If you’re ready to reconnect with yourself, rediscover your energy, and create space for what truly matters, I’d be honored to guide you on that journey.

Credentials & Training:

• Director, Leelanau Wellness Collective

• Program Director, Leland River Studio

• Certified in Mat Pilates and XFormer Pilates, Vinyasa Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Face Yoga, and Qi Gong

• Trained in Targeted Mobility, Barre Technique, and Somatic Experiencing

• Serving as a Reiki Master, Menstrual Cycle Practitioner, Stress Management Consultant, ADHD Coach, and Wellness Retreat Leader

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My Wellness Journey: What I Never Expected to Learn

When I first stepped into the world of wellness, I believed the journey would be about movement, nutrition, meditation, and mindset. I thought well-being meant doing all the “right” things: practicing yoga, eating whole foods, strengthening the body, resting the mind.

But the deeper I’ve gone — through teaching yoga and Pilates, hosting international retreats, running the Leelanau Wellness Collective, supporting clients, and exploring my own emotional patterns — the more I’ve realized:

Some of the most important parts of my wellness journey were lessons I didn’t even know I needed.

They were humbling, surprising, and sometimes uncomfortable. And they changed me in ways that no workout or meditation ever could.

The True Definition of Wellness

Before I go deeper, here’s the definition that has shaped my work:

Wellness is a conscious, self-directed, and evolving process of achieving full potential.
It is multidimensional — encompassing physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual, occupational, environmental, and intellectual well-being.

This multidimensional view is the foundation of the Leelanau Wellness Collective and the retreats I lead. Because we don’t heal or grow in one lane. We are complex beings with unique lives.

What I Didn’t Know I Needed to Learn

1. Facing My Codependency

One of the biggest awakenings in my personal healing has been confronting the patterns of codependency I didn’t know I had.

Codependency is:
A pattern of prioritizing others’ needs, emotions, or problems over your own to the point that it compromises your well-being.

It often involves:

• Difficulty setting boundaries

• People-pleasing

• Feeling responsible for others’ emotions

• Losing yourself in relationships

• Needing external validation to feel secure

Realizing this was not easy — but it was liberating. It invited me into healthier relationships, clearer boundaries, and deeper self-worth.

2. Understanding & Addressing My ADHD

Another major chapter has been learning about my ADHD as an adult. For so long, I thought I was “scattered,” “inconsistent,” or “too much.”

But in reality, I was an adult woman with a beautifully wired neurodivergent brain trying to function in a world built for neurotypicals.

Traits of Adult ADHD may include:

• Difficulty with focus and sustained attention

• Emotional sensitivity

• Impulsivity or restlessness

• Forgetfulness and disorganization

• Hyperfocus on passions

• Feeling overwhelmed by daily tasks

• An inner world that moves faster than the external one

Understanding this didn’t just give me language — it gave me compassion. I’m now able to design my work, routines, and retreats in ways that support how my brain works.

3. Realizing That I Need Close, Healthy Relationships to Be Well

I used to think wellness was something I achieved alone — through discipline, practices, and inner work.

But one of my deepest lessons has been this:

We cannot be well in isolation.
Human connection is a pillar of health.

I’ve learned that my nervous system thrives when I feel safe, supported, and emotionally connected. My well-being is directly tied to the quality of the relationships I cultivate.

4. Redefining What Well-Being Actually Means

I always knew wellness was multidimensional — but I didn’t know just how multidimensional until I stepped into deeper layers of:

• nervous system regulation

• metaphysics

• subconscious programming

• somatic practices

• energy work

• mind–body–spirit alignment

Wellness is not just what we do.
It’s how we think, how we feel, how we relate, how we inhabit our body, and how we connect with something greater than ourselves.

This has become a powerful part of my purpose.

5. The Subconscious, the Nervous System & the Body: My Greatest Teachers

The more I’ve grown — through teaching, leading retreats, studying movement, exploring spiritual practices, and understanding human behavior — the more I’ve fallen in love with the truth that:

We are metaphysical beings.
A spirit expressing itself through a body.

Our wellness is intricately connected to:

• the subconscious beliefs we carry

• the state of our nervous system

• the patterns stored in our fascia

• the emotions we hold in our tissues

• the stories our bodies whisper before our minds understand

This has become one of my deepest passions — and one of the core foundations I now weave into every retreat, workshop, and class I lead.

How These Lessons Shape My Work Today

The Leelanau Wellness Collective

Growing The LWC has been an extension of everything I’ve learned:

Everyone’s path to well-being is unique — because we are all uniquely created.

This collective is my commitment to offering multidimensional, accessible, whole-person wellness to our community.

My Retreats Around the World

Every retreat — from Greece to Sedona to Sicily and beyond — is now designed not just as a getaway but as a transformation.

A space where:

• the body softens

• the mind resets

• the nervous system regulates

• the spirit feels heard

• connection becomes medicine

• people remember who they are

Retreats aren’t simply vacations.
They are catalysts.

Book Your Next Well-Being Adventure: Sicily, 2026