS
NB-HWC · E-RYT 200/300 · Somatic Practitioner · Yoga of Recovery · 8 Years Sober + Nicotine Free