About
Me
CREDS
I have dedicated myself to studying the art and science of behavioural psychology, self-improvement, habit change, health, and fitness for close to a decade.
I earned my certification as a Personal Trainer via ACE in 2020 and am committed to robust continuing education to keep my knowledge -- and my certification -- fresh. 🥬
I am a Certified Health & Life Coach via the ICF-accredited Health Coach Institute.
I was a born nurturer – and perfectionist. I always struggled to find boundaries between myself and other people, as well as between how much I accomplished or “loved” (meaning, lived in service of others regardless of the consequences to me) and my value as a person.
This led to a lot of severely imbalanced relationships (romantic and otherwise) and what I recognize now as chronic anxiety – which I didn’t even really experience most of the time because I was too busy just “handling” everything.
To make matters worse, my early 20s were kind of a smoking hellscape. I endured some excruciating life changes and the identity crisis that ensued was debilitating. As we so often do, I swung my pendulum as far as I could from the empathetic, self-sacrificial, nurturing behaviours I’d always known. I became closed off, numb, and over-protective of myself.
Suffice it to say, the 5 years following my 19th birthday were…dark.
Slowly, though, I started to get curious about what it might look like to – you know – want to be alive. Still pretty identity-less, I felt like I was standing at the foot of a gargantuan mountain, but for the first time, I wanted to learn about what was going on *in here* (points to head, heart).
Through lots of reading and trial and error (and many apologies to the people who loved me while I stumbled through my self-discovery), I started gaining the confidence necessary to step out of fear and into a space where I was free to create myself.
Over the next several years, some really cool shit happened...
I learned to set boundaries around how I would be treated professionally and personally, which bolstered my ability to effectively communicate expectations, both at work and in my relationships.
I moved to a city where I knew not one person, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, to reconstruct my life after a long-term live-in relationship ended.
I became someone who can weather storms with eyes wide open instead of crawling under my blankets to deal with overwhelm. I learned to lean into difficulty with the expectation that I could overcome it in time.
I gathered the courage to pursue self-employment and worked really f*cking hard to build a successful career as an Operations Consultant, which returned a level of professional satisfaction I’d hardly dreamed of in my younger days.
I recognized my habit of looking to other people for their opinions and validation and developed a higher sense of respect for my ability to stand in my own truth.
I learned to identify when a relationship isn’t healthy for me and how to overcome emotional resistance to choose better for myself.
I learned to look not just at the younger me with compassion, but my current self as well, despite my aggressively self-critical history and body dysmorphia that still sometimes vies for my attention.
Overall, I learned what my voice sounds like, and then I learned to trust it. And now I’m here.
