My Story. Your LIGHT.
Before I was a coach, a speaker, the author of The Compassion Code, or the founder of The LIGHT Method™, I was a daughter grieving, a woman searching, and a human learning how to heal.
Over the past two decades, four great teachers have shaped me: loss, marriage, parenthood, and entrepreneurship. Each one stretched me in ways I never expected—sometimes painfully, always profoundly—and together they became the foundation for the work I share today.
These experiences taught me that even in our darkest seasons, we all have the capacity to become LIGHThouses: steady, compassionate, and unwavering in the storms. My calling is to help others release what’s heavy, reconnect with who they are, and rise into their own role as a source of light—for themselves, their loved ones, and the world.
The Beginning: Loss and Awakening (2008–2012)
In 2008, I lost my mother. Her death cracked open a portal inside me — not just of grief, but of awakening.
The first few years were survival. I found my way back through the body: massage therapy school, health coaching, learning to nurture myself physically when my heart felt broken.
Slowly, I began to understand that healing wasn’t only physical — it was emotional, spiritual, relational. That realization became the seedbed of everything I now teach: that even in the darkest seasons, we can find our way back to light.
The First Bloom: Receiving the LIGHT (2013)
After years of quietly tending my own healing, I received a message: LOVE loss LOVE.
It felt like both a whisper from my mother and a calling from my soul. From that seed, I created the original LIGHT Method—a deeply feminine offering for those navigating the profound territory of life after loss.
It was intuitive, heart-centered, expansive: the first glimpse of the work that would eventually grow into the LIGHT Method™ and the pathway of becoming a LIGHThouse.
Bridging Feminine and Masculine: Structure Meets Soul (2013–2023)
Seeking to deepen my tools, I discovered the Grief Recovery Method®: a structured, grounded container for healing. It was the balance I had been searching for— the masculine structure to hold the feminine flow of compassion.
I trained in it, mastered it, and spent the next decade teaching and certifying others around the world. Again and again, I witnessed the same truths:
The power of compassion.
The necessity of structure.
The universality of loss, and our deep hunger for safe spaces to heal.
During this time, my work blossomed into many forms. I wrote The Compassion Code: How to Say the Right Thing When the Wrong Thing Happens, a guidebook for navigating life’s hardest conversations with grace. I created The Marriage Upgrade, supporting women to become emotional leaders in their homes. That work grew into The Compassion Code Academy™, and later Compassion Coach Training™—certifying a new generation of heart-centered guides.
Most recently, I developed the Compassion Companion Mini-Course, making compassionate support accessible to anyone who needs it—because healing doesn’t have to wait for a crisis.
Each of these offerings became stepping stones, preparing the way for what was to come: the full integration of The LIGHT Method™ and the birth of LIGHThouse Coaching & Leadership Training™.
The Full Circle: Becoming the LIGHT (Now)
Today, I realize I didn’t just create The LIGHT Method™—I lived it. I became it.
The LIGHT Method now stands as a full, integrated journey:
From Loss to Liberation
From Integration to Growth through Compassion
From Heart-Centered Practice to Transformation into Leadership
It weaves together the feminine and the masculine. The personal and the professional. The inner journey and the outer service. The grief and the grace.
In truth, The LIGHT Method™ was shaped by my four greatest teachers: loss, marriage, parenthood, and entrepreneurship. Each stretched me in ways I never expected, and together they formed the path I now share.
It’s not just about surviving loss. It’s about loving life after it.
It’s about coming home to ourselves—stronger, softer, wiser, more whole.
This is the path I walk. And this is the path I now offer to others through LIGHThouse Coaching & Leadership Training™—a journey to release, reconnect, and rise into the steady, compassionate light the world needs.