I have spent more than a decade learning how people move, adapt, communicate, develop, and rebuild through caregiving, education, rehabilitation, clinical environments, and coaching.

My professional direction changed over time, but one calling remained consistent:

I wanted to work with children and support the foundations shaping who they would become.

The title of the career changed. The deeper direction did not.

I'm a Certified Health & Life Coach, a lifelong student of being human, and someone who has always been deeply curious about how we grow into who we are.

My work today lives at the intersection of parent and human development, parent-child connection, identity, relationships, movement, play, and the transitions that shape us throughout life.

And no, I'm not a parent.

What I do have is years of experience caring for, working with, learning from, playing alongside, and supporting children across different ages, abilities, families, cultures, and environments.

I have worked in childcare, tutoring, healthcare, rehabilitation, and pediatric settings. My background in kinesiology taught me to understand the human body through movement, development, health, and physical experience. Orthotics and prosthetics brought me alongside children and adults with different physical and developmental needs.

And years of being trusted with children taught me things no textbook could have taught me on its own.

Children are constantly communicating with us.

Through what they say, what they do not say, how they move, how they play, what they repeat, how they respond, how they express themselves, what they avoid, what they explore and show interest in again and again.

I learned to pay attention.

I don't believe children are projects for us to perfect,

BUT I do believe they are people that deserve getting to know.

They need leadership, boundaries, guidance, safety, patience, opportunities to develop, and adults willing to help them navigate a world they are experiencing for the first time.

But they also need room to show us who they are.

That belief is personal for me.

I grew up knowing I was loved. As I became an adult, I also began understanding the difference between being loved and feeling deeply known.

There were versions of me that made sense to the adults around me. Expectations about who I should be, how I should behave, what I should pursue, and what a successful life was supposed to look like.

Eventually I had to ask:

Who am I when I'm not trying to become who someone else imagined I should be?

That question changed the way I see children, too.

I do not want children to spend decades trying to separate who they authentically are from identities, expectations, fears, and beliefs that were placed around them.

And I do not believe most parents intentionally create those patterns.

We are often simply handed ways of loving, communicating, disciplining, coping, protecting, and surviving.

We repeat them until something gives us a reason to become curious.

Underneath every adult is a child who was once learning how to be human.

That younger version of us may still appear in our fears, triggers, expectations, relationship with control, definitions of respect, emotional responses, and the way we relate to the children in front of us.

A difficult moment with a child can hold two questions at once:

What might my child need right now? AND What is this moment bringing up in me?

That is where my work begins.

Not with becoming a perfect parent or child caregiver...

With becoming more aware of yourself while becoming more curious about the child in front of you.