For 10 years I worked as a School Counselor at an alternative

  high school - I loved my job, but I was feeling stuck and realized I was

  ready for a change.  When I finally started doing something about this

 “stuck” feeling, I went full speed ahead!  I started looking for a new

school counseling job, and at the same time, completed training to become a life coach!  Then I accepted a position as a School Counselor in the Homeless/Highly mobile department at Minneapolis Public Schools,

and I started my new business as a life coach!

 

My ultimate GOAL is for my clients to connect to the badass that exists within each and every one of them!  It wasn’t until my 40’s that I finally connected with my own badass self!  I have to admit, I’ve had a pretty damn good life, but I’ve had struggles (anxiety, depression, emotionally abusive relationship etc.) that have gotten in the way of me being able to completely embrace my true self - it was through radical, authentic self-care

that I was able to find that connection. 

 

What got me to that point?  An unhealthy relationship!  For several years I was in an on-again, off-again relationship with someone who I eventually realized was emotionally abusive. It wasn’t until my therapist identified the relationship as emotionally abusive that I realized that’s what it was.  Me, a mental health professional who counsels young people on healthy relationships, didn’t even realize I was stuck in an

abusive relationship!  That’s how good narcissists are - they manipulate and mess with your head so

much that you don’t even realize it’s happening.  No one understood what I was going through -

except those who had also experienced narcissistic emotional abuse.  

 

After one of many times that I cut this man out of my life, I decided that finally it was time to really take care of myself.  Around the same time, my dad gave me a book for Christmas - You Are a Badass, by Jen Sincero.  This book started me on my road to self-care and life coaching!  I had read about and “practiced” self-care in the past, but this time I really dug into it, through what I now call radical, authentic self-care.