I know what it feels like to treat your body as a means to an end.

In my twenties, I discovered Olympic weightlifting and fell in love with it. I trained seriously, competed, and qualified for my first national meet. That accomplishment meant everything to me. But in the months leading up to the competition, I fractured my spine in training. My sports medicine doctor told me to stop lifting.

I competed anyway.

I finished the session at nationals, and what followed was one of the hardest chapters of my life. The cost of pushing through caught up with me and my eating disorder became unmanageable. I took a medical leave of absence from my corporate consulting career to enter a full-time treatment program. 

When I returned to work, I knew that the way I had been living was no longer going to hold. My body had been telling me that for a long time. I had just been too attached to an outcome to listen. 

That was the beginning of a different kind of work.

It took years of therapy, coaching, and daily inner work to rebuild my relationship with my body from the ground up. Not a better version of the same approach. Something fundamentally different.

Today my body is my home. My safe place. The relationship I have with it is built on trust and prioritizes peace above performance. I think about how I want to work with my body rather than what I want to make it achieve. 

Movement is how I stay strong and healthy while actually enjoying the process. Food is nourishment, a way of taking care of myself that supports the life and work I care about. Rest is no longer something I avoid until I'm burned out. It's built into how I structure my days because I've learned it's part of the work, not a break from it.

I think about my body as one part of a whole. It’s connected to my mind, my heart, and my sense of purpose. It's how I move through the world, have experiences that matter, and show up for the people and work I love.

This is why I do this work with women. Not because I have a system that worked and want to hand it to you. Because I know what it costs to ignore what your body is actually asking for, and I know what becomes possible when you choose a different way.