I spent almost 30 years founding and growing a business while raising a family and caring for the older people I loved.

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That business grew into something truly amazing — far beyond what I had imagined when I began. I remember standing in front of one of my first stores one night and seeing a shooting star in the sky behind it. I wished that my business would be successful — and, in many ways, it was.

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For years, my life was full. Busy, often chaotic, and never easy, but rich with possibility. I had meaningful work, beautiful children who constantly awed me, a committed and passionate partnership, and a strong sense of purpose. I did not have to wonder what I was here to do. I was doing it.

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I felt sure-footed, as if I had a map in front of me. Not everything I did turned out the way I hoped, but I usually trusted myself to keep moving in the right direction.

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And then something happened in my family that shook me deeply.

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That experience affected my confidence and my ability to trust my own instincts. As an entrepreneur, this mattered. I began to defer to others when I should have listened more closely to myself. I made decisions that were not right for the business, even when something in me knew they were not right.

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Eventually, that chapter came to an end. It was painful. For a long time, I experienced it as failure.

But I can see it differently now.

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I was not a failure. I was a person living through a difficult and disorienting time, doing my best with the understanding and support I had then. And although that period was painful, it also became one of the most important learning experiences of my life.

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For the next ten years, I worked hard in response to the sense of failure I was carrying. At the time, I felt driven to prove my value to myself and others. Looking back, I see those years not as evidence of failure, but as a period of learning, rebuilding, and growth.

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During that time, I worked with a Francophone non-profit agency focused on child abuse prevention. I completed a certificate in sustainable change and earned a master’s degree in Human Systems Intervention. I also worked as a process consultant and organizational consultant with businesses, non-profits, government agencies, and educational institutions.

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Those years gave me a wealth of skills, tools, resources, and experience. They deepened my understanding of people, systems, change, conflict, resilience, and the many ways we find our way forward.

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When I found coaching, it felt like I had come home to my purpose.

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I studied coaching, worked as a researcher in coaching, mentored coaching students, wrote about coaching, and coached. Over time, I realized that coaching had been a thread running through my whole life and career. I had been having these kinds of focused, supportive conversations for years — with employees, retailers, colleagues, family members, and people in my community.

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What I love about coaching is that it is simple, human, and deeply useful. A good coaching conversation can help us pause, think aloud, hear ourselves more clearly, and access wisdom that may already be there but has become difficult to reach.

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I wish I had had a coach during the hardest times in my own life — someone to help me slow down, reflect, test my assumptions, trust my instincts, and find the resourcefulness I could not always access on my own.

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I am grateful now to offer that kind of support to others.

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I believe that we often have more wisdom than we realize. We may not always know the answer right away, but somewhere inside us there is usually a sense of what matters, what is no longer working, and what we need in order to move toward a fuller, more grounded life.

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In my coaching practice, I help people access that knowing through deep listening, thoughtful questions, and practical support.

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I believe you are the expert in your own life, your own work, and your own experience. What I offer is a compassionate and attentive presence — one that can help you see your strengths, your blind spots, your possibilities, and your next steps more clearly.

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I love helping people untangle the conflicting stories and limiting beliefs that keep them from flourishing.

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For me, coaching is a learning relationship. Together, we draw on your own wisdom and experience to solve problems, make decisions, navigate change, and move forward in life and work with more clarity, courage, and self-trust.