If you’re wondering whether I’ve walked this path myself—whether I know what it feels like to stand at the threshold between the life you’ve been living and the one that’s asking to be created…

The answer is yes. Wearing a pea coat and galoshes, in fact.

The first half of my life was devoted to creating for others. For more than a decade, I helped writers shape their books—some of which became New York Times and USA Today bestsellers. I helped build other people’s visions, voices, and legacies.

It was meaningful.

Successful.

And it came at a cost.

I set aside my own creative life. My own voice. My own unfinished story.

What followed was not a tidy dark night of the soul, but a long descent marked by loss, illness, and the collapse of an identity I had relied on for years.

That descent changed how I understood transformation.

Not as productivity.

Not as reinvention.

But as reclamation.

Today, my work is informed by both rigorous Jungian training and lived initiation. I mentor and train other depth coaches and work with clients who are ready to engage their lives symbolically—not as problems to solve, but as material rich with meaning.

I don’t work to “fix” people or push outcomes.

I work as a guide and a witness—someone who knows the terrain, recognizes the patterns, and can hold the lantern steady while you move into your own depths.

Not polished.

Not performed.

But whole.