Mental Health Coach · Advocate · Writer · Community Builder
Thirty years of pain taught me what no textbook could. Now I teach others — through coaching, writing, and community — that the nervous system can be understood, the body can be believed, and healing is not a destination but a practice.
"For thirty years, I was told it was in my head. It wasn't. And now I help others find what took me decades to learn: that they deserve to be believed."
I am a certified Mental Health Coach (Abide Network, Level 2), a psychology student at Liberty University, a direct response copywriter, a community director, a homeschooling mother, a wife to Dave — and a person who spent three decades fighting to be believed about her own body.
In 2024, I was formally diagnosed with Central Sensitization Syndrome — a neurological condition that rewires how the brain processes pain. After completing the Mayo Clinic Pain Rehabilitation Center program in April 2025, I walked away with something I'd never had before: a language for what my nervous system had been doing all along. And a mission to share it.
My work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, faith, and lived experience. I specialize in neurodivergent individuals and complex health situations — the people medicine has often left behind.
Through my Sophrosyne Method — a coaching framework drawing on nervous system literacy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and faith integration — I companion clients into lives that are bigger than their diagnoses. I also serve as a patient advocate, including over two years of intensive advocacy work navigating international healthcare systems on behalf of clients who cannot navigate them alone.
I believe the most credentialed thing about me is not a certificate. It is the fact that I have lived this — and survived it with curiosity still intact.
Certified Level 2 coach (Abide Network) specializing in neurodivergent individuals, complex chronic health conditions, and faith-integrated healing. Creator of the Sophrosyne Method — a framework grounded in nervous system literacy and ACT principles.
Over two years of intensive advocacy navigating international healthcare systems, welfare programs, and psychiatric evaluation pipelines — producing clinical documentation packages, translating foreign medical records, and filing formal complaints on behalf of clients who cannot advocate for themselves.
Specializing in ministry and faith-based organizations. Long-form sales pages, email sequences, event campaigns, and social content that converts — for organizations like Abide Network. Known for the "Agent 2" approach: copy that feels human because a human wrote it.
Co-founder and Director of One Accord: The Guild — a Discord-based faith and gaming community of 875+ members built around discipleship, not performance. A space where people belong on purpose.
Currently completing a B.S. in Psychology at Liberty University. Deep academic and personal study in CSS, the HPA/SAM axes, NMDA receptor function, TBI history, and the neurological underpinnings of chronic pain — treated not only as curriculum, but as a calling.
Sharing the unvarnished journey of chronic illness, neurodivergence, advocacy, and recovery — publicly, unapologetically, and with the precision of someone who understands the neuroscience behind their own story. An anti-stigma voice in a space that needs it.
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875+ members · Active since founding · Faith & gaming discipleship community
Dispatches on nervous system science, advocacy, faith, chronic illness, and what it means to be believed after thirty years of not being. Real, researched, and occasionally unruly.
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These are the people who have shaped who I am — professionally, personally, spiritually. Mad respect doesn't cover it. But it's a start.
Husband · Father · Anchor · Steadiest Person I Know
Every season of this journey — including the seasons where "journey" was a polite word for survival — Dave was there holding us and our family steady. My one true love and best friend. He made space for this version of me to exist and continue to love me through it all. You have my love Davs — Always x Forever x Eternity + 1.
Best Friend · My Person · Oldest Dearest Friend
The one who drove to Sedona with me the day I graduated Mayo Clinic. The one I call. The one who shows up. There is no amount of acknowledgment adequate for that.
Collaborator · Abide Network · Co-Owner, One Accord: The Guild
The creative partnership that keeps sharpening my instincts and skills. The best, kindest friend and business partner. Good collaborators make you better — and Andrew continually does that. Iron continues to sharpen iron.
Best Friend · Cheerleader · Infinite Ideas Lady
The one who supported me when my TBI brain was the most chaotic and sat with me through it all. The most amazing fast friend I have ever had the pleasure of knowing and my biggest cheerleader — thank you!
Mentor · Colleague · Collaborator · Founder, Abide Network
Jen took a chance and trusted my voice in rooms that mattered, with people who took me seriously. And even when she didn't want to, continued to have a meaningful presence in my life through my darkest TBI moments.
Mentor · Dreamer · Pastor · Marketer Extraordinaire
The first guy I met in ministry — had no idea who he was — who encouraged me to keep going, push aside any distractions, and never give up on the areas God has called me to.
Fellow Neurodivergent Mom · Creator Extraordinaire · Inspiration Groupie
The woman I jive with no matter what we talk about and inspire each other to do and accomplish. She encouraged and inspired me before she even knew me, and continues to call me a friend. Thank you!
One Accord: The Guild · 875+ Strong
Justin Inostroza, Jay Razzouk, Pr. Michael Soto, Ernie Hernandez, Roque Rojas, Pr. Daniel Maher, and many more — you showed up when a Discord server was just an idea. You stayed when it became something real. This community is one of the best things I've ever had the privilege to help build.
Pain Rehabilitation Center · Phoenix, AZ
The first place where I was treated as a whole person with a complicated nervous system — not a complicated patient. They gave me the language I needed to move forward.
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