I’m a lot like you.

The real story

For years, I was the mom everyone said was doing an amazing job. People praised how I handled it all — the appointments, the therapies, the IEPs, the meltdowns, the late-night research sessions. And I smiled and said thank you.

Inside, I was exhausted in a way that went deeper than tired. I felt guilty for struggling. I felt like I should be better at this. I didn’t know how to want things for myself anymore when so much of my energy was already spoken for.

The turning point

A friend who was a life coach introduced me to something I hadn’t considered: that the way I was thinking about my circumstances was making things harder than they had to be. Not because I was weak or wrong — but because no one had ever taught me how to manage my own mind.

After we moved to a new city and I went through a period of real depression, I pursued formal training at The Life Coach School, founded by Brooke Castillo. Learning to work with my own thoughts — rather than be dragged around by them — changed everything. Not my circumstances. My relationship to them.

Why I coach autism moms specifically

Because I know what it’s like to love your child fiercely and still feel consumed by the weight of it. I know the guilt spiral, the comparison trap, the way you can be surrounded by people and still feel completely alone in this.

I named my practice Unabridged Life Coachingafter my son Bridger — “unabridged” means complete, uncensored, the full version. That’s what I want for the moms I work with: to feel complete. Not despite the hard parts of their life, but in the middle of them.

What I believe

You don’t have to change your circumstances to feel better. You can start feeling better right now. Not by pretending things are fine, but by learning to think differently about the things that aren’t.

That is what coaching taught me, and it’s what I teach you.