I help women...
regulate their nervous systems, recognize when they’re out of balance, and gently come back to presence through intentional living and creativity.
The best part? We start with where you are right now. Where you're at with what you have. No pressure to become someone else. Just an honest look at this season and one intentional step forward that feels aligned and doable.
Online Coaching Tools
My online tools are designed to help you slow down, see differently, and create intentional change in simple, approachable ways. The Life Edit guides you through a thoughtful reset to clarify what matters, protect your energy, reframe your self talk, and adjust what needs to shift in this season. Lens & Light draws from my background in photography and gently teaches the art of seeing and capturing everyday life, especially for moms, offering tailored prompts and creative challenges whether you have kids at home or not. One tool helps you edit your life. The other helps you notice it.
The DIGITAL Life Edit Workbook
The Life Edit Workbook is a tangible extension of the online tool, created for those who want to go deeper in a hands on way without a heavy investment. This printable guide walks you through the same four lenses, to clarify, protect, reframe, and adjust with thoughtful prompts, reflection pages, and space to process at your own pace. No physical copy is mailed. You can use it digitally on your computer, laptop, or phone, or print it out and put pen to paper for a more grounded, intentional experience.
Book A Call With Me
If you’re craving a more personal touch, you can book a call with me for a one on one reset tailored to where you are right now. This is a relaxed, focused conversation where we gently sort through what feels heavy, clarify what truly matters, and identify one intentional shift you can begin practicing right away. It is not coaching with pressure or overwhelm. It is space to think clearly, feel supported, and leave with direction that feels doable and aligned.
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Welcome to The Blog. Full of reflections on presence, perspective, and the quiet work of coming back to yourself.
In Case You're wondering
Because none of this was random, and every part of my story shaped the way I guide women now.
1975-2000
THE EARLY BECOMING
I was born on Christmas Day in 1975, and my mom always told me I was the best Christmas present she ever received. I was born in Iowa, but when I was two we moved to North Dakota, where I became the youngest in a blended family of seven. It was often a house full of chaos, and somewhere along the way I learned to find peace in quiet moments alone. I became very observant, aware of things a child probably shouldn’t have had to carry so young. When I was twelve, my parents divorced and my mom moved me back to Iowa. There were seasons where I had to learn how to fend for myself far earlier than expected. In high school, I came to understand that my mom was struggling with an addiction to medication. That battle eventually took her life when she was just 49. Those early experiences shaped the way I see people, the way I listen, and the deep compassion I carry for the stories others are living behind the scenes.
1996-2005
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
I had always been creative. Growing up, I spent hours drawing and eventually attended college on a scholarship for commercial art. After my first year, I realized something important about myself. My love for drawing was deeply personal and came from my own vision, not from creating on demand for someone else. It wasn’t meant to be a career, but an outlet I could return to. Around that same time, my passion for photography began in the most unexpected place, as temporary Christmas help at the JCPenney Photography Studio. What started as a seasonal job quickly grew into something much bigger. I moved into a permanent role, stepped into management, and eventually became a district trainer traveling throughout the Midwest teaching others. Then in 2004 came my first miracle, my son Kolbe. Becoming his mom changed everything.
2005-2018
BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP
Taking a HUGE leap of faith I decided to open my own studio. At first it was out of our home. We turned the downstairs of it into my very first studio. Then it grew into something even bigger when I purchased an old gas station in Parkersburg and transformed it into a photography studio filled with warmth and light. In 2007, my second miracle, my daughter Kendyl came along. Owning my own business gave me the flexibility to be present with both of my kids in ways I will always be grateful for.
2013-2014
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
I was married in 1998, and after many years together our divorce began in 2013 and was finalized in 2014. While that chapter of my life eventually came to a close, it gave me two of the greatest gifts I could ever receive, my children. The years that followed were some of the hardest I had ever walked through. There were moments of deep questioning about who I was and what my life would look like moving forward. But with the love and support of those around me, and a quiet determination inside myself to keep going, I slowly found my footing again. Along the way I discovered something unexpected. Helping others navigate their own seasons of change has a way of healing parts of me too.
2014-present
THE COURAGE TO TRANSFORM
After years of photographing people, something beautiful began to happen beyond the camera. Families and women invited me into their most authentic seasons, trusting me not just to capture their images but to truly see them. Sessions often turned into deeper conversations where I found myself listening, holding space, and becoming a sounding board for their hopes, fears, and transitions. That stirred a curiosity in me to take that gift further, so I became certified as a life coach. Over time, that calling blossomed into one on one sessions, creating digital tools designed to reach even more women, and intimate in person retreats hosted in unique, cozy spaces where connection and clarity could unfold naturally.
Life has a funny way of bringing the right people back around at just the right time. At my 20-year class reunion, I reconnected with someone I had graduated with, Brad. What started as a simple conversation quickly turned into the realization that we had far more in common than we ever knew back then. Sometimes serendipity just needs a little time. Today, as empty nesters, we’re building a life together and embracing this new season side by side.