I didn’t find this work because I was looking for a new method. I found it because everything I had relied on stopped working. Inquiry. Meditation. Therapy. All the self-help books. I was beyond stuck.

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For most of my life, I was good at using my mind. Insight, reflection, and understanding had helped me move through major transitions - divorce, selling my business, and moving cross-country solo to build a life I actually wanted.

 

But, during 13 months of aggressive leukemia treatment, that capacity disappeared. The rational part of my mind went offline, and the rest locked down in survival mode. I was deeply depressed, traumatized by treatment, and depleted on every level. Nothing I knew how to do mentally could touch what was happening in my system. I suffered terribly.

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So I did the only thing I knew to do. I hiked.

 

Nature had always regulated my nervous system. On the days I could, I went to the trails with my dog, Potato. I walked slowly - bald, weak, often attached to chemo or immunotherapy bags. The distance didn’t matter. The fact that elderly people and small children ALL passed me hurt - but my speed and endurance ultimately didn't matter. What mattered was meeting fear, grief, anger, and despair as they arose - in motion, in nature, without trying to fix, spiritualize, or bypass them.

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Whatever was happening in me was not playing around. Radical acceptance was the only thing that was tolerated. Everything else shut me down, hard. Those walks taught me something essential: healing wasn’t going to happen through effort or insight. It happened when my body felt safe enough to process what it had been holding. Astonishing clarity and liberation were waiting on the other side.

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That became the foundation of Body-Based Inquiry. Rather than managing thoughts or searching for insight, I learned to meet experience through sensation, movement, breath, and with a curious, open-hearted acceptance. It became quite fascinating. Resistance softened. The mind quieted. Trauma, anxiety, and depression disappeared. Clarity arose organically - not as an idea, but as a felt sense.

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What surprised me most was that by allowing my body to fully process the trauma of treatment, I emerged from cancer with more clarity, freedom, and ease than I had before it. Not because cancer was a gift, but because my body was finally allowed to finish what it had been carrying for years - trauma from childhood, ingrained thought and behavior patterns that kept me unclear and shut down to the wisdom my body held. This is actually pretty common. Many of us learned to disidentify with our bodies because the truths they held felt too dangerous to acknowledge when we were young and/or vulnerable.

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Today, I offer this work because I understand that when the body is given space to process experience in partnership with the mind, resilience, peace, and joy become not just possible, but inevitable.

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With my background as a successful business owner, educator, and having held leadership roles at Byron Katie International and The Thinking Project, I'm able to create impactful transformational experiences designed to help those who are ready to reclaim their true selves. I'd love to share this approach with you!