For 23 years, persistent pain + symptoms showed up in more ways than I knew how to explain.
It started with pelvic burning, stinging, painful sex, and periods that could completely take me out. But over the years, the symptoms spread far beyond my pelvis.
I dealt with digestive issues, food sensitivities, low back and hip pain, neck pain, numbness in my arms and hands, tinnitus, anxiety and strange skin rashes that seemed to come and go without any clear reason.
And for the first 18 years, I did not have a single diagnosis. I had appointments, exams, tests, follow-ups, treatments, more tests, and more opinions. I kept hoping someone would finally look at the whole picture and tell me what was happening. Most of the time, I left with more questions.
At one point, my abdominal pain became so severe that my doctor recommended removing my gallbladder. I agreed, hoping it might finally explain the pain. But no stones were found, and after surgery, I was in even more pain than before.
After 18 years of searching, I finally started getting diagnoses: pelvic floor dysfunction, joint hypermobility, endometriosis, IBS, vulvodynia, fibromyalgia and neuropathy. Having names for what I was experiencing gave me answers I had waited years for. But I was still living in pain, still dealing with symptoms, and still organizing so much of my life around my body.
I changed what I ate, what I wore, how I exercised, whether I had sex, how much I traveled, and what plans I made. I paid close attention to every sensation because I was always trying to understand what had caused the last flare and how to prevent another one. Even on a good day, part of my attention was still on my body, waiting to see what it would do at any given moment.
What finally changed was realizing there was another part of the picture I had never been taught to look at. After years of pain and unpredictability, my nervous system had learned to pay very close attention to symptoms. I could see how much of my day was spent scanning, bracing, monitoring, avoiding, anticipating, and trying to fix every sensation the second it appeared.
Once I understood that pattern, I began responding differently. I started learning how persistent symptoms, attention, fear, avoidance, and protective responses can become connected over time, and how changing those patterns could become part of my healing too.
Today, those diagnoses are still part of my medical history, but I no longer live with the pain and symptoms that once dominated my life. I am no longer planning my days around what my body might do next.
My experience is why I now support women with persistent pain + physical symptoms who are tired of flares, searching for answers, and having so much of life shaped by how their body feels.
I help them understand the nervous system patterns that can build after years of symptoms, so they can feel more confident in their bodies and get back to living their lives.
The life persisent pain +
symptoms took over gets to come back.
Maybe you’ve gotten so used to planning around your body that you barely notice it anymore. You check how you feel before making plans, think twice about the meal, workout, trip, or long day out, and still wonder what tomorrow will bring.
After years of persisent symptoms, it can start to feel normal to make decisions around what your body might tolerate instead of what you actually want. This work helps change that pattern, so symptoms can take up less space and more of your life can feel available again.
Travel without planning for the crash.
Movement without worrying about tomorrow.
Plans without checking your body first.
A body you can start trusting again.
Dinner without second-guessing every bite.
This isn’t another symptom-management protocol.
Because after years of persistent pain + symptoms, the pattern around them matters too.
You’ve probably tried treatments, exercises, supplements, diet changes, tracking, and more searching than you ever expected.
And if a symptom still sends you into checking, bracing, avoiding, worrying, or trying to figure out what you did wrong, there may be another layer worth working with.
My approach focuses on the nervous system patterns that can build around persistent symptoms. We make symptoms make sense, change the response pattern, build capacity for sensation and uncertainty, and help more of life feel available again.
So you can spend less time trying to control every variable and feel more confident making plans, moving, eating, traveling, and living your life.
Honest, but gentle.
This is not a space where you’ll be told to think positive, push through, or pretend your symptoms are easy to live with. We’ll be honest about the fear, frustration, and protective patterns that can build after years of symptoms, without shame, pressure, or treating your body like the enemy.
Science-backed, but not clinical or cold.
You’ll understand why your body may react so strongly to sensations, movement, food, stress, or a flare, without being reduced to a diagnosis or treated like a problem to solve. We use pain science and nervous system education to make what’s happening in your body feel more understandable and less mysterious.
NO MORE PUSHING THROUGH TO PROVE YOU’RE HEALING.
This work meets your nervous system where it is. We build capacity gradually, without forcing you into feared activities, making discomfort a test, or expecting you to prove that you can handle more before you are ready.
Practical enough for real life.
We’re not just talking about regulation in a quiet room and hoping it translates. We work with the moments symptoms actually affect, like meals, movement, travel, plans, work, relationships, and the fear that can show up when your body feels unpredictable. Because the goal is for the work to hold up in your actual life.
Soft, human, and still a little fun.
Living with persistent pain + symptoms is heavy enough. This work doesn’t have to be. There’s room for honesty, tears, nervous-system nerdiness, tiny wins, humor, and the parts of you that still want to feel playful, social, connected, spontaneous, and fully alive.
Real talk about the work.
This is not a quick fix or a promise that your body will never have a bad day again. It is steady, supported work that helps you change the patterns that can build after years of persistent pain + symptoms, so you can trust yourself more and get back to living your life.
Grounded support for tender work.
Persistent pain + symptoms are personal. Your support should feel skilled, respectful, and grounded in both science and lived experience.
Additional ICF Certified trainings include: Success Coach, Mindset Coach, Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner, and Hypnotherapy Practitioner.
✔ ICF Certified Nervous System Coach
✔ Trauma-informed, body-led coaching tools
✔ Lived experience with persistent pain + symptoms
Training in nervous system education, behavior change, and body-based approaches that help make persistent symptoms feel more understandable.
Including neurosomatics, NLP, hypnotherapy, mindset work, and compassionate behavior change.
After 23 years of living it myself, this work is deeply personal. I know how symptoms can shape what you eat, how you move, the plans you make, and how much you trust your body from one day to the next.
Because life gets to be fun, too.
This work is deep, but I’m still very much a real human with a life outside of pain, healing, and nervous system education. Because that’s the point, right? Life gets to come back. Joy gets to come back. The silly, social, strong, spontaneous parts of you get to come back, too.
I'm quite the raver.
Give me an EDM show, a sparkly outfit, and a trance drop, and I will happily dance like my responsibilities don’t exist. Secret dream? Becoming a DJ and making people cry/hug/levitate on the dance floor.
I lift heavy weights.
I lift heavy on purpose. Slow, steady reps are my therapy. It’s where my body lets go of the stuff my brain can’t organize into sentences. Also… nothing grounds you like a deadlift!
Dog mom life:
I have a Corgi named Pancake. She’s equal parts sassy and sweet… basically my personality in a loaf with legs.
Football Sundays are sacred.
I’m a Vikings fan for life, even without a Super Bowl win. Which honestly explains why I teach nervous system resilience… I’ve been practicing for years, LOL.
I’m a “let’s go outside” person.
Give me a path and a playlist (or silence), and suddenly I’m 83% less dramatic about everything.
At the end of the day, I’m a woman who got her life back after 23 years of persistent pain + symptoms and I believe you can have more of your life back, too.
Ready to stop planning your life around persistent pain + symptoms?
You’ve been carrying this for a long time. The meals you second-guess, the plans you cancel, the trips you overthink, the good days you’re afraid to trust. It makes sense that your body takes up so much mental space.
But the next step doesn’t have to be another protocol, another rule, or another way to manage symptoms.
It can be learning how to change the patterns that keep your nervous system on alert, so you can feel more confident in your body and get back to living your life.
When you’re ready, we can start there.
