ABOUT me

I wanted to be strong. I was strong. But strength became a mask. I kept asking myself: “How long until I feel normal again?” Not just okay. Not just functioning. Normal. Like myself. Like the version of me who had dreams, plans, clarity.

 

Five years ago, I faced another rupture: divorce. It unraveled a part of my identity I didn’t realize was so tightly woven into partnership, parenthood, performance. Again, the question returned: How long does it take to feel whole?

 

Three years ago, after trusting again, I was betrayed—financially, emotionally, and physically. This time, I had to flee. Not just end things, but physically remove my children and myself from danger. The pain was deeper. The shame louder. And still: When will I feel normal again?

 

As a PhD economist, I wanted data. Timelines. Models. Give me a regression chart or a standard deviation—I can work with that. But healing doesn’t come with milestones. There were no clean plots. No peer-reviewed guidebooks for how to rebuild a Self from this kind of chaos.

So I made one.

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I turned inward. Slowly. Desperately. I began to explore Internal Family Systems and understood that all the chaos inside me had structure. That every “selfish” or “angry” reaction was actually a part trying to protect me. That even the parts I hated had good intentions.

 

I mapped my experiences to the Heroine’s Journey—a narrative arc where transformation begins with loss, descends through darkness, and ascends not back to who you were, but toward who you are becoming. I saw how my story tracked. The denial. The shattering. The descent. The eye of the storm. The death. The rebirth. The integration.

 

I added frameworks that gave language to the parts of me I couldn’t previously name: the Enneagram, Gene Keys, somatics, DBT. I wasn’t just reading. I was applying. Testing. Healing through experience. Through doing. Through being.

 

And something remarkable happened. I changed.

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Not in three months. Not in six. But in one year—through community, self-trust, and deeper frameworks—I accomplished what had previously taken me nearly seven: I came home to myself.

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Out of this process, I created Your Second Mountain Coaching. It’s the exact program I wish existed years ago—a guided, structured, 12-month journey for women who have faced the unraveling and are now ready to rise.

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This isn’t mindset work. It’s not therapy. It’s not just spiritual coaching. It’s integration. A full-body, full-belief system renovation. It’s a reclamation.

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We don’t bypass pain. We don’t slap affirmations on unprocessed grief. We go into the scar tissue. We uncover the beliefs that got embedded in crisis. And then, together, we transform them. We extract the wisdom and release the wound.

 

Because healing isn’t about returning to your old life. It’s about realizing that wasn’t your mountain anymore.

 

We choose a new one. Consciously. Courageously. And we climb it together.

 

What I discovered—and what this program is built to reflect—is that you are both normal and special. Your struggles make sense. Your parts are trying to help. Your shame is undeserved. And your path forward is real.

 

Your Second Mountain is the framework I built for women like us—high-achieving, heart-led, spiritually curious, emotionally exhausted.

 

Women who are done surviving and ready to feel whole.

 

You don’t have to climb alone.

 

This is your map. This is your moment. Welcome to Your Second Mountain.