I’ve been joyfully sober since 2018 from alcohol and weed. But that attitude didn’t just happen.

When I finally decided to try sobriety, it felt like a hail mary. I knew if I didn’t give it everything I had, I’d be stuck in that cycle of trying and failing forever. There was no way I was going to take my last breaths full of regrets.

At the time, I was drinking and getting high in a way that, from the outside, most people wouldn’t have considered a problem. But I knew.

And I was stuck. The path I could see—”sober” the way it looked in movies, in what I’d heard about meetings, in the stories I’d been told— wasn’t one I wanted. But staying where I was wasn’t acceptable to me anymore. I was caught between two places I didn’t want to be.

So I created a third option.

When I embarked on what I told myself was a “one-year experiment” with sobriety, it was with a promise to myself that instead of punishing myself for a year, this would be an exploration of what was actually possible.

What I was most afraid of was being left out— as the boring, invisible, lame woman who doesn’t drink. I’d felt that kind of exile before, and I wanted no part of it again. So I gave myself one year to find out what was actually on the other side.

Instead of whiteknuckling it, I went all in— in the opposite direction. I looked for every opportunity to explore who I was. I said yes to things I never would have chosen before. I got up early on Saturday mornings and went looking for what was out there. I sought out the experiences, the people, the places that alcohol and weed had always kept out of reach.

That’s how I found out what was possible— by going towards it, literally.

A couple of months in, I was doing a values exercise. When I looked at my list, I had a full-body knowing— if I wanted to live in alignment with who I actually was, I could never drink or smoke pot again. The results were in. What had started as an experiment became a commitment. Not because I had to. Because I wanted to.

What I found was the real belonging, aliveness, and creativity I’d been reaching for all along.

This is what I want to help you find.

My approach blends what I’ve learned from many guides and teachers, and has worked for hundreds of other women: a combination of cutting-edge positive psychology, mindfulness, and an exploration of self and belonging through deep nature connection.

I’m here for women from sober-curious to sober-serious to facilitate their deep connection with their truest self, other people, and nature, ready to stop surviving their sobriety and start truly living.

Training

Certified Nature-Connected Life Coach, Earth-Based Institute

Master’s in Education, Eastern Oregon University

Credentialed Professional Coach, International Coaching Federation

Authentic Relating & Social Health Facilitator, Authentic Relating Training International & Seek Healing

Graduate-level Adult Learning Principles, Portland State University & Portland Underground Graduate School

Human-Centered Change Leadership Certificate, IDEO U

Wilderness First Aid Certification, National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)

Mental Health First Aid Certification, National Council for Mental Wellbeing

*My expertise does not include any 12-step or treatment program, and I do not provide medical advice.