For most of my adult life, I was the one who held everything together.
For more than twenty years, I practiced pediatric emergency medicine, working in high-stakes environments, leading teams, teaching trainees, and carrying responsibility quietly.
From the outside, it looked like strength.
And in many ways, it was.
But strength can come with a hidden cost. We can become so skilled at holding everything together that we stop noticing what we’re holding inside.
Five years ago, my husband died unexpectedly. Overnight, I became the sole parent to three teenagers and the unexpected owner of his pediatric practice. I kept going. I kept leading. I kept showing up. There was no time to fall apart, so I didn’t.
For a while, I ran on instinct and adrenaline. I did what needed to be done. But eventually, a quieter truth surfaced:
Surviving is not the same as living.
Three years ago, I stepped down from my clinical leadership role, not because I couldn’t do it, but because I realized I had been abandoning myself to keep doing it. I had no clear plan.
I didn’t know who I was outside of constant responsibility. I had spent a lifetime doing.
So I did what many high achievers do in uncertainty: I enrolled in courses, too many of them. It was another form of doing. But inside that learning, something began to shift. I started to understand how the nervous system carries survival strategies, how grief lives in the body, and how the roles that once protected me, the responsible one, the achiever, the steady one, were now limiting how fully I could inhabit my own life.
That slow unraveling led me into work I hadn't known existed, learning to listen to the body, to sit with emotion rather than manage it, to find steadiness from the inside out. And eventually into coaching, not as a strategic pivot, but as something that emerged once I allowed myself to soften.
That softening didn't happen in a single moment. It happens, and keeps happening, in the ordinary places where I allow myself to simply be.
Nature steadies me. Music opens me. Travel widens perspective. Books, both thoughtful and light, nourish me. And I keep choosing aliveness in small ways, like beginning piano at fifty-four and tennis at fifty-five.
These, too, can be part of your growth.
Training & Certification
My work is informed by decades of clinical and leadership experience, as well as years of lived experience and intentional inner development. The integration of science, leadership, compassion, and somatic awareness shapes the foundation of The Lotus Revolution.
Medical & Professional Background
I practiced pediatric emergency medicine for more than twenty years, serving in high-acuity environments and leadership roles. My medical training instilled a deep respect for physiology, nervous system science, and evidence-based care.
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Pediatric residency training (Board Certified in Pediatrics)
Fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine (Board Certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
Former clinical leadership role in pediatric emergency medicine
Owner and VP of a private pediatric practice
Certified Physician Executive
Medicine taught me how the body responds to stress, crisis, and survival. It also taught me how much healing extends beyond clinical intervention.
Coaching Training
Living in Presence Coaching Course, April 2026 to October 2026 (in progress)
Presence-Based Coaching Course, completed February 2026 with continuing studies toward certification
The Inner MBA Program 2022 to 2023 and 2024 to 2025 via Sounds True
Positive Intelligence program completion, 2024
Applied Compassion Training certification via Stanford's CCARE program November 2023
Compassionate Leadership Training via Center for Compassionate Leadership, February 2023
The Integration
My medical background provides structure, discernment, and scientific grounding. My coaching and contemplative training bring depth, presence, and relational awareness. The integration of both allows me to guide clients through work that is emotionally intelligent, nervous-system-informed, compassion-centered, leadership-aware, and rooted in both science and lived experience.
My “why” and approach
I coach because I know what it is like to look capable on the outside while feeling disconnected on the inside.
I work with physicians and driven professionals who have carried a lot for a long time, and are ready for something more honest.