My Story

I didn’t come to this work looking for a new method. I came to it after years of trying to manage, improve, and carry everything - myself, my relationships, and the world around me.

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As a child, I witnessed the beginning of war in Afghanistan and left my home country, losing much of what felt familiar and safe. Seeing my family navigate fear, loss, and grief, I took on an early belief that it was my responsibility to hold everything together—that problems needed to be solved by me, alone.

That pattern stayed with me for decades. I became highly capable, responsible, and driven - but also disconnected, dissatisfied in my work, and constantly trying to fix what felt unfixable in myself and others.

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In 2008, I discovered The Work of Byron Katie. I recognized it immediately as something different. It was simple. It worked with one thought at a time. And I could do it myself, at my own pace.

Through practice, I began to take responsibility for what was happening within me - not by fixing or changing my thoughts, but by looking at them honestly. This shifted my life in ways I didn’t expect: my relationships softened, I made meaningful changes in my work, I reconnected with family, and I became a mother later in life to twins I had never imagined having.

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More recently, partnering with Korinne and this work has brought my attention into a different place entirely - the body. Bringing awareness to sensation has simplified my life in unexpected ways. I now have access to my body that I didn’t have before. Emotions don’t only come through story or memory - they arise directly as sensation, and can be met there.

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During a painful divorce, this work supported me in discovering and allowing deeply held anger and fear that I had long pushed aside. Not through analysis, but by staying present with what was actually happening in my system.

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Today, I notice this in very ordinary moments - being able to stay present in difficult or awkward conversations, including with my teenage children, without needing to control or resolve everything.

When I co‑facilitate, I don’t come to fix or guide anyone toward a particular outcome. I come to support a space where people can begin to notice what is happening - thoughts, sensations, reactions - and relate to it differently, in their own time and way.