I’m well acquainted with the impact that suppressing your voice can have in your life — from my personal and professional experience.

We live with an inner critic that leads to a Wounded Rebel – and this creates interference when you’re reaching for your dreams.

For over 25 years as an NP, I partnered with patients to achieve health goals and increase their vitality. What I learned in over 70 thousand patient visits was that quite often an Inner Rebel did not want to be told to take a pill, exercise, or quit smoking!

It looked like this: At the office visit, a person would set goals that honored the desire to improve their health and we’d create a plan together. But when they left the office and returned home, something would stop them from following through as they’d planned. They’d return in a few weeks or months, feeling discouraged.

The rebel was creating interference.

 Now it took me awhile to understand this, but once we included the Rebel’s voice and understood its needs, magic happened! I learned effective ways of acknowledging and honoring the Rebel. And slowly but surely, health goals were reached!

As a Family NP, many of my patients struggled with depression and anxiety. Sometimes medication helped, but often — deep inside, underneath the pain, was a voice that was unexpressed, something they were holding in. Afraid to speak. Too fearful to acknowledge, even to themselves! Again, this took time to uncover, but was often so healing and profound.

Seeing this relationship between Voice, Inner Rebel and Health led me in the direction of personal growth, taking trainings and acquiring coaching certifications. My studies spanned from Transformational Coaching and Voice Dialogue to Embodied Voice training, Sound Healing and Speaking.

Does this sound like you?

Today I’ve retired from my NP practice so I can combine all I’ve learned, including toning and song, into a unique modality that heals the Unexpressed Voice and clarifies what you’re here to Say! I know what it is to live without access to my true voice -- and the ecstatic joy of reclaiming it! That’s why I’m devoting my post-career life to liberating Women’s Vital Voices. Whether you’re a speaker, entrepreneur or feeling blocked in some way, I’d love to bring forth the sparkle in the jewel of the voice your soul.