My Journey

✨ A Window Into My Story

Why Attachment Matters

Through my own healing journey, I’ve come to understand how profoundly early relationships shape the way we feel, connect, and grow. As a child, I longed to feel emotionally safe and connected. Like many highly sensitive children, I struggled with anxiety and often felt alone in my inner world.

My relationship with my mother was marked by misattunement—we had what is now understood as an insecure attachment.

Years later, when my mother asked for forgiveness, I met her with compassion. That moment of shared vulnerability became a turning point—leading to healing and reconciliation.

A Framework for Healing: The 4 S’s of Attachment

One of my teachers, Dr. Dan Siegel, introduced me to a paradigm of healing—the 4 S’s of secure attachment 🌱

• Safe: Feeling safe grows from caregivers who avoided actions that frightened or hurt us. As adults, it allows us to express our emotions and gently trust ourselves and others.

• Seen: Being seen comes from caregivers who perceived us deeply and empathically. As adults, it nurtures belonging.

• Soothed: Being soothed arises from caregivers who comforted us in times of distress. As adults, it helps us regulate, build resilience, and offer comfort to others.

• Secure: Feeling secure develops from consistent care and attunement. As adults, it fosters a steady sense of well-being and inner balance.

I often describe the 4 S’s as the water and nutrients that nourish the soil of well-being. 🌱

How This May Relate to You

You may have arrived here during a time of transition—through illness, grief, or trauma. You may be wondering how to move forward with clarity and compassion.

As a Post-Traumatic Growth Coach, I weave mindfulness, somatic practices, and trauma-informed science to support your reconnection with yourself—your strengths, your wholeness.

What I’ve Learned

More than 35 years ago, a mindfulness workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn shifted the course of my life. Since then, I’ve deepened my practice, studying Jewish mindfulness and trauma-informed science. These teachings have helped me reconnect with the simple signals of my body and heart.

From my study and practice of Interpersonal Neurobiology (Dan Siegel, M.D.), Polyvagal Theory (Stephen Porges, Ph.D.), Jewish mystical traditions, and other wisdom traditions, I’ve come to understand the central role of the nervous system in expanding our capacity for love and freedom throughout our lives.

A Turning Point

Ten years ago, a breast cancer diagnosis confronted me with profound vulnerability. In that place of brokenness, felt experiences and memory began to surface. Childhood trauma reawakened, grief and loss moved through me, and with them came a pathway toward clarity, growth, and love.

Within the wounds of my early attachment story, I uncovered seeds of resilience—compassion toward myself and others, a reclaimed sense of agency, and a deep capacity for connection. Healing isn’t about fixing ourselves. It’s about coming home to who we already are.

Today, even as I continue recovering my ability to walk, each step is rooted in strength, courage, and love. This is post-traumatic growth—not just healing, but remembering your way back with compassion and clarity.

You’re Invited

If you’re navigating grief, illness, or transition, I invite you to walk this path with me—a journey of healing , integration, and reconnecting to yourself— your strengths— your joy — your wholeness.

“Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We feel more alive. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation and healing.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn