I am so, so grateful that I can claim to be an empowered woman whose life purpose is to help others create a life they love. Only a few years ago, I lived most of my life in fear, anxiety, and panic. I was a people pleaser who had fear that if I spoke my truth people would be upset, reject, or abandon me and living with these fears was paralyzing. My entire life I felt as though I had no voice due to early childhood traumas which included witnessing the death of my mom at 5 years of age and the events that followed that trauma which included physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. As a little girl, I was conditioned to hush my voice to not make others feel uncomfortable. I was conditioned to believe that my needs didn't matter and that I needed to fulFill other people's needs and make them happy in order to feel a sense of safety that was impossible to achieve.

As a child I was a victim to events in my life and I was not aware that I continued to fulFill the role of victim long into my adulthood which kept me small, stressed, and exhausted from taking care of other people's needs over mine. I desperately needed to grieve the loss of my parents but was unable to because I constantly

lived in a state of survival.

Then came a time in my late 40s when I started to implode and life became too heavy, exhausting, and my inner and outside worlds were chaotic. My panic attacks became so intense that my world shrunk in around me as I was unable to travel and eventually couldn't even come out of my home.

I was living in fear.

I knew I had to do something that I had never done before and that was to choose me above all others. Whatever it took, whatever it felt like, and no matter how others were affected, I knew I needed to go in and save myself and that's

exactly what I did.

I invested in myself and learned from healers and guides all around me how to empower myself. Once I started expressing what I wanted and needed, set clear boundaries, and let go of what no longer served me, I was then able to create a life I love.

My life's purpose is to course-correct people who are on a path in life that no longer works for them and help them to shine a light on the possibilities of living on a path that feels

good and healthy to them.