how i got here—

Suffering in Silence

Born and raised in Southern California, my first-generation parents set me up for the "American Dream." Academia became my focus for upward mobility and success. I finished my graduate program in my early twenties, ready to take on a career in marketing and event planning in Los Angeles.

But the "American Dream" I had worked so hard to achieve began falling apart. From getting laid off to having to defer my student loans, rock bottom became an unplanned destination as I battled mental health issues. I found myself living back in my childhood bedroom, working at my old college job—back at the place I fought so hard to leave.

I did "everything right." I checked all the boxes I was told to check since I was a kid. Then I started questioning everything and asking myself the hard questions: Who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What's important to me?

Patterns That Kept Me Stuck

All my life, I was praised for my intellect and my drive, but I had no idea how to navigate the important things in life like emotions and relationships. I grew up with beliefs like:

Crying was for babies
Vulnerability is weakness
Emotions were to be kept private, not shared.

As you can imagine, this foundation led to many toxic relationships, disingenuous friendships, and feeling frustrated each time my goals fell short. It felt as if life was unfairly dealing me "crappy hands."

I continued to suffer and repeat the same patterns until I realized: Life wasn't happening TO me, it was happening FOR me. I didn't need to change my external world—I needed to change my internal one.

The Awakening

This is when my consciousness journey really began. I read every possible self-help book, became a Reiki practitioner, and started learning about this thing called "mindfulness."

I didn't want to continue the dysfunctional patterns and generational trauma that had been passed down to me. So I dove in head-first:

• I went to therapy (which I used to think was only for people who had something "wrong" with them) • I took yoga classes and learned about energy work • I tried meditating again (for the 10,000th time) • I read books, lots of books • I learned about somatic movement and breathwork

This took me YEARS to learn and integrate all of this into my life.

Finding My Purpose

This Was Not Part of "The Plan"

Becoming a teacher and establishing a career in higher education was the last place I ever imagined myself. But I enjoyed teaching young adults how to communicate in their interpersonal relationships—it was rewarding.

In 2016, I began venturing outside academia by stepping on the TEDx stage, inviting the audience to question their societal conditioning around happiness and success. In 2018, I founded "Mindless to Mindful" to teach busy professionals how to integrate mindfulness into their mindset, communication, and relationships.

Since then, I've been invited to speak for LinkedIn, the Pentagon, military bases, and collaborate with thought leaders like Dr. Shefali Tsabary and John Edward.

Why I Do This Work

We are often taught how to make a living but not how to build a life. As a result, we get caught up in the "doing" of life and become unsure of how to "be" in our lives. We've become "human-doings" not "human-beings."

Somewhere along the way, we learned how to disconnect from ourselves in order to survive. As humans, we're literally hardwired for connection, but when we get hurt, we armor up and do what we need to "survive." This disconnect prevents us from expressing our emotions authentically and creates a lonely, limiting life.

My mission is to help people reconnect their mind, body, and consciousness through mindful communication.

I Wasn't Very Mindful

If you had told me I'd be teaching people mindful communication, I would have laughed in your face because I used to:

Repress my emotions
Portray an image of "always fine"
Blame others when things went wrong (never apologize)
Hide behind my achievements

While this armor kept me "safe," it also kept me from having meaningful relationships. My family didn't talk about feelings. We fought, we yelled, and then we pretended like it didn't happen. I learned that expressing emotions was unsafe and vulnerability was weakness.

But it all led me to my most authentic self, and I've never been happier.

Let me save you years of time and help you break free from old patterns, generational trauma, and all the programming that isn't even yours to begin with! All of it is keeping you from transforming your life into something beyond what you ever thought was possible.

Ready for relationships that are safe, authentic, and meaningful? A deep-seated trust in yourself that's unshakeable? An inner compass to guide you forward with inner peace?

That's exactly what we'll build together.

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Ready to identify what's really blocking you and get a clear path forward? This virtual 1-hour session is designed to uncover the patterns, beliefs, or blocks that are keeping you stuck and give you a personalized 30-day blueprint to break through them.

What We'll Uncover Together

Your dominant dysfunctional communication patterns (from the quiz or beyond)
The limiting beliefs and core programs running your relationships
Mental, emotional, or energetic blocks that are sabotaging your progress
The root cause of why you keep repeating the same cycles

My approach uses a blend of multiple modalities such as mindfulness, trauma-informed neurolinguistic programming, hypnotherapy, Reiki, and coaching. I'll help you see exactly what needs to shift and give you the roadmap to make it happen.

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