Combining nurse knowledge and expertise with holistic attention to the human mind, body, emotions, spirit, and environment to help you redefine your values, alter your perspectives and create a healthier, more satisfying life
Hi! Welcome!
I am so excited to share what nurse coaching can offer you. It has undoubtedly helped improve my life. After 10 years at the bedside, a pandemic, and what seemed like a lifetime of personal losses and constant hardships, I found myself no longer able to endure or successfully persevere through challenges like I always had before. My passion was empty and my purpose had almost dissolved. I was burnt out from grief, felt powerless, and was struggling to find my way back to a meaningful life. ​I was strongly considering leaving healthcare as a whole, but I enrolled in a nurse coach program as a last ditch effort for inspiration and the hope of healing. Not only did I find all of that, but the tools of coaching have helped unlock my natural inquisitive nature and have secured my positive perspective that will carry me throughout the rest of my life.
The beauty about coaching is that I was encouraged to discover my own truths and lean into my own ideas and beliefs without having to accept and digest what someone else was telling me was right. With the open offer to explore life, investigate the good and bad and uncover what's important to me, I learned that coaching is very personal and can reignite passions and reestablish purpose.
A Little More About My Background
I am adopted and grew up in Vancouver, WA. My mother was ill at a young age and passed away at only 51 years old. That would be the first of many losses experienced in my life. With love, support and an intense drive for a better life, I completed a BS in Public Health and a BA in Spanish at the University of Washington in Seattle with the hopes of a career in public health. As time went on, I turned my focus to public health nursing, and completed an accelerated BSN at Linfield University in Portland, OR. However, while completing my training, I found myself thriving in the hospital and chose to stay in acute care. After specializing in cardiac services at the intermediate and critical care levels, death and loss continued at work and in my own family.
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As a leader, I value emotional intelligence, gratitude and communication, but under the intense heaviness of multifaceted grief, I was struggling to encompass any of these qualities. I decided to take a pause in my hospital work to regroup my emotions and consider my options. The beauty of taking what then seemed like an extremely intimidating time-out was that it led me to where I am now, fully equipped to not only live my best life, but to help others also live theirs.
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Nurse coaching is not a prescribed version of what is best for everyone, or a list of what we all "should" do. Instead, it is a personalized examination of what you value, what drives you and what holds you back. It questions you, supports you, at times challenges you and helps you become so much more open to the world and all the opportunities, while making the absolute best of the negative unavoidable realities of life.
In a life with situations and circumstances that are far beyond our control, we can only control ourselves, our reactions and what we do with our thoughts and actions.